Here we are. Time to share all the pictures I considered for the 2025 Calendar but did not make the cut for one reason or another. Could be that I decided it wasn’t good enough. Or because a similar picture was chosen over it to be placed in the calendar.… Read More »I Wanna Have Control
Time to share the October image from the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: OCTOBER TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/3.2 EXPOSURE: 1/160 DATE: July 23, 2024 This dandelion picture was taken in my yard. I take no pride in that… Read More »A Saturday at the Boone County Fair
Today’s is Lowell’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! If you don’t know, he isn’t the super tall guy and he isn’t Kim. I simply hope your birthday is without any health emergencies! +++++++ Today is also Sabas’ birthday! So I need to… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: River Walk
Time to reveal the February image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: FEBRUARY TECHICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 FOCAL LENGTH: 68mm APERTURE: f/4.5 EXPOSURE: 1/200 ISO: 100 The February image was taken in New Orleans. It was taken on my second day in New Orleans and… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: French Quarter Walkabout
Time to reveal the January image for the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: JANUARY Technical Details CAMERA: Sony 7M4 LENS: Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 FOCAL LENGTH: 24 mm APERTURE: f/2.8 EXPOSURE: 1/30 ISO: 160 DATE TAKEN: December 27, 2023 This picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee on Jesse and I’s trip to… Read More »Your Song
All of the 2025 Photography 139 Calendars have been distributed or mailed except for one. It is fair game now to start sharing the calendar images. This is the front cover image: FRONT COVER – 2025 Technical Details: CAMERA: SONY 7M4LENS: SIGMA 14-24 f/2.8 DG DN ARTFOCAL LENGTH: 20mmAPERTURE: f/8SHUTTER… Read More »Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Minutes
It is the last Monday of the month and on the last Monday of the month I like to revisit our Frequently Asked Questions. Who asks these questions? I mostly ask them of myself. But that isn’t a Frequently Asked Question. But as we are heading into a new year,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 485 – HOLIDAYS
Back in July I cruised down to Bondurant to check out their Sidewalk Chalk Festival. I really enjoyed and will effort to hit it up again next year. Here are some pictures I took: Always up for a good art festival. I’ll have to try to hit more in 2025.
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 in New Orleans for my work trip. Last time we left off when I got to Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. One of the shocking things to me was that if it wasn’t a bar or restaurant, everything in New… Read More »New Orleans Day 1: End of Images
1. Joy to the world; the Lord is come; Let Earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room, And heav’n and nature sing. 2. Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns; Our mortal songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. 3.… Read More »Joy to the World!
Time for another collection of images I took while wandering around New Orleans. Most of these are on Bourbon Street, but some are taken when I wandered over by Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. View from the hotel room. Still one more collection of pictures from Day One in New… Read More »New Orleans Day 1: More Bourbon Street at Day
This year I went to the Des Moines Arts Festival solo. Cause all my friends either hate art or have terrible taste in art like Shannon. I guess she does like my art, so maybe she doesn’t have terrible taste in art. Or maybe my art is terrible? That clearly… Read More »DM Arts Festival – I
Back in June I got a call out to go to lunch with Becca to meet her new boyfriend and hit up the Rail Explorers. It was exciting on multiple fronts! Doing the Rail Explorers was on my list of things I wanted to do this year. Sadly, one of… Read More »Rail Explorers I
A few weeks back after church Teresa and I went down to the East Village to get breakfast at The Breakfast Club. It seems most people I know have eaten there and have given it rave reviews. I had to give it a shot. Here are some pictures: Started out… Read More »Breakfast Clubbin’: East Village Field Work
I “run” this sports prognostication game at work known colloquially as “The Witch Hunt”. I would explain why it is called the Witch Hunt and the mythology of the game, but that would involve a fair amount of work and if you aren’t in the Witch Hunt, you don’t deserve… Read More »Witch Hunt Banquet Street Photography
Here is your reminder that today is Friday the 13th. A bad day to be a promiscuous camp counselor experimenting with drugs or a Templar Knight. But it is a great day to be a fan of barbecue and near Boone. Don’t forget to go to Jimmy’s for a free… Read More »New Orleans Day 1: Bourbon Street at Day
After we left Creston, we stopped in Adair for lunch. On the way to Adair we by the Adair County Freedom Rock. The original Freedom Rock. The one that gets repainted every year. After lunch we pretty much headed straight back to Ames, but I didn’t make a quick stop… Read More »Nader Road Trip: The Journey Home
NOTE: A RECENT TREND IS IPHONE USERS ARE SUBMITTING PICTURES IN .HEIC FORMAT. PICTURES NEED TO BE SUBMITTED IN .JPG OR .PNG FORMAT. PLEASE SUBMIT IN THOSE FORMATS SO I DON’T HAVE TO CONVERT YOUR IMAGES INTO A USABLE FORMAT. THANKS! As we are approaching Year 12 of THE WEEKLY… Read More »WPC – WEEK 482 – SYMMETRY
Time to share some pictures from the actual Thanksgiving Community meal served by the Boone First United Methodist Church. All in all the album of pictures from my time (me not pictured) helping with the meal has 563 images in it. I probably could have taken more, but I left… Read More »Community Thanksgiving 2024
Can you believe it. This is the final collection of images from the Eclipse Road Trip. After leaving Le Claire I head to Belle Plaine to try their famous Lincoln Cafe. I already wrote about my food adventure there on a long Sunday past. You can revisit that part of… Read More »Eclipse Road Trip Day 3 – Mostly Belle Plaine
Today is Brandon’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday! Happy birthday Brandon!! I hope your birthday is filled with all the anime Funko pops you could ever want! +++++++ This is the final collection of mural images from my trip there with Nader. While many of… Read More »Nader Road Trip: Creston Murals III