The world wasn’t ready for these JOY pictures on Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer:
The pictures of Naima or not processed in Photoshop. That is an in-camera special effect. The dog I’m eating is a world famous Bob’s Dog.
You’re welcome world.
These are the pictures from the folder 03-25-08:
By restoring these photos to the Photography 139 Photo Gallery, I was able to restore the following classic blog entries to their former glory:
The picture of me dunking is not a photo trick or a lowered hoop, I’m sure.
I’m not quite sure why I took the religious photos. But I like them.
The Easter photos are interesting because this year we won’t be celebrating Easter on Easter for the first time that I can ever remember. Mom is heading to Virginia with her favorite child that weekend. I might have my own private Air Fryer Easter that day.
The pictures of Shannon are from when she started at United Way. She needed a head shot for some kind of press release or newsletter or to hang in the company bathroom. I’m not really sure. However, I am 100% sure that Shannon will continue to work at The United Way for the foreseeable future. She will probably retire from there.
Next week’s walk down memory lane will involve snow.
Hitting up the back log, these are pictures I took on my way up to Brushy Creek one July afternoon.
Most of these pictures were taken in Dayton. The last few were taken in Burnside.
Still hammering away at that back log. Here are a few pictures from my trip to Algona with Joe.
We went to Algona so Joe could pick up a van to server as a distribution center for his cannabis oil business. The trip didn’t work out. We didn’t come home with the van. However, I got to meet Joe’s dad, which was a fascinating experience. Plus we swung through West Bend to see the Grotto of the Redemption. Then to cap it off, we supped at Tom Thumb’s in Fort Dodge.
All in all, it was a great day at sea!
I have a considerable backlog of images that I need to edit. Part of the problem is that I edit photos in 2 separate distinct locations and it is often difficult for me to figure out what I have edited in one location, but not the other. I have begun the process of mirroring these images in both locations so that I can actually make real head way on my back log. Plus, it should free up some valuable hard drive real estate in both locations.
Not to bore you with too many details, but the first step in this process involves tons or robocopy scripts AND an external hard drive.
And with that, here are some backlog images of Naima from February.
In addition to trying to get a better organizational grasp on my images that are physically in my possession, I’m also trying to get a better organization to my images that are in the SmugMug Gallery.
While it doesn’t help that effort, it is part of a slight re-design of the website. If you’ve been on the website lately you may have noticed some slight changes.
*The base color remains purple. It will always be purple. However, I got rid of some gold and green accent colors and replaced those with a silver and a light blue.
*I completely replaced the old headers with new headers.
*On the homepage, gone is the slide show of recent pictures added to the SmugMug Gallery. It has been replaced with a slide show of images submitted for The Weekly Photo Challenge.
There are some more changes coming, eventually. I’m looking to re-design every page from the About page to the Products page. I might even add a services page where I quote my prices. Like $75,000 to do a wedding on a Saturday that is an Iowa State home game. I hope you don’t think that prices me out of the market.
Here are a look at the current rotating headers on the website:
In the end, I hope to add about 15 more rotating headers to the slight website redesign.
This huge collection of photos was found in the folder called 01-01-08:
I don’t know if it the holidays or recently seeing some old friends, or a recent death to a close relation of a very close friend or if it is just because it is that time of year, but this particular walk down memory lane made me particularly nostalgic.
Nostalgic for:
1. A time when I stayed up late enough to do night photography.
2. A time when some of the people on the chili scoring sheet still worked at the computer mine.
3. A time when the computer mine had the old set up and not the cube farm setup.
4. A time when Vest could grip a toy gun with 10 fingers. Too soon?
5. A time when Symposium was still a thing.
6. A time when my beanie collection was so wanting.
7. A time when I was stuck at work after dark on holidays. Which is crazy because I always hated that.
8. A time when we could actually turn the lights off at work.
9. A time when being a piece of human debris made you ineligible for political office, rather than eligible for a cabinet position.
But when I wasn’t feeling all melancholy, by adding this images to the Photography 139 SmugMug Gallery, I was able to restore the following old timey blog posts:
Next Saturday’s stroll down memory lane will involve a broken mirror at the very least.
On a recent trip to Algona with Joe we made a stop in West Bend and I knocked out Page 5 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
Here are a few of the pictures I took but didn’t select to tape into the Photo Journal:
I honestly have no clue what page of the Photo Journal I will tackle next.
Here are a few images from a selection of folders from the month of September 2007.
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve some night photography!
More from the Mission Trip. These are from Day 2:
More from this transformational experience on the morrow!
Looks like I went to Iowa State & Woodward for photos for the album called 07-04-07.
Next Saturday’s walk down Memory Lane will be flower heavy.
