Today Bokeh turns 1. So I must wish her a happy birthday! Bokeh should be home all day, unless we go to the park after I get off work. So you may come over at any time to give her a birthday present! Can you believe that this is the… Read More »Post 5,500
Today is Teresa’s birthday, so I need to wish her a happy birthday. Happy birthday Teresa! I hope it is a birthday filled with all sorts of arts and crafts! +++++++ Last year I went out and did a little street photography in Nevada and Winterset. Well very little in… Read More »Nevada (The Town)
Way back in July of last year, I took a little road trip with Teresa. First we went to the Stanhope Watermelon Festival. Then we went to get a tenderloin. Then on the way back we drove through Iowa Falls and Alden. I took a few pictures: Alden, Iowa Iowa… Read More »Iowa Fallin’
Can you believe that this is the 5,250th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect on where this post has been and post a lot of meaningless stats. As always on these posts, I like… Read More »Post 5,250
Time to clear out more of the proverbial backlog. These are a collection of pictures that I took back in August of 2023 but never fit any other “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. But are good enough that I think the world should see them. Some were taken on a trip… Read More »I’m Selfish, I Know, I Can’t Let You Go
It is time to share the November image from the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar image. It is a picture of the redbud trees in Red Haw State Park. NOVEMBER I chose this picture for November because it had purple in it. TECHINICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M4 DATE: April 29, 2023… Read More »And They’ll Think that I am So Exciting
Back on May 6 I had a pretty long day. I spent the morning into the early afternoon doing photography for Sleeping Angels. Logan assisted me on this project. After we photographed the Sleeping Angels Fun Run crossing the Mile Long Bridge, we headed down to Grimes and had lunch.… Read More »A Long Day…
This is the final collection of images from the road trip to Dysart to see their illusions I took with Nader. This collection starts in Traer, but also goes through the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Gladbrook. Traer Gladbrook Toledo A different town sign. It was a good road trip, even… Read More »Dysart Illusion Road Trip – III
Time to share the final collection of pictures from the road trip I took with Nader after I dropped off my entries at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. This collection starts where the last collection last off. In a park in Manning. They changed their sign… It was a… Read More »Photo Drop-Off Road Trip III
Here is the final collection of images from the birthday road trip I took with Jesse and Nader. On the way back we stopped at The Grotto of the Redemption. Nader had never been to it before, which was no shocker. But this was also Jesse’s first trip there. But… Read More »Birthday Road Trip Denouement
Today is Jason’s birthday. Happy birthday Jason! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Time to clean up the backlog. These images are from September that never quite fit into any previous posts. Some are alternates for THE WEEKLYPHOTO CHALLENGE. Another is a… Read More »And You Left Me There Cryin’ Wonderin’ What I Did Wrong
It has been 6,052 days since August 9, 2006. 16 years. 6 months. 24 days. Since I first posted something in this little experiment known as “An Artist’s Notebook”. 145,2485 hours. 8,714,800 minutes. 522,892,800 seconds. Which is to say, it has been a minute. There are some very important people… Read More »An Artist’s Notebook Post #4757
Today is Lowell’s birthday… so… happy birthday Lowell! Ironic that this picture was taken on my birthday? Either way, I hope your birthday has adequate amounts of happiness! +++++++ I count this trip a bit as auxiliary images for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. In fact I went camping with Carla… Read More »Marble Beach
I learned something over the weekend. The architect that build the courthouse in Delaware County, the courthouse I proclaimed to be the most beautiful courthouse in Iowa, was the same architect that built the Boone First United Methodist Church. No wonder I love it! Pastor Dave dropped that knowledge bomb… Read More »Iowa Worst Courthouse Power Rankings
I stated last week that I would give some details about the book this week. Truth is I don’t have a lot of details worked out. In fact, I have virtually no details worked out. For example I don’t know: + The dimensions of the book. + How much information… Read More »Iowa Courthouse Power Rankings
A few months back I travelled around Davis County with Teresa harvesting the town signs of Davis County. Davis County was the last county in THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. It was left for last for a reason. It was left because of some family history in Davis County. The ghost… Read More »Town Sign Project: Davis County
A couple months back I went to Scott County to harvest their town signs. It was one of the counties I most dreaded doing because of the large cities that just kind of flow into each other. These kind of towns are usually hard to find a town sign, but… Read More »Town Sign Project: Scott County
Dubuque County is a large county. It has almost the most, maybe the most incorporated towns in Iowa. It is an absolutely beautiful county. Also, of all the “cities” in Iowa, Dubuque is my favorite. It is a river city, but not filthy like most river cities. Plus it has… Read More »Town Sign Project: Dubuque County
A couple months back I cruised around Des Moines County harvesting their town signs. It was definitely a good trip and a county I would visit again. Here are some facts about Des Moines County: + Population is 38,491 making it the 16th most populous county in Iowa. Below Marshall… Read More »Town Sign Project: Des Moines County
A couple months back I cruised around Louisa County harvesting their town signs. It was a good trip. Here are some facts about Louisa County: + Population is 10,749. Making it the 67th most populous county in Iowa. Below Cherokee County and above Hancock County. + Largest town and county… Read More »Town Sign Project: Louisa County
A couple months back I cruised around Van Buren County harvesting their town signs. Van Buren County is interesting because it is a collection of old villages more than towns. I don’t even know if that makes sense, but that is how they view themselves. Either way, there is lots… Read More »Town Sign Project: Van Buren County