SATURDAY NIGHT! What a great theme! I hope not too many of you spent Saturday night watching the television. But you will have to keep scrolling to find out.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 2, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
*1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
2-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
3-Becky Parmelee – 1 week
*4-Mary Green – 2 weeks
5-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks
6-Jesse Howard – 5 weeks
*7-Alexis Stensland – 8 weeks
8-Deanna McClain – 21 weeks
*9-Deb Powers – 40 weeks
10-Mike Vest – 53 weeks
11-Lowell Davis – 74 weeks
12-Scott Degeneffe – 92 weeks
13-Sheri Fakhouri – 102 weeks
14-Logan Kahler – 104 weeks
15-Nathanial Brown – 105 weeks
*16-Tamara Peterson – 116 weeks
*17-Mindi Terrell – 120 weeks
*18-Linda Bennett – 149 weeks
19-Sarah Toot – 150 weeks
*20-Angie DeWaard – 153 weeks
21-Dawn Krause – 157 weeks
22-Kim Barker – 163 weeks
23-Joe Duff – 165 weeks
*24-Teresa Kahler – 176 weeks
25-Carla Stensland – 176 weeks
26-Micky Augustin – 178 weeks
27-Andy Sharp – 179 weeks
28-Bill Wentworth – 180 weeks
29-Cathie Morton – 183 weeks
30-Elizabeth Nordeen – 185 weeks
31-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 187 weeks
32-Kio Dettman – 189 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:
Alexis Stensland (Knoxville, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Knoxville, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Camanche, Iowa)- 180 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 154 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa)
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 2 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 181 weeks
Carla Stensland (West Lake Okoboji – Arnolds Park, Iowa) – 177 weeks
Carla Stensland (Lincoln Park – Arnolds Park, Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Altoona, Iowa) – 184 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (High Trestle Trail Bridge – Boone County, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Don Williams – Iowa) – 158 weeks
Dawn Krause (Don Williams – Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa) – 22 weeks
Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa)
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 41 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Nebraska) – 186 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Nebraska)
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 166 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 164 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 190 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 150 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Logan Kahler (Don Williams – Iowa) – 105 weeks
Logan Kahler (Don Williams – Iowa)
Lowell Davis (Cedar Falls, Iowa) – 75 weeks
Mary Green (Sandia Park, New Mexico) – 3 weeks
Mary Green (Sandia Park, New Mexico)
Micky Augustin (Port Charlotte, Florida) – 179 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 54 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 121 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Des Moines, Iowa) – 106 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Lake City, Iowa)
Sabas Hernandez (Cleveland, Ohio) – 1 week
Sabas Hernandez (Cleveland, Ohio)
Sara Lockner (Altoona, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Sarah Toot (Wind Gap, Pennsylvania) – 151 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Coralville, Iowa) – 93 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Norwalk, Iowa) – 188 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 103 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 117 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Des Moines, Iowa) – 177 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Willy McAlpine (Evansdale, Iowa) – 1 week
Willy McAlpine (Evansdale, Iowa)
33 participants this week! An okay week.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- *New Mexico
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
Thanks to the travels of Mary we added New Mexico to the Photography 139 Submission Map!
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Nevada
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
There were no major milestones reached this week. But there are several on the horizon. There were 2 streaks snapped though. Brandon couldn’t build on his submission from last week and his streak is over before it began. Jesse’s streak went kaput at 5 weeks.
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:
SLICE OF LIFE – IN HONOR OF MY DAD
SLICE OF LIFE! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what exactly is a SLICE OF LIFE image? I normally don’t give a definition of the theme, but not this week. For those that don’t know SLICE OF LIFE is the name of the postcard company that my Dad started and ran out of the basement darkroom in our house.
He specialized in black & white postcards of local interest. Here is this week’s assignment. It is to take a picture that you could see being used on a postcard. Now back in the day, they used to take pictures of all sorts of things and put them on postcards. So don’t think that there is nothing in your area that would make it on a postcard. It could be a building that is interesting looking or has a historical significance. It could simply be a pretty scene. Back when I was doing THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT, sometimes they took pictures of downtown intersections and put those on postcards.
While I will require your submission to be a postcard like image, meaning don’t try to “interpret” Slice of Life to mean something different, I will only strongly encourage you to submit the picture in black & white and also only slightly encourage you to throw some text on the image, if you have the editing skills or software. You know, design a postcard!
There is one more thing. This is the one and only theme where if you write a SHORT description of your image (like you would see on the backside of a postcard) that I will include it along with your submission.
I don’t manipulate the order of themes for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. I put the 52 themes in a random generator and then I have it generate the the order of the themes EXCEPT for this theme. This theme I put this week specifically. This week is my Dad’s birthday. In fact, it is Wednesday. He would have turned 82. So it seemed apropos to put the theme that is an homage to him during this week.
And if you don’t know, he is the person in the theme reveal image.
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of SLICE OF LIFE in this place that is a continuation of it in many ways next Monday.