WPC – WEEK 494 – BEHIND THE DOOR

Today is Andy’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday!

I hope your birthday is fantastic and filled with all the wrasslin’ you can handle!

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BEHIND THE DOOR! 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 24, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:

*1-Mary Green – 1 week
*2-Jesse Howard – 1 week
3-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
4-Sabas Hernandez – 7 weeks
5-Monica Jennings – 7 weeks
6-Deanna McClain – 8 weeks
*7-Alexis Stensland – 8 weeks
*8-Deb Powers – 26 weeks
9-Willy McAlpine – 1 weeks
*10-Mike Vest – 39 weeks
11-Lowell Davis – 60 weeks
12-Brandon Kahler – 61 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 79 weeks
14-Sheri Fakhouri – 88 weeks
15-Logan Kahler – 90 weeks
16-Nathanial Brown – 91 weeks
17-Tamara Peterson – 102 weeks
*18-Mindi Terrell – 106 weeks
*19-Linda Bennett – 135 weeks
20-Sarah Toot – 136 weeks
21-Angie DeWaard – 139 weeks
22-Dawn Krause – 144 weeks
*23-Kim Barker – 150 weeks
24-Joe Duff – 151 weeks
*25-Teresa Kahler – 162 weeks
*26-Carla Stensland – 162 weeks
27-Micky Augustin – 164 weeks
28-Andy Sharp – 165 weeks
29-Bill Wentworth – 166 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 170 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 171 weeks
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 173 weeks
33-Kio Dettman – 175 weeks

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.
   

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:

Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 1 week
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 1 week
Mary Green (Coronado, California) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Coronado, California)
Jesse Howard (Waterloo, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Clinton, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 27 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Willy McAlpine (Buenos Aries, Argentina) – 32 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 40 weeks
Lowell Davis (Museum of the Weird – Austin, Texas) – 61 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Story City, Iowa) – 62 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 80 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 89 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 91 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Rochester, Minnesota) – 92 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 103 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 107 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 136 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 137 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 140 weeks
Dawn Krause (Ames, Iowa) – 145 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa)
Kim Barker (Houston, Texas) – 151 weeks
Kim Barker (Austin, Texas)
Joe Duff (Texas) – 152 weeks
Joe Duff (Austin, Texas)
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 163 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (UDCC – Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa) – 163 weeks
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 165 weeks
Andy Sharp (Ely, Iowa) – 166 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 167 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 171 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 172 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Lake Okoboji United Methodist Camp – Spirit Lake, Iowa) – 174 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 176 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Austin, Texas) – 598 weeks

36 participants this week! WooHoo! Broke through that 34 participant ceiling!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

• Argentina (1)
• Arkansas (1)
• California (2)
• Iowa (31)
• Kansas (2)
• Minnesota (1)
• Nebraska (1)
• Texas (6)

Thanks to Mary’s travels we added California to the Year 12 Photography 139 Submission Map!

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

• Arkansas (4)
• California (2)
• Illinois (1)
• Iowa (239)
• Kansas (12)
• Maryland (1)
• Missouri (1)
• Minnesota (3)
• Nebraska (9)
• New Jersey (1)
• New York (1)
• Ohio (1)
• Pennsylvania (5)
• Texas (15)
• Washington D.C. (1)
• Wisconsin (2)
• Argentina (2)
• Chile (5)

There were no major milestones this week and no streaks were snapped. That is a strange week. I daresay weird.

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:

TOOL

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

I look forward to seeing your interpretation!

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP OF THE WEEK

We’ve discussed how the size of the aperture controls how much light hits the sensor or film, but does the size of the aperture affect anything else? It certainly does! It also affects of Depth of Field. And you should know what Depth of Field is, because it has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE on multiple times. But in case you don’t, what is depth of field?

Depth of field (DOF) is the range of distance in a photo that appears in focus. It’s the distance between the closest and farthest objects that are sharp. 

So how does aperture affect depth of field? The largest the aperture the shallower the depth of focus. The smaller the aperture the deeper the depth of focus. Portraits would be an example of when you would want to us a larger aperture for a shallower depth of focus. It separates your subject from the background. Landscape photography would be an example of when you would want to use a smaller aperture to keep everything in focus.

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will see your idea of TOOL in this place that doesn’t think you are one next Monday.