PASSION! A great theme! But did enough people have enough PASSION about their PASSION to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, April 1, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week (IA)
2-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN, VA)
3-Layla Gorshe – 1 week (IA)
4-Mary Green – 1 week (MI, IA, IN)
5-Monica Jennings – 1 week (IA)
6-Amy Peterson – 1 week (IA)
7-Willy McAlpine – 2 weeks (IA)
8-Tim Panages – 2 weeks (IA)
9-Deanna McClain – 3 weeks (IA)
10-Johnathan Stensland – 3 weeks (IA)
11-Adam Gordon – 5 weeks (IA, MS, MO)
12-Becky Parmelee – 7 weeks (AR, IA, OK)
13-Sara Lockner – 11 weeks (IA)
14-Lowell Davis – 13 weeks (IA)
15-Michelle Haupt – 12 weeks (IA, MO, KS)
16-Alexis Stensland – 13 weeks (IA)
17-Brandon Kahler – 14 weeks (IA, MN)
18-Scott Degeneffe – 32 weeks (IA, FL)
19-Sabas Hernandez – 33 weeks (IA)
20-Mike Vest – 37 weeks (IA, MO)
21-Sheri Fakhouri – 42 weeks (IA)
22-Logan Kahler – 43 weeks (IA, MN)
23-Nathanial Brown – 44 weeks (IA, SD, GA, TN)
24-Jesse Howard – 44 weeks (IA, MO, NE)
25-Tamara Peterson – 56 weeks (IA, MN)
26-Mindi Terrell – 59 weeks (IA)
27-Linda Bennett – 88 weeks (KS)
28-Sarah Toot – 89 weeks (PA, NY, VT, NV)
29-Angie DeWaard – 93 weeks (IA)
30-Dawn Krause – 97 weeks (IA)
31-Kim Barker – 103 weeks (IA, CO)
32-Joe Duff – 104 weeks (TX)
33-Teresa Kahler – 115 weeks (IA)
34-Carla Stensland – 115 weeks (IA, MO)
35-Micky Augustin – 117 weeks (IA, IL)
36-Andy Sharp – 118 weeks (IA, NE, AR, MS, MO, TN, LA)
37-Bill Wentworth – 119 weeks (NE)
38-Cathie Morton – 122 weeks (IA, FL, BHS)
39-Elizabeth Nordeen – 124 weeks (IA)
40-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 126 weeks (IA)
41-Kio Dettman – 128 weeks (IA)
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:
Adam Gordon (Iowa) – 6 weeks
Adam Gordon (Iowa)
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 14 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Mason City, Iowa) – 119 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa)
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 94 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Arkansas) – 8 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 120 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 15 weeks
Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 116 weeks
Cathie Morton (Saint Louis, Missouri) – 123 weeks
Cathie Morton (Saint Louis, Missouri)
Christopher D. Bennett (Spoon River Rest Area – Illinois)
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 98 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 4 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 125 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Spoon River Rest Stop – Illinois) – 2 weeks
Jesse Howard (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) – 45 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas) – 105 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas)
Johnathan Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Kim Barker (Des Moines, Iowa) – 104 weeks
Kim Barker (Des Moines, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 129 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 89 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 44 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 14 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa)
Mary Green (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa)
Michelle Haupt (Ankeny, Iowa) – 13 weeks
Micky Augustin (Japser County, Iowa) – 118 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 38 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Ankeny, Iowa) – 60 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Des Moines, Iowa) – 45 weeks
Sara Lockner (Des Moines, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Sarah Toot (New York City, New York) – 90 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Gilbert, Iowa) – 33 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Sacramento, California) – 127 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa)
Sheri Fakhouri (Gretna, Nebraska) – 43 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Gretna, Nebraska)
Suzie Brannen (Clive, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 97 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Papillon, Nebraska) – 116 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Papillon, Nebraska)
Willy McAlpine (Goeppinger Field – Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks
38 participants! A pretty great week! But a 4 participant drop from the previous week.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
+ Arkansas (1)
+ California (1)
+ Florida (1)
+ Illinois (2)
+ Iowa (35)
+ Kansas (2)
+ Missouri (2)
+ Nebraska (5)
+ New York (1)
+ Texas (2)
Here is the Year 11 list of places where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each places):
+ Arkansas (7.5)
+ Bahamas (1)
+ California (2)
+ Colorado (4)
+ Florida (4)
+ Georgia (1)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Illinois (3)
+ Indiana (2)
+ Iowa (479)
+ Kansas (21)
+ Louisiana (2)
+ Michigan (5)
+ Minnesota (6)
+ Mississippi (1.5)
+ Missouri (10.5)
+ Nebraska (23)
+ Nevada (1)
+ New York (10)
+ Oklahoma (1)
+ Pennsylvania (12)
+ South Dakota (3)
+ Tennessee (2.5)
+ Texas (22)
+ Vermont (1)
+ Virginia (1)
25 states so far! 1 foreign country! Not bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple places:
+ Andy Sharp (IA, NE, MO, AR, TN, MS, LA) – 7
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN, VA, IL) – 7
+ Nathanial Brown (IA, SD, TN, GA) – 4
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY, VT, NV) – 4
+ Christopher D. Bennett (IA, MO, NE, IL) – 4
+ Jesse Howard (IA, MO, NE, FL) – 4
+ Cathie Morton (IA, FL, BS, MO) – 4
+ Adam Gordon (IA, MS, MO) – 3
+ Mary Green (MI, IA, IN) – 3
+ Michelle Haupt (IA, MO, KS) – 3
+ Becky Parmelee (AR, IA, OK) – 3
+ Micky Augustin (IA, IL) – 2
+ Scott Degeneffe (IA, FL) – 2
+ Susanna Funk (IA, CO) – 2
+ Brandon Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Logan Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Sara Lockner (IA, MN) – 2
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN) – 2
+ Carla Stensland (IA, MO) -2
+ Mike Vest (IA, MO) – 2
+ Shannon Bardole-Foley (IA, CA) – 2
+ Teresa Kahler (IA, NE) – 2
+ Sheri Fakhouri (IA, NE) – 3
Jen and Andy are now tied to be crowned “The Most Travelled THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE Photographer!”
Shannon, Teresa, and Sheri joined the list of people that have submitted from multiple places this week!
The major milestone this wee was Kim hitting the 2 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! However, there was a bloodbath of streaks coming to an end. Layla and Amy couldn’t build on last week’s submission and their streaks are over before they began. Tim’s streak is over at 2. Worst of all, Sabas’ streak comes crashing to an end at 33! 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:
NECESSITY – SUGGESTED BY JOE DUFF
NECESSITY! What a great theme for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! Thank you Joe for suggesting it!
You might be scoffing at the fact that I think VitaCoco Coconut Water is a NECESSITY. Maybe you don’t understand. Their coconuts are carefully handpicked on thousands of small farms throughout the topics. These aren’t blood coconuts picked by child slave labor. It is a necessity cause it replenishes electrolytes, provides vital nutrients, hydrates with coconut goodness, AND makes taste buds happy! It is perfect for post-workouts, hangovers, afternoon boosts (we can all use those), smoothies, and the general human tendency to get thirsty. I like to crush a box of VitaCoco after crushing a workout at Planet Fitness because it provides me with 50% of my daily intake of Vitamin C and 15% of my potassium! And the carton is even recyclable! If that isn’t a NECESSITY, I don’t know what the word means!
But I will be interested to find out what you consider to be a NECESSITY.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will see your idea of NECESSITY in this place that I hope some of you find to be one next Monday.