WPC – WEEK 492 – CONTRAST

CONTRAST! What a great theme! But how many people got their photography juices in motion? Keep scrolling to find out.

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 10, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:

1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
2-Jesse Howard – 2 weeks
3-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks
*4-Mary Green – 5 weeks
5-Sabas Hernandez – 6 weeks
*6-Monica Jennings – 6 weeks
*7-Deanna McClain – 6 weeks
*8-Alexis Stensland – 6 weeks
*9-Deb Powers – 24 weeks
*10-Willy McAlpine – 30 weeks
11-Mike Vest – 37 weeks
12-Lowell Davis – 58 weeks
13-Brandon Kahler – 59 weeks
*14-Scott Degeneffe – 77 weeks
15-Sheri Fakhouri – 87 weeks
*16-Logan Kahler – 88 weeks
17-Nathanial Brown – 89 weeks
18-Tamara Peterson – 100 weeks
*19-Mindi Terrell – 104 weeks
*20-Linda Bennett – 133 weeks
21-Sarah Toot – 134 weeks
22-Angie DeWaard – 137 weeks
23-Dawn Krause – 142 weeks
24-Kim Barker – 148 weeks
25-Joe Duff – 149 weeks
*26-Teresa Kahler – 160 weeks
27-Carla Stensland – 160 weeks
*28-Micky Augustin – 162 weeks
29-Andy Sharp – 163 weeks
30-Bill Wentworth – 164 weeks
31-Cathie Morton – 168 weeks
32-Elizabeth Nordeen – 169 weeks
33-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 171 weeks
34-Kio Dettman – 173 weeks

YEAR 12 RULES

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. If you submit 2 pictures, make sure they are of different subjects.
3. Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM Central Time the following Monday. But that is a deadline. Pictures can be submitted as soon as you take them.
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.
6. Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission.

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 Monday 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:

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:

34 participants this week! Man, we just can’t shake that number 34!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

• Chile (1)
• Arkansas (1)
• Iowa (36)
• Kansas (2)
• Nebraska (2)
• Pennsylvania (1)
• Texas (2)

Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each places):

• Arkansas (4)
• Illinois (1)
• Iowa (206)
• Kansas (10)
• Maryland (1)
• Missouri (1)
• Minnesota (2)
• Nebraska (9)
• New Jersey (1)
• Ohio (1)
• Pennsylvania (6)
• Texas (10)
• Washington D.C. (1)
• Wisconsin (2)
• Chile (6)

There were no major milestones reached this week. But several are close! Unfortunately, 2 streaks did come to an end. Jesse’s streak is over at 2. Mary’s streak is no more at 5.

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:

SHOT TRHOUGH! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

I don’t like to define themes any longer, but if you are having difficulty wrapping your mind around this one, it is just that there is something between the camera lens AND the subject of the image. That is it. In the case of the theme reveal, it is a maple syrup container and an absolutely dreadful AI painting of a train. Whatever you shoot through doesn’t have to obscure the subject like in the theme reveal image. You’ll figure it out.

I look forward to seeing your interpretation!

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP OF THE WEEK

Last week we discussed how the aperture is the size of the opening that allows light to hit the camera sensor or film when you are taking a picture. I even explained how the lower the f stop number the larger the opening is. An aperture setting of f/2.8 is actually quite a bit larger than an aperture setting of f/22. It is counterintuitive. So how is the f stop number calculated.

F-stop is actually a ratio. It is found by dividing the focal length of the lens by the diameter of the aperture. For example a 50mm lens with an aperture diameter of 25mm would be f/2. But does the size of the aperture do anything else besides decide how big of a hole that light pours through?. We will discuss that next week.

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will see your idea of SHOT THROUGH in this place that shouldn’t be viewed through any filter next Monday.