SLICE OF LIFE! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
Who submitted pictures that you would buy if you saw them on a postcard? That is the kind of thing you should leave in the COMMENTS section of this hear post!
Who earned bonus points and double points? Something else you will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 8, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
*2-Adam Gordon – 1 week
*3-Mary Green – 1 week
4-Sabas Hernandez – 2 weeks
5-Logan Kahler – 2 weeks
6-Becky Parmelee – 3 weeks
7-Willy McAlpine – 5 weeks
8-Sara Lockner – 8 weeks
9-Alexis Stensland – 9 weeks
10-Sarah Karber – 20 weeks
11-Deanna Peters – 24 weeks
12-Kio Dettman – 30 weeks
*13-Deb Powers – 93 weeks
14-Mike Vest – 107 weeks
15-Lowell Davis – 127 weeks
16-Scott Degeneffe – 146 weeks
17-Sheri Fakhouri – 155 weeks
*18-Nathanial Brown – 158 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 169 weeks
*20-Mindi Terrell – 173 weeks
21-Linda Bennett – 202 weeks
*22-Sarah Toot – 203 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 206 weeks
24-Dawn Krause – 209 weeks
25-Kim Barker – 217 weeks
*26-Joe Duff – 218 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 229 weeks
28-Carla Stensland – 229 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 231 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 232 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 233 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 236 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 238 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 240 weeks
Heading into today, this is the map of states where people have submitted images from in Year 13.

26 States!
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 (Moab, Utah) – 232 weeks (Bonus Points)

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Winterset Cidery, rural Madison County – Iowa) – 241 weeks (Bonus Points)

Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 218 weeks (Bonus Points)

Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)

Linda Bennett (Leavenworth, Kansas) – 203 weeks

Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 2 weeks (Bonus Points)

Nathanial Brown (Des Moines, Iowa) – 159 weeks (Bonus Points)

Lowell Davis (Des Moines, Iowa) – 128 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) — 147 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone County, Iowa) – 31 weeks (Bonus Points)

Angie DeWaard (Des Moines, Iowa) – 207 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 219 weeks (Double Bonus Points)
Local make-your-own pizza place called MOD Pizza in League City, TX. Fun place when no one can agree on the pizza they want.

Joe Duff (League City, Texas) (Double Bonus Points)

Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 156 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Mary Green (Arlington, Texas) – 2 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Mary Green (Arlington, Texas) (Double Bonus Points)

Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week (Double Bonus Points)

Brandon Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 1 week

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Elk Horn, Iowa) – 230 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) (Double Bonus Points)

Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 21 weeks (Bonus Points)

Dawn Krause (Boone County, Iowa) – 210 weeks (Bonus Points)

Sara Lockner (Grimes, Iowa) – 9 weeks

Wily McAlpine (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 6 weeks

Cathie Morton (Nevada, Iowa) – 237 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 239 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 4 weeks

Deanna Peters (Iowa) – 25 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa) – 170 weeks (Double Bonus Points)

Deb Powers (Granger, Iowa) – 94 weeks (Bonus Points)

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) (Bonus Points)

Andy Sharp (Ames, Iowa) – 233 weeks (Bonus Points)

Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 10 weeks (Bonus Points)

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 230 weeks (Double Bonus Points)
Ogden, IA – A quiet town that supports its farming background represented by the tractor and old elevator building. There is the famous balloon like water tower in the background and the no horn sign for the trains in the foreground.

Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) (Double Bonus Points)
Ogden, IA – This is a planter I purchased for my daughter at a rummage sale. Its a planter that you can probably find anywhere.

Mindi Terrell (Johnston, Iowa) – 174 weeks (Bonus Points)

Sarah Toot (Poconos – Pennsylvania) – 204 weeks (Double Bonus Points)
The Poconos host one of the heaviest concentrations of black bears in PA with a statewide population estimated around 20,000, in 2025.

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 108 weeks (Bonus Points)

Bill Wentworth (Lincoln, Nebraska) – 234 weeks
Submissions from 35 participants this week. A popular week! WooHoo!
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 561 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Utah
- 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.)
- Mississippi (Adam)
- 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)
- England (Nathanial)
- Japan (Sabas)
- South Africa (Nathanial)
That is 26 states! 4 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, Madison, Polk, Shelby, and Story.
There were a few milestones this week. Alexis joined the Double Digit Streak Club!! WooHoo! WooHoo! Sheri joined the 3 Year Streak Club!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Bill joined the 4.5 Year Streak Club!!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t al fun, games, and concrete alligators. Adam couldn’t build on his submission from last week. His streak is over before it began. Sabas’ streak ends after 2 weeks.
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:
THINGS – PUFFERBILLY DAYS PHOTO CONTEST CLASS
THINGS! 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 10 Pro. I’m not putting my phone # here. If you know, you know.
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.


