I attended Kansas City’s second annual Great Balloon Glow at the National World War I Museum and Memorial on Saturday, August 20, 2022. There were a lot of people there and a few balloons, too. But definitely more people than balloons.
The last three topics for Nicolesy’s 52 Photo Challenge are week 27 “Starburst”, week 29 “Macro” and week 31 “Big Sky”. Actually, there was a fourth topic that I didn’t actually take a photo for, and that one is week 30 “Backlight”. I was traveling to Salt Lake City during […]
Skyler and Shaylie’s Great Dane, Freya, passed away today. Here are a few photos I have taken of this gentle giant and wonderful family friend.
Cory, Kyson, Ellie and I drove to Keokuk, Iowa, Burlington, Iowa, Nauvoo, Illinois and Carthage, Illinois where we got to spend time with Scott and Mia. Scott and Mia are in the Nauvoo Bagpipe Band. Fun times!
The topics in the Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge for the last weeks 26 and 27 were: “Think in Threes” and “Starburst”. These are the photos that I took for these two topics; although one of these photos may have been taken before the topics were announced 🙂
Here’s another post that combines two weeks-worth of Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics: week 24: Reflection and week 25: Contrasting Color.
This post has photos from two different Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics for week 22 and 23: Food and Abstract. “Lisa’s abstract art” was from a project that Lisa was doing in preparation of doing an Eric Carle-inspired art project. Ellie and I started the white board drawing with blue […]
The Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topic for week 18 was “water”. I happened to be looking out the window that overlooks our neighbor’s back yard and noticed their tree through the rain-streaked glass, so I grabbed my camera and captured it, being sure to focus on the raindrops and not […]
I’m combining two different Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics into one post. The topic for week 16 was “Flat Lay”, where we had to take a picture of one or more items lying flat on a surface and take the photo from above. Too bad I forgot to use some […]
Cory has been actively working on developing his disc golf game using his left hand. As part of his learning, he asked me to photograph his right-hand drive and his left-hand drive so that he can compare his technique for each. As a result of his request, I put together […]
Emerson’s 1st Grade Class read the Flat Stanley book, As a result, Emerson sent Flat Stanley to Ellie in Kansas so he could have some adventures.
I took the day off to go with the Building Blocks Childcare to the Kansas City Zoo. It’s fun to watch the kids watch the animals! For all of the photos that I took, visit my site at this address: https://www.stevenralphimages.com/Animals/Wild-Critters/Kansas-City-Zoo/
Lisa and I had the pleasure of celebrating Kyson’s birthday with him today. To celebrate, Kyson and I planted our “Blue Bottle Tree” and then Lisa, Kyson and I went to Red Robin for a Birthday Lunch. We finished the celebration with a trip to the Oak Park Mall where […]
The week 12 theme in the Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge is a technique that I’ve worked on for quite some time: sidelights. The idea is to have the subject lit from the side. These photos are some that I took several years ago using this technique: And these are the […]