Another week with subpar participation despite being perhaps the easiest theme of this set of 52. Weather I’m sure contributed. This week central Iowa is supposed to get two more snowstorms, so we’ll see how many people struggle through the elements for this week’s theme. But you didn’t come her… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 179 – SELF-PORTRAIT
There are 2 types of pictures in the folder called 10-26-08. Some are from Iowa State’s game with Texas A&M. The second type are pictures from a Suffrage Parade re-enactment that took place in Boone in 2008. Perhaps you don’t know that Boone was (possibly) the site of the first… Read More »10-26-08
I still need to circle back to the Alamo Bowl Trip, but thought I would share more from my project of re-organizing some photos that pre-date the Photography 139 website. I’m actually going through a big photography re-organization in general. One of the photographers I follow on Instagram recently shared… Read More »Iowa State Cyclones Football – 2005
Happy Valentine’s Day from Photography 139! I love you all! Except those of you I don’t. While some like to dismiss Valentine’s Day as a “Hallmark holiday”, they should remember that Hallmark holidays don’t get banned in countries like Pakistan. I hope your Valentine’s Day was filled with exactly what… Read More »Happy Valentine’s Day
This collection of pictures I took for Boone First United Methodist Church’s Church Directory were taken because the Committee (I feel like I’m in an Orwell novel when I write ‘the Committee’, but if the last few years have taught us anything, it is that Orwell was a bloody optimist)… Read More »Boone FUMC Church Directory: Chapter 4
There is nothing particularly memorable about the Boone County Fair. It is just your typical rural county, county fair. But it is my rural county and my county fair, so I visit it a few times each year. Once to participate in the barbecue competition with Baby Got Rack. Another… Read More »Our County Fair is an Average County Fair…
I would describe the amount of submissions this for the theme EYE as fair. People might be coming out of the winter doldrums even though winter weather doesn’t seem to be going anywhere for this week. Maybe next week won’t be so bad. But you didn’t come here to listen… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 178 – EYE
The pictures in the folder 10-19-08 are from the Iowa State-Nebraska football game in 2008. One of the head coaches in the game would go on to win a national championship. The other coach… looks like he got exiled to someplace called Youngstown, Ohio. Looking through these pictures, it does… Read More »10-19-08
I thought I would take a Friday off from regaling you with events from the Alamo Bowl Road Trip because, I do now own the drone that I have been planning to own for several months now. While admittedly, I only reached 9 of my 10 goals, nobody has seemed… Read More »Remember Tonight…
You might think this post really belongs on Saturday as it is a bit of a walk down memory lane, but these images were never really posted to “An Artist’s Notebook” until today. I came across this collection of photos when I was looking for different photos as I’m trying… Read More »Iowa State Cyclones Football – 2006
Seems like another good time to release a collection of photos that I tooke for the Boone First United Methodist Church’s Church Directory. In this collection are pictures I took of a particular stained glass window that the committee wanted, a communion set that the committee wanted, some Youth Group… Read More »Boone FUMC Church Directory: Chapter 3
Loyal leaders may recall that I started up the Selfie Project again in 2019. At the end of every month I will check-in with it to share some of my favorites from the month. If you don’t want to wait until the end of the month, you can follow me… Read More »Selfie Project – January
It would appear that the polar vortex not only crushed the temperatures, it also seems to have squashed participation for RUINS. But at least a few hearty souls got out in the weather and found something decaying to photography. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 177 – RUINS
There is quite the collection of images in the folder called 10-13-08. I can’t possibly include all of them in this here entry, so I’ll just have to pick out a few that I like the most. The pictures range from Gyro Day at the Computer Mine to the Ames… Read More »10-13-08
We loaded up the car and I punched the address of the Branch Davidians Compound into the GPS. I had absolutely no clue what we would find what we would find when we got to the place where 76 people died in the Waco Siege. You see, we had stayed… Read More »Alamo Bowl Road Trip: Branch Davidians
Flowers. A staple of “An Artist’s Notebook”. I took these pictures back in July. I found them in my Mom’s yard Have a look: I figured that since it is going to warm up above negative temperatures soon, flowers would be a good subject for today.
While I was preparing to write this entry I went down a rabbit hole on the origins of the term “swan song”. I have heard the term many times, but never really understood what it meant. Apparently there is a belief dating back to ancient Greece that swans stay mostly… Read More »The Proverbial Swan Song
Back in May I spied a yellow bird dancing around the branches of my cherry trees inspecting my cherry blossoms. I quickly grabbed the Alpha 77ii and went about the business of photographing the little guy. My neighbor to the east was outside and she tried to strike up a… Read More »Hope is the Thing with Feathers
I knew SURPRISE was a tough theme and participation took a predictable hit this week. This week’s theme is considerably easier, but you might have to go out in the -50 (wind chill) temperatures to get a picture. You don’t have to, but I know I will be! Probably. You… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 176 – SURPRISE
I slept like a baby. Like an angel. Like a baby angel. I woke up in the morning ready to take on the world. After I got out of the shower I decided to walk the Motel 6 grounds to check out the lay of the land. I carried the… Read More »Alamo Bowl Road Trip: Magnolia
Last Sunday there was one of nature’s greatest shows. The lunar eclipse! I decided to check it out and photograph it because there won’t be another total lunar eclipse visible in Iowa for several years. Although I cut my photography session short because I was having severe tripod problems, I… Read More »Bloody Wolf Lunar Eclipse