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GAMES! What a great theme! Did enough people find out the truth about the games that people play to make and make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out.
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, November 11, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore everything in parentheses):
1-Mary Green – 1 week (MI, IA, IN, IL, PR)
2-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 2 weeks (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN, VA, IL, FL, IN, WV, PA, DC)
3-Monica Jennings – 2 weeks (IA)
4-Jesse Howard – 6 weeks (IA, MO, NE, FL, ABW, CUW, MN)
*5-Suzie Brannen – 7 weeks (IA, MD)
*6-Deb Powers – 11 weeks (MT, IA)
7-Willy McAlpine – 18 weeks (IA)
8-Deanna McClain – 22 weeks (IA, MN)
9-Mike Vest – 25 weeks (IA, MO, OK, AR, KS)
*10-Lowell Davis – 45 weeks (IA, MO, KS)
11-Brandon Kahler – 46 weeks (IA, MN)
12-Scott Degeneffe – 64 weeks (IA, FL, UT, CO, KY, IN, IL, MN, WI)
13-Sheri Fakhouri – 74 weeks (IA, NE, GA)
14-Logan Kahler – 75 weeks (IA, MN, MO)
15-Nathanial Brown – 76 weeks (IA, SD, GA, TN, IRL, UK, FL, IL, KS, NE, MN, PA,, WI, NY)
16-Tamara Peterson – 87 weeks (IA, MN)
*17-Mindi Terrell – 91 weeks (IA)
*18-Linda Bennett – 120 weeks (KS, IA, MI, NY)
19-Sarah Toot – 121 weeks (PA, NY, VT, NV, NJ, NC)
20-Angie DeWaard – 124 weeks (IA, IL, SCT, ENG, MN, FL)
21-Dawn Krause – 129 weeks (IA, IL)
22-Kim Barker – 135 weeks (IA, CO, LA)
*23-Joe Duff – 136 weeks (TX, NY)
*24-Teresa Kahler – 147 weeks (IA, NE)
*25-Carla Stensland – 147 weeks (IA, MO, SD, WY, CO)
26-Micky Augustin – 149 weeks (IA, IL, FL, AK)
27-Andy Sharp – 150 weeks (IA, NE, AR, MS, MO, TN, LA, IL, MN, WI, KS)
28-Bill Wentworth – 150 weeks (NE, MO, FL)
*29-Cathie Morton – 15 weeks (IA, FL, BHS, MO, LA)
30-Elizabeth Nordeen – 156 weeks (IA, OH)
31-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 158 weeks (IA, CA, NV, AR, MO)
*32-Kio Dettman – 160 weeks (IA)
Here is the list of rules for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE:
1. 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!
2. 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.
3. Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM next Monday.
4. 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.
5. No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
There are still 2 ways to submit:
1. Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
2. Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro.
It is the third week of the month and on the third week of the month I like to share a map of all the states where people have submitted from heading into today. Here is that map:
36 states and 1 district
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 (Ames, Iowa) – 150 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Fort Dodge, Iowa) – 159 weeks
Kim Barker (Des Moines, Iowa) – 136 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Jack Trice Stadium – Ames, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 121 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 8 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa) – 77 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 46 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa)
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 65 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 161 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 125 weeks
Joe Duff (Texas) – 137 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Porchlight Coffee – Ankeny, Iowa) – 75 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 1 week
Jesse Howard (Hilton Coliseum – Ames, Iowa) – 7 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 47 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 76 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Porch Light Coffee – Ames, Iowa) – 148 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Porch Light Coffee – Ames, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 130 weeks
Dawn Krause (Iowa)
Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 19 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 23 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 155 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 157 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 88 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 151 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 148 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 92 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Iowa)
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 122 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 26 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 151 weeks
Only 31 participants this week. That is the low for the year. Makes one think THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is running out of steam.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
+ Iowa (37)
+ Kansas (1)
+ Nebraska (1)
+ Pennsylvania (1)
+ Texas (1)
Here is the Year 11 list of places where submissions have been taken (submissions taken in each places):
+ Arkansas (20.5)
+ Alaska (1)
+ California (3)
+ Colorado (10)
+ Florida (14)
+ Georgia (3)
+ Hawaii (2)
+ Illinois (15)
+ Indiana (6)
+ Iowa (1648)
+ Kansas (62)
+ Kentucky (1)
+ Louisiana (8)
+ Maryland (1)
+ Michigan (11)
+ Minnesota (15)
+ Mississippi (2.5)
+ Missouri (21.5)
+ Montana (4)
+ Nebraska (54)
+ Nevada (4)
+ New Jersey (5)
+ New York (21)
+ North Carolina (2)
+ Ohio (5)
+ Oklahoma (2)
+ Pennsylvania (40)
+ Puerto Rico (4)
+ South Dakota (5)
+ Tennessee (2.5)
+ Texas (69)
+ Utah (1)
+ Vermont (1)
+ Virginia (1)
+ Washington D.C. (1)
+ West Virginia (1)
+ Wisconsin (5)
+ Wyoming (1)
+ Aruba (1)
+ Bahamas (4)
+ Canada (2)
+ Curacao (1)
+ Ireland (3)
+ England (2)
+ North Ireland (1)
+ Scotland (1)
36 states so far! 1 U.S. Territory! 1 District! 6 foreign countries! Not bad! So far, the following people have submitted from multiple places:
+ Nathanial Brown (IA, SD, TN, GA, IRL, NIR, FL, IL, KS, NE, MN, PA, WI, NY) – 14
+ Jen Ensley-Gorshe (IA, CO, MO, TX, TN, VA, IL, FL, IN, WV, PA, DC) – 12
+ Andy Sharp (IA, NE, MO, AR, TN, MS, LA, IL, MN, WI, KS) – 11
+ Scott Degeneffe (IA, FL, UT, CO, IN, KY, IL, MN, WI) – 9
+ Jesse Howard (IA, MO, NE, FL, ABW, CUW, MN) – 7
+ Christopher D. Bennett (IA, MO, NE, IL, IN, LA) – 6
+ Sarah Toot (PA, NY, VT, NV, NJ, NC) – 6
+ Adam Gordon (IA, MS, MO, KS, MI, CAN) – 6
+ Angie DeWaard (IA, IL, SCT, ENG, MN, FL) – 6
+ Shannon Bardole-Foley (IA, CA, NV, AR, MO) – 5
+ Cathie Morton (IA, FL, BHS, MO, LA) – 5
+ Carla Stensland (IA, MO, SD, WY, CO) -5
+ Mary Green (MI, IA, IN, IL, RP) – 5
+ Michelle Haupt (IA, MO, KS, LA, MI) – 5
+ Mike Vest (IA, MO, AR, OK, KS) – 5
+ Micky Augustin (IA, IL, FL, AK) – 4
+ Linda Bennett (KS, IA, MI, NY) – 4
+ Lowell Davis (IA, MO, KS) – 3
+ Logan Kahler (IA, MN, MO) – 3
+ Bill Wentworth (NE, MO, FL) – 3
+ Kim Barker (IA, CO, LA) – 3
+ Becky Parmelee (AR, IA, OK) – 3
+ Sara Lockner (IA, BHS, MN) – 3
+ Susanna Funk (IA, CO) – 2
+ Brandon Kahler (IA, MN) – 2
+ Tamara Peterson (IA, MN) – 2
+ Teresa Kahler (IA, NE) – 2
+ Sheri Fakhouri (IA, NE) – 2
+ Sabas Hernandez (IA, OH) – 2
+ Suzie Brannen (IA, MD) – 2
+ Elizabeth Nordeen (IA, OH) – 2
+ Deanna McClain (IA, MN) – 2
+ Dawn Krause – (IA, IL) – 2
+ Joe Duff (TX, NY) – 2
+ Evie Gorshe (IA, IN) – 2
+ Layla Gorshe (IA, OH) -2
+ Deb Powers (MT, IA) – 2
+ Kyle Sharp (IA, MO) – 2
Nathanial now has a commanding lead to be crowned “The Most Travelled THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE Photographer!”
The big milestone this week was Vest joining THE HALF YEAR STREAK CLUB! Woo! Plus, Dawn joined the TWO AND A HALF YEAR STREAK CLUB!! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo!
But with record low participation, there was a bloodbath of streaks that came to an end. Mary couldn’t build on last week’s submission and her streak is over before it began. Jen’s streak went west and died with the country at 2 weeks. Monica called “no mas”. Her streak is also over at 2 weeks.
But 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:
ART
ART! What a great theme for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
I look forward to your interpretation!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will see your idea of ART in this place that thinks it is artistic next Monday.