MIRROR IN A PHOTO

If you were to stand under this picture and pivot half a turn to your left, you would look out the back door and see the very scene that is in this photograph, except now everything is covered in snow.

EXCELLENT HAT

My "Mad Bomber" hat I got at Bass Pro Shops on vacation last Summer, mostly because I just wanted to buy something at Bass Pro. I'm glad I did. It is a magnificent hat. Warm? You Betcha!

WORN OUT CATERPILLAR

I don't know whether this Caterpillar crawled here under its own power or was hauled and left here, but here it's probably going to stay until it's dismantled for parts or scrap.

THE OTHER DARKROOM WALL

I turned the camera around and shot the wall on the other side of the darkroom. It's just a piece of sheetrock I nailed up, so as to have somewhere to put stuff like this. The rest of the room is just covered with black plastic.

DARKROOM MESS

I have pictures stuck all over on all the walls of my darkroom. Most of them were test prints to determine correct exposure under the enlarger. Here is a sample of one wall.
The top picture shows a portion of the same wall along with a glimpse of my homemade pinhole camera.

THE WEATHER THESE DAYS & GOOD TIMES A COMIN!

Winter Garden and Optimism From the Mailman.

HOTLINE & LONGING FOR BBQ

Testing a Nikon Coolpix ultra compact. I like it. It's smaller than a deck of cards and takes pretty good pictures.

RAILROAD TRESTLE

As a kid, many Summer afternoons were spent swimming and fishing under this railroad trestle. We caught lots of Carp, Suckers and Bullheads.

WINTER DRIVING

Normal Winter Driving Conditions.

POST SNOWSTORM

Taken with Truck Digi-Cam between snowstorms.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

I've taken shots of this bridge before, but never in the winter when the river is frozen. I used a little digital camera that I now call my Truck Digital Camera.

Happy Birthday Mom. I Love you!

WORKSHOP

1: My workbench, taken with a pinhole camera on paper negative with 90 minute exposure.
2: My bandsaw with family graffiti.

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LEFT OVER SUMMER

These were taken with a modified Diana Clone camera this past summer.

1: Sky Glider at Iowa State Fair
2: The Giant Slide at Iowa State Fair
3 Saddle in Horse Barn at Jasper County Fair
4: Alice getting a Corn Dog at Iowa State Fair
5: Cattle at Jasper County Fair
6: Jasper County Courthouse

I fitted an "Arrow" (Diana Clone) with a shutter from an Ansco folding camera, allowing shutter speeds from 1/300 sec. to 1sec. plus bulb, with a cable release thread and electronic flash sync. By gluing a filter ring to the front of the lens I can attach Kodak Series VI filters and lens hood.