It was a long and a great day. Hopefully, PATHS was worth waiting for. You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 12, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
+ Sara Lockner – 1 week
+ Becky Parmelee – 1 week
+ Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
+ Jesse Howard – 4 weeks
+ Willy McAlpine – 4 weeks
+ Brandon Kahler – 5 weeks
+ Linda Bennett – 7 weeks (2)
+ Sarah Toot – 8 weeks (2)
+ Sabas Hernandez – 10 weeks
+ Monica Jennings – 10 weeks
+ Angie DeWaard – 12 weeks (2)
+ Mary Green – 12 weeks (3)
+ Dawn Krause – 16 weeks
+ Kim Barker – 22 weeks
+ Joe Duff – 24 weeks
+ Logan Kahler – 25 weeks
+ Teresa Kahler – 34 weeks (3)
+ Tamara Peterson – 34 weeks
+ Carla Stensland – 34 weeks (2)
+ Michelle Haupt – 35 weeks
+ Micky Augustin – 36 weeks
+ Andy Sharp – 37 weeks
+ Bill Wentworth – 38 weeks
+ Cathie Morton – 42 weeks
+ Elizabeth Nordeen – 43 weeks
+ Shannon Bardole-Foley – 45 weeks
+ Kio Dettman – 48 weeks (3)
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Andy Sharp – 38 weeks
Andy Sharp
Sabas Hernandez – 11 weeks
Dawn Krause – 17 weeks
Joe Duff – 25 weeks
Kim Barker – 23 weeks
Teresa Kahler – 35 weeks
Teresa Kahler
Teresa Kahler
Bill Wentworth – 39 weeks
Cathie Morton – 43 weeks
Carla Stensland – 35 weeks
Carla Stensland
Carla Stensland
Kio Dettman – 49 weeks
Kio Dettman
Kio Dettman
Kio Dettman
Linda Bennett
Mary Green – 13 weeks
Mary Green
Michelle Haupt – 36 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley – 46 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley
Tamara Peterson- 35 weeks
Sarah Toot – 9 weeks
Brandon Kahler – 6 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett
Micky Augustin – 37 weeks
Angie DeWaard – 13 weeks
Logan Kahler – 26 weeks
Logan Kahler – 26 weeks
Jesse Howard – 5 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen – 44 weeks
Suzie Brannen – 4 weeks
Monica Jennings – 11 weeks
25 participants. Not a great week. But not a bad week.
A couple things to note. Logan hit the half a year club with his streak. Shannon set a new record for the picture submitted that was taken the farthest north. Her pictures were taken north of the Arctic Circle! I received pictures from Alaska, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Kansas. Many of those are assumptions.
It wasn’t all good news. Sara and Becky’s steaks went kaput at 1 week. Willy’s was shot down after 4 weeks.
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:
SIGNS
SIGNS! What a great theme for Year 9 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
But what is a SIGNS photo? Quite simply is is a photo of a SIGN(s) or of SIGNS. SIGNS. SIGNS. There are SIGNS everywhere. Messing up the scenery. Breaking my mind. Do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read the SIGN(s)?
But one thing you should definitely do is find an interesting SIGN(s) and photograph it in an interesting manner. Of course there is more than one definition of the term SIGNS.
While considering your possible subjects for your picture, meditate on the following quote:
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
-Thomas Merton
I look forward to seeing your interpretation.
RULES
The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge.
You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of SIGNS in this place where I show many alarming signs next Monday.