WPC – WEEK 552 – MISTAKES

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, April 6, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:

1-Jesse Howard – 1 week
2-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
3-Becky Parmelee – 1 week
4-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 2 weeks
5-Monica Jennings – 3 weeks
6-Suzie Brannen – 4 weeks
*7-Sabas Hernandez – 4 weeks
8-Willy McAlpine – 5 weeks
9-Sarah Karber – 11 weeks
10-Deanna Peters – 15 weeks
11-Kio Dettman – 21 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 84 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 98 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 118 weeks
15-Scott Degeneffe – 137 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 147 weeks
17-Logan Kahler – 148 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 146 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 160 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 164 weeks
*21-Linda Bennett – 193 weeks
*22-Sarah Toot – 194 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 197 weeks
*24-Dawn Krause – 200 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 208 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 209 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 220 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 220 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 222 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 223 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 224 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 227 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 229 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 231 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:

Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 1 week

Alexis Stensland (Iowa)

Andy Sharp (Luxor – Las Vegas, Nevada) – 224 weeks

Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 198 weeks

Becky Parmelee (Rogers, Arkansas) – 2 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 225 weeks

Brandon Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks

Carla Stensland (Ledges State Park – Iowa)

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 228 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Carroll, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 201 weeks

Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 16 weeks

Deb Powers (Waukee, Iowa) – 85 weeks

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)

Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 230 weeks

Joe Duff (Great Falls, Montana) – 210 weeks

Joe Duff (Great Falls, Montana)

Kim Barker (Ames, Iowa) – 209 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 22 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 194 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 149 weeks

Lowell Davis (Jack Trice Stadium – Iowa) – 119 weeks

Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 223 weeks

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 99 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 165 weeks

Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 4 weeks

Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa)

Nathanial Brown (Glenwood, Iowa) – 147 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Tokyo, Japan) – 5 weeks

Sabas Hernandez (Tokyo, Japan)

Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 12 weeks

Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 195 wees

Scott Degeneffe (Boone, Iowa) – 138 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 232 weeks

Submissions from 34 participants this week. A moderately 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 552 Submission Geography
  • Arkansas
  • Iowa
  • Japan
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Montana (New)
  • Nevada
  • Nebraska

• Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
  • Arkansas (Scott)
  • California (Sabas)
  • Colorado (Nathanial)
  • Florida (Cathie)
  • Illinois (Nathanial)
  • Indiana (Nathanial)
  • Iowa (Tamara)
  • Kansas (Linda)
  • Kentucky (Scott)
  • Michigan (Mary)
  • Minnesota (Sarah K.)
  • Montana (Joe)
  • 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)
  • Dominican Republic (Scott)
  • Japan (Sabas)

That is 23 states! 2 foreign countries!

I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Carroll, Dallas, Polk, Story and Warren.

Their were no milestones this week. But sadly 2 streaks bit the dust. Jesse couldn’t build on his submission from last week. His streak is over before it began. Jen’s streak is over at 2.

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:

ABSTRACT – SUGGESTED BY ALEXIS STENSLAND

ABSTRACT! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! ABSTRACT photography is photography that creates images that detach from reality. They focus on color, texture, lines, shapes, patterns and form. Great ways to make an ABSTRACT photo is to take the picture out of focus or with long exposures and intentional camera movement or extreme macro photography.

Here are the Year 13 rules!

• YEAR 13 – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE RULES
  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!
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. 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.
  5. No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
  6. Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission. PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ASK YOU!
  7. 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!
  8. ABSOLUTELY NO USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!

• How to Submit
  1. Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
  2. Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. I’m not putting my phone # here. If you know, you know.

This is the 8th time that ABSTRACT has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are some of my favorites from the Ghosts of ABSTRACT Past:

Mike Vest – Week 24

Cathie Raley – Week 73

Kim Barker – Week 130

Sarah Karber – Week 173

Monica Jennings – Week 250

Harrison Gorshe – Week 340

Lowell Davis – Week 463

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.