REMINDER: NOT YET, BUT SOON IT WILL BE YOUR CHANCE TO SUGGEST THEMES FOR NEXT YEAR’S THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! YOU CAN DO THAT IN ONE WAY AND ONE WAY ONLY. BY LEAVING YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE LAST THE WEEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE POST THAT PUBLISHES IN OCTOBER (OCTOBER 26) AND THE FIRST THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE POST THAT PUBLISHES IN NOVEMBER (NOVEMBER 2).
COMPETITION! 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, October 12, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
*1-Mary Green – 3 weeks
2-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks
3-Becky Parmelee – 3 weeks
4-Johnathan Stensland – 3 weeks
5-Sara Lockner – 5 weeks
*6-Alexis Stensland – 9 weeks
*7-Suzie Brannen – 11 weeks
8-Linda Bennett – 11 weeks
*9-Willy McAlpine – 11 weeks
10-Jason Baier – 17 weeks
11-Monica Jennings – 17 weeks
*12-Logan Kahler – 20 weeks
13-Sarah Karber – 38 weeks
*14-Deanna Peters – 42 weeks
*15-Deb Powers – 111 weeks
16-Mike Vest – 125 weeks
17-Lowell Davis – 145 weeks
*18-Scott Degeneffe – 164 weeks
19-Sheri Fakhouri – 173 weeks
20-Nathanial Brown – 176 weeks
21-Tamara Peterson – 187 weeks
*22-Mindi Terrell – 191 weeks
23-Sarah Toot – 221 weeks
24-Angie DeWaard – 224 weeks
25-Dawn Krause – 227 weeks
26-Kim Barker – 235 weeks
27-Joe Duff – 236 weeks
*28-Teresa Kahler – 247 weeks
*29-Carla Stensland – 247 weeks
30-Micky Augustin – 249 weeks
31-Andy Sharp – 250 weeks
32-Bill Wentworth – 251 weeks
33-Cathie Morton – 254 weeks
34-Elizabeth Nordeen – 256 weeks
35-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 258 weeks
The third Monday of the month I like to share the current Photography 139 Weekly Photo Challenge Map. Heading into today, this is the map of states where people have submitted images from in Year 13:
34 States and Washington D.C. (which should be a state)!
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 250 weeks
Jason Baier (Huxley, Iowa) – 18 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 259 weeks
Kim Barker (Shipley, Iowa) – 236 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Easton, Kansas) – 12 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Clive, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 177 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 146 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 165 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 225 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 237 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 174 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Sabas Hernandez (Saylorville Lake – Iowa) – 4 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Des Moines, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 18 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 21 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 248 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 39 weeks
Dawn Krause (Fraser, Iowa) – 228 weeks
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 6 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 12 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 255 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (East Village – Des Moines, Iowa) – 257 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Napier, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Deanna Peters (Perry, Iowa) – 43 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 188 weeks
Deb Powers (Des Moines, Iowa) – 112 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Council Bluffs, Iowa) – 251 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ames, Iowa) – 10 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ames, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Ledges State Park – Iowa) – 248 weeks
Carla Stensland (Madrid, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Adel, Iowa) – 192 weeks
Sarah Toot (Port Everglades, Florida) – 222 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 126 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 252 weeks
Submissions from 34 participants this week. Not 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! (Request not related to Andy’s submission this week.)
- Week 579 Submission Geography
- Florida
- Iowa
- 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)
- Maine (Angie)
- Maryland (Sarah T.)
- Michigan (Mary)
- Minnesota (Sarah K.)
- Mississippi (Adam)
- Missouri (Scott)
- Montana (Joe)
- Nebraska (Bill)
- Nevada (Nathanial)
- New Hampshire (Angie)
- New Jersey (Sarah T.)
- New York (Sarah T.)
- North Carolina (Sarah T.)
- Ohio (Nathanial)
- Oklahoma (Mike)
- Pennsylvania (Sarah T.)
- South Dakota (Deb)
- Tennessee (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- Utah (Nathanial)
- Washington D.C. (Sarah T.)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wisconsin (Dawn)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
- Bahamas (Cathie)
- Dominican Republic (Scott)
- England (Nathanial)
- France (Sarah T.)
- Japan (Sabas)
- Scotland (Michelle)
- South Africa (Nathanial)
That is 34 states! 1 district! 7 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, Polk, Pottawattamie, Story, and Warren.
There was a milestone this week! Alexis joined the Double Digit Streak Club!! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns. 3 streaks came crashing to a halt. Mary and Johnathan’s streaks went kaput 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:
BLACK & WHITE – Evergreen Theme
BLACK & WHITE! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! In fact, this is the one of my top 3 favorite themes every year. And don’t worry. It will be a theme every year as long as THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE exist.
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.