REMINDER THAT THE TIME IS FAST APPROACHING WHEN YOU CAN MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE YEAR 13 THEMES FOR THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. YOU CAN DO THAT BY AND ONLY BY LEAVING A COMMENT IN THE LAST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLNEGE POST IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER AND THE FIRST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE IN NOVEMBER. NO TEXTS. NO EMAILS. NO SNAPS. NO HAND WRITTEN LETTERS. ONLY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THOSE TWO POSTS!
PORTRAIT! What a great theme! But enough people make a portrayal to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 29, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
*1-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
2-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week
3-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
4-Sarah Karber – 3 weeks
5-Willy McAlpine – 5 weeks
6-Monica Jennings – 9 weeks
*7-Alexis Stensland – 25 weeks
8-Deanna McClain – 38 weeks
*9-Deb Powers – 57 weeks
10-Mike Vest – 70 weeks
11-Lowell Davis – 91 weeks
12-Scott Degeneffe – 109 weeks
13-Sheri Fakhouri – 118 weeks
14-Logan Kahler – 121 weeks
15-Nathanial Brown – 122 weeks
16-Tamara Peterson – 133 weeks
17-Mindi Terrell – 137 weeks
18-Linda Bennett – 166 weeks
19-Sarah Toot – 167 weeks
20-Angie DeWaard – 170 weeks
21-Dawn Krause – 173 weeks
22-Kim Barker – 180 weeks
23-Joe Duff – 182 weeks
*24-Teresa Kahler – 193 weeks
25-Carla Stensland – 193 weeks
26-Micky Augustin – 195 weeks
27-Andy Sharp – 196 weeks
28-Bill Wentworth – 197 weeks
*29-Cathie Morton – 200 weeks
30-Elizabeth Nordeen – 202 weeks
31-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 204 weeks
32-Kio Dettman – 206 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) – 207 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 205 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 203 weeks
Cathie Morton (Animal Kingdom – Florida) – 201 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 198 weeks
Andy Sharp (Omaha, Nebraska) – 197 weeks
Micky Augustin (Woodward, Iowa) – 196 weeks
Micky Augustin (God’s Country, USA – AKA The Campanile – Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 194 weeks
Carla Stensland (West Lake Okoboji, Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 194 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Joe Duff (Seabrook, Texas) – 183 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Kim Barker (Ankeny, Iowa) – 181 weeks
Dawn Krause (Rural Ogden, Iowa) – 174 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 171 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (West Palm Beach, Florida) – 168 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 167 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 138 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 134 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 123 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 122 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 119 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Casey’s Center – Des Moines, Iowa) – 110 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Casey’s Center – Des Moines, Iowa)
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 92 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 71 weeks
Deb Powers (Granger, Iowa) – 58 weeks
Deb Powers (Granger, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 39 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Slater, Iowa) – 26 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Slater, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (University of Iowa Sports Medicine Ortho Clinic – Iowa City, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Spain) – 6 weeks
Suzie Brannen (West Des Moines, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Iowa)
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 1 week
Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 1 week
Jesse Howard (Iowa)
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Ames, Iowa) – 1 week
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Jester Park – Polk County Iowa)
Submissions from 35 participants this week. A popular week! Lots of pictures from Ames Homecoming! Sometimes I wonder if my friends kids that are around the same age and go to the same school are friends at all. I don’t want the mystery solved, but I am curious.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- Spain
- Texas
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 Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
- Ireland
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
That is 36 states, 1 district, and 7 foreign countries!
There were some big milestones reached this week. Monica joined the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Alexis joined the Half Year Streak Club! Woo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Sabas and Johnathan couldn’t build on last week’s submissions and their streaks are over before they began. Sarah’s streak goes kaput after 3 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:
THREE (SUGGESTED BY JOE DUFF)
THREE! 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 THREE in this place that is its own kind of magic number next Monday.