SLICE OF LIFE! What a great theme! I have to report that this is one of my favorite collection of submissions in a minute. I think this collection is particularly creative! And I loved seeing people dip into some design skills to create their postcards! When you scroll through the submissions this week, the submissions below Bill Wentworth’s are submissions from blood relatives of my Dad.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
*2-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
3-Suzie Brannen – 2 weeks
4-Becky Parmelee – 2 weeks
*5-Mary Green – 3 weeks
6-Sara Lockner – 3 weeks
*7-Alexis Stensland – 9 weeks
*8-Deanna McClain – 22 weeks
*9-Deb Powers – 41 weeks
10-Mike Vest – 54 weeks
11-Lowell Davis – 75 weeks
12-Scott Degeneffe – 93 weeks
*13-Sheri Fakhouri – 103 weeks
*14-Logan Kahler – 105 weeks
15-Nathanial Brown – 106 weeks
16-Tamara Peterson – 117 weeks
17-Mindi Terrell – 121 weeks
*18-Linda Bennett – 150 weeks
19-Sarah Toot – 151 weeks
*20-Angie DeWaard – 154 weeks
*21-Dawn Krause – 158 weeks
22-Kim Barker – 164 weeks
23-Joe Duff – 166 weeks
*24-Teresa Kahler – 177 weeks
*25-Carla Stensland – 177 weeks
26-Micky Augustin – 179 weeks
27-Andy Sharp – 180 weeks
28-Bill Wentworth – 181 weeks
29-Cathie Morton – 184 weeks
*30-Elizabeth Nordeen – 186 weeks
31-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 188 weeks
32-Kio Dettman – 190 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.
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:

28 STATES & 1 DISTRICT
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:

Micky Augustin (Boca Grande, Florida) – 180 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley – 189 weeks
The queen rearing yard at Foley’s Russian Bees, rural Warren Co, IA

Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 165 weeks

Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks

Suzie Brannen

Nathanial Brown – 107 weeks

Nathanial Brown

Lowell Davis – 76 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 94 weeks

Kio Dettman – 191 weeks
Kate Shelley Train Station. Moingona,Iowa. Kate Shelley saved a train from a flooded out bridge.

Angie DeWaard – 155 weeks

Joe Duff – 167 weeks

Joe Duff

Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 1 week

Mary Green (Iowa) – 4 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri – 104 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri

Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 2 weeks

Monica Jennings (Don Williams Park – Iowa) – 1 week

Monica Jennings (Ogden, Iowa)

Dawn Krause – 159 weeks
Les’s Automotive
706 11th Street
Boone, Iowa

Sara Lockner (Ogden, Iowa) – 4 weeks

Willy McAlpine – 2 weeks
Bridges of Linn County

Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa) – 23 weeks

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 185 weeks

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa)

Elizabeth Nordeen – 187 weeks

Elizabeth Nordeen

Becky Parmelee (Rogers, Arkansas) – 3 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa)- 118 weeks

Deb Powers – 42 weeks

Deb Powers

Andy Sharp (Kansas City, Kansas) – 181 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 122 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa)

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 182 weeks

Sarah Toot (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 152 weeks

Alexis Stensland (Nevada, Iowa) – 10 weeks

Alexis Stensland (McCallsburg, Iowa)

Logan Kahler – 106 weeks

Logan Kahler

Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 1 week

Linda Bennett – 151 weeks
Circle T Farm.
Easton, KS.
Est: 1973.

Teresa Kahler – 178 weeks

Teresa Kahler

Carla Stensland – 178 weeks

Carla Stensland

Christopher D. Bennett
Submissions from 35 people this week! First good week with had in a minute!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
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 a few major milestones this week. Alexis joined the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Sheri joined the 2 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Bill Wentworth joined the 3.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! AND there were 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:

EDUCATION
EDUCATION! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
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 all be sharing your idea of EDUCATION in this place that takes fools to school all the time next Monday.