Time to share more of the alternate BLACK & WHITE images I took on the 4th of July. This collection concludes the tiem I spent in Ames on that day. Mostly watching a parade with the Gorshes.
Still one more collection of glorious BLACK & WHITE pictures from this day left to share!
Time to share another collection of images taken on my last trip to the Iowa State Fair on the last day of the Iowa State Fair with Jesse and Nader.
This collection begins in the Varied Industry Building and ends in the Cultural Building. One of my favorite buildings at the Iowa State Fair:
This mural is interactive when you hold your phone up to it.
This was a bad, delicious idea.
A deliciously bad idea.
Still one more collection of images to share from this day and that will be it for Iowa State Fair 2023. Just about in time for me to start thinking about what I’m going to enter this year.
Time to share another collection of images I took on my last trip to the Iowa State Fair on the last day of the Iowa State Fair with Jesse and Nader. This collection begins in the Agriculture Building and ends in the Varied Industry Building. I love the Agriculture Building. Not so much of a fan of the Varied Industry Building, but it is air conditioned and sometimes, you just need a touch of that sweet air conditioning. Like on a day such as this, when it was nearly triple digits on the thermometer.
You can say what you want about Bandalini, dude has swag!
These Jack Trice throwbacks were tight!
Still plenty more pictures from this trip left to share!
Time for another collection of images from my trip to the Stanhope Watermelon Day with Teresa. This collection of images is of the parade. I’m not really a parade person. In fact few things are more boring than a parade. Well actually few things have greater gap between participating in and watching. Being in a parade is tons of fun. Watching a parade is tons of boring. Similarly to fireworks. Lighting off fireworks is tons of fun. Watching fireworks is boring. Baseball also fits into this category as well. But I digress.
Here are the parade pictures:
Still plenty more pictures to share from Watermelon Day. Including many pictures of delicious… delicious watermelon!
Just a reminder that the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest is coming up, but there is still time to enter:
Thanks to Monica for making the sweet graphic for social media posts!
Time to share a second collection of images from my trip to Des Moines County and Louisa County to harvest their town signs. We start still in Columbus Junction.
Fredonia
Back in Columbus Junction
Grandview – Full applause for this sign.
A few notes about the Convict Road. The first section of concrete road in Iowa was placed in Le Mars in 1904. It was in service until 1968 when it was replaced. The oldest concrete road in Iowa that is still in service in Iowa is The Eddyville Cemetery Road. It was place in 1909. The Convict Road in Fredonia may be the 2nd oldest concrete paved road in Iowa. However, a segment of the Moscow Road might be older. It was placed in 1910. I’m not sure if it still exists. The history of concrete roads in Iowa isn’t as exciting as you might think so many sources seem to be out of date. Which is truly a shame. Most of it seems to link to a report by a Todd D. Hanson that was made in March of 2009.
The first rural paving in Iowa was between Mason City and Clear Lake. This happened in 1915.
The oldest concrete street in America is in Bellefontaine, Ohio. They paved Court Avenue in 1891 and one block of it remains the original concrete.
There is a lot more from my trip to these two counties left to share. But this is all I have on old concrete roads in Iowa.
I need to start today by wishing Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla!
I hope your birthday is as full of as much joy as you can handle!
I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica!
I also hope your birthday is as full of as much joy as you can handle!
A reminder that you have until Thursday at 11 AM (Central) to get your picks in for Year 18 of the Roundball Oracles. Click on the link below to join:
It costs nothing to participate. First Place gets a trophy. Last Place Adult that gives full effort also gets a trophy. Hope many of you participate!
I also hope your birthday is filled with as much joy and photography opportunities as you can handle!
It is time to share the final collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Clayton County. All of these were either taken at Pikes Peak State Park or in Marquette.
Marquette
The next time we hit the open road to look at auxiliary images for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT, we will visit Wapello County.
Time to share the second collection of auxiliary images from my road trip to Washington County to harvest their town signs. A few of these are still in Riverside. Which I consider to be a must visit for anybody that likes Star Trek.
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville
Olds
Wayland
Coppock
Still one more collection of images to share from this road trip!
Taking a Formal Portrait Sunday off to share November’s Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge images. Only one month left for this challenge as I’m not going to continue it into 2023. I think I’ve kind of run my course with it.
Here are the November images:
November 2 – A Book Cover
November 3 – A Shop Front
November 4 – A For Sale Sign
November 5 – A Bridge
November 6 – A Fence
November 7 – I Didn’t Make This
November 8
November 9 – An Unmade Bed
November 10 – Power Lines
November 11 – An Arrow
November 12 – In My Pocket
November 13 – A Closed Sign
November 14 – A Flock of Birds
November 15 – Hand Shadow
November 16 – Running Water
November 17 – Wrinkles
November 18 – An Empty Table
November 19 – Rocks
November 20 – Afternoon Light
November 21 – Half Full
November 22 – Graffiti
November 23 – An Ugly Food
November 24
November 25 – A Spiderweb
November 26 – A Funny Shape
November 27 – A Splash
November 28 – Something Hidden
November 29 – A List
November 30 – A Family Member
Here is the list of the December themes:
December 1 – I Love This!
December 2 – I Bought This!
December 3 – Starts with T
December 4 – I Held This
December 5 – Something Red
December 6 – Peace
December 7 – tree
December 8 – Looking Up
December 9 – Small
December 10 – Out + About
December 11 – Free Choice
December 12 – Lights
December 13 – Something Green
December 14 – Decoration
December 15 – A Star
December 16 – Candy Cane
December 17 – A Hat
December 18 – I Made This!
December 19 – Joy Is…
December 20 – Begins with S
December 21 – On the Floor
December 22 – A Gift
December 23 – A Tradition
December 24 – Someone I Love
December 25 – My Day
December 26 – This is Delish!
December 27 – Colourful
December 28 – A Book
December 29 – Us
December 30 – How I Relax
December 31 – Best Part of 2022
Seems like a pretty good list. I think I’ve already done some good work this month!
This year was the first year I made it to the Pufferbilly Days Parade where I wasn’t in it, since I don’t know when. At least a decade. I decided I better photograph it.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from the parade:
There is generally nothing I find more boring than a parade, except for maybe fireworks. But I got enough enjoyment from going. At least from seeing the people I knew that were in it.
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is VIOLET:
VIOLET! What a great theme for year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what exactly is a VIOLET photo. It is simply any picture where the color VIOLET (or purple if you will) plays an important part of the composition. It can be a picture of something that is VIOLET. Or it can be surrounded by VIOLET. Heck, you can crack out a VIOLET filter and make everything VIOLET.
Happy photo harvesting!
Another month done in the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. I have to confess that I spent some time on the struggle bus this month. I don’t know if I lost some steam or if I just want feeling some of the themes. Being sick for a few days in September didn’t help either. With that being said, I think there is still some good work in there.
Here are the September images:
September 2 – Plastic
September 3 – Paper
September 4 – Somewhere I Went
September 5 – Hobby
September 6 – Green + Blue
September 7 – Before Bed
September 8 – An Emotion
September 9 – Opposites
September 10 – I Can Hear…
September 11 – Paint
September 12 – Symmetry
September 13 – Tasty
September 14 – Odd One Out
September 15 – A Food Shop
September 16 – 12:34
September 17 – Lucky
September 18 – Car Park
September 19 – What’s on TV
September 20 – Texture
September 21 – Nature
September 22 – Tree Trunk
September 23 – Crunchy
September 24 – I Can Smell…
September 25 – Laneway
September 26 – The Moon
September 27 – Open Door
September 28 – My Culture
September 29 – Not My Style
September 30 – Sentimental
As you can tell, the woman who runs this challenge is Australian and there were some terms in there I had to look up, cause I had no clue what a laneway is.
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These are the themes for October:
1. White
2. Black
3. Green
4. Red
5. Orange
6. Blue
7. Yellow
8. Purple
9. Aqua
10. Pink
11. Grey
12. Brown
13. Pop of Colour
14. Stripes
15. Floral
16. One Colour
17. Two Colours
18. Pattern
19. Black and White
20. Rainbow
21. My Fave Colour
22. Matching
23. Natural
24. Dark
25. Light
26. Pastel
27. Bright
28. Gold
29. Fresh
30. Mellow
31. Dots
Some good ones in there. Should be a good month!
