A couple months back on my way back from a trip to Manhattan, Kansas to watch Nate graduate from Kansas State, I cruised through Harrison County and harvested the balance of their town signs. Here are some facts about Harrison County: + Population is 14,582 making it the 53rd most… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: HARRISON COUNTY
STILL LIFE has proven to be a moderately successful theme. As of 10:59 AM on Monday, February 21, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: + Evie Gorshe – 1 week + Joe Duff – 4 weeks + Teresa Kahler – 4 weeks + Tamara Peterson – 4 weeks… Read More »WPC – WEEK 336 – STILL LIFE
It is time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. This Sunday we are featuring a collection of Kyle’s Fall Photo Shoot. Here are a few of my favorites: Kyle recently was crowned Winter Formal King. Making the latest person I know to become royalty. I think I know 4 people that… Read More »Kyle – Volume 2
The pictures in the folders 2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14 are mostly from a Mother’s Day celebration we held at my house. But there are also pictures there from the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now known as THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE) and Logan running track. By adding these pictures to the… Read More »2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14
I’m back in the Cyclone State from a whirlwind Computer Mine trip to Pittsburgh. I mostly sat on my couch on Friday night petting Naima, not wanting to move, and catching up on THE PEACEMAKER and THE GILDED AGE. I also watched the new TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. That is an… Read More »WPC – WEEK 335 – BELIEVE
A couple Saturdays back Scottie D. and I and his family hit up one of my favorite restaurants in Ames to try their tenderloin. That restaurant is Time To Roll. It is located in North Grand Mall and the reason I love them so much is they have a knock-off… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Ames Field Work
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These were taken on September 16, 2021. There still are couple, but not many more flower pictures from my Mom’s yard to share.
A few weeks back I cruised down to Urbandale to watch Kyle wrestle. When I got there they told me that Boone was in the “small gym on the right”. So I went to a pretty small gym, but well lit gym on the right. But Boone wasn’t in there.… Read More »Kyle vs. Urbandale
A couple months back, on my way back from a trip to Manhattan, Kansas to watch Nate graduate from Kansas State, I cruised through Pottawattamie County to harvest the balance of their town signs. Here are some facts about Pottawattamie County: + Population is 93,667 making it the 10th most… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY
I haven’t been exactly celebrating holidays here on “An Artist’s Notebook” for awhile now, but I figure I better celebrate the one true holiday that hasn’t been tainted by crass commercialism. I’m talking of course, of Valentine’s Day. This is my way of saying Happy Valentine’s Day world! And since… Read More »WEEK 336 THEME REVEAL
I used to take a picture of every Computer Mine employee for the Computer Mine’s annual holiday card. It was a fun, little diversion from swinging the pick axe even if I could count on getting the same complaints from the same people every single year. “Why can’t you just… Read More »2021 Computer Mine Holiday Card
The pictures in the folder 2011-05-01 are from a photo shoot from when Alice turned 9 months old. I haven’t taken baby photos in a long time. Quick, somebody go get knocked up! By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic… Read More »2011-05-01
About a month back, I finally started my journey on The Tenderloin Trail 2.0. If you don’t know what the Tenderloin Trail 2.0 is, here is some information on it from the Iowa Pork Producers website: Iowans’ favorite pork dish is the breaded pork tenderloin. You can be rewarded for… Read More »Tenderloin Trail 2.0 – Stop #7
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on August 8, 2022. Many of these pictures were taken in a special creative mode, if you think they look “different”. There are only a couple of collections of flower pictures from my Mom’s… Read More »My Eyes Can only See as Far as You
A few weeks back I cruised around Shelby and Mills County (and Pottawattamie County) harvesting their town signs. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from this trip. Including some pictures of what I think might be the prettiest church in Iowa. But no, I’m not going to make… Read More »Shelby and Mills County Auxiliary Images – Vol. 1
A few weeks back I ventured out east on a solo trip to Clinton County to harvest their town signs. It was a pretty great trip! Here are some facts about Clinton County: + Population is 46,460 making it the 12th most populous county in Iowa. Behind Warren County and… Read More »TOWN SIGN PROJECT: CLINTON COUNTY
JUNK has not proved to be a fairly popular theme. Heading into the 5th week of Year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, the following streaks were active: + Mike Vest – 1 week + Dawn Krause – 1 week + Joe Duff – 2 weeks + Layla Gorshe –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 334 – JUNK
I lost the Howard account in 2020, but they did come back to me in 2021. We took a road trip up to Cedar Falls and did their annual family photo shoot on in a park which name now escapes me. Here is the first collection of images from the… Read More »The Howards 2021 – Volume 1
Lots of nature type pictures in the folder 2011-04-30. Many of the pictures are from when Micky and I went turkey hunting. Some are of frogs. Some are of turkeys. Some are of the deadliest game… peacocks. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to… Read More »2011-04-30
This year, in addition to THE SELFIE PROJECT, I’ve decided to participate in the popular Instagram Photo of a Day Project run by Fat Mum lim. Each day there is a different photo prompt. I’ve created a separate Instagram account to post these pictures, so if you are Instagram, you… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – January 2022
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on a couple of different days. There are still plenty of flower pictures left to share.