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On A Lighter Note

After my, possibly sobering previous entry, let me just post this silly little photo. This is a little night light that my mother had in her guest bathroom. [Too Much Information Alert] While I was sitting there doing my business, I just liked the look of it there, so when I was done, grabbed my…

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oReagaMoono

Slowly getting caught up on photos… But, here’s one from a couple weeks ago, while shooting my lovely nieces against the backdrop of the perigee moon.  I think this was the best composition I was able to get that night, from her standing atop my utility cart / step ladder. Well, that was the very…

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One Room School House

So, now we come to the second roll of film, that I shot three weeks ago today… a color roll of film, despite you seeing all black and white end results here… having their color in the images just didn’t lend them anything, so B&W they became. As I wrote in the preceding entries on…

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Old Car

From along the Iowan flood plain that was, last Summer, all under water.  I stopped at this farmer’s field that had all these old cars and tractors… here is one of the cars, which would have been under flood water up over it’s hood last Summer.  Below, behind the wheel of it, with the windshield…

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A Little Extra Hug

My ma turned the Big Seven-O, and her sons, we all arranged a surprise birthday party for her, which actually went off without a hitch… had a very good turn out of her old friends, co-workers, family, she was surprised, and enjoyed the whole thing. I, of course, being the photographer of the family, took…

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Lake I-29

This photo cost me two hundred and fifty bucks. Summer of 2011, the Missouri River flooded it’s banks in numerous places along it’s path.  Here, it is right next door along the western edge of Iowa, on the northern fringe of my hometown of Council Bluffs. The week prior to this photo, on the first…

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Views Of The 2011 Missouri River Flood

Click on any of the individual photos above to go see them full screen in a new window 2011 brought the Missouri River flooding it’s banks pretty much up and down it’s path, as the result from heavy snowfall and resulting melt, at it’s head in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana.  The Missouri River…

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