DPC: Free Study (November)

Patriarch

My grandpa, on Thanksgiving. This shot didn't score well in the "Free Study" challenge, but I thought I got the effect I was aiming for. Click on the image to see my notes on how I set up the lighting for this one.

Floods in Iowa

If you lived there, you'd remember last month some severe flooding in the midwest. Last weekend we visited my Grandpa in northeast Iowa, and we didn't have to travel very far to see some spectacular flood damage: ruined fields, collapsed bridges, washed out roads.. I got a few pictures.











These pictures, and a few more, are also up on my DPC portfolio.

DPC: ABC...XYZ

Help, I'm Juxtaposed!

The challenge was to present a picture with a title that started with consecutive letters. I was contrasting the bright blue and yellow of Jason to the flat green of the waterfall scene.

Lately

I took the family up to Iowa recently, and totally forgot to blog about it. Apparently I'm too far removed from the days of working for a search engine company or an email startup. I'm sometimes surprised I manage to get more than a couple posts on this blog each week.

You've probably noticed the "Worth Reading" sidebar. You should be reading those articles. I only share the good stuff because I like you.

This week's challenge for DPC was Blurry Mess, and it was a lot of fun to shoot for it. You can expect to see my entry for that after voting ends next Tuesday.

Iowa Visit

My mom and Bob came out to visit last weekend, and we took a trip up to West Union. Bob had never been there, and it had been about 25 years since my mom's last visit. She even got to sleep in her old room! We took a drive up the Mississippi to Lansing, then back down on the Wisconsin side, and all the trees were showing off their fall colors.