CHARITY! What a great theme! But did enough people have it in their heart it to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, August 24, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Monica Jennings – 4 weeks
2-Becky Parmelee – 4 weeks
3-Suzie Brannen – 13 weeks
4-Alexis Stensland – 20 weeks
5-Deanna McClain – 33 weeks
*6-Deb Powers – 52 weeks
7-Mike Vest – 65 weeks
8-Lowell Davis – 86 weeks
9-Scott Degeneffe – 104 weeks
10-Sheri Fakhouri – 113 weeks
*11-Logan Kahler – 116 weeks
*12-Nathanial Brown – 117 weeks
13-Tamara Peterson – 128 weeks
14-Mindi Terrell – 132 weeks
15-Linda Bennett – 161 weeks
16-Sarah Toot – 162 weeks
*17-Angie DeWaard – 165 weeks
18-Dawn Krause – 168 weeks
19-Kim Barker – 175 weeks
*20-Joe Duff – 177 weeks
*21-Teresa Kahler – 188 weeks
22-Carla Stensland – 188 weeks
23-Micky Augustin – 190 weeks
*24-Andy Sharp – 191 weeks
25-Bill Wentworth – 192 weeks
26-Cathie Morton – 195 weeks
27-Elizabeth Nordeen – 197 weeks
28-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 199 weeks
*29-Kio Dettman – 201 weeks
Here is the list of rules for Year 12 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!
- 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.
- 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.
There are still 2 ways to submit:
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro.
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:
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 200 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 198 weeks
Cathie Morton (Decorah, Iowa) – 196 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 193 weeks
Andy Sharp (New York City, New York) – 192 weeks
Andy Sharp (Newark, New Jersey)
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 191 weeks
Carla Stensland (Orleans, Iowa) – 189 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 189 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 178 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 176 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 169 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Dublin, Ireland) – 166 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 163 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 162 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 133 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa) – 129 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Dayton, Iowa) – 118 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 117 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 114 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 105 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 87 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 66 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 53 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 34 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 21 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Jack Trice Stadium – Ames, Iowa)
Becky Parmelee (Springdale, Arkansas) – 5 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Howth, Ireland)
Submissions from 30 participants this week. A very unpopular theme! Lots of people hate helping others. I get it. Look around this country. It is every man for themselves these days. Except for millionaires and billionaires. They get all the charity in the world.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Iowa
- Ireland
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Argentina
- Chile
- Dominican Republic
- England
- Ireland
- Northern Ireland
That is 35 states, 1 district, and 6 foreign countries!
The big milestone this week was Shannon joining the 200 Week Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Suzie’s streak crashed and burned at lucky #13.
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:
MEANINGFUL – SUGGESTED BY CARLA STENSLAND
MEANINGFUL! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
I look forward to seeing your interpretation!
That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of MEANINGFUL in this place that is at least meaningful to me next Monday.