Today is Dawn’s birthday, so I must wish her a happy birthday.

Happy birthday Dawn!

I hope your birthday is filled with plenty of time to sit down and read!

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Today is also Baier’s birthday, so I must with him a happy birthday!

Happy birthday Baier!

I hope your birthday is filled plenty of thoughts of the Chiefs winning another Super Bowl!

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SENTIMENTAL! Maybe a little bit of a hard one for some people. Sometimes it is hard to think about the things that we are sentimental about. But was it easy enough for enough people to make SENTIMENTAL a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!

If you are like me at all, you will really wonder the backstory on so many of the photographed subject. Fortunately for me, I actually know the story on most of the subjects in the story, but I will never tell.

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, March 4, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):

1-Adam Gordon – 1 week
2-Deanna McClain – 1 week
3-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week
4-Mary Green – 3 weeks (2)
5-Stehanie Kim – 3 weeks
6-Becky Parmelee – 3 weeks
7-Willy McAlpine – 5 weeks
8-Sara Lockner – 7 weeks
9-Lowell Davis – 9 weeks
10-Michelle Haupt – 9 weeks
11-Alexis Stensland – 9 weeks (2)
12-Brandon Kahler – 10 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 28 weeks
14-Sabas Hernandez – 29 weeks
15-Mike Vest – 34 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 38 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 39 weeks (2)
18-Nathanial Brown – 40 weeks
19-Jesse Howard – 40 weeks
20-Tamara Peterson – 43 weeks
21-Mindi Terrell – 55 weeks (2)
22-Linda Bennett – 84 weeks
23-Sarah Toot – 85 weeks (2)
24-Angie DeWaard – 89 weeks
25-Dawn Krause – 93 weeks
26-Kim Barker – 99 weeks (2)
27-Joe Duff – 100 weeks
28-Teresa Kahler – 111 weeks
29-Carla Stensland – 111 weeks (2)
30-Micky Augustin – 113 weeks
31-Andy Sharp – 114 weeks
32-Bill Wentworth – 115 weeks
33-Cathie Morton – 119 weeks
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 120 weeks
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 122 weeks
36-Kio Dettman – 124 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.

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:

Adam Gordon (Kresge Chapel – Kansas City, Missouri) – 2 weeks

Adam Gordon (Kresge Chapel – Kansas City, Missouri)

Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 10 weeks

Alexis Stensland (Sacred Heart Cemetery – Boone, Iowa)

Andy Sharp (Arkansas/Mississippi Border) – 115 weeks

Andy Sharp (Missouri/Tennessee Border)

Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 90 weeks

Becky Parmelee (Arkansas) – 4 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 116 weeks

Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 111 weeks

Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 112 weeks

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 120 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 94 weeks

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 121 weeks

Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 41 weeks

Joe Duff (Texas) – 101 weeks

Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 100 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 125 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 85 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 40 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)

Lowell Davis (Val-Air Ballroom – Des Moines, Iowa) – 10 weeks

Lowell Davis (Val-Air Ballroom – Des Moines, Iowa)

Mary Green (Iowa) – 4 weeks

Mary Green (Iowa)

Michelle Haupt (Iowa) – 10 weeks

Micky Augustin (Schaumburg, Illinois) – 114 weeks

Mike Vest (Missouri) – 35 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Cherry Glenn – Near Ankeny, Iowa) – 56 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Cherry Glenn – Near Ankeny, Iowa)

Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week

Nathanial Brown (Des Moines, Iowa) – 41 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 30 weeks

Sara Lockner (Burnsville, Minnesota) – 8 weeks

Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 86 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Panama City Beach, Florida) – 29 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Honey Hollow – Summerset, Iowa) – 123 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 39 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)

Stephanie Kim (Fort Greene – Brooklyn, New York) – 4 weeks

Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 1 week

Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 44 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 112 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)

Willy McAlpine (McHose Park – Boone, Iowa) – 6 weeks

37 participants! That is a pretty great week! Same as last week!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

+ Arkansas (1.5)
+ Florida (1)
+ Illinois (1)
+ Iowa (33)
+ Kansas (1)
+ Minnesota (1)
+ Mississippi (.5)
+ Missouri (3.5)
+ Nebraska (1)
+ New York (1)
+ Pennsylvania (1)
+ Tennessee (.5)
+ Texas (1)

Thanks to the travels of Scott, we added Florida to the list! And thanks to Andy’s travels we added Tennessee to the list.

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

+ Arkansas (5.5)
+ California (1)
+ Colorado (4)
+ Florida (1)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Illinois (1)
+ Indiana (2)
+ Iowa (372)
+ Kansas (14)
+ Michigan (4)
+ Minnesota (4)
+ Mississippi (1.5)
+ Missouri (4.5)
+ Nebraska (13)
+ New York (7)
+ Pennsylvania (9)
+ South Dakota (3)
+ Tennessee (.5)
+ Texas (17)
+ Vermont (1)

20 states so far! Not bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple states:

+ Andy Sharp (IA, NE, MO, AR, TN, MS)
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO, MO, TX)
+ Adam Gordon (IA, MS, MO)
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY, VT)
+ Mary Green (MI, IA, IN)
+ Susanna Funk (IA, CO)
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN)
+ Nathanial Brown (IA, SD)
+ Brandon Kahler (IA, MN)
+ Micky Augustin (IA, IL)
+ Scott Degeneffe (IA, FL)
+ Mike Vest (IA, MO)
+ Sara Lockner (IA, MN)

Andy has taken a 2 state lead over Jen with his sentimental road trip to be crowned the Emperor of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE Travel! I’ll keep workshopping that name. But I might buy a crown for the winner. Just another idea I’m spitballing.

Micky, Scott, and Vest all joined the club of people that have submitted from multiple states. Adam added a third state to his list!

There were a few big milestones reached this week! Michelle and Lowell and Alexis all joined the Double Digit Streak Club! Kim joined the Triple Digit Streak Club! WooHoos all around!

But it was not all unicorns and rainbows though. Deanna and Johnathan couldn’t build on their submissions from last week and their streaks are over before the 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:

DECORATION

DECORATION! 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 DECORATION in this place in this place that decorates my life next Monday.