Last time we left off with Day 1 of my Austin trip we were in the Museum of the Weird. This second collection will also take place entirely in the Museum of the Weird as well. A museum I visited with Lowell. Here is the second collection of images: There… Read More »Austin Day 1: More Weirdo
This is kind of a 2 for 1 food adventure. Back in June I went on kind of a boredom road trip with no real destination in mind. In fact, I don’t know that I really went anywhere. My initial thought was maybe to go to Denison and the Donna… Read More »Big Pizza Pie: Humboldt Field Work
Back in late February I took a trip to Austin, Texas for the Computer Mine for our bi-annual meeting where we invite a bunch of our customers to congregate and listen to how great we are. Of the work trips I take, this is usually the least “fun”. There isn’t… Read More »Austin Day 1: Weirdo
By the time this post publishes I will already have picked up my entries for the 2025 Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. So now it is a good time to share them. Selected for Display – Class 16 – Things & Still Life Selected for Display – Class 18 –… Read More »Baklaving It: Des Moines Field Work
A couple months back Teresa and I went to Pleasantville to try the new reigning Best Burger in Iowa. Halftime Bar & Grill. Here is some information from the Iowa Beef website: On the square in Pleasantville, Iowa, family, community, and Iowa’s best burger intersect at Halftime Bar & Grill.… Read More »Burgertime: Pleasantville Field Work
The Iowa State Fair has officially started, so I can give you some clues as to what 3 pictures of mine made it into the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. Good luck finding them! The Iowa State Fair opened yesterday. This collection of images is the second to last collection… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Photo Pickup
This food adventure is a little bit different. This isn’t an adventure where I went and ate hopefully delicious food. This one, in fact, wasn’t even a full food adventure. The pictures here are from the recent Boone County Fair Barbecue Contest. Logan’s barbecue team Tall & Meaty competed. This… Read More »Tall & Meaty: BCF 2025
This collection of images will finish up all the Christmas pictures I took last year. These are the ones I took at Candlelight Service at Boone First United. As I have well-documented, this is my favorite church service of the year. Every year. Here are the pictures: I’m already looking… Read More »Candlelight Service Last
Back in May, I went on my annual birthday road trip. This year it wasn’t overly ambitious. Nader went with me again, as he is my one and only true friend. We met up with Willy at the Houby Festival. I will cover the Houby Festival (in Cedar Rapids) in… Read More »Tenderloining: Monticello Field Work
Last time we left off on my trip to the Iowa State Fair on the last day of the Fair with Nader, we were wandering the Agriculture Building. This collection will continue there with pictures of some of the amazingly bizarre art and food competitions in there! It will end… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Art
Before I get into the meat of this food adventure, I want to enlighten you to the fact that the Best New Fair Food finalist have been named for the Iowa State Fair. Here is some info from the Iowa State Fair website: The TOP 3 Best New Foods, in… Read More »Tenderloining: Food Truck Showdown Field Work
I keep forgetting to share how I did in this year’s Iowa State Photography Salon. I got the yellow card in my mail box over 2 weeks ago and I don’t know if I’ve really shared what it said with too many people. Mostly just a few other photographers, my… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Big Animals
Time to clean out the backlog a bit. These pictures are from August of last year and never really fit into any previous posts. Some are from Jefferson. The rest are of the South Marion Methodist Church. A friend of mine is the Pastor there and I didn’t even know… Read More »When I’m Not Around
Since we are smack dab in the middle of July, feels like a good time to share some pictures I took of some Christmas decorations on Christmas Eve. Have a look: Still one more collection of Christmas type pictures to share from last year.
A couple months back Russell and Andree took me out to the culinary treat knowns as Korean Barbecue for my birthday. I didn’t know that such a thing even existed, let alone in Iowa. I mean I knew Korean barbecue existed because of DaeHee, but not in this kind of… Read More »Cue: West Des Moines Field Work
Time for another collection of images from my last trip to the Iowa State Fair last year with Nader. We ended the last collection enjoying the musical stylings of Bandolini. This collection will begin there, but then have a collection of images of people competing in the finals of the… Read More »ISF 08/18/2024: Talent
Back in early May I decided to hit up a different taco truck in Ames other than Rico’s Tacos. This is rare for me, but I decided I would stretch my wings a little bit. So I went to El Primo. This was also the day of the Kentucky Derby,… Read More »Taco ‘Bout It: East Lincoln Way Field Work
I need to start the day by wishing everybody a Happy 4th of July. Have a good Independence Day! It is time to start sharing images from my last trip to the Iowa State Fair. Nader joined me on this trip. This is the trip where I pick up my… Read More »08/18/2024 – Baby Animals
Time for the final collection of images from the Ledges State Park Centennial. Last time we were at the kids carnival. We will start out there and then end with the final 3 musical acts. The lead singer of Lincoln Highway has extremely poor taste in sports teams as she… Read More »Ledges Centennial: Denouement
This food adventure actually took place before my work trip to Philadelphia. But I was so hot to trot to get those Philly Cheesesteaks out into the tubes of the interwebs that I pushed this one back a full 7 weeks. But that isn’t to impugn this meal or this… Read More »Cluck! Cluck! – Beaverdale Field Work
Time to share the final collection of images I took from my 3rd trip to the Iowa State Fair. This trip was with Logan, but at this point we met up with Elainie and Sabas. It starts with us watching some kind of dive team. Here is the final collection… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Denouement