There was a decent amount of submissions for HANDS. Including, what I believe to be the first ever submission by Amy Peterson. Very excited to have Amy as a future contributor and I expect big things from here in the future. But you didn’t come here to listen to me… Read More »WPC – WEEK 293 – HANDS
74 straight weeks of double digit submission and we did it before I even got out of bed on Monday morning! LINES seemed to be a popular theme! I mean, who doesn’t like LINES? But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You… Read More »WPC – WEEK 285 – LINES
This is a clearinghouse post. Grouping together some small collections of photos that might not be large enough to stand on their own. Plus getting multiple folders “finished off” and filed away to their forever homes. These pictures aren’t pandemic related, but they did occur in a pandemic. Like every… Read More »A Pandemic Menagerie
I need to start out by wishing a Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody that celebrates today. Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, I know that there are a ton of people out there that are violently opposed to Saint Valentine’s Day. They call it a holiday invented by candy companies and the… Read More »Alexis Prego Dos
Most of the pictures in the folder 2010-06-25 are of lilies. Lots of lilies. But also of a deer. Then one of a clothespin. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory: PERSONAL… Read More »2010-06-25
There weren’t actually a ton of pictures in either the folder 2010-06-14 or 2010-06-17, so I went ahead an combined them. Most are just taken around my yard, around the time that I was trying to tear the hedge out in my backyard. A terrible and long process. But so… Read More »2010-06-14 & 2010-06-17
I need to start by noting that today is the day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I’d like to share a teaching on The Good Samaritan from the last speech that King ever gave as my small part of honoring his legacy today: Let us develop… Read More »WPC – WEEK 279 – COMMERCIAL
A few months back, I took a dead zinnia down to my basement, lit it and then lit it up. I believe Jesse and Anders were standing by as potential firefighters. Even though, they didn’t understand why I was starting even the smallest fire, inside my house. Here are the… Read More »Light it Up!
As I’ve started to distribute the Photography 139 2021 Calendars, it is time to start revealing the pictures that made the cut: Front Cover The front cover image is an HDR image of Naima wading into the pond at Dickcissel Park while the sun goes down in the west. It… Read More »2010-05-30
It has been several years since I have done anything with the grapes in my yard. This year there was such a bounty of grapes, it felt like a waste to not make some grape jelly with them. Logan really wanted in on this because he has increasingly been getting… Read More »To Catherine
Back in September, I took some supermacro images while I was expereminting with bellows. I need to get back to that. Macro photography is a good winter photo subject. Not that I’m ready to give up the out of doors yet, or at all, but you know what I’m saying.… Read More »Macrolicious
This post is mostly a catch-all of cleaning up some image collections taken back in August, that were either going to part of bigger journal entries that I have abandoned or just a few rando pictures taken here and there that I just want to clean up and get out… Read More »A Little Here, A Little There
Whew! This is a big one. Just by adding these pictures to the SmugMug Gallery from the folder 2010-04-29, I was able to fix 5 “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. I believe I added pictures to 14 different photo albums. The pictures in this folder are taken from over several days… Read More »2010-04-29
Here is another collection of alternates for last week’s BLACK AND WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some were taken on my way back from Manhattan, Kansas. Some were taken around my house. Some were taken around my Mom’s house. Some were taken out by Don Williams. I can’t… Read More »Back in Black and White
You know that BLACK AND WHITE is my favorite theme. You know darn well that I’m going to have lots of BLACK AND WHITE alternates. Lots and lots of alternates. Actually I think I have less alternates than I normally do for BLACK AND WHITE. That being said, I’m still… Read More »Put that Fire in Your Soul
Back in August I started experimenting with bellows to take macro images. Here is a handful (and by handful, I mean a handful if you are the man who killed Inigo Montoya’s father) of images from the fist trial run. These pictures are only the slightest cropped to remove a… Read More »SupercalifragilisticMACROlidocious
We did it fam! 52 straight weeks of double digit submissions! I can hardly believe it. That means it shouldn’t be an issue to continue to get great participation rates as we slowly move into the colder and colder temperatures in the coming months. Don’t forget to get your flu… Read More »WPC – WEEK 263 – STILL LIFE
I need to start today off by wishing my Mom a happy birthday. Without here, none of this would be possible. Not only would I never exist, she also bought me my first camera. A Minolta Maxxum 450si. Happy birthday Mom! It hope is as amazing a birthday as you… Read More »Rodan139: Water Alternate
Can you believe it? 51 straight weeks of double digit submission! 1 week short of a full year of double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to hear me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! ELIZABETH NORDEEN ANDY SHARP CARLA STENSLAND CARLA… Read More »WPC – WEEK 262 – WATER
The pictures in the folder 2010-04-05 are from a combination of us introducing Jackson to the greatness of Homerun Derby and then the rest are pictures for a MACRO theme of the first year of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, then known as THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. Makes me want… Read More »2010-04-05
A few Saturdays back, I went on a small road trip with my Mom. We went to the State Center Rose Garden. We went to the Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge. We went to Hardee’s in Indianola! Then we ended up at Shannon and Jason’s store Honey Hollow. It is located… Read More »Honey Hollow