The Annual Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest registration form is now ready for people to download. The process is a little bit different this year. Photographers have to submit an online form and then the Chamber will email you a copy of the entry tags. You can fill out the online form by clicking on the link below:
PUFFERBILLY DAYS PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY FORM
Some things to note that have changed from last year.
- The deadline to enter your physical entries has changed from the Friday before Pufferbilly Day to the Wednesday before Pufferbilly Days. The deadline this year is WEDNESDAY, September 9.
- The location to drop off you physical entries has changed back to the Boone Chamber – 903 Story Street
- Going back to 6 Classes. (ANIMALS, BLACK & WHITE, HUMANS, PLACES, PLANTS, and THINGS) Dropped TRANSPORTATION from last few years and merged PLACES back into one class after splitting it last year into IOWA PLACES and OUTSIDE IOWA PLACES.
- The time to pick up your pictures after Pufferbilly Days is now only 2 weeks. After that they become property of The Chamber.
- Digital copies of images can now be mailed directly to me at bennett@photography139.com. Instead of emailing them to The Chamber and them emailing them to me.
Other than that, the procedures and rules are the same as last year. I look forward to seeing the entries!
THINGS! 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, June 22, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jason Baier – 1 week
2-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
3-Monica Jennings – 1 week
4-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week
*5-Jesse Howard – 2 weeks
6-Brandon Kahler – 2 weeks
*7-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
*8-Mary Green – 3 weeks
*9-Logan Kahler – 4 weeks
10-Becky Parmelee – 5 weeks
11-Willy McAlpine – 7 weeks
12-Sara Lockner – 10 weeks
13-Alexis Stensland – 11 weeks
14-Sarah Karber – 22 weeks
15-Deanna Peters – 26 weeks
16-Kio Dettman – 32 weeks
*17-Deb Powers – 95 weeks
18-Mike Vest – 109 weeks
19-Lowell Davis – 129 weeks
20-Scott Degeneffe – 148 weeks
*21-Sheri Fakhouri – 157 weeks
22-Nathanial Brown – 160 weeks
23-Tamara Peterson – 171 weeks
24-Mindi Terrell – 175 weeks
25-Linda Bennett – 204 weeks
26-Sarah Toot – 205 weeks
*27-Angie DeWaard – 208 weeks
28-Dawn Krause – 211 weeks
29-Kim Barker – 219 weeks
*30-Joe Duff – 220 weeks
*31-Teresa Kahler – 231 weeks
*32-Carla Stensland – 230 weeks
33-Micky Augustin – 233 weeks
34-Andy Sharp – 234 weeks
35-Bill Wentworth – 235 weeks
36-Cathie Morton – 238 weeks
37-Elizabeth Nordeen – 240 weeks
38-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 242 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:
Jason Baier (Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Jason Baier (Elk Horn, Iowa)
Sabas Hernandez (Fort Dodge, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Johnathan Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Logan Kahler (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 5 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 6 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 8 weeks
Sara Lockner (Clive, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone County, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Boone County, Iowa)
Sarah Karber (Hastings, Minnesota) – 23 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 27 weeks
Kio Dettman (Moingona, Iowa) – 33 weeks
Deb Powers (Polk City, Iowa) – 96 weeks
Deb Powers (Polk City, Iowa)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 110 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 130 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Noblesville, Indiana) – 149 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 158 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Boone County, Iowa) – 161 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Ogden, Iowa) – 172 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 176 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Boone, Iowa) – 205 weeks
Linda Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (Wilmington, Delaware) – 206 weeks
Sarah Toot (Baltimore, Maryland)
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 209 weeks
Dawn Krause (Humboldt County, Iowa) – 212 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 220 weeks
Joe Duff (Houston, Texas) – 221 weeks
Carla Stensland (Arnolds Park, Iowa) – 232 weeks
Teresa Kahler (McHose Park – Boone, Iowa) – 232 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa)
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 234 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 235 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 236 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 239 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 241 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 243 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Decorah, Iowa) – 667 weeks
Submissions from 37 participants this week. A popular week! WooHoo! Plus Sarah T. added Delaware and Maryland to the Year 13 Photography 139 Submission Map! WooHoo! That is 4 states she has added in just the last 2 weeks alone! Almost 60% of the country covered at the halfway point of the calendar year. That is nothing to shake a stick at. But shaking a stick at it would have made a great TREES picture.
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 563 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Delaware (New)
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maryland (New)
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Texas
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arizona (Sara L.)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Colorado (Nathanial)
- Delaware (Sarah T.)
- Florida (Cathie)
- Illinois (Nathanial)
- Indiana (Nathanial)
- Iowa (Tamara)
- Kansas (Linda)
- Kentucky (Scott)
- Maryland (Sarah T.)
- 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.)
- Tennessee (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- Utah (Nathanial)
- Washington D.C. (Sarah T.)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wisconsin (Dawn)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
- Dominican Republic (Scott)
- England (Nathanial)
- Japan (Sabas)
- South Africa (Nathanial)
That is 29 states! 1 district! 4 foreign countries!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Audubon, Boone, Dallas, Dickinson, Humboldt, Polk, Story, Warren, Webster, and Winneshiek.
There were a few milestones this week. Lowell joined the 2.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! Micky joined the 3.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Brandon’s streak went kaput after 2 weeks. Mary’s streak is but a memory after 3 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:
AMERICA – IOWA STATE FAIR PHOTOGRAPHY SALON THEME
AMERICA! 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.