August 28, 2018 – Day 302 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Alien Deer – My nephew Damion proudly displays the “Alien Deer” he drew on a napkin today at lunch! He’s our budding artist!
August 27, 2018 – Day 301 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Karate Drills – My nephew Jayden is having a good time as he works on a karate drill under the watchful eye of his sensei, Eric.
August 26, 2018 – Day 300 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Photo Bomber!!! – Today at lunch I was shooting a selfie with my niece Journey and another niece Elaina snuck into the background for a “photo bomb!” Sometimes the photo you originally plan isn’t the one that comes out the best!
August 25, 2018 – Day 299 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Cousins! – My nephews Xavier and Jayden lay around on a car trailer ramp after we spent a couple hours walking around and shooting pictures at the Frog Follies car show in Evansville, Indiana today. They both were about tuckered out but had a great time!
August 24, 2018 – Day 298 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Aunt Chrystal! – My niece Chrystal surprised Elaina, Jayden and Damion yesterday when she walked in the door for their karate practice! She lives in Chicago and when she showed up you could hear plain as day Aunt Chrystal as the three of them rushed to give her a hug! I expected this to happen and was ready with my iPhone when she came in the door. Being prepared is always good, but still I got a bit of movement from being in the lower light of the indoors. However, I’ll take a little blur as this is a moment that makes it worth it!
August 22, 2018 – Day 296 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Old Grainery – This old grain operation in Guthrie, Ky from many years ago has seen better days, but it still makes for an interesting picture that works really well in black and white!
August 23, 2018 – Day 297 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Patterns – Look around you, patterns can be found just about anywhere and can make for interesting pictures! This stack of Mountain Dews was setting in the grocery isle of my local Kroger store and made the cut for my challenge photo for the day!
August 21, 2018 – Day 295 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Lights and Lines! – I like all the lines and different lights in this photo I shot this morning as I headed in for lunch with members of our local photography group.
August 20, 2018 – Day 294 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Seats – Captured this scene just before my train club meeting. I liked the chairs lined up in a row and my shadow like it was almost sitting in one of them!
August 19, 2018 – Day 293 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Are you ready? – My nephew Jordan peeks in the Worship and Wonder door after church to see what is going on in the class as he waits for his cousins to finish up. He-s still not quite old enough to participate, but it won-t be much longer as he starts pre-school next month!
August 18, 2018 – Day 292 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Alien Princess – This afternoon I stopped by the Kelly Little Green Men festival at Kelly, Ky and found this Alien Princess wandering around the grounds! The festival stems from an alleged sighting of aliens back in 1955. I love roaming around small festivals like this as there’s always interesting pictures to be made!
August 17, 2018 – Day 291 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Junior Warriors – My great-great nephews Jayden, Damion and Xavier pose with their sensei Eric Myers after their first day in their Junior Warriors Karate Class! It was Jayden’s first day and the other two moved up from the Little Warriors class! They all did a great job! Damion wanted to do a serious pose, so no smiles or thumbs up!
August 16, 2018 – Day 290 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Quality Time – After picking my nephew Jayden up from 1st grade we spent some quality time roaming around town looking for pictures to shoot. Here we find him checking out the photo he just shot of a vegetable peddler. If you want to see his picture head over to his page I maintain for him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/shutterbugjayden/ or visit http://www.shutterbugkids.org/.
August 15, 2018 – Day 289 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Leaf – While waiting around on a small bridge for a coal train I captured this photo of a single small leaf laying on the rail and liked the simplicity of the scene.
August 14, 2018 – Day 288 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Schools Out! – My nephew Jayden climbs into the car under the watchful eye of one of the school’s safety patrol students, as he finishes up a busy day at school. He had just given the safety patrol kid a hug before climbing in the car and that’s what the big smile is about. I missed that shot as the door covered most of the event. Maybe next time!
August 13, 2018 – Day 287 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – First Stripe! – In case you can’t tell, my niece Elaina is very proud of her first stripe (it-s white so kind of hard to see) that she got today for speed training in her Little Warriors Karate Class.
August 12, 2018 – Day 286 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Hugs – Damion’s dad, JD, waits patiently as Damion and his cousin Jayden hug goodbye today after church as the rest of the family waits for the other kids to get out of their Worship and Wonder class.
August 11, 2018 – Day 285 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Pumpkins – Well, let’s see, Halloween is about 80 days away, so I guess it’s time to bring out the Halloween stock at our local stores! I guess next month they’ll set out Thanksgiving! Well, if nothing else it provides me with an interesting shot for my black and white challenge today!
August 10, 2018 – Day 284 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – You never know – Today’s photo is pretty much a failed attempt, even though it’s kind of interesting to look at! I used an app called ProCamera which has a low light image stacking feature where it takes up to 64 images and combines them into a single file and I decided I’d try taking a picture of the Milky Way last night with it. This is the result! Faint outline of the trees below, what should be Mars and a lot of noise, or perhaps some of it is actually stars. Perhaps it’ll work better in brighter, low light situations. Just testing the limits of my iPhone 7 Plus! You never really know if it’ll do something unless you give it a try, in my opinion!
August 9, 2018 – Day 283 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Take a seat – I have been eyeing the design and color of the seats around the tables at the First United Bank Plaza here in downtown Madisonville, Ky for some time. The white gravel along with the silver tables and chairs lend themselves so much to a black and white photograph that I picked them for my photo today.
August 8, 2018 – Day 282 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Our Official 1st Grader – This afternoon after his first day of 1st grade I took my nephew Jayden to our local Dairy Queen for a treat! Here he’s enjoying his banana split wearing his “I’m an Official 1st Grader” hat he made in his class.