Today is Colleen’s birthday, so happy birthday Colleen! I hope it is as magical as you want it to be! +++++++ On the health spectrum, this post is about a food item that couldn’t be more on the opposite end of the “healthy eating” spectrum than a tenderloin if it… Read More »Salad Shooting: Ames Field Work
Today is Jason’s birthday. Happy birthday Jason! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Time to clean up the backlog. These images are from September that never quite fit into any previous posts. Some are alternates for THE WEEKLYPHOTO CHALLENGE. Another is a… Read More »And You Left Me There Cryin’ Wonderin’ What I Did Wrong
Today is Kalista’s birthday, so happy birthday Kalista! Hope your day is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ We begin where we left off last Friday. Kim, Lowell, Tony, and I were hanging out by The Bean after having supper at Giordano’s. The Bean is one of… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1C
I’m gonna fit in I’m on the list I’m gonna to get in Haven’t you heard And don’t you know who I am? I’m with the Joneses I’m their best friend I’ve come to saturate the market To perpetuate the hip kid I was born so I can fall in… Read More »Mainstream Kid
When I was originally contacted by the Sleeping Angels to photograph their event, it was because they wanted pictures of them crossing the Mile Long Bridge. It was kind of touch and go with whether the weather was going to cooperate. You can’t fly a drone in rain and the… Read More »Rodan139: Sleeping Angels II
Time for another collection of images from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Henry and Jefferson County I took with Teresa. The majority of these pictures were taken in Mount Pleasant. We met up with Doug and Jodie for lunch in Mount Pleasant. Afterwards, Doug went back… Read More »Henry & Jefferson County Aux. – Vol. 2
I mailed out a postcard to the entrants of last years Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest last week. I hear they still haven’t arrived in people’s mailboxes. Thought I would share the postcard here, since many of you entered last year or have kids or grandkids that entered. Or hopefully many… Read More »WPC – WEEK 401 – HAPPY
A couple Saturdays back after Logan and I did some photography for Sleeping Angels, we need to get a meal. We were going to eat burgers and dogs with the motorcyclists (if time permitted) but the map mishap cost us that chance. So after we concluded taking pictures by the… Read More »Burgertime: Grimes Field Work
Because the Fountain of the Four Seasons in being restored and replaced, I made two trips to photograph it before it left. I already shared the pictures I took during the day. Here I’m going to share the pictures I took at night. But first, here is some information about… Read More »Fountain of the Four Seasons – Night
I need to start out by thanking everyone that wished me a happy birthday. I believe this is a comprehensive list of everybody that wished me a happy birthday. + Kim and also thank you for buying me birthday Buffalo Chicken tots and the card. + Ron, Clevenger, Jordan, and… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1B
Today is the birthday of somebody very important! You all know who it is! Happy birthday Steph! I hope your birthday is everything you want it to be! It has been way too long since the last time I saw Steph. That is probably mostly my fault. +++++++ There’s a… Read More »The Things I Regret
Way back in August, Teresa joined me on a road trip to harvest the town signs of Henry County and Jefferson County. It was a good trip where met up with Doug and Jodie for lunch. We also saw the campus of the now closed Iowa Wesleyan. However, the first… Read More »Henry & Jefferson County Aux. – Vol. 1
A couple Saturdays back Logan and I photographed and videographed this year’s motorcycle ride fundraiser. They contacted me and wanted me to get a drone picture of them as they rode across the Mile Long Bridge. I contacted Logan to assist. If you don’t know what Sleeping Angels is, here… Read More »Rodan139: Sleeping Angels I
RUINS! One of my favorite themes and one of my favorite things to photograph. But was it a popular theme or did it leave many streaks in RUINS? This is the 400th THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE post since rebooting THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. (504th all-time) I hope it was… Read More »WPC – WEEK 400 – RUINS
I’ve decided to lump all of my Chicago food adventures into one massive post. I was in Chicago for parts of 7 days and ate meals there on 6 of those days. Some of them great. Some of the good. Some of them bad. All of them photographed. I started… Read More »Chicago Food Adventures
A few months back I went around Iowa State and took a few pictures. I started at Jack Trice Stadium to see the new Jack Trice Sculpture. It was around this time that they unveiled the new sculpture “Breaking Barriers” to honor Jack Trice. Here is the public art statement… Read More »Jack and the Zodiac
I’m going to cover my recent work trip to Chicago in a different format than I covered my work trip to Las Vegas. I’m going to mix the camera images with the cell phone pictures. I’m also going to try to tell the story mostly through the pictures. Rather than… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1A
It really breaks my heart To see a dear old friend Go down to the worn out place again Do you know the sound Of a closing door? Have you heard that sound somewhere before? Do you wonder if she knows you anymore? Did you think the bottle Would ever… Read More »The Eye
Since my trip to Chicago I know I have missed celebrating a few birthdays on this website, but the bleeding stops today. Happy birthday to my awesome sister-in-law and fellow Brandi Carlile fan Becca! I hope you have a birthday that is as tremendous as you are! Lots of Brandi… Read More »Muscatine County Aux. – Vol. 5
A couple weeks back I crossed one off one of my travel goals for 2023. I visited Red Haw State Park near Chariton. I wanted to visit it and at this time of year because of its bountiful supply of pink blossoms. I was going to try to hit it… Read More »Rodan139: Red Haw State Park
SCHOOL! It isn’t much fun, but it is the best shot at social mobility, so it has to exist. But did SCHOOL get people excited enough to take a picture and submit it? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, May 1, this… Read More »WPC – WEEK 399 – SCHOOL