This is my final collection of images I took at Pufferbilly Days last year. I didn’t get the full Pufferbilly Days experience last year as it was held on the same weekend as an Iowa State home game. Fortunately this year, Pufferbilly Days is on a weekend where Iowa State… Read More »Art in the Park – 2024
I just want to start today by wishing people a Happy Pride Month! At Photography 139, we are deeply committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for everyone. We celebrate Pride Month and stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, recognizing the importance of affirming and supporting individuals’ identities and… Read More »WPC – WEEK 507 – SPIRIT
Time to share cell phone pictures from Day 4 of my work trip to Philadelphia. Truth be told, this was probably my favorite day. Even though I had to work. Even though I didn’t have a single Philly Cheesesteak. It was because I got see my cousin Sarah and her… Read More »Philly Grub: Day 4
Time to start sharing images from my 3rd Trip to the Iowa State Fair. This trip I took with Logan to help him in the barbecue contest. I shared those barbecue contest images a while back. But not it is time to share the rest of the images. You can… Read More »ISF: 08/13/2024 – Early Morning
Time to share a few pictures I took of the Pufferbilly Days Parade from last year. I only watched part of it as I needed to get to Ames for the Iowa State game. I mostly went up to check out the church’s float since I did spend some time… Read More »Puffer Parade – 2024
I recently spent a few bucks on a lens built out of an old disposable camera lens. It really is just the old disposable lens built into a lens cap. It is really cheap lens just meant for fun. The look of old disposable cameras has become popular in some… Read More »Disposable
Time to share the cell phone pictures from Day 3 of my work trip to Philadelphia. This was the first day I had to work as they finally started to get our booth put together enough for us to start setting up. This meant I didn’t really eat lunch and… Read More »Philly Grub: Day 3
This is the final collection of images from my State Fair trip with the Gorshes. We didn’t stay too late into the day because they had some kind of family camping trip they were leaving for the next day. When we last left off, Jen and Layla were on the… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Final Images
Time to share a collection of images I took from my trip to the Madrid Labor Day Festival with Teresa. I’ve always wanted to watch a Civil War re-enactment and this was my chance. It was interesting to watch and now I’ve done it, I’m not sure I need to… Read More »Madrid Labor Day Festival – 2024
I shared some pictures from the Spirit Walk before the Iowa State-Texas Tech football game on Tuesday. Now I want to reveal images from what is my favorite Iowa State gameday tradition, the Step Show. Before every games the ISUCFVMB (Iowa State University Cyclone Varsity Band) stands on the steps… Read More »Iowa State vs. Texas Tech Step Show
Time for more pictures from my second day at the Iowa State Fair with Jen, Evie, and Layla. When we last ended photos from that trip Layla had just finished dancing and we were beginning our brief wondering around the fairgrounds. Here are the pictures: That seems like a good… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Skyglider
This is the final collection of pictures from my trip to the National Balloon Classic with Jesse last year. This one features a few pictures of the Night Glow thing, which I confess was pretty disappointing. I guess I’m not sure what I expected, but the simple answer is, “more”.… Read More »National Balloon Classic: Drones
After the Sony A7IV died I had to quickly replace it with the Sony A7RV. I took it to photograph a couple of before the game events for the Texas Tech game. I took some pictures of the Spirit Walk and the Step Concert. These are some pictures from the… Read More »Iowa State vs. Texas Tech Spirit Walk
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY! What a great theme! One of my favorites! But how many people got their photography juices in motion? Keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, May 5, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week2-Jesse Howard – 1 week3-Sara… Read More »WPC – WEEK 504 – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Time to start sharing my recent food adventure in Philadelphia. This was a work trip, so all the food was on the Computer Mine’s dime. At least hopefully. We will once again do a per diem check to see if I was able to cover 7 days of food with… Read More »Philly Grub: Day 1
Today is Becca’s birthday so I need to wish her a happy birthday. Happy birthday Becca! Today is also Michelle’s birthday, so I need to wish her a happy birthday. Happy birthday Michelle! Thought I would share some pictures I took of the Iowa State Spirit Walk from the Baylor… Read More »Iowa State 43 Baylor 21
Time for more pictures from my second trip to the Iowa State Fair with the Gorshes. Last time I started sharing pictures from Layla’s dance performance. This time I will share the rest of the dance performance pictures and start on the images from the rest of the day. Here… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024: Irish Dance Party
Time for another collection of pictures from my trip to the National Balloon Classic with Jesse. This is the second to last collection of images. I’d like to make it there again this year. In fact, I’d like to ride in a hot air balloon this year. But I have… Read More »National Balloon Classic: Sunsetting Balloons
WIDE ANGLE! What a great theme! But how many people got their photography juices in motion? Keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 17, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Mary Green – 1 week2-Becky Parmelee – 1 week*3-Alexis Stensland – 3 weeks4-Sabas… Read More »WPC – WEEK 503 – WIDE ANGLE
Time for more pictures from my second trip to the Iowa State Fair last year. This trip was with the Gorshe. Last time it was all pictures I took while wandering around waiting for Layla to take the dance stage. This collection is more of those images and then some… Read More »ISF: 08/10/2024 – Irish Dance Party Begins
Time for another collection of images from my trip to the National Balloon Classic in Indianola with Jesse. There is no real way to describe this collection other than it is a bunch of balloons taking off. Some of them are are participating in a contest where they throw something… Read More »National Balloon Classic: More Balloons!