SILHOUETTE! What a great theme! But did enough people lurk in the shadows to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 21, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Adam Gordon – 2 weeks
2-Mary Green – 2 weeks
3-Sara Lockner – 3 weeks
4-Jesse Howard – 5 weeks
5-Monica Jennings – 5 weeks
6-Sabas Hernandez – 7 weeks
7-Willy McAlpine – 7 weeks
8-Suzie Brannen – 8 weeks
9-Becky Parmelee – 7 weeks
10-Alexis Stensland – 15 weeks
11-Deanna McClain – 28 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 47 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 60 weeks
*14-Lowell Davis – 81 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 99 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 108 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 111 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 112 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 123 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 127 weeks
21-Linda Bennett – 156 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 157 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 160 weeks
*24-Dawn Krause – 163 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 170 weeks
26-Joe Duff – 172 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 183 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 183 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 185 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 186 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 187 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 190 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 192 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 194 weeks
35-Kio Dettman – 195 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 (Boone, Iowa) – 196 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 195 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 193 weeks
Cathie Morton (Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota) – 191 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 188 weeks
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 187 weeks
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 184 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ames, Iowa) – 184 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 173 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 171 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 164 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Field Museum – Chicago, Illinois) – 161 weeks
Sarah Toot (Greensboro, North Carolina) – 158 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 157 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 128 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 124 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 113 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 112 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 109 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa)
Scott Degeneffe (Wichita, Kansas) – 100 weeks
Lowell Davis (North Carolina) – 82 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 61 weeks
Deb Powers (Cheyenne, Wyoming) – 48 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 29 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 16 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Monica Jennings (Iowa) – 6 weeks
Mary Green (Holt, Michigan) – 3 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Kansas City, Missouri)
Submissions from 32 participants this week! A colossally unpopular theme. But that often happens with themes that are more technically demanding.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Nebraska
- Texas
- Wyoming
Thanks to Cathie’s travels, we’ve added North Dakota to the Year 12 Map! Thanks to Deb’s travels, we’ve added Wyoming to the map! Thanks to the separate travels of both Sarah and Lowell, we’ve added North Carolina to the 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
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
The big milestone this week was Scott joining the Triple Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Also Carla AND Teresa both joined the 3.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But a ton of streaks bit the dust. Adam’s streak is gone after 2 weeks. Sara’s streak is over at 3. Jesse’s streak went kaput at 5. Sabas and Becky both had streaks crap out at unlucky number seven. The humanity!
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:
PEACE
PEACE! 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 PEACE in this place that hopefully bring some to you next Monday.