A couple weeks ago I followed the trail from the Kate Shelley Railroad Museum to the remains of the bridge that she crossed to save all those lives all those years ago. If you don’t know the story of Kate Shelley, it goes something like this from the Wikipedia page:… Read More »Rodan139: Kate Shelley’s Bridge Remains
56 weeks in a row people. We even had double digit submissions before Monday morning! Now this week’s theme is a little more challenging, I feel like we will once again, hit double digits. You can tell that the weather must be getting colder. While the theme is ANIMAL, every… Read More »WPC – WEEK 267 – ANIMAL
Here is another collection of alternates for last week’s BLACK AND WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some were taken on my way back from Manhattan, Kansas. Some were taken around my house. Some were taken around my Mom’s house. Some were taken out by Don Williams. I can’t… Read More »Back in Black and White
You know that BLACK AND WHITE is my favorite theme. You know darn well that I’m going to have lots of BLACK AND WHITE alternates. Lots and lots of alternates. Actually I think I have less alternates than I normally do for BLACK AND WHITE. That being said, I’m still… Read More »Put that Fire in Your Soul
Double nickels people! Sammy Haggar might not be able to drive 55, but we can do 55 straight weeks of double digits like it ain’t no thing. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp… Read More »WPC – WEEK 266 – BLACK AND WHITE
I need to start today with wishing Dae Hee a happy birthday. Happy birthday Dae Hee! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be. +++++++ Mike The main collection of pictures from today are alternates for last week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme SELF-PORTRAIT. A… Read More »Tell of Who You Are
I need to start by wishing everybody a happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I don’t have a picture to represent this holiday, but I do have a suggestion on a way to celebrate it. I suggest listening to THIS LAND podcast by Crooked Media. It is pretty incredible and infuriating and… Read More »WPC – WEEK 265 – SELF-PORTRAIT
I need to start today by wishing Shawn a happy birthday. Happy birthday Shawn! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I do love pictures of SIGNS. My sister-in-law Laura once told me that this makes me a hipster. She is wrong about… Read More »Maybe I’m a Man and Maybe I’m a Lonely Man
This is a collection of pictures I took a few days after the derecho struck Iowa. It is the last of damage caused by the derecho pictures that I have. I happened about 7 weeks ago, but it feels like it was forever ago. +++++++ This is your reminder that… Read More »The Last Derecho
We did it fam! 52 straight weeks of double digit submissions! I can hardly believe it. That means it shouldn’t be an issue to continue to get great participation rates as we slowly move into the colder and colder temperatures in the coming months. Don’t forget to get your flu… Read More »WPC – WEEK 263 – STILL LIFE
I need to start today off by wishing my Mom a happy birthday. Without here, none of this would be possible. Not only would I never exist, she also bought me my first camera. A Minolta Maxxum 450si. Happy birthday Mom! It hope is as amazing a birthday as you… Read More »Rodan139: Water Alternate
Can you believe it? 51 straight weeks of double digit submission! 1 week short of a full year of double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to hear me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! ELIZABETH NORDEEN ANDY SHARP CARLA STENSLAND CARLA… Read More »WPC – WEEK 262 – WATER
Last Friday Andy wanted me to come to the Boone High football game and take a few photos. I wasn’t really ready to be in a crowd that large yet. Then, he suggested I bring the drone out and take a couple of photos. Now strictly speaking, that isn’t 100%… Read More »Rodan139: Goeppinger Field
Woohoo!! 50 straight weeks of double digit submissions! Starting off the Hall of Fame segment of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE in style! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates! You came to see the submissions! Cathie Raley Cathie Raley Carla Stensland Carla… Read More »WPC – WEEK 261 – MACRO
Today is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that was ultimately taken down in Pennsylvania. 2,977 people died on that day. On the anniversary, I usually recount my experience on that day. I won’t do that today. I will… Read More »9/11
We did it! 49 straight weeks of double digit submissions! This week, I did have to pull over next to Ulysses S. Grant’s house and rattle a few cages, but we did make it to double digit submissions! This is a wrap on the 7th year of THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »WPC – WEEK 260 – SKY
First of all, happy Labor Day. I hope you spend sometime to day thinking about how much better your life is because of organized labor movements. For example, you like weekends? Thank you unions! You like fair wages and relative income equality? Well, this has begun slipping away, but thank… Read More »WEEK 261 THEME REVEAL – MACRO
You couldn’t have possibly thought that I didn’t have alternate FLOWER photos for last week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE did you? Of course, I took lots of flower pictures last week, but only a few were contenders for my submission to THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are the contenders that… Read More »Oh But Still
48 straight weeks of double digit submissions. Once again, I didn’t have to send out any reminder texts this morning! Just 4 more weeks, and it will be one straight year! That is impressive folks! But let us not count our bantams until they are hatched. But you didn’t come… Read More »WPC – WEEK 259 – FLOWER
When I went out in the middle of nowhere Boone County to fly the drone around an old country church to take my RELIGION picture for last week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I took several photos. Some of the church. Some of the little park across the road. Some of… Read More »It’s Hard for Me to Weep When I’m Strong
47 STRAIGHT WEEKS! 47 straight weeks of double digit submissions! This week even includes the first, the second, and the third ever submission by local legend Kio Dettman! Glad to have you onboard Kio. Hopefully is just the beginning of great things! But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 258 – RELIGION