A couple months back I stopped at Derrick and Jen’s house for reasons that currently escape me. While I was there, Evie and Layla asked me if I wanted to watch their next soccer game. I said sure, thinking that they were in some kind of organized soccer league where… Read More »My Great Shame
Way back in August I was invited out to the Junck farm to play with his drone. That was the moment I officially got drone fever. I played with the drone for at least 45 minutes. I would share some pictures from that experience, but I have yet to see… Read More »Organized Lightning
Back in August I followed a butterfly around my Mom’s yard. Even got a few pictures of the little bugger. Like I said, I got a few pictures.
I don’t know if it was the holiday or just a really tough theme, but hardly anybody was inspired by last week’s theme, ? PLACE. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates, you came to see the submissions: Becky Parmelee Christopher D.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 167 – ? PLACE
The pictures in the folder called 08-19-08 are from a trip to the Iowa State Fair. Here are a few of them: There are many more pictures than this from my 2008 trip to the Iowa State Fair. You can check them out by clicking on the link below: 2008… Read More »08-19-08
When RAGBRAI came through Boone a few months back, I knew it would be a great chance to tackle Page 44 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Therefore I took a day off from the day job, grabbed my camera, and began walking down Old 30 between Boone and Ogden. Page… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 44
I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! It is the time of year where we are supposed to count our blessings. I thought I would share a few of my current blessings: I am blessed with a great family! I have plenty of friends that share my love for the… Read More »Blessings – 2018
I spent a lot of time out at Dickcissel Park with Naima this year. I think it has become her favorite place to go, when she leaves the house. The only thing I can say is that she has yet to accept that a trip there is a substitute for… Read More »A Man’s Best Friend is his Dog…
Heads up that next week we will be back on our normal schedule of Monday WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE drops into the foreseeable future. PETS did get a few people revved up and taking pictures. Although not as many as I would’ve thought. Some of you people don’t love your PETS… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 166 – PETS
This is the final post of the 2017 backlog. I usually get tapped with taking the pictures for the day job’s holiday card. My co-workers range from putting in a ton of effort in getting ready for their portrait to just showing up and saying “let’s get this done” to… Read More »You’re So Vain, You Probably Think this Post is About You
The pictures from the folder 06-11-08 are from a road trip I took with Willy and Jay to Dyersville. The point of the road trip was to see The Field of Dreams. Jay actually suggested this road trip, even though he doesn’t like baseball. I agreed to go, even though… Read More »06-11-08
As the 2018 political season wound down, I found it to be a perfect time to tackle Page 70 and then subsequently Page 71 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Page 70 – Take a picture of something you hate. There are few things in the world I hate more than… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 70-71
I decided to make a few abstract images to commemorate the Blue Wave in the 2018 Midterm Elections. I was quite the historical night and a very successful night for the Democrats. Consider: Despite facing tremendous gerrymandering in many states, Democrats gained between 37-39 House seats. The most since the… Read More »#BlueWave2018
Naima likes to walk in water. Naima doesn’t swim, unless forced. She doesn’t enjoy it. But she loves tromping around in water. I decided to try to grab a picture of her tromping around in water, from underwater. It didn’t work out that well because the place we go so… Read More »Naima Underwater Test
The day that I found out that I got 2 pictures in the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon, I celebrated by taking a few pictures of flowers in the Photography 139 Flowerbeds. Here are a few of them: Not that I’ve given the matter much thought, but I think that… Read More »About the Sublime
Before we get too involved in the week’s WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, I want to take a little bit of time to toot my own horn. Today at 9:36 AM, I made the final payment on the Camry. Today, that baby is mine! I don’t have the pink slip in my… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 165 – LANDSCAPE
This is the final collection of pictures from the Anderson-Degeneffe Wedding that I am going to share. This almost concluded the 2017 back log. It does conclude it if I decide not to share any pictures from the Computer Mine Holiday Card. I will make my decision on that before… Read More »ANDERSON-DEGENEFFE: SET 4
At this point on our stroll down memory lane, rather than go through full folders, I’m taking a a bit out of a folder at a time, because some of these folders have hundreds and hundreds of images. These images are from a “tubing” trip down the Des Moines River… Read More »Little White Lye Soap and Boone County Sea Dogs
Back at the end of August I had a free Saturday afternoon, so I decided to head out to Big Creek and tackle Page 40 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Create a playlist. Now listen to it while out taking pictures. It was hard for me to determine the exact… Read More »A PHOTO JOURNAL – HENRY CARROLL – PAGE 40
Last weekend I went down to Topeka with Becca and Bethany to see Nate and Laura’s triplets. Bethany left her dog Tempe with Naima for the weekend. Part of my dog-sitting crew, Jay and Willy, got quite the kick out of Naima and Tempe’s antics. This reminded me that I… Read More »Naima & Tempe
This is a collection of pictures I took when I was tooling around Highway 169 taking pictures for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. If you recall, some of the towns I went through were Lamoni, Ellston, Tingley, Shannon City, Arispe, Afton, Lorimor, and Winterset. I also went through a town called… Read More »The Town Sign Project Vol. 8 Auxiliary