WPC – WEEK 495 – TOOL

TOOL! 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, March 3, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:

1-Sara Lockner – 1 week
2-Becky Parmelee – 1 week
*3-Mary Green – 2 weeks
4-Jesse Howard – 2 weeks
5-Suzie Brannen – 4 weeks
6-Sabas Hernandez – 8 weeks
7-Monica Jennings – 8 weeks
8-Deanna McClain – 9 weeks
*9-Alexis Stensland – 9 weeks
*10-Deb Powers – 27 weeks
11-Willy McAlpine – 32 weeks
12-Mike Vest – 40 weeks
13-Lowell Davis – 61 weeks
14-Brandon Kahler – 62 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 80 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 89 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 91 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 92 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 103 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 107 weeks
*21-Linda Bennett – 136 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 137 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 140 weeks
*24-Dawn Krause – 145 weeks
*25-Kim Barker – 151 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 152 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 163 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 163 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 165 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 166 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 167 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 171 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 172 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 174 weeks
35-Kio Dettman – 176 weeks

Here are the rules for Year 12 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. 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:

WARNING, TRIED SOME FORMATTING EXPERIMENTS WITH SOME OF THE SUBMISSIONS. I DON’T KNOW IF THOSE FORMATTING EXPERIMENTS WILL COME THROUGH IN THE EMAIL. YOU MAY HAVE TO GO TO THE WEBSITE TO SEE WHO SUBMITTED SOME OF THE PHOTOS.

Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 10 weeks

Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa)

Andy Sharp (Antique Archaeology – Nashville, Tennessee) – 167 weeks

Andy Sharp (Redwood Falls, Minnesota)

Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) 2 weeks

Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 63 weeks

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 164 weeks

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 172 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 146 weeks

Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa) – 10 weeks

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 28 weeks

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)

Jesse Howard (Ames, Iowa) – 3 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 177 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 92 weeks

Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 62 weeks

Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa) – 3 weeks

Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa)

Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 166 weeks

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 41 weeks

Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 9 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Washington D.C.) – 93 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 9 weeks

Sara Lockner (Urbandale, Iowa) – 2 weeks

Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 138 weeks

Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)

Scott Degeneffe (Iowa) – 81 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Iowa)

Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 5 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa) – 104 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 164 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)

Willy McAlpine (Buenos Aries, Argentina) – 33 weeks

36 participants this week! WooHoo!

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

• Argentina (1)
• Arkansas (1)
• Iowa (34)
• Kansas (2)
• Minnesota (1)
• Nebraska (1)
• Pennsylvania (2)
• *Tennessee (1)
• Texas (2)
• Washington D.C. (1)

Thanks to Andy’s travels we added Tennessee 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 (273)
• Kansas (14)
• Maryland (1)
• Missouri (1)
• Minnesota (4)
• Nebraska (10)
• New Jersey (1)
• New York (1)
• Ohio (1)
• Pennsylvania (7)
• Texas (17)
• Washington D.C. (2)
• Wisconsin (2)
• Argentina (3)
• Chile (5)

There were a few milestones reached this this week. Deanna and Alexis both joined the Double Digit Streak Club!! WooHoo!! Tamara joined the 2 Year Streak Club!! WooHoo!! WooHoo!! And… no streaks snapped this week!

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:

MUSIC

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

REQUEST: Not a rule, but a request. Please no pictures of car stereos!

I look forward to seeing your interpretation!

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP OF THE WEEK

We’ve discussed aperture. We’ve discussed ISO. There is just one final leg of the Exposure Triangle. That is shutter speed. ISO determines how sensitive to light the sensor or film is. Aperture determines how big the hole is that lets light into the sensor. Shutter speed is how long that hole is open. It probably goes without saying, but the shorter the shutter speed, the less light that is let through. 1/500 of a second lets in half the amount of light as 1/250 of a second.

The length of shutter speed does more than just determine how much light can be let in. It also changes the appearance of objects in motion. A slow shutter speed will record objects in motion as a blur. A faster shutter speed will record objects as frozen in time. We will go into detail about what shutter speeds do what 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 MUSIC in this place that loves a good tune one next Monday.