Since most of the random pictures I’ve taken are of the “can’t-quite-publish-yet” variety, I thought I would publish some of my favorite Instagram pictures of the last few months.
Since I got a new phone and have been able to get back on Instagram.
Of course, if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen all of these pictures before.
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen most of these pictures before.
If we are friends on Facebook, you’ve seen a few of these pictures before.
The Living Legend
My New Bike
Stay Classy
Lake LaVerne
What my Birthday Cake will Look Like Next Year
I Want this Sign
Me
On the way to the Dog Park
The Essence of my Life
Cyclone Tailgating
Andrea’s New Church
Pickle’s
Josh and Andrea
Whole Family
Gracie
Ready?
Mini Train!
Sara and Shawn – Pufferbilly Days Parade
Boone First United Methodist Church
Recently donated to the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group
Luckiest Son-of-a-Gun I Know
Visiting Derrick
Tenderloining without my Partner – Legal Limit
Making Pickle Relish
Logan at the Block Party
Barn I wish to Photograph
Smith Wedding
Best Part of Thomas the Tank
Touching the Baby
Thomas the Tank
Junckner Photo Shoot
Vi Fellowshipping It Up
Creepy Work Thing
Tailgating in Style
Playtime!
Hot Dog Cart Day!
Trapped
Most accurate artist depiction of Iowa fans I’ve ever seen!
Cyclones!
Experiment
Another Experiment
Instagram may have replaced Twitter as my favorite social media outlet. Not as useful as Twitter, but probably more fun. Plus I may have an addiction to the Photo Map feature. Even though what that feature tells me is that I need to road trip in the worst possible way.
I have to confess that I did flop a couple (nearly all) of these days around for convenience and to work around special events. This is a practice I don’t condone, but one that I won’t shy away from in the future.
The 3rd 7 days of the 365 Day Photo Challenge:
Day 15 – Simple
Day 16 – Arrow
Day 17 – Crossed
Day 18 – Food
Day 19 – Faces
Day 20 – Shopping
Day 21 – Hole
These are the themes for the next 7 days:
Day 22 – Fowl
Day 23 – At the Frame’s Edge
Day 24 – From Your Car Window
Day 25 – Pair
Day 26 – Path
Day 27 – A Group
Day 28 – Dream
I’m sure you are already speculating as to what I will do with these themes!
I might have said last week that this random Wednesday collection was going to feature Maddux. Next week’s collection will feature Maddux.
A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of helping chaperone the youth group from my church on a mission trip to Minneapolis.
As you have undoubtedly heard, my point and shoot went kaput on this trip, so I didn’t get as many photos as I wanted. However, with the pictures I had taken and pictures contributed by Sarah and Maddie I was able to put together this video of the trip to show during the church service on Sunday.
Of course, if you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS feed, you will have to go to the website to watch it.
One note on the video. I do think it ended up being the perfect song for the video and I really struggled with the song until I ultimately settled on this acoustic version of Live Like That by The Street Prophets.
I think this song and this version of the song worked perfectly for the video. I played with the original radio release, but I decided it was too hard of a song for our congregation. But I found an acoustic version of it on YouTube performed by The Street Prophets for KLove radio.
While searching for the perfect song I listened a lot of the Matt Maher station on Pandora while walking Naima.
Originally, I was going to go with Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
Then I changed to Brandon Heath’s Give Me Your Eyes.
Then I changed to Jason Gray’s Remind Me Who I Am.
Then I changed back to Matt Maher’s Hold Us Together.
But once I found the acoustic version of Live Like That, the choice was obvious, even though I love all those other songs.
Even though, you’ll see these pictures in the video, here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip:
Bible Study on a Hill
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like Before We Got There
What 1 Ton of Rice Looks Like When We Are Done with It!
Maddie Boxing Rice
Kiley and Sarah getting their hair done at Mary’s Place
Emily During Bible Study
Paige, Kiley, Grace and Erica Ready at Feed My Starving Children
Finishing Up at Feed My Starving Children
Blessing the Food Packs at Feed My Starving Children
Sarah, Grace, and Alan Making Boxes at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Jacob and Marshall Boxing Meat at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Gabe, and CJ – the end of the frozen meat line at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Bagging Noodles at Emergency Foodshelf Network
Erica, Maddie, Amber, and Kiley Sorting Clothes at ARC
Brenton, CJ, and Jacob Sorting Clothes at ARC
Gabe and Jake Organizing Clothes at ARC
Marshall, Jake, Alec, and Alan Working the Back of ARC
Sarah Styling in ARC
Minnehaha Falls
Breakfast!
Andrew During Bible Study
Alec and Grace Draining the 1 Ton Bag of Rice
Emily and Amber Weighing Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Sarah Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Paige Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Steph and Ryan Sealing Bags of Rice at Second Harvest Heartland
Erica, Amber, Sarah, Emily, Maddie, and Grace at the Global Market
Ammie and Paige Playing Sorry at Mary’s Place
Jake and Kids Showing Off their Creation at Mary’s Place
Brenton, Sarah, Grace, Emily, Amber, Erica, Jacob, Paige, Steph, Jake, Ammie, Allan, Ryan, Yours Truly, Gabe, Jake, Alec, Maddie, Kiley, Sarah, Andrew, CJ, and Marshall at the Sculptue Garden
It was an amazing trip and I hope I asked back for next year’s mission trip.
Sometimes in this project I think I got the shot that I wanted, only to find out later that I didn’t. Monday’s picture would be an excellent example. I did get a picture of Naima looking at the camera, only to discover that it was out of focus when I uploaded it much later.
07/09/2012 – 9:12 PM
07/10/2012 – 10:05 PM
07/11/2012 – 7:22 AM
07/12/2012 – 7:41 PM
07/13/2012 – 6:02 PM
07/14/2012 – 3:45 PM
07/15/2012 – 2:33 PM
I wonder what amazing places I’ll go this week… besides Minnesota.
