NASTY! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Charlie DeWaard – 2 weeks
2-Sabas Hernandez – 2 weeks
3-Sarah Karber – 3 weeks
4-Sara Lockner – 3 weeks
5-Deanna Peters – 7 weeks
*6-Jesse Howard – 9 weeks
7-Kio Dettman – 13 weeks
8-Becky Parmelee – 17 weeks
9-Suzie Brannen – 22 weeks
10-Willy McAlpine – 24 weeks
11-Monica Jennings – 28 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 76 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 90 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 110 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 129 weeks
*16-Sheri Fakhouri – 139 weeks
*17-Logan Kahler – 140 weeks
*18-Nathanial Brown – 141 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 152 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 156 weeks
*21-Linda Bennett – 185 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 186 weeks
*23-Angie DeWaard – 189 weeks
24-Dawn Krause – 192 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 200 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 201 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 212 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 212 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 214 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 215 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 216 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 219 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 221 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 223 weeks
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 in Year 13 heading into today. Here is that map:
14 STATES
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 (Omaha, Nebraska) – 215 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 224 weeks
Kim Barker (Ames, Iowa) – 201 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Easton, Kansas) – 186 weeks
Linda Bennett (Easton, Kansas)
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 23 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 111 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Rochester, Minnesota) – 130 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 14 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 190 weeks
Charlie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 202 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 140 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 29 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 141 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 213 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 4 weeks
Dawn Krause (Fraser, Iowa) – 193 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Madrid, Iowa) – 26 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 220 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 222 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bentonville, Arkansas) – 18 weeks
Deanna Powers (Boone, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 153 weeks
Deb Powers (Prairie City, Iowa) – 77 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 216 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 1 week
Alexis Stensland (Ames, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Des Moines, Iowa) – 213 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 157 weeks
Sarah Toot (Miami, Florida) – 187 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 91 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 217 weeks
Submissions from 35 participants this week. I consider that to be a popular week!
A huge thanks to everyone that included the location of their picture with their submission! And a huge thanks to everyone that submitted before Monday morning! Makes my job so much easier!
- Week 544 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Texas
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Florida (Cathie)
- Iowa (Tamara)
- Kansas (Linda)
- Michigan (Mary)
- Minnesota (Sarah K.)
- Missouri (Scott)
- Nebraska (Bill)
- New York (Sarah T.)
- Ohio (Nathanial)
- Pennsylvania (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
That is 14 states!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Story, and Warren.
The big milestones this week were Jesse joining the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Plus Scott joined the 2.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Sara’s 3 week streak is all kaput. Worst of all Scarecrow! Jesse’s 9 week streak is gone with the wind. Perhaps loaded it up on a stagecoach and hit the dusty trail.
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:
HUMANS – POTENTIAL PUFFERBILLY DAYS PHOTO CONTEST CLASS
HUMANS! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
It is a new year so there is a new set of rules. Don’t just gloss by them!
- YEAR 13 – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE RULES
- 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. In fact, pictures being submitted by Sunday night are GREATLY APPRECIATED!
- 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. PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ASK YOU!
- Please submit images that are OVER 1000 pixels at their largest side. DON’T OVERCROP! Look at this page on a computer, if your images are considerably smaller than everyone else’s pictures, then you are sending too small of images!
- ABSOLUTELY NO USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!
- How to Submit
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. I’m not putting my phone # here. If you know, you know.
This is the 3rd time that NASTY been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
Here are a couple of my favorites from the Ghosts of HUMANS Past:
Joe Duff – Week 433
Lowell Davis – Week 536
Click on the link below to peruse the more than 80 submissions for HUMANS ever to be submitted:
I look forward to seeing your interpretation!
Until next Monday, may you run and not be weary. May your heart be filled with song. And may the love of God continue to give you hope and keep you strong.