REMINDER It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Once again, I am going to leave it up to a popular vote. The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest allows you to enter… Read More »Maquoketa Caves State Park: Chapter 3
REMINDER It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Once again, I am going to leave it up to a popular vote. The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest allows you to enter… Read More »In Joy or Sadness
It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Once again, I am going to leave it up to a popular vote. The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest allows you to enter up… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Entry Selection Process
On the same day that I drove to Decorah to check out their waterfall, I stopped at Union Grave State Park to see their waterfall. I don’t actually think it counts as a waterfall though. It is a spillway, that some how consistently shows up on the list of Iowa… Read More »Union Grove State Park
FEET! Almost everybody has them! There was a decent amount of submissions for has to be one of the easier themes in this set of 52 themes. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! So without… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 150 – FEET
Here it is. The final collection of photos from everybody’s favorite Boone High Graduate, Saydie Howard! I’m not going to quote any canned advice. Saydie is a wise person. She will make good decisions and have a successful life. I have no doubt. Here are the remaining Saydie pictures: While… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Iota
The folder named 06-11-08 contained a wide assortment of photos. Pictures of strange culinary delights from Kentucky, flood pictures, merry-go-rounds, and Little League. I believe that at least 2 of the pictures of Alexis were entered into a photo contest here and there. The culinary oddities were brought back from… Read More »06-11-08
Here is your reminder that you should get up on your FEET and take your WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE PHOTO, the theme this week is FEET: FEET! A reminder that a FEET picture is any photo that involves FEET! Happy photo harvesting! +++++++ A few weeks back I got together with… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 115
More backlog today. So much backlog to get through. More pictures from Jay, Willy, and I’s trip to THAT part of the state to visit the caves of Maquoketa Caves State Park. Hot, humid, harsh lighting. Everything my summer Saturdays seem to be. . Don’t worry cave lovers, there are… Read More »Maquoketa Caves State Park: Chapter 2
In the nearly 2 years since the city burned down the empty, abandoned house on Mamie and Benton, it has become a grass lot. They also widened Benton street, but they did a weird thing with the turning lane where the right lane and the straight lane are the same… Read More »FIRE! Vol. 2
I was involved in 2 contests at the Boone County Fair this year. Now that the fair is in the past and I’ve had adequate time for reflection, I think it is a good time to share the results from the contests I entered. First, the Open Class Photography Contest.… Read More »Boone County Fair 2018 Results
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. -Iris Murchoch I am inclined to agree with Iris Murdoch, even though she is obviously prejudiced by the fact that she is named after the worst flower.… Read More »Mad with Joy
I think NIGHT can be one of the tougher themes, but we still had plenty of submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! So without further adieu, I present the NIGHT photos: Andy Sharp Becky… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 149 – NIGHT
It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite high school graduate… SAYDIE!!! Here is some more free advice for Saydie on how to live her life: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Theta
There is a lot going on in the pictures from the folder 06-10-08! There is a sunset. There is FNSC. There is the first official outing of The Tenderloin Appreciation Society. There are pictures of the Ames Party Bus. Let’s get to it! The first tenderloining experience was at the… Read More »06-10-08
Welcome to a bonus “An Artist’s Notebook” blog. A couple things before we get into the meat of this blog. #1. Today Baby Got Rack will be competing at the Boone County Fair’s barbecue competition. They changed the rules from previous years. We are only allowed to enter to categories.… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Winterset Field Work – Solo Mission
This is your reminder that this week’s theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is NIGHT: NIGHT! A NIGHT photograph is literally any photo taken at NIGHT. Happy photo harvesting! +++++++ Back on Memorial Day I headed over to the Sharp residence to take a picture for Page 38 of THE… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 38
An announcement! Today is the beginning of the Boone County Fair. On Saturday, Baby Got Rack will be competing in the Barbecue Competition. You should come out an support us. I think we will be there pretty much all day. I think judging is at 4 PM. See you there!… Read More »Maquoketa Caves State Park: Chapter 1
Hitting that 2016 backlog again. This time, we are going back to when the Boone Fire Department burned down a house on the corner of Mamie and Benton. Like most people, I like fire. So I took lots of pictures. Here is the first collection: There are plenty more fire… Read More »FIRE! Vol. 1
After women, flowers are the mostly lovely thing God has given the world. -Christian Dior This collection of flower pictures comes from the Iowa State Fair in 2016. There is good news about this collection. #1. I am now almost finished editing the pictures from 2016 that need to be… Read More »After Women
I knew that HUMOR was going to be a hard theme. As I write this, it would seem that many people struggled to find HUMOR in their everyday lives. I would have some commentary on that, but I’ll spare you at this time. As I am writing this, I am… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 148 – HUMOR