REMINDER! This is it! The second of 2 weeks where you can make suggestions for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. YOU CAN DO THIS BY (AND ONLY BY) LEAVING YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION ON THIS POST AND LAST WEEK’S THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE POST. NO EMAILS. NO TEXTS. NO PHONE CALLS NO SNAPS. NO CARRIER PIGEON. NO MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. ONLY AND ONLY BY LEAVING A COMMENT IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST ON THE WEBSITE.
ALSO, DON’T WORRY ABOUT SUGGESTING THE FOLLOWING THEMES. THEY ARE BAKED IN AND WILL BE A THEME EVERY YEAR UNTIL THIS THING COMES TO AN END:
- BLACK & WHITE
- STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
- SLICE OF LIFE
- #INSTAGOOD
- FLOWER
- ROAD TRIP
EVERY OTHER WEEK IS UP FOR GRABS THOUGH!
This is the current list of suggestions:
Angie DeWaard
- SWEET
- OVEREXPOSED
- SYMMETRY
- RHYTHM AND/OR PATTERN
- NOISY
- STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA
Lowell Davis
- HORSEMANING
- DISSENT
- ANXIETY
- MISTAKES
Deb Powers
- SPICY
- COLD
- YELLOW
- ABANDONED
- ADVERTISING
- WORKPLACE
- FRIENDSHIP
- REPETITION
- OPENINGS
Shannon Bardole-Foley
- FELINE
Joe Duff
- NEVER PHOTOGRAPHED BEFORE (AKA NEW SUBJECT FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER)
- AT YOUR FINGERTIPS (HOLDING SOMETHING)
- GROUND LEVEL
- MAKES YOU THINK
SPOOKY! A great theme! But did enough people find their dark side to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, October 27, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week
2-Megan Foster – 1 week
3-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
4-Jesse Howard – 1 week
5-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
6-Sarah Karber – 1 week
7-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks
8-Becky Parmelee – 4 weeks
9-Suzie Brannen – 7 weeks
10-Willy McAlpine – 9 weeks-
11-Monica Jennings – 13 weeks
12-Alexis Stensland – 29 weeks
13-Deanna McClain – 43 weeks
14-Deb Powers – 61 weeks
15-Mike Vest – 75 weeks
16-Lowell Davis – 95 weeks
17-Scott Degeneffe – 114 weeks
18-Sheri Fakhouri – 124 weeks
19-Logan Kahler – 125 weeks
20-Nathanial Brown – 126 weeks
21-Tamara Peterson – 137 weeks
22-Mindi Terrell – 141 weeks
23-Linda Bennett – 170 weeks
24-Sarah Toot – 171 weeks
25-Angie DeWaard – 174 weeks
26-Dawn Krause – 177 weeks
27-Kim Barker – 185 weeks
28-Joe Duff – 186 weeks
29-Teresa Kahler – 197 weeks
30-Carla Stensland – 197 weeks
31-Micky Augustin – 199 weeks
32-Andy Sharp – 200 weeks
33-Bill Wentworth – 201 weeks
34-Cathie Morton – 205 weeks
35-Elizabeth Nordeen – 206 weeks
36-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 208 weeks
37-Kio Dettman – 210 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) – 211 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Rural Warren County, Iowa) – 209 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 207 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 206 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 202 weeks
Andy Sharp (Council Bluffs, Iowa) – 201 weeks
Andy Sharp (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 200 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 198 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Ames, Iowa) – 198 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 187 weeks
Kim Barker (Altoona, Iowa) – 186 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 178 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 175 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 172 weeks
Linda Bennett (Maryland) – 171 weeks
Linda Bennett (Maryland)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 138 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 127 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 126 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 125 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Scott Degeneffe (Salt Lake City, Utah) – 115 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Denver, Colorado)
Lowell Davis (Ames, Iowa) – 96 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 76 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa)
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 62 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Boone, Iowa) – 44 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 30 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Ogden, Iowa) – 14 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Fayetteville, Arkansas) – 5 weeks
Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Iowa)
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Submissions from 36 participants this week. That is a great week! I believe it to be the most popular week of Year 12!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Maryland
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Utah
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- 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
- Mexico
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
That is 36 states, 1 district, and 8 foreign countries!
The big milestone this week was Micky reaching the 200 Week Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Willy also joined the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo1 But it wasn’t all fun, games, rainbows, and unicorns. There was a bloodbath of streaks. They type that WOULD be cause by the unicorns in DEATH OF A UNICORN. Megan and Sarah couldn’t build on their submissions from last week. Their streaks are over before the begun. Sara (no h) also saw her two week streak get struck down!
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:
ANIMAL – PUFFERBILLY DAYS PHOTO CONTEST THEME
ANIMAL! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! It doesn’t have to be a pet. It can just as easily be an adorable opossum out in the wild!
This is the eighth time that ANIMAL has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are some of my favorites from the past that may inspire you!
Cathie Raley – Week 77
Jesse Howard – Week 153
Kim Barker – Week 254
Elizabeth Nordeen – Week 267
Linda Bennett – Week 377
Nathanial Brown – Week 428
Angie DeWaard – Week 475
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 image in this place that encourages pets in the work place next Monday.