Changes Over Time

2009
There is a tree behind Trinity Episcopal Parish which we have called "Trini-tree". The parish has watched this tree grow over time -and, die over time. Kind of mirrors life...


2005




Unknown (Photo courtesy of Brandon Nieman)
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Candid Cookie Shot

My brother-in-law Robert passed away last Saturday and we had the funeral yesterday. During a lighter moment after the service my sister-in-law Carol was clowning around with a cookie. [People need to be careful when there's a photographer with a camera in the room]

In Bloom

Note the water droplets...
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Irritated Customer

This little guy came up to the credit union's front door - knocked on the window, waited, layed down, knocked on the window, and then left in a huff when we refused service.
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Music

I was hired to do a photoshoot Saturday night and part of the program was young musicians.




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Wide Angle

I have a new lens in my tool box - a Tamron F/3.5 10-24mm Wide Angle. It works great - but (why does there always have to be a but?) it has been giving me an occasional communication error on the camera. Not every time, but often enough to bug me. So, I am going to exchange it on Monday and hope the relacement works with no hitches.
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May Day

On the way home from work the clouds were gorgeous, so I pulled into a parking area and took a photo.


An interesting shape and color.



A remainder (or reminder) of winter.
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Silhouette

A silhouette of a photographer against the sunset.
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Motion

Motion + Photo = video - that is what most people believe. Is it possible to depict motion in a still photo? Yes - take a picture of a 3 year old.



As a follow up to my post about the Robin's Nest. It appears that our Robins failed their course in engineering and their condo collapsed. The good news is that were no eggs in the wreckage on the driveway.
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Hands

Some pictures just beg to be taken.
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A Robin Condo

A Robin condo. This is really quite an engineering feat as they have bulit their nest on a round platform. I don't have the heart to knock it down, so I will let nature takes its course. I'll also keep the light off so the eggs don't cook...
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An Engineer In the Making

"M-m-m-m-, I wonder what would happen if I poked this in there?"
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Mini-Reunion

We were in Iowa City wandering around downtown whre there was a small ballet troupe performing and I caught this young lady mid air.
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Spring Is Here - No, Really!!!

Spring Flower


Singing a spring song


New life

Dare I believe that spring is really here? There are signs every where.
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Mount Mercy College

A view of the Administration Building, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Sunset on Golf Course

We were driving home from choir last night and I noticed the sun setting on the golf course. I did a bat turn in traffic so I could get a picture. As I was printing this last night I noticed a bird at the top of the tree in the middle - it's probably an Eagle "taunting" me. I'll get a good picture of an Eagle some day...


I was playing around with the photo and ended up painting it with Corel Paint4. It turned out pretty good.
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Flower

This is in my front yard - both my wife and I have brown thumbs and if we try to plant it, grow it, or cultivate it, it [flowers, trees, shrubs, vegtables] dies... So, when nature plants it and grows it- in our yard - we must take a picture.
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Quaker Oats

A view of the Quaker Oats Plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I wonder what they're making - cheerios?

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Patriot's Day

Today is Patriot's Day - and in honor of that here is a photo of the Sullivan Brothers Veteran's Museum in Waterloo, Iowa.

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Mount Mercy College Admin Building

The photography club I belong to in Cedar Rapids did a night photo shoot at Mount Mercy College. A college had a staff member take us around to a couple of locations. This shot was taken from the penthouse floor in one of the dorms and is a view of the top of the administration building taken at sunset.

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Rural Iowa

This is a photo of rural Iowa taken off of Highway 20 between Iowa Falls and Waterloo.

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In Search of Eagles, but...

...found only a pizza guy... It's surprising, but by carrying a camera around one can get some "different" photos that would otherwise fade into a memory.
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More Peppers

More peppers - I used Photoshop to isolate each color. Here is the series. I suppose I could have stretched this into 4 days worth of pictures - but, what fun is that? My favorite is the green as it is a crisper black and white. Yours...?

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Barn

I imagine that at one point in time this barn was somone's pride and joy. It has obviously seen better days.
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Reflection

On Easter morning, before services, there was a reflection coming from the sun shining through he stained glass. Appropriate for the day...
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Visitors

I was visiting my sister-in-law yesterday and noticed in her backyard that she had visitors. She loves animals and puts out feed. She says that the ducks peck on the window if the food has not been put out.
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Easter Lilly

I love the Easter Lilly. I used my MACRO lenses for the bottom photo.

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Cloudy Moon

The clouds, the moon, the colors - they all just blend so well in this photograph. It supposed to be cloudy and rainy next week so I will move on to something other than the moon.
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You Want to Do What?!?

I hate to re-cycle photos - but, this is one of my favorite pictures. I took this last year. I saw this chocolate bunny rabbit at Target and the eyes just said, "You want to do what?"
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Timed Exposure

I was playing around with a timed exposure and here is one of the pictures. The red and white streaks are cars that passed though while the lens was open.
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Another Moon

The Moon seemed to line up perfectly - as if the remains of this tree were pulling it down.

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Moon Painting

The moon was out again last night. This time I waited until it was dark before taking photos. I wasn't happy with the top picture, but then decided to play around a bit. I opened my aperature wide open, set the shutter speed to BULB and held the aperature open while I moved the camera around. The results are below. I added the color in Photoshop for effect... I call it "Moon Painting".









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