WARNING: Next Monday is Stephanie Kim’s birthday. I always take time to celebrate Stephanie’s birthday. So there is a good chance that I will be out celebrating and if that is the case, I will be too busy to send any form of reminders. You will have to be your own person if that is the case.
AT YOUR FINGERTIPS! 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, May 4, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jesse Howard – 1 week
2-Sara Lockner – 3 weeks
*3-Alexis Stensland – 4 weeks
4-Monica Jennings – 7 weeks
*5-Sabas Hernandez – 8 weeks
6-Sarah Karber – 15 weeks
7-Deanna Peters – 19 weeks
8-Kio Dettman – 25 weeks
*9-Deb Powers – 88 weeks
10-Mike Vest – 102 weeks
11-Lowell Davis – 122 weeks
12-Scott Degeneffe – 141 weeks
*13-Sheri Fakhouri – 150 weeks
14-Nathanial Brown – 153 weeks
15-Tamara Peterson – 164 weeks
*16-Mindi Terrell – 168 weeks
*17-Linda Bennett – 197 weeks
18-Sarah Toot – 198 weeks
19-Angie DeWaard – 201 weeks
*20-Dawn Krause – 204 weeks
*21-Kim Barker – 212 weeks
*22-Joe Duff – 213 weeks
*23-Teresa Kahler – 224 weeks
*24-Carla Stensland – 224 weeks
25-Micky Augustin – 226 weeks
26-Andy Sharp – 227 weeks
27-Bill Wentworth – 228 weeks
28-Cathie Morton – 231 weeks
29-Elizabeth Nordeen – 233 weeks
30-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 235 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 (Ogden, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (3 Mile Lake – Iowa) – 228 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 229 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Ankeny, Iowa) – 1 week
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 225 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ames, Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Near Cumming, Iowa) – 232 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 205 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 20 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 89 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 234 weeks
Jesse Howard (Huxley, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 214 weeks
Johnathan Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 213 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 26 weeks
Linda Bennett (Boone, Iowa) – 198 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Lowell Davis (MGMC – Ames, Iowa) – 123 weeks
Lowell Davis (Ledges Elementary – Boone, Iowa)
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa)
Micky Augustin (Marshalltown, Iowa) – 227 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 103 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 169 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Chicago, Illinois) – 154 weeks
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Sarah Karber (Apple Valley, Minnesota) – 16 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 199 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 236 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 151 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Suzie Brannen (Ogden, Iowa) – 1 week
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 165 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 225 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 1 week
Submissions from 36 participants this week. 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 556 Submission Geography
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- 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 Jersey (Sarah T.)
- 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 25 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, Dallas, Delaware, Linn, Marshall, Polk, Story, Union, and Warren.
Kio reached a milestone this week, joining the Half Year Streak Club! Woo! Elizabeth joined the 4.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Sabas’ streak went bye-bye-bye after 8 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:
SIGNS
SIGNS! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! Just be sure to follow the rules!
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 AT YOUR FINGERTIPS has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a few of my favorites from the Ghosts of SIGNS Past:
Becky Parmelee – Week 2
Cathie Raley – Week 55
Tamara Peterson – Week 135
Kim Barker – Week 200
Carla Stensland – Week 247
Teresa Kahler – Week 264
Dawn Krause – Week 367
Willy McAlpine – Week 425
Linda Bennett – Week 455
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.