This last weekend I made a trip up with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen. On Saturday night we made our way to Long Lake to eat at Primo. Dae Hee and I left early so we could swing by Paisley Park to see the… Read More »Paisley Park
Here is a collection of pictures that didn’t make the cut for RUINS in the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. One of the reasons these photos ended up on the loser pile is because I had already used an abandoned train bridge (on the same abandoned right-of-way) in my WATER picture. While… Read More »Got a Couple of Couches, Sleep on the Love Seat
Going to be a quick write up today, but excited that there were a plethora of submissions this week. Including a submission from first time submitter Jodie Bennett. Which is pretty sweet! Here are the submissions for COUNTRY: Becky Perkovich Bill Wentworth Jodie Bennett Kim Barker 1 Kim Barker 2… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 32 – COUNTRY
The images posted here are from the folder 02-22-07. As promised, there is some squirrel. The next folder is supposed to be 02-28-07, but it seems to be just a bunch of pictures that were already in another folder, so we’ll probably just skip that one and move on.
Bethany and Dae Hee recently brought forth new life into this world. Nate, Laura, Jim and rolled up I-35 (or 35 Interstate in Kansan) and visited little Nora Olivia Yoon. I don’t normally post pictures of people in the hospital, but I’ll make an exception, this one time. Here is… Read More »Nora
This Sunday the Youth Group from my church is having a fundraiser for our Mission Trip to Milwaukee. It is a two tiered fundraising effort. When: Sunday 2-4 PM Where: The Historic J.B. McHose House – 921 5th Street – Boone, IA But what is it? I’ll just steal Alisa’s… Read More »J.B. McHose House
I strangely came upon this on a work misadventure. For one day, my work environment was a lot more interesting. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 320 FOCAL LENGTH: UNRECORDED APERTURE: UNRECORDED EXPOSURE: 1/40 DATE TAKEN: 04/13/16 – 13:36 LATITUDE: 42.03722° LONGITUDE: -93.68136°
There is an old timey hamburger joint in Manhattan (Kansas) that I want to photograph at night at some point. On my recent trip to visit Nate, I was never in Manhattan at night. So it didn’t happen. However, I did scout the area out and took a few test… Read More »Pre-Work
So I made a rookie mistake and left my camera battery at work over the weekend. Good thing that I had already taken a plethora of pictures of old things on Wednesday. This week’s submissions for OLD: Kim Barker Shannon Bardole Bill Wentworth Sarah Karber Christopher D. Bennett Angie DeWaard… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 31 – OLD
I’ve went through a myriad of unsuccessful organizational schemes over the years, but I’m lost why in a folder that goes by the name “02-15-07 Work Walk” there are only two images and neither one has anything to do with work. I’m guessing even less to do with 02-15-07. Well.… Read More »02-15-07 Work Walk
These are the SHAPES pictures that didn’t make the cut. All eerily similar to the one that did make the cut. Almost like they were all taken in the same place. Interesting Richard. Yes provocative. When I stopped to photograph all of these magnificent SHAPES, I got quite the history… Read More »Baby’s in Reno with the Vitamin D
Time for another look at the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge. Probably have quite a few more of these sad images in the hopper. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 24mm APERTURE: f/8 EXPOSURE: 1/320 DATE: 03/11/2016 – 14:07 LATITUDE: 42.06252 LONGITUDE: -93.96999 PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland
Last Sunday was Confirmation Sunday at the church. I wasn’t directly involved in the confirmation process, but my morning was filled with church activities. As a member of the Methodist Men, I was there to help prepare the Confirmation Breakfast for the confirmands, their families, and their mentors. During a… Read More »Can I Get Confirmation?
I felt before I went into the HDR Nik Plugin, I should cover the HDR Toning features that are built into Photoshop. So here is a quick look at the High Dynamic Range toning options in Photoshop. Original Image Color Correction and the Chain has been Removed Flat City Twilight… Read More »High Ding Dong Range Toning
I’ve been looking forward to this week’s theme since I wrote it on a green Post-It Note and dropped it in the hat. Jesse Howard, long time Photography 139 supporter and apparent beard lover, entered his first submission. Hopefully it is the beginning of many more. Let’s look at the… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 30 – RUINS
This is even more rehashier of the post 2 weeks ago and last week the new information is in bold. Only a handful of you understand the photo I posted to start this post. But that is okay. You might understand in a few weeks, or you might just be… Read More »I Further Celebrate Myself More
This folder, entitled SNOW, comes from January of 2007. Next week’s folder is entitled 02-22-07. Probably pretty obvious what is in that folder.
Recently my WB Joe stumbled across an article that Google had made their Nik Plugins free. I rushed to the website and downloaded this collection of 7 plugins to play with immediately. I thought I would give you a quick overview of some of the settings of these plugins, starting… Read More »Analog Efex Pro
Some TREE pictures I didn’t select for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE a few weeks back. Man these pictures are pathetic losers. No offense.
On my recent trip to Kansas I stopped and took a few photos here and there. Kansans were burning their prairie, which made for interesting views. I missed a golden opportunity to get a pretty sweet fire picture. So I did stop to get a picture of the aftermath of… Read More »Desolation View
On the Saturday before Easter I was sitting in a darkened in theater in Ankeny experiencing the “tortures of the damned” that is watching BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, my phone buzzed. Since the movie picture had lost my interest moments into it, I felt no guilt in checking my text message.… Read More »Jesus Eggs!