Here is the November image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture was taken about 10 miles north of Ames, Iowa. Along the Skunk River. Near Soper’s Mill. Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the September image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This gazinnia thrived in the Photography 139 Front Porch Flower Pots. Gazinnias are a top 5 flower for me. Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the September image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture was taken on the corner of Mamie Eisenhower Avenue and Story Street in Boone, Iowa. It was taken on September 11. Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the August image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture was taken at the Discovery Garden of the Iowa State Fair. Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the July image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: I found this collection of daisies at the Iowa Arboretum. The interesting thing is that I actually went there to photograph their lilies, but I my favorite picture from that evening was of their daisies. Calendars are currently on… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar July
Here is the June image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This image was taken in the world famous Photography 139 Lily Patch located in near the Photography 139 Garlic Patch. Calendars are currently on sale at great vendors like… me… for a limited time. $10.
Here is the May image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This macro image was taken on the world’s most beautiful campus. The campus of Iowa State University. Near Lake LaVerne and the 4 Seasons Fountain and the Memorial Union. Iowa State, so great that even its grass is beautiful!… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar May
Here is the April image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture goes into a category (it is a fairly stacked category) of, “I really love this photo but I’m not sure many other people will.” Different strokes for different folks. I love pictures of deterioration. Plus the license… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar April
Here is the March image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture is of the Wagon Wheel Bridge west of Boone, Iowa. It collapsed after being hit by an ice flow. The remainder of the bridge was torn down just this week. I took this picture on the day… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar March
Here is the February image for the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar: This picture was taken in the Minnehaha Falls Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This picture and more specifically, all the pictures I took in this series are as close as I came to dying (as far as I know) this… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar February
Here is the January image for the 2017 Photography 139 January Calendar: This picture was taken in Peas Creek in Ledges State Park. Which is a few miles south of Boone, Iowa. This part of the creek is a few hundred yards south of where Davis Creek empties into Peas… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar January
I spent the last few days designing the 2017 Photography 139 Calendar. The design of this calendar is different than the last several years in a few different ways. 1. This isn’t a flower photography only calendar. There are flower pictures, but they are the minority. 2. Gone is all… Read More »2017 Photography 139 Calendar Cover
A few weeks back I took Nader down to Des Moines for his birthday. We bummed around the downtown area and then met Jeff, Yin, and a couple of Baiers for lunch at Mad Meatball. Here are a few pictures from the bumming around phase of the day: We also… Read More »Nader Day
(Editor’s note: Pretend like I published it on the day I intended.) It is Black Friday. My least favorite day of the year. The day where my faith in humanity has to be reset as mass-consumerism runs amok. People fight each other. Sometimes kill one another, so they can save… Read More »Howard the Spider
A few hollyhock photos I took in June. More backlog coming to a blog post near you.
A long time ago, Joe and I hopped in the Camry and went to Marshalltown for some pizza. On the way back we stopped at the State Center Rose Garden. It was late in the evening, so I didn’t get as many images as I normally do. I will have… Read More »State Center Backlog
As I was leaving the Junck farm a few months back I spied this guy hanging around by their driveway. I’m not going to identify the species of this guy because I know there is somebody out there waiting to say, “Well actually it is a 13 lined ground squirrel.”… Read More »Squirrelly
Man, I still really haven’t edited all of the State Fair flower pictures. Well, one more down. Many more to go. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 320 FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm APERTURE: f/4 DATE: 08/16/2016 – 8:16 LATITUDE: 41.59517° LONGITUDE: -93.55154° PHOTO ASSISTANT: BABY GOT RACK EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “My Shot” –… Read More »Young, Scrappy, and Hungry
Last week’s The Iowa Pork Producers announcer their annual winner for the best tenderloin in the state of Iowa. Unfortunately, they always get it wrong. Wrong! I can point to the year The Lucky Pig won. A disaster of a tenderloin. Or even worse is the year that Gramma’s Ktichen… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Nick’s
This is a picture I took of some daisies way back when I was on vacation. Which was way back in early July. Some of us don’t get infinite PTO. You know who I’m talking about: If you are the type that likes daisies, good news, probably more in the… Read More »Arbo Daisy
This one goes back a ways. Sometimes I hate the iris. Sometimes I’m at peace with the iris. Today, I’m at peace. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 55mm APERTURE: f/6.3 EXPOSURE: 1/100 DATE: 05/31/2016 – 17:07 LATITUDE: 42.02909° LONGITUDE: -93.62925° PHOTO ASSISTANT: NADER PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Wake… Read More »Messenger of the Gods