ABSTRACT! 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, April 13, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Alexis Stensland – 1 week
2-Brandon Kahler – 2 weeks
3-Becky Parmelee – 2 weeks
*4-Monica Jennings – 4 weeks
5-Suzie Brannen – 5 weeks
*6-Sabas Hernandez – 5 weeks
7-Willy McAlpine – 6 weeks
8-Sarah Karber – 12 weeks
9-Deanna Peters – 16 weeks
10-Kio Dettman – 22 weeks
*11-Deb Powers – 85 weeks
12-Mike Vest – 99 weeks
13-Lowell Davis – 119 weeks
14-Scott Degeneffe – 138 weeks
15-Sheri Fakhouri – 148 weeks
16-Logan Kahler – 149 weeks
17-Nathanial Brown – 150 weeks
18-Tamara Peterson – 161 weeks
19-Mindi Terrell – 165 weeks
*20-Linda Bennett – 194 weeks
21-Sarah Toot – 195 weeks
22-Angie DeWaard – 198 weeks
23-Dawn Krause – 201 weeks
24-Kim Barker – 209 weeks
*25-Joe Duff – 210 weeks
*26-Teresa Kahler – 221 weeks
*27-Carla Stensland – 221 weeks
28-Micky Augustin – 223 weeks
29-Andy Sharp – 224 weeks
30-Bill Wentworth – 225 weeks
31-Cathie Morton – 228 weeks
32-Elizabeth Nordeen – 230 weeks
33-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 232 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:
Micky Augustin (Wilton, Iowa) – 224 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Ames, Iowa) – 233 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 210 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 195 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kanas)
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 151 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 120 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Iowa) – 139 weeks
Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 23 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 199 weeks
Joe Duff (Denver, Colorado) – 211 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Papillon, Nebraska) – 149 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Papillon, Nebraska)
Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Iowa)
Sabas Hernandez (Davenport, Iowa) – 6 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 150 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Gretna, Nebraska) – 222 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Papillon, Nebraska)
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 13 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa)
Sara Lockner (Phoenix, Arizona) – 1 week
Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 7 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 229 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 231 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Napier, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 17 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa) – 162 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 86 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Omaha, Nebraska) – 225 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa)
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Ogallala, Nebraska) – 222 weeks
Carla Stensland (Salida, Colorado)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 166 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 196 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 100 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 226 weeks
Submissions from 35 participants this week. A popular week. Including our first submission from Arizona this year!
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 553 Submission Geography
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arizona (Sara L.)
- 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 24 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, Muscatine, Polk, Scott, Story and Warren.
The major milestone this week was Mike joining the Triple Digit Club!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Suzie’s streak went kaput after 5 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:
FLOWER
FLOWER! 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 10th time that FLOWER has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are some of my favorites from the Ghosts of ABSTRACT Past:
Carla Stensland – Week 45
Sarah Karber – Week 95
Monica Jennings – Week 205
Tamara Peterson – Week 259
Elizabeth Nordeen – Week 316
Teresa Kahler – Week 351
Johnathan Stensland – Week 405
Mindi Terrell – Week 464
Dawn Krause – Week 513
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.