There are only a few hours left to cast your vote for what pictures I will be entering in the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. If the poll ended this second, this would be the results: This photo would win. It has a 2 vote lead. This photo…. Is tied with… Read More »Focus Stack II
REMINDER NOTE: IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET, VOTE!!! 4 CATEGORIES ARE SEPARATED BY 1 VOTE. 1 IS SEPARATED BY 2 VOTES. THE LAST CATEGORY IS SEPARATED BY 3 VOTES. It is once again time for me (and by me, I mean you guys) to pick out my photos to enter… Read More »Iowa State Fair 2017 – Set 1
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 »The Juncks – Vol. 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers It is Sunday. It is 8 PM. It is time to check in with everybody’s favorite 2017 high school graduate… SAYDIE!!! I don’t have much more to add at this… Read More »Congratulations Saydie – Eta
A quick announcement before we get to the meat of this entry. I will be working a concession stand at the Boone Municipal Band Festival today for the church. I will be there. I think some of my family. Some of the kid’s from the youth group. I think the… Read More »Decorah Waterfall
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. ― Herbert Rappaport Digging deep into the backlog here. The following are pictures from an August 2016 trip to the Iowa State Fair. Yes, I have pictures from 2016 I… Read More »Take the Time to Plant
All things by immortal power. Near of faR, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling a star. -Francis Thompson This post signifies the final batch of photos from Donna’s flower garden. However, before we get into that, I need to make an announcement.… Read More »Without Troubling a Star