ANIMAL! What a great theme! But were enough people get wild enough to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, October 14, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore everything in parentheses):
1-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week (IA)
2-Michelle Haupt – 1 week (IA, MO, KS, LA, MI)
3-Mary Green – 2 weeks (MI, IA, IN, IL, PR)
4-Jesse Howard – 2 weeks (IA, MO, NE, FL, ABW, CUW, MN)
5-Alexis Stensland – 2 weeks (IA)
6-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks (IA, MD)
7-Sabas Hernandez – 5 weeks (IA, OH)
*8-Deb Powers – 7 weeks (MT, IA)
9-Monica Jennings – 10 weeks (IA)
10-Sara Lockner – 11 weeks (IA, BHS, MN)
11-Willy McAlpine – 14 weeks (IA)
12-Deanna McClain – 18 weeks (IA, MN)
13-Mike Vest – 21weeks (IA, MO, OK, AR, KS)
14-Lowell Davis – 41 weeks (IA, MO)
15-Brandon Kahler – 42 weeks (IA, MN)
*16-Scott Degeneffe – 60 weeks (IA, FL, UT, CO, KY, IN, IL, MN, WI)
17-Sheri Fakhouri – 70 weeks (IA, NE)
18-Logan Kahler – 71 weeks (IA, MN, MO)
*19-Nathanial Brown – 72 weeks (IA, SD, GA, TN, IRL, UK, FL, IL, KS, NE, MN, PA,, WI)
20-Tamara Peterson – 83 weeks (IA, MN)
*21-Mindi Terrell – 87 weeks (IA)
22-Linda Bennett – 116 weeks (KS, IA, MI)
23-Sarah Toot – 117 weeks (PA, NY, VT, NV, NJ, NC)
*24-Angie DeWaard – 121 weeks (IA, IL, SCT, ENG, MN)
*25-Dawn Krause – 125 weeks (IA, IL)
26-Kim Barker – 131 weeks (IA, CO, LA)
*27-Joe Duff – 132 weeks (TX, NY)
*28-Teresa Kahler – 143 weeks (IA, NE)
*29-Carla Stensland – 143 weeks (IA, MO, SD, WY, CO)
30-Micky Augustin – 145 weeks (IA, IL, FL, AK)
31-Andy Sharp – 146 weeks (IA, NE, AR, MS, MO, TN, LA, IL, MN, WI)
32-Bill Wentworth – 147 weeks (NE, MO, FL)
*33-Cathie Morton – 150 weeks (IA, FL, BHS, MO, LA)
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 152 weeks (IA, OH)
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 154 weeks (IA, CA, NV, AR, MO)
36-Kio Dettman – 156 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.
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:
36 STATES!
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 (Iowa) – 146 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 155 weeks
Kim Barker (Iowa) – 132 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 117 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 4 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 73 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 42 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 61 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 157 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 122 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Ames, Iowa) – 1 week
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 71 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Joe Duff (Texas) – 133 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 6 weeks
Jesse Howard (Union Street Theater – Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 43 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 72 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 144 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 126 weeks
Dawn Krause (Iowa)
Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 12 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Iowa) – 15 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 19 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 151 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 153 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 84 weeks
Deb Powers (Iowa) – 8 weeks
Deb Powers (Iowa)
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Carla Stensland (Bellevue, Iowa) – 144 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 147 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 88 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Iowa)
Sarah Toot (Hanover, New Jersey) – 118 weeks
Sarah Toot (Hanover, New Jersey)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 22 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 148 weeks
36 participants this week. It is hard to believe that STREET PHOTOGRAPHY was a more popular theme than ANIMAL. But here we are. I have to remind myself that not everybody loves animals. There are bad people out there.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
+ Iowa (37)
+ Kansas (2)
+ Nebraska (1)
+ New Jersey (2)
+ Texas (1)
Here is the Year 11 list of places where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each places):
+ Arkansas (20.5)
+ Alaska (1)
+ California (3)
+ Colorado (10)
+ Florida (11)
+ Georgia (1)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Illinois (15)
+ Indiana (6)
+ Iowa (1493)
+ Kansas (59)
+ Kentucky (1)
+ Louisiana (8)
+ Maryland (1)
+ Michigan (11)
+ Minnesota (15)
+ Mississippi (2.5)
+ Missouri (18.5)
+ Montana (4)
+ Nebraska (50)
+ Nevada (4)
+ New Jersey (4)
+ New York (18)
+ North Carolina (2)
+ Ohio (5)
+ Oklahoma (2)
+ Pennsylvania (34)
+ Puerto Rico (4)
+ South Dakota (5)
+ Tennessee (2.5)
+ Texas (62)
+ Utah (1)
+ Vermont (1)
+ Virginia (1)
+ West Virginia (1)
+ Wisconsin (5)
+ Wyoming (1)
+ Aruba (1)
+ Bahamas (2)
+ Canada (2)
+ Curacao (1)
+ Ireland (3)
+ England (2)
+ North Ireland (1)
+ Scotland (1)
36 states so far! 1 U.S. Territory! 6 foreign countries! Not bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple places:
+ Nathanial Brown (IA, SD, TN, GA, IRL, NIR, FL, IL, KS, NE, MN, PA, WI) – 13
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN, VA, IL, FL, IN, WV, PA) – 11
+ Andy Sharp (IA, NE, MO, AR, TN, MS, LA, IL, MN, WI) – 10
+ Scott Degeneffe (IA, FL, UT, CO, IN, KY, IL, MN, WI) – 9
+ Jesse Howard (IA, MO, NE, FL, ABW, CUW, MN) – 7
+ Christopher D. Bennett (IA, MO, NE, IL, IN, LA) – 6
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY, VT, NV, NJ, NC) – 6
+ Adam Gordon (IA, MS, MO, KS, MI, CAN) – 6
+ Shannon Bardole-Foley (IA, CA, NV, AR, MO) – 5
+ Cathie Morton (IA, FL, BHS, MO, LA) – 5
+ Carla Stensland (IA, MO, SD, WY, CO) -5
+ Mary Green (MI, IA, IN, IL, RP) – 5
+ Michelle Haupt (IA, MO, KS, LA, MI) – 5
+ Mike Vest (IA, MO, AR, OK, KS) – 5
+ Angie DeWaard (IA, IL, SCT, ENG, MN) – 5
+ Micky Augustin (IA, IL, FL, AK) – 4
+ Logan Kahler (IA, MN, MO) – 3
+ Bill Wentworth (NE, MO, FL) – 3
+ Linda Bennett (KS, IA, MI) – 3
+ Kim Barker (IA, CO, LA) – 3
+ Becky Parmelee (AR, IA, OK) – 3
+ Sara Lockner (IA, BHS, MN) – 3
+ Susanna Funk (IA, CO) – 2
+ Brandon Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN) – 2
+ Teresa Kahler (IA, NE) – 2
+ Sheri Fakhouri (IA, NE) – 2
+ Sabas Hernandez (IA, OH) – 2
+ Suzie Brannen (IA, MD) – 2
+ Elizabeth Nordeen (IA, OH) – 2
+ Deanna McClain (IA, MN) – 2
+ Dawn Krause – (IA, IL) – 2
+ Joe Duff (TX, NY) – 2
+ Lowell Davis (IA, MO) – 2
+ Evie Gorshe (IA, IN) – 2
+ Layla Gorshe (IA, OH) -2
+ Deb Powers (MT, IA) – 2
There were no major milestones reached this week. AND Johnathan and Michelle couldn’t build on their submissions from last week and their streaks are over before they 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:
GLASS
GLASS! What a great them for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
The 2 week window for suggesting themes for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is nearly upon us. Suggestions have to be made in the Comments section of the last THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE post in October (will be October 28) and the first THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE post in November (will be November 4). That is the only way to make suggestions.
I look forward to your GLASS interpretation.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will see your idea of GLASS in this place that has broken more than its fair share next Monday.