PAINTING! What a great theme! But did enough people like it to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, August 3, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Michelle Haupt – 1 week
2-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
3-Jesse Howard – 1 week
4-Monica Jennings – 1 week
5-Sara Lockner – 1 week
6-Becky Parmelee – 1 week
7-Mary Green – 4 weeks
8-Willy McAlpine – 9 weeks
9-Suzie Brannen – 10 weeks
*10-Alexis Stensland – 17 weeks
11-Deanna McClain – 30 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 49 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 62 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 83 weeks
*15-Scott Degeneffe – 101 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 110 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 113 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 114 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 125 weeks
20-Mindi Terrell – 129 weeks
21-Linda Bennett – 158 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 159 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 162 weeks
24-Dawn Krause – 165 weeks
*25-Kim Barker – 172 weeks
26-Joe Duff – 174 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 185 weeks
28-Carla Stensland – 185 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 187 weeks
*30-Andy Sharp – 188 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 189 weeks
*32-Cathie Morton – 192 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 194 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 196 weeks
35-Kio Dettman – 198 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 (Iowa) – 18 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Carroll, Iowa) – 189 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 163 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 2 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 190 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Carla Stensland (Boone, Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 193 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Iowa State Fair – Des Moines, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Bonduel, Wisconsin) – 166 weeks
Deanna McClain (Perry, Iowa) – 31 weeks
Deb Powers (Missoula, Montana) – 50 weeks
Deb Powers (Route of Hiawatha – Taft, Idaho)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 195 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 175 weeks
Kim Barker (Iowa State Fair – Des Moines, Iowa) – 173 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 199 weeks
Linda Bennett (Boone, Iowa) – 159 weeks
Logan Kahler (Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin) – 114 weeks
Logan Kahler (Lake Delton, Wisconsin)
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 84 weeks
Micky Augustin (Wilton, Iowa) – 188 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 63 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 130 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 115 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Sarah Toot (Greensboro, North Carolina) – 160 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 102 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 197 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 111 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 126 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa)
Submissions from 31 participants this week! An unpopular theme. People really hate painters. Probably cause Jackson Pollock was such a dick.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Montana
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Wisconsin
Thanks to Deb’s travels, we’ve added Montana AND Idaho to the Year 12 Map!
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
That is 35 states, 1 district, and 4 foreign countries!
The big milestone this week was Mindi reaching the 2.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all good news. Michelle, Jesse, and Sara couldn’t build on their submissions from last week. Their streaks are over before they began. Mary’s streak is kaput at 4 weeks. And worst of all Scarecrow… Willy’s streak is done at 9!
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:
THINGS (PUFFERBILLY DAYS PHOTO CONTEST CLASS)
THINGS! 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 THINGS in this place that has too many of them next Monday.