The holiday weekend did take the predictable hit on participation rates, but considering it was a holiday, I can’t complain about participation rates too much.

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

Jen Ensley-Gorshe

Kim Barker

Jodie Cue

Tamara Peterson

Kim Barker

Christopher D. Bennett

Jodie Cue

Michelle Haupt

Carla Stensland

Logan Kahler

Cathie Raley

Elizabeth Nordeen

Mike Vest

Elizabeth Nordeen

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:

SKY

SKY! What a great theme. It is also the last theme for this set of 52 themes. Here are the next 52 themes, in no particular order:

Lines
Government
Religion
Animal
Formal Portrait
Music
Self-Portrait
Junk
HDR
Texture
Flower
Nature
Transportation
Framed
Rule of Thirds
Yellow
Art
Orange
Reflection
Food
Street Photography
Faceless Portrait
High Perspective
Black and White
Colorful
Family
Low Perspective
Abstract
Night
Shadow
Candid Portrait
Road Trip
Emotions
Nose
Old
Friends
Ruins
Work
Entertainment
Macro
Sports/Games
Fashion
Sky
Signs
Tree
Water
Landscape
Still Life
Architecture
Country
Ears
Purple

I put in a couple of themes that are a little more technically demanding because I think you guys have earned it. Don’t worry, there are a couple that I will explain when we get there.

As always, I look forward to seeing your interpretations of this weeks theme!

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 cloudy Monday!