Reminder, you have until next Tuesday at midnight to vote on what pictures I enter at the Boone County Fair Photo Contest. Click on the link below to vote: BOONE COUNTY FAIR PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY SELECTION You must have a Facebook account or a Google+ account to vote. As of… Read More »Nature’s Amen
The world wasn’t ready for these SELF-PORTRAIT pictures last Monday, mostly because I was in Vidor, Texas. The world also wasn’t ready for them this Monday. I’m not sure the world is ready for them now, but I can’t hold them back any longer: You’re welcome world! +++++++++++++++ Reminder, you… Read More »My Life Is A Mess, Better Watch Your Step When You Step In It!
It is time to select my photos for the Boone County Fair Photo Contest and you get to help select the pictures that go. I have placed 50 images in a SmugMug Photo Gallery. I would like you to go to that Photo Gallery and vote for up to 5… Read More »Boone County Fair Photo Contest Entry Selection Process
It was a great and trans-formative trip, but it is good to be back in the Cyclone State! Here are the submission for SELF-PORTRAIT: ANGIE DEWAARD CHRISTOPHER D. BENNETT CATHIE RALEY TAMARA PETERSON LINDA BENNETT Here are the submissions for FACELESS PORTRAIT: Andy Sharp Andy Sharp Andy Sharp Kim Barker… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 144 & WEEK 145
Time again to check in with everybody’s favorite 2018 high school graduate, Saydie! I came across this quote from Alice Walker for graduates: Be compassionate to everyone. Don’t just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you, see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Delta
The pictures in the folder were from the folder 05-19-08. They were taken on my birthday, as the artwork by Alexis might reveal. I don’t recall everything I did on my birthday that day, but I know for sure I went to Jester Park. Jester Park is one of my… Read More »05-19-08
“Up next, we have a little dedication here. This journal entry is dedicated to all the player hating people that won’t let a little gangsta shine.” -Uncle Chris Niece Alert! 4 non-biological nieces in this post! Page 95 for the PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT was one of the pages that I… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 95
This is the last collection of pictures from the March for Our Lives Rally. I was going to write a parody of the views of some of the gun nuts I have known and their reactions to the news of school shootings. Mostly a lot of hand wringing and worrying… Read More »And the Children Shall Lead
This is the final collection of photos from my trip to Mount Rushmore with my Mom. Here are a few final facts about Mount Rushmore from the Wikipedia: The Sculptor’s Studio – a display of unique plaster models and tools related to the sculpting – was built in 1939 under… Read More »The Mount Rushmore of Presidents Vol. 3
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. -John Harrigan Another look at more of Donna’s flowers. This is more like a quick peek. Maybe even a very quick peek. Some coneflowers involved in this small collection: There are plenty more of Donna Jones’ flower waiting to be… Read More »Happiness Shared
I’m still down in Houston on a Mission Trip with the Boone First United Methodist Youth Group. Hopefully I’m currently on a lunch break. Knocking down a sandwich that I prepared this morning shortly after breakfast. Due to my geographical location, I can’t publish all the great submissions for SELF-PORTRAIT.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE THEME REVEAL
I have to confess, this is kind of a garbage collection of photos that are in folder 05-13-08. I might have normally skipped these images, but I did post them in a blog back in 2008 for some reason, so I figured it was for the best that I go… Read More »05-13-08
Those of you that know me well or are paying attention to this here blog know that tomorrow at 7 AM I hit the road for a Mission Trip to Houston. We will leave Saturday morning. Stay a night at a church near Fort Worth on Saturday night and then… Read More »And What You Gon’ Be When You Grow up Chris? I Doubt They Will Get It!
A few more American gun violence fun facts: Homicides by firearm per 1 million people: Australia 1.4 New Zealand 1.6 Germany 1.9 Austria 2.2 Sweden 4.1 Ireland 4.8 Canada 5.1 Switzerland 7.7 And the United States…. 29.7 Fun Fact #2 There have been more than 1,600 mass shootings since Sandy… Read More »Other Countries Are Laughing at Us
Time to check in on more pictures from my trip to Mount Rushmore with my Mom. One of the debate topics that occasionally rises is who is the next President to go on Mount Rushmore. Say that Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were the 4 greatest Presidents… Read More »The Mount Rushmore of Presidents Vol. 2
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. -Gerard De Nerval Last time we took a look at the flowerbeds of Donna Jones, I said that I felt that I had taken a step away from flower photography back in 2017. Russell, who hates flower pictures the way some people… Read More »A Blossoming Soul
WORK, just like in real life, was an extremely unpopular theme. Perhaps it is like Thomas Edison said: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. A quick reminder that next week I will be in Houston on a mission trip. That… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 143 – WORK
Time to check back in with my favorite 2018 high school graduate Saydie. Thought I would start with more of my favorite bits of wisdom given at commencement speech: Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Gamma
There are 3 sets of images to be found in the collection of pictures in the folder 05-12-08. The first set are pictures from a Mother’s Day celebration at my Mom’s house. The second set are a collection of pictures of flowers at my Mom’s house. A Mother’s Day Peony… Read More »05-12-08
I need to start this post with yet another apology. On Monday, when I posted the submissions for RELIGION and THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE I did not post a second picture submitted by Andy. This was not an error of carelessness like in some past weeks. I legitimately didn’t know… Read More »You Still Wonder Why I Existed, I Exist in a World That’s Real Different!
A brief history of school shootings in the United States. Maybe you’ll detect a trend: July 26, 1764 – Greencastle, Pennsylvania Enoch Brown school massacre: Perhaps the earliest shooting to happen on school or college property, in what would become the United States, was the notorious Enoch Brown school massacre… Read More »Books Not Bullets