TRAINS, PLANES, & AUTOMOBILES! A potential Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest class! But was that enough to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out:

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 5, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):

1-Adam Gordon – 1 week (2)
2-Evie Gorshe – 1 week
3-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
4-Jason Stensland – 1 week (2)
5-Elainie Hernandez – 3 weeks
6-Sara Lockner – 3 weeks
7-Monica Jennings – 4 weeks
8-Suzie Brannen – 5 weeks
9-Lowell Davis – 5 weeks
10-Michelle Haupt – 5 weeks
11-Alexis Stensland – 5 weeks (2)
12-Brandon Kahler – 6 weeks
13-Mary Green – 6 weeks (2)
14-Scott Degeneffe – 24 weeks
15-Sabas Hernandez – 25 weeks
16-Mike Vest – 30 weeks
17-Sheri Fakhouri – 34 weeks
18-Logan Kahler – 35 weeks (2)
19-Nathanial Brown – 36 weeks
20-Jesse Howard – 36 weeks
21-Tamara Peterson – 39 weeks
22-Mindi Terrell – 51 weeks (2)
23-Linda Bennett – 80 weeks
24-Sarah Toot – 81 weeks
25-Angie DeWaard – 85 weeks (2)
26-Dawn Krause – 89 weeks (2)
27-Kim Barker – 95 weeks
28-Joe Duff – 96 weeks (2)
29-Teresa Kahler – 107 weeks (2)
30-Carla Stensland – 107 weeks (2)
31-Micky Augustin – 109 weeks
32-Andy Sharp – 110 weeks
33-Bill Wentworth – 111 weeks
34-Cathie Morton – 115 weeks
35-Elizabeth Nordeen – 116 weeks
36-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 118 weeks
37-Kio Dettman – 120 weeks (2)

Reminder. Here is the 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 that 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@photography139.com.
2. Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro.
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 (Ames, Iowa) – 6 weeks

Amy Peterson (Uptown Garage Brewing – Ankeny, Iowa) – 1 week

Amy Peterson (Uptown Garage Brewing – Ankeny, Iowa)

Angie DeWaard (Kate Mitchell Elementary School – Ames, Iowa) – 86 weeks

Andy Sharp (Ely, Iowa) – 111 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 112 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska)

Brandon Kahler (I-35 – Story City, Iowa) – 7 weeks

Carla Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 108 weeks

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 116 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Marshalltown, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Les’s Auto – Boone, Iowa) – 90 weeks

Dawn Krause (Les’s Auto – Boone, Iowa)

Deanna McClain (Ames, Iowa) – 1 week

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 117 weeks

Jen Enlsey-Gorshe (Colorado Airspace) – 1 week

Jennie Green (California) – 1 week

Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 37 weeks

Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 97 weeks

Joe Duff

Johnathan Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 1 week

Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 96 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 121 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 81 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 36 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)

Lowell Davis (Bliss Cancer Center – Ames, Iowa) – 6 weeks

Michelle Haupt (Iowa) – 6 weeks

Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 110 weeks

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 31 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 52 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa)

Monica Jennings (Ames, Iowa) – 5 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Jefferson, Iowa) – 37 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 26 weeks

Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 4 weeks

Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 82 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 25 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 119 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 35 weeks

Suzie Brannen (Clive, Iowa) – 6 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Rochester, Minnesota) – 40 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 108 weeks

Willy McAlpine (Ledges State Park – Boone County, Iowa) – 2 weeks

38 participants! That is a great week! Ties CIRCLE for the most participants in a week this year!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

+ California
+ Colorado
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ Minnesota
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

Thanks to Tamara’s trip to Minnesota, Minnesota was added to this year’s map! Thanks to Jen’s work trip, we also added Colorado AND California as well!!

Here is the Year 11 list of states where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each state):

+ California (1)
+ Colorado (1)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Iowa (231)
+ Kansas (9)
+ Michigan (2)
+ Minnesota (1)
+ Nebraska (8)
+ New York (1)
+ Pennsylvania (6)
+ South Dakota (2)
+ Texas (11)

12 states so far! No bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple states:

+ Mary Green (MI, IA)
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY)
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO)
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN)

There were a couple of major milestones this week. Sabas joined the Half-Year Club! WooHoo! Then Mindi joined the 1 Year Club! That is a double WooHoo!

Another awesome development. The first ever submission from Deanna McClain. Hopefully the beginning of big things in the future! It was also the first ever submission from Jennie Green! I expect that to be more of a one-off, but you never know. You never know.

But it wasn’t all good news. Quite a few streaks bit the dust! Adam, Evie, and Jason couldn’t build on last week’s submission and their streaks were over before they started. Elainie’s streak is over at 3. Worst of all, Mary’s streak is no more after 6 solid 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:

ORANGE

ORANGE! What a great theme for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

I look forward to 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 ORANGE in this place in this place that loves all colors next Monday.