BIGFOOT HUNTING! 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 23, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Corey Faust – 1 week
2-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
3-Sara Lockner – 1 week
4-Alexis Stensland – 2 weeks
5-Charlie DeWaard – 4 weeks
6-Sabas Hernandez – 4 weeks
7-Sarah Karber – 5 weeks
8-Deanna Peters – 9 weeks
9-Jesse Howard – 9 weeks
10-Kio Dettman – 15 weeks
11-Becky Parmelee – 19 weeks
12-Willy McAlpine – 26 weeks
*13-Deb Powers – 78 weeks
14-Mike Vest – 92 weeks
15-Lowell Davis – 112 weeks
16-Scott Degeneffe – 131 weeks
17-Sheri Fakhouri – 141 weeks
*18-Logan Kahler – 142 weeks
*19-Nathanial Brown – 143 weeks
20-Tamara Peterson – 154 weeks
21-Mindi Terrell – 158 weeks
22-Linda Bennett – 187 weeks
23-Sarah Toot – 188 weeks
24-Angie DeWaard – 191 weeks
25-Dawn Krause – 194 weeks
26-Kim Barker – 202 weeks
27-Joe Duff – 203 weeks
*28-Teresa Kahler – 214 weeks
29-Carla Stensland – 214 weeks
30-Micky Augustin – 216 weeks
*31-Andy Sharp – 217 weeks
32-Bill Wentworth – 218 weeks
33-Cathie Morton – 221 weeks
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 223 weeks
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 225 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:
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Wesley Woods Camp, overlooking Lake Ahquabi at Hooper State Game Area in rural Warren County, south of Indianola) – 226 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 224 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 222 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 219 weeks
Andy Sharp (Ely, Iowa) – 218 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 217 weeks
Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 215 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 215 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 204 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 203 weeks
Dawn Krause (Portersfield, Wisconsin) – 195 weeks
Dawn Krause (Menomonee, Michigan)
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 192 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 189 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 188 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Mindi Terrell (Ankeny, Iowa) – 159 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Ankeny, Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 155 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Gypsum, Colorado) – 144 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Zion National Park – Utah)
Logan Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 143 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (West Des Moines, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 132 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 113 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 93 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 79 weeks
Deb Powers (Polk City, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 16 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Sarah Karber (Bloomington, Minnesota) – 6 weeks
Sara Lockner (Des Moines, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa) – 1 week
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Ashland, Nebraska)
Submissions from 31 participants this week. An extremely unpopular 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 546 Submission Geography
- Colorado (New)
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Texas
- Utah (New)
- Wisconsin (New)
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Colorado (Nathanial)
- 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)
- Utah (Nathanial)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wisconsin (Dawn)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
That is 19 states!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Dallas, Delaware, Linn, Polk, Story, and Warren.
The big milestones this week was Jesse joining the Double Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and game. It was a veritable bloodbath of streaks going kaput! Faust and Brandon couldn’t build on their submissions from last week. They are over before they began. Alexis’ streak is over at 2 weeks. Sabas and Charlie both had their streaks disappear after 4 weeks. Becky’s streak is no more after 19 weeks. And worst of all Scarecrow… Willy’s streak is gone after 26 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:
ADVERTISTING – SUGGESTED BY DEB POWERS
ADVERTISING! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
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.