HUMANS! 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 16, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
*1-Alexis Stensland – 1 week
2-Charlie DeWaard – 3 weeks
3-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks
4-Sarah Karber – 4 weeks
5-Deanna Peters – 8 weeks
*6-Jesse Howard – 9 weeks
7-Kio Dettman – 14 weeks
8-Becky Parmelee – 18 weeks
9-Suzie Brannen – 23 weeks
10-Willy McAlpine – 25 weeks
11-Monica Jennings – 29 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 77 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 91 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 111 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 130 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 140 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 141 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 142 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 153 weeks
20-Mindi Terrell – 157 weeks
*21-Linda Bennett – 186 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 187 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 190 weeks
24-Dawn Krause – 193 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 201 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 202 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 213 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 213 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 215 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 216 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 217 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 220 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 222 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 224 weeks
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:
Corey Faust (University of St. Thomas – Saint Paul, Minnesota) – 1 week
Corey Faust (University of St. Thomas – Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Brandon Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 1 week
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Charlie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 5 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 9 weeks
Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 15 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Jane, Missouri) – 19 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 26 weeks
Deb Powers (Prairie City, Iowa) – 78 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 92 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 112 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Stuart, Iowa) – 131 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 141 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Wyoming) – 143 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Nevada)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 154 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 158 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 187 weeks
Sarah Toot (New York City, New York) – 188 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 191 weeks
Dawn Krause (Ames, Iowa) – 194 weeks
Kim Barker (Ankeny, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 203 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 214 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 214 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Micky Augustin (Ogden, Iowa) – 216 weeks
Andy Sharp (Des Moines, Iowa) – 217 weeks
Andy Sharp (Gilbert, Iowa)
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 218 weeks
Cathie Morton (Ankeny, Iowa) -221 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 223 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Lachele’s Fine Foods – Des Moines, Iowa) – 225 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa) – 649 weeks
Submissions from 36 participants this week. I consider that to be a popular week! And Faust had his first submission in a couple of years! Very exciting!
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 545 Submission Geography
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada (New)
- New York
- Texas
- Wyoming (New)
- 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)
- Nevada (Nathanial)
- New York (Sarah T.)
- Ohio (Nathanial)
- Pennsylvania (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
That is 16 states!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Dallas, Guthrie, Jasper, Polk, Story, and Warren.
The big milestones this week were Willy joining the Half Year Streak Club! WooHoo! Deb joined the Year and Half Streak Club! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all fun and games and glitter and rainbows and unicorns. Two lengthy streaks came crashing to earth. Suzie’s streak is gone after 23 weeks. Worst of all Scarecrow, Monica’s streak went the way of the dodo bird after a massive 29 weeks. The humanity!
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:
BIGFOOT HUNTING – SUGGESTED BY ANDY SHARP
BIGFOOT HUNTING! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! I think I might have just heard an audible groan when some people read this theme. But remember 2 things. 1. If you didn’t suggest any themes, you don’t get to complain about the themes. 2. This really isn’t that hard of a theme when you think about it.
I’m guessing this theme suggestion was inspired by my neighbors. Who are Bigfoot hunters. Your neighbors aren’t Bigfoot hunters? Your neighborhood sucks! So this theme could simply be a picture of where you would go hunting for Bigfoot. Or what you would take with you if you would go Bigfoot hunting. Those are just examples. You could even go Bigfoot hunting. You might even get a picture of Bigfoot. My neighbors claim they have seen a Bigfoot in the Des Moines River Valley on 4 separate occasions! Maybe you could be the person that finally proves that Bigfoot exists!
And I’ll just throw this out there because the word hunting is in the theme title. If you are going to include a gun in your picture, NEVER EVER-EVER-EVER-EVER-EVER point a gun at somebody. Whether it is loaded or if you think it is unloaded. Doesn’t matter. Follow basic gun safety rules. You might be thinking, “nobody is dumb enough to point a gun at another human being just for a picture!” Oh, people are that dumb. But even smart people can make mistakes with guns. I don’t trust a lot of people with guns. And one of the people I trust the most, still managed to shoot his finger off once. Another guy I used to work with that was a big hunter used to make videos of him hunting and the lack of gun safety he displayed in his videos just swinging the gun around when he was talking made some of my other hunting friends mock him constantly. So I’ll just repeat. If you are including a gun in your picture, NEVER-EVER-EVER-EVER-EVER-EVER-EVER point a gun at somebody else. Whether you think the gun is loaded or not. I will get off my soapbox now.
Here are the Year 13 rules!
- 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 1st time that BIGFOOT HUNTING been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
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.