Today is Memorial Day. So let me wish you all a good Memorial Day.
I hope it was a good weekend for all of you! I hope you had time to honor those who gave everything for you, in whatever manner that means to you.
SIGN! 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, May 19, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Monica Jennings – 2 weeks
2-Jesse Howard – 3 weeks
3-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
*4-Alexis Stensland – 6 weeks
5-Sabas Hernandez – 18 weeks
6-Deanna McClain – 19 weeks
*7-Deb Powers – 38 weeks
8-Mike Vest – 51 weeks
9-Lowell Davis – 72 weeks
10-Scott Degeneffe – 90 weeks
*11-Sheri Fakhouri – 100 weeks
*12-Logan Kahler – 102 weeks
13-Nathanial Brown – 103 weeks
14-Tamara Peterson – 114 weeks
15-Mindi Terrell – 118 weeks
16-Linda Bennett – 147 weeks
17-Sarah Toot – 148 weeks
18-Angie DeWaard – 151 weeks
19-Dawn Krause – 156 weeks
20-Kim Barker – 161 weeks
21-Joe Duff – 163 weeks
*22-Teresa Kahler – 174 weeks
23-Carla Stensland – 174 weeks
24-Micky Augustin – 176 weeks
25-Andy Sharp – 177 weeks
26-Bill Wentworth – 178 weeks
27-Cathie Morton – 181 weeks
28-Elizabeth Nordeen – 183 weeks
29-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 185 weeks
30-Kio Dettman – 187 weeks
Here is the list of 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
- Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission.
There are still 2 ways to submit:
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- 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:
Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 188 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Rural Indianola, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Des Moines, Iowa) – 184 weeks
Cathie Morton (Des Moines, Iowa) – 182 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 179 weeks
Andy Sharp (Indy 500 – Indiana) – 178 weeks
Andy Sharp (Indy 500 – Indiana)
Micky Augustin (Tipton, Iowa) – 177 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 175 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Arnolds Park, Iowa) – 175 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 164 weeks
Kim Barker (Estes Park, Colorado) – 162 weeks
Kim Barker (Estes Park, Colorado)
Dawn Krause (Don Williams – Boone County, Iowa) – 157 weeks
Dawn Krause (Maxwell, Iowa)
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 152 weeks
Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 149 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 148 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 119 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Madrid, Iowa) – 115 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Rapid City, South Dakota) – 104 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 103 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 101 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 91 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 73 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 52 weeks
Deb Powers (Albia, Iowa) – 39 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 20 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Arnolds Park, Iowa) – 19 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 7 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa)
Jesse Howard (Petersville, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week
Sara Lockner (Saint Louis, Missouri) – 1 week
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Colo, Iowa)
31 participants this week! Not a popular week.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Texas
No new additions to Photography 139 Submission Map this week.
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each places):
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Argentina
- Chile
There were a couple of milestones reached this week. Vest reached the 1 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! Nathanial reached the 2 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Cathie joined the 3.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Monica’s streak is over at 2 weeks. Suzie’s streak is done at 3.
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:
SPIRIT – SUGGESTED BY LOWELL DAVIS
SPIRIT! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! Remember, SPIRIT has multiple definitions!
I look forward to seeing your 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 SPIRIT in this place that is full of it next Monday!