There is quite the eclectic collection of pictures in the folder 06-28-08. There are pictures from Ames on the Half Shell. The Box Brothers are the band. There are pictures of the WHO Tractor Ride. There are pictures of the Iowa State Fairgrounds. And finally, there is a picture of… Read More »06-28-08
By the time this entry publishes, Baby Got Rack will already have competed in the State Fair Cookoff. Pictures from that will be coming in the future. I will remind you that I have two pictures on display at the Photography Salon in the Cultural Building. I’ll reveal what pictures… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2017 – Set 2
Welcome to a bonus “An Artist’s Notebook” blog. A couple things before we get into the meat of this blog. #1. Today Baby Got Rack will be competing at the Boone County Fair’s barbecue competition. They changed the rules from previous years. We are only allowed to enter to categories.… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Winterset Field Work – Solo Mission
This is my telling of my experience on the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group’s Mission Trip to Houston (Vidor). There were 18 people on the mission trip and all of them experienced the mission trip in a completely different way than I did. Therefore, you should pull your… Read More »Houston (Vidor) Mission Trip – Day 2
I need to start this post with yet another apology. On Monday, when I posted the submissions for RELIGION and THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE I did not post a second picture submitted by Andy. This was not an error of carelessness like in some past weeks. I legitimately didn’t know… Read More »You Still Wonder Why I Existed, I Exist in a World That’s Real Different!
The world wasn’t ready for these alternate TOY images on Monday. Most of these pictures are taken in the Photography 139 Backyard Studio where photography was often disturbed by 2 raucous dogs that had a whole yard to play in, but seemed to want to only play right on top… Read More »You Know I’ll Leave ‘Em Changing; ‘Cause You Know I’m Real with It; Don’t Care if You Feeling It!
This is one of probably 2 entries for An Artist’s Notebook about my Saturday morning last. This is about the later part of my morning, but you must know a little bit about the early morning to understand how this strange turn of events happened. The earliest part of my… Read More »Miller Estate Auction
Here are some BLACK & WHITE photos that the world wasn’t ready for on Monday. Heck, the world wasn’t ready for them on Tuesday. Heck, I don’t know if the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer. All of the pictures were taken… Read More »They Like “Chris, What’s It Like to Be Famous?” Um… I’ll Let You Know if I Make It!
The world wasn’t ready for these pictures on Monday. But the world is ready now for these SCARY alternates: Not many alternates this week. I mostly just walked around my basement and took a few pictures of things hanging up down there. You’re welcome world!
The world wasn’t ready for these images on Monday. Not sure the world is ready for these alternate FLOWERS pictures right now. But I can’t hold them back any longer: I also messed up on this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I forgot to publish these two photos: Tamara Peterson Tamara… Read More »To Keep ‘Em Talking and Acting like Everybody; Gonna Get Up in a Sleep with Your Eyes Open
Most of the pictures in the folder called 12-07-07 were taken at Bandshell Park in Ames. There is a Swift Stop gas station in the bottom 2 pictures. In another life when I ran the campus outpost of the Evil Clown Empire there was a guy that worked for me… Read More »12-07-07
The world wasn’t ready for these MACRO pictures for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE on Monday. I’m not sure that the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: The grand majority of these pictures were taken in my back yard. The first seven were… Read More »Season ‘Em, Put ‘Em on a Beat with Me, Then I’m Eating ‘Em
This is your weekly reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is WHITE! WHITE! WHITE doesn’t really require a definition. At least I don’t think so, therefore you don’t get one! Happy photo harvesting!
I recently picked up a new set of toys: Extension Tubes. I don’t have a picture of the tubes themselves, but I do have a collection of pictures from the from the first test run. Have a look: I don’t have a picture of the extension tubes, but if you… Read More »Yet Another New Toy
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the theme HUMANIZE for this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish!
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the COLD theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish.
A couple months back Mom, Teresa, Logan, and I hopped into a vehicle of some kind and headed due east for famous What Cheer, Iowa and it’s even more famous flea market. It didn’t disappoint. I think a person could spend all day there and still not see all the… Read More »All the Fleas!
These pictures didn’t have what it takes to be included in this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme… THE STREETS: If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they could accomplish!
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE theme is TIME: TIME! Remember that an extremely short exposure or a longer exposure can really help show TIME. Or take a picture of a clock. It’s your TIME. Happy Photo Harvesting!
These are the pictures that didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme HOT: If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish!
This is your reminder that this week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is HOT: Happy photo harvesting!