SUNDAY MORNING. Everybody has one. But did many people take a picture on SUNDAY MORNING or a picture that suggests SUNDAY MORNING to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out.

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 1, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):

1-Sara Lockner – 1 week
2-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
3-Carrie Moellers – 1 week
4-Amy Peterson – 1 week (2)
5-Mary Green – 2 weeks (2)
6-Scott Degeneffe – 19 weeks
7-Sabas Hernandez – 20 weeks
8-Mike Vest – 25 weeks
9-Sheri Fakhouri – 29 weeks (2)
10-Logan Kahler – 30 weeks (2)
11-Nathanial Brown – 31 weeks
12-Jesse Howard – 31 weeks (2)
13-Tamara Peterson – 34 weeks
14-Mindi Terrell – 46 weeks (3)
15-Linda Bennett – 75 weeks (3)
16-Sarah Toot – 76 weeks
17-Angie DeWaard – 80 weeks
18-Dawn Krause – 84 weeks
19-Kim Barker – 90 weeks
20-Joe Duff – 91 weeks
21-Teresa Kahler – 102 weeks (3)
22-Carla Stensland – 102 weeks (2)
23-Micky Augustin – 104 weeks
24-Andy Sharp – 105 weeks
25-Bill Wentworth – 106 weeks
26-Cathie Morton – 110 weeks
27-Elizabeth Nordeen – 111 weeks
28-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 113 weeks
29-Kio Dettman – 115 weeks

Reminder. Here is the updated list of rules for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:

1. The picture must 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 and take pictures challenge!
2. There is a limit of 2 submissions per person per theme. If you send me more than 2, I will use the first 2 that you submit.
3. Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM next Monday.
4. To be considered the photographer of an image, you have to be the one clicks the shutter. If you hand your camera over to somebody else to take a picture of you, you are NOT the photographer of that image.
5. No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.

There are still 2 ways to submit:
1. Email your submission to bennett@photography39.com.
2. Text your submission to my Google Pixel 5.
3. Sometimes, for special people, for special circumstances, we can negotiate something.

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks or the rules of the challenge or how to submit. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:

Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 1 week

Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 106 weeks

Andy Sharp (Iowa)

Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 81 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Nebraska) – 107 weeks

Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 2 weeks

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 103 weeks

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)

Cathie Morton (Waukee, Iowa) – 111 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Boone First United Methodist Church – Boone, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 85 weeks

Dawn Krause (Iowa)

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 112 weeks

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa)

Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 32 weeks

Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 92 weeks

Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 116 weeks

Kio Dettman (Iowa)

Kim Barker (Iowa) – 91 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 76 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 31 weeks

Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 1 week

Mary Green (Michigan) – 3 weeks

Mary Green (Michigan)

Michelle Haupt (Iowa) – 1 week

Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 105 weeks

Mike Vest (Iowa) – 26 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 47 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa)

Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 32 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 21 weeks

Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 77 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 20 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 114 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 30 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa)

Susanna Funk (Iowa) – 1 week

Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 1 week

Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 35 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Iowa)

Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 103 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Iowa)

Willy McAlpine (Ledges State Park – Boone County, Iowa) – 1 week

32 participants! That is a pretty great week!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

+ Kansas
+ Iowa
+ Michigan
+ Nebraska
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

Here is the Year 11 list of states where submissions have been taken:

+ Kansas
+ Iowa
+ Michigan
+ Nebraska
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

Particularly exciting about this week’s participants was Lowell’s first ever submission! WooHoo! Also, Michelle came out of retirement! WooHoo! Hoping for big things from both of them in the future.

The big milestone this week was Vest joining the Half Year Streak Club!! WooHoo! I wonder if I can get Monica to design badges for these clubs? First I have to get Monica to start submitting again. Horse before the cart.

But it wasn’t all new participants, old friends coming back into the fold and major streak accomplishments! There was some heartache involved. Sara, Carrie, and Amy could not build on their submissions last week and their streaks are over before they even began.

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:

UGLY – SUGGESTED BY SARAH TOOT

UGLY! What a great theme for Year 11 of THE WEEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

I look forward to seeing your interpretation!

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 UGLY in this place that finds most things beautiful next Monday.