DECORATION! A great theme! Everybody loves to decorate. But did enough people like to decorate enough to make DECORATE a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, March 11, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
2-Monica Jennings – 1 week
3-Adam Gordon – 2 weeks (2)
4-Mary Green – 4 weeks (2)
5-Stehanie Kim – 4 weeks
6-Becky Parmelee – 4 weeks
7-Willy McAlpine – 6 weeks
8-Sara Lockner – 8 weeks
9-Lowell Davis – 10 weeks
10-Michelle Haupt – 10 weeks
11-Alexis Stensland – 10 weeks (2)
12-Brandon Kahler – 11 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 29 weeks
14-Sabas Hernandez – 29 weeks
15-Mike Vest – 35 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 39 weeks (2)
17-Logan Kahler – 40 weeks (2)
18-Nathanial Brown – 41 weeks
19-Jesse Howard – 41 weeks
20-Tamara Peterson – 44 weeks
21-Mindi Terrell – 56 weeks (2)
22-Linda Bennett – 85 weeks
23-Sarah Toot – 86 weeks
24-Angie DeWaard – 90 weeks
25-Dawn Krause – 94 weeks
26-Kim Barker – 100 weeks
27-Joe Duff – 101 weeks
28-Teresa Kahler – 112 weeks (2)
29-Carla Stensland – 112 weeks
30-Micky Augustin – 114 weeks
31-Andy Sharp – 115 weeks
32-Bill Wentworth – 116 weeks
33-Cathie Morton – 120 weeks
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 121 weeks
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 123 weeks
36-Kio Dettman – 125 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.
It is the third week of the month and on the third week of the month I like to share a map of all the states where people have submitted from heading into today. Here is that map:

We’ve put a good dent into the United States already.
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:

Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 115 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Honey Hollow – Summerset, Iowa) – 124 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 101 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Hilton South – Kansas City, Missouri)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 86 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Clive, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Monteagle, Tennessee) – 42 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Fort Valley, Georgia)
Scott Degeneffe (Boone, Iowa) – 30 weeks
Angie DeWaard (State Historical Building – Des Moines, Iowa) – 91 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Nashville, Tennessee) – 1 week
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 126 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (The Breakfast Club – Ankeny, Iowa) – 40 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (The Breakfast Club – Ankeny, Iowa)
Michelle Haupt (Saint Louis, Missouri) – 11 weeks
Elainie Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 1 week
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 30 weeks
Jesse Howard (Hilton South – Kansas City, Missouri) – 42 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Logan Kahler (Bloomington, Minnesota) – 41 weeks
Logan Kahler (Bloomington, Minnesota)
Teresa Kahler (Ankeny, Iowa) – 113 weeks
Stephanie Kim (Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York) – 5 weeks
Dawn Krause (Brass Armadillo – Des Moines, Iowa) – 95 weeks
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 1 week
Cathie Morton (Between Fort Lauderdale and Nassau Bahamas) – 121 weeks
Cathie Morton (Between Fort Lauderdale and Nassau Bahamas)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 122 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bentonsville, Arkansas) – 5 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 45 weeks
Andy Sharp (Grand Isle, Louisiana) – 116 weeks
Andy Sharp (Gulf of Mexico – Off Louisiana)
Alexis Stensland (Ames, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Carla Stensland (Power & Light District – Kansas City, Missouri) – 113 weeks
Johnathan Stensland (Iowa) – 1 week
Mindi Terrell (Johnston, Iowa) – 57 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Johnston, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 87 weeks
40 participants! That is a great week! Tops ORANGE for the most popular theme of Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
+ Arkansas (1)
+ Florida (2)
+ Georgia (1)
+ Iowa (34)
+ Kansas (2)
+ Louisiana (2)
+ Minnesota (2)
+ Missouri (4)
+ New York (1)
+ Pennsylvania (1)
+ Tennessee (2)
+ Texas (1)
Thanks to the travels of Nathanial, we added Georgia to the list! And thanks to Andy’s travels we added Louisiana to the list.
Here is the Year 11 list of states where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each state):
+ Arkansas (6.5)
+ California (1)
+ Colorado (4)
+ Florida (3)
+ Georgia (1)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Illinois (1)
+ Indiana (2)
+ Iowa (405)
+ Kansas (16)
+ Louisiana (2)
+ Michigan (4)
+ Minnesota (6)
+ Mississippi (1.5)
+ Missouri (8.5)
+ Nebraska (14)
+ New York (8)
+ Pennsylvania (10)
+ South Dakota (3)
+ Tennessee (2.5)
+ Texas (18)
+ Vermont (1)
22 states so far! Not bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple states:
+ Andy Sharp (IA, NE, MO, AR, TN, MS, LA) – 7
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN) – 5
+ Nathanial Brown (IA, SD, TN, GA) – 4
+ Adam Gordon (IA, MS, MO) – 3
+ Mary Green (MI, IA, IN) – 3
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY, VT) – 3
+ Micky Augustin (IA, IL) – 2
+ Christopher D. Bennett (IA, MO)
+ Scott Degeneffe (IA, FL) – 2
+ Susanna Funk (IA, CO) – 2
+ Michelle Haupt (IA, MO) – 2
+ Jesse Howard (IA, MO) – 2
+ Brandon Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Logan Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Sara Lockner (IA, MN) – 2
+ Cathie Morton (IA, FL) – 2
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN) – 2
+ Carla Stensland (IA, MO) -2
+ Mike Vest (IA, MO) – 2
Andy maintains a 2 state lead over Jen 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.
Logan, Jesse, Carla, Cathie, and your humble narrator all joined the group of people that have taken submissions in multiple states.
There were no major milestones reached this week. The only bad news was that Willy’s streak went POOF after 6 weeks. The humanity!
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:

HOBBIES
HOBBIES! 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 HOBBIES in this place in this place that is something more of one next Monday.