This collection of Beale Street images is the last of my photos from my trip to Memphis with Jesse and Russell to watch Iowa State in the Liberty Bowl. I didn’t have overwhelming expectations for Memphis, but it ended up being one of my favorite cities I have ever visited.… Read More »Beale Street
More from the 2017 backlog. These pictures are from the Iowa State Liberty Bowl Pep Rally I attended with Russell and Jesse. It was a great event, but since I was already filled with pep, I did a lap around the Memphis Redbirds stadium taking some photos. It was a… Read More »Liberty. Rally. Pep.
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
REMINDER NOTE: IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET, VOTE!!! 4 CATEGORIES ARE SEPARATED BY 1 VOTE. 1 IS SEPARATED BY 2 VOTES. THE LAST CATEGORY IS SEPARATED BY 3 VOTES. It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2017 – Set 1
In the nearly 2 years since the city burned down the empty, abandoned house on Mamie and Benton, it has become a grass lot. They also widened Benton street, but they did a weird thing with the turning lane where the right lane and the straight lane are the same… Read More »FIRE! Vol. 2
Hitting that 2016 backlog again. This time, we are going back to when the Boone Fire Department burned down a house on the corner of Mamie and Benton. Like most people, I like fire. So I took lots of pictures. Here is the first collection: There are plenty more fire… Read More »FIRE! Vol. 1
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 8
This is the last collection of pictures from the March for Our Lives Rally. I was going to write a parody of the views of some of the gun nuts I have known and their reactions to the news of school shootings. Mostly a lot of hand wringing and worrying… Read More »And the Children Shall Lead
A few more American gun violence fun facts: Homicides by firearm per 1 million people: Australia 1.4 New Zealand 1.6 Germany 1.9 Austria 2.2 Sweden 4.1 Ireland 4.8 Canada 5.1 Switzerland 7.7 And the United States…. 29.7 Fun Fact #2 There have been more than 1,600 mass shootings since Sandy… Read More »Other Countries Are Laughing at Us
A brief history of school shootings in the United States. Maybe you’ll detect a trend: July 26, 1764 – Greencastle, Pennsylvania Enoch Brown school massacre: Perhaps the earliest shooting to happen on school or college property, in what would become the United States, was the notorious Enoch Brown school massacre… Read More »Books Not Bullets
It is Thursday. That can mean only one thing. Time to check back in with more pictures from the March for Our Lives Rally from back in March. But before we get to the pictures, here is a little fun fact: 90% of gun owners (including me, technically) don’t belong… Read More »Grandmas for Gun Reform
The photos from today’s blog come from the folder 05-09-08. These pictures were taken during what historians have called THE BIG JESUS ROAD TRIP. It is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since THE BIG JESUS ROAD TRIP, but they have. Jesse and I embarked on THE BIG… Read More »05-09-08: The Big Jesus Road Trip
Here is another collection of images from that snowy day around the Iowa Capitol during the March for Our Lives Rally. I thought I would share the words from a pamphlet that a guy was handing out: “The Second Amendment A Sacred Covenant of Ethnic Cleansing and Slavery Between the… Read More »USA Not NRA
It is time for yet another rousing collection of photos from the March for Our Lives Rally that was in Des Moines on March 24. The last picture is of a kid pwning a NRA puppet. He was recording himself misrepresenting the positions and views of the people at the… Read More »Policy & Change
Here is another trickle of pictures from March for Our Lives: More images will continue to trickle out in the coming weeks.
The world wasn’t ready for these CITY pictures to be revealed on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: I had big plans of making it down to Des Moines this weekend, but Logan’s graduation ceremony last about… Read More »Something They Told Me That I Won’t Make It, I’m Not Famous, I’m Just Bennett
In case you don’t follow politics closely, one of the leaders of the March for Our Lives Movement is Emma Gonzalez. She is a survivor of the Parkland shooting in February. She has a very short haircut. Her sexual orientation is none of our business. You may remember her from… Read More »Skinhead Lesbian for Gun Control
The world wasn’t ready for these ARCHITECTURE pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer… I took all of these photos while I was out looking for town signs. They range from Roland to Cambridge. You’re welcome… Read More »I Wreck these Stages, Real Talk, Better Give Me Space ‘Cause I Am Chasing
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
On Good Friday I descended upon downtown Des Moines to take a picture for Page 105 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Take a photograph that could only be taken today, not yesterday or tomorrow. I took off from the Computer Mine early on Good Friday and went to Des Moines… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 105
The world wasn’t ready for these SIGNS pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world can handle them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: Beaver, Iowa – The jewel of Boone County. Grand Junction, Iowa – The jewel of Greene County Jefferson, Iowa – They have an… Read More »I’m a Doctor with No Job. Me, I Don’t Have No Patients. I Keep Pacing Back and Forth, I Keep Racing.