FLOWER! What a great theme! But did enough people get their green thumb going to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 30, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
*1-Adam Gordon – 1 week
2-Mary Green – 1 week
3-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks
4-Jesse Howard – 4 weeks
5-Monica Jennings – 4 weeks
6-Brandon Kahler – 5 weeks
7-Sabas Hernandez – 6 weeks
8-Willy McAlpine – 6 weeks
9-Suzie Brannen – 7 weeks
10-Becky Parmelee – 7 weeks
11-Alexis Stensland – 14 weeks
12-Deanna McClain – 27 weeks
*13-Deb Powers – 46 weeks
14-Mike Vest – 59 weeks
*15-Lowell Davis – 80 weeks
16-Scott Degeneffe – 98 weeks
17-Sheri Fakhouri – 108 weeks
*18-Logan Kahler – 110 weeks
19-Nathanial Brown – 111 weeks
20-Tamara Peterson – 122 weeks
*21-Mindi Terrell – 126 weeks
22-Linda Bennett – 155 weeks
*23-Sarah Toot – 156 weeks
*24-Angie DeWaard – 159 weeks
25-Dawn Krause – 162 weeks
26-Kim Barker – 169 weeks
27-Joe Duff – 171 weeks
*28-Teresa Kahler – 182 weeks
*29-Carla Stensland – 182 weeks
30-Micky Augustin – 184 weeks
31-Andy Sharp – 185 weeks
32-Bill Wentworth – 186 weeks
33-Cathie Morton – 189 weeks
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 191 weeks
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 193 weeks
*36-Kio Dettman – 194 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 (Huxley, Iowa) – 185 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Des Moines, Iowa) – 194 weeks
Kim Barker (West Des Moines, Iowa) – 170 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 156 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 112 weeks
Lowell Davis (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee) – 81 weeks
Lowell Davis (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 99 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 195 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 160 weeks
Joe Duff (Houston, Texas) – 172 weeks
Joe Duff (Houston, Texas)
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Ames, Iowa) – 1 week
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 109 weeks
Adam Gordon (Christ Church – Oxford, England) – 2 weeks
Adam Gordon (Christ Church – Oxford, England)
Mary Green (Harlan, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Harlan, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 7 weeks
Jesse Howard (Waterloo, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 111 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 183 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 163 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone County, Iowa)
Sara Lockner (Des Moines, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 7 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 28 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 190 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 192 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 8 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 123 weeks
Deb Powers (Johnston, Iowa) – 47 weeks
Deb Powers (Johnston, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 15 weeks
Carla Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 183 weeks
Carla Stensland (Logansport, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 127 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 157 weeks
Mike Vest (Iowa) – 60 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 187 weeks
Submissions from 35 participants this week! A pretty good week!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- England
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- 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
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
The big milestone this week was Linda joining the 3 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Brandon’s streak came to a crashing halt 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:
SILHOUETTE – SUGGESTED BY ANGIE DEWAARD
SILHOUETTE! 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 SILHOUETTE that lurks in the shadows next Monday.