Once again, we had a week of double digit submissions. I believe that to be the third consecutive week. People like TREE(s). A bunch of TREE huggers,the lot of you! Which is good, because people who don’t like TREE(s) aren’t good people.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions:

Andy Sharp

Carla Stensland

Kim Barker

Shannon Bardole-Foley

Tamara Peterson

Christopher D. Bennett

Linda Bennett

But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:

BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST! What a great theme! In fact, it is such a great theme because it was suggested by long-time Photography 139 fan Andy Sharp. But what is a BREAKFAST photo? Easy enough. A BREAKFAST photo is any photo of somebody eating BREAKFAST, preparing BREAKFAST, items used to make a BREAKFAST, or anything to do with BREAKFAST.

However, there is something to note. Next Monday at this time, I will be on a mission trip to Rapid City, South Dakota with my church’s Youth Group. I will be as far away from technology as a guy can get. So that changes things for next week. Sorta.

I will not be publishing the BREAKFAST submissions until I return. However, that does not change the deadline, the deadline is still 11 AM Monday.

There is a slight change in the rules below going forward, you might want to read them because it might make life easier for some of you!

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HOUSEKEEPING

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 RULES DIVISION

The picture has to be taken the week of the theme. This isn’t a curate your pictures challenge. This is a get your butt off the couch (my personal experience) and put your camera in your hands challenge. Don’t send me a picture of you next to the Eiffel Tower, when I know you were in Iowa all week. I will point out that I have let that slide some in the past. I will not in the future. Since it is literally about the only rule.

Your submission needs to be emailed to bennett@photography139.com by 11 AM on the Monday of the challenge due date.

I now allow people to text me their submissions. In the past, I had made exceptions for a couple people that aren’t real computer savvy, even though it was an inconvenience for me and required at least 3 extra steps for me. I am now lifting that embargo because I have a streamline way of uploading photos. I’m not giving out my phone number, but if you have it, you can text me.

It should be pointed out that this blog auto-publishes at 12:01 on Mondays. So it wouldn’t hurt to get your picture in earlier.

That is it, them’s the rules.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY 139 SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DIVISION

Nobody showed class, taste, and sophistication this week by signing up for a Photography 139 email subscription. I’ll try and do better next week.

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That’s all I got for today, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will commune right here again next Monday. Hopefully it will be a very sausagey Saturday or Sunday. Probably Sunday.