WPC – WEEK 521 – MEANINGFUL

MEANINGFUL! What a great theme! But did enough people find something with meaning in their lives to make it a popular theme?

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 1, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:

1-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
2-Monica Jennings – 5 weeks
3-Becky Parmelee – 5 weeks
*4-Alexis Stensland – 21 weeks
5-Deanna McClain – 34 weeks
*6-Deb Powers – 53 weeks
7-Mike Vest – 66 weeks
8-Lowell Davis – 87 weeks
9-Scott Degeneffe – 105 weeks
10-Sheri Fakhouri – 114 weeks
11-Logan Kahler – 117 weeks
12-Nathanial Brown – 118 weeks
13-Tamara Peterson – 129 weeks
14-Mindi Terrell – 133 weeks
15-Linda Bennett – 162 weeks
16-Sarah Toot – 163 weeks
17-Angie DeWaard – 166 weeks
18-Dawn Krause – 169 weeks
19-Kim Barker – 176 weeks
20-Joe Duff – 178 weeks
21-Teresa Kahler – 189 weeks
22-Carla Stensland – 189 weeks
23-Micky Augustin – 191 weeks
*24-Andy Sharp – 192 weeks
25-Bill Wentworth – 193 weeks
26-Cathie Morton – 196 weeks
27-Elizabeth Nordeen – 198 weeks
28-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 200 weeks
*29-Kio Dettman – 202 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!

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. If you submit 2 pictures, make sure they are of different subjects.
3. 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.
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.
6. Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission.

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.

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:

Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 22 weeks

Alexis Stensland (Iowa)

Andy Sharp (Ames, Iowa) – 193 weeks

Angie DeWaard (Des Moines, Iowa) – 167 weeks

Angie DeWaard (Iowa)

Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 6 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Plattsmith, Nebraska) – 194 weeks

Carla Stensland (Tower of Voices, Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania) – 190 weeks

Carla Stensland (Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania)

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) -197 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Jack Trice Stadium – Ames, Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Ames, Iowa) – 170 weeks

Deanna McClain (Boone, Iowa) – 35 weeks

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 54 weeks

Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)

Elizabeth Nordeen (Miami, Florida) – 199 weeks

Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Santa Cruz, California) – 1 week

Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 1 week

Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 179 weeks

Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 177 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 203 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 163 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) -118 weeks

Logan Kahler (Mall of America – Bloomington, Minnesota)

Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 88 weeks

Mary Green (Iowa) – 1 week

Mary Green (Iowa)

Micky Augustin (Woodward, Iowa) – 192 weeks

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 67 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 134 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)

Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 6 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Madrid, Iowa) – 119 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Ankeny, Iowa)

Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 1 week

Sabas Hernandez (Iowa)

Sara Lockner (Dearborn, Michigan) – 1 week

Sarah Toot (Savannah, Georgia) – 164 weeks

Sarah Toot (Bluffton, South Carolina)

Scott Degeneffe (Iowa) – 106 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Wesley Woods – Warren County, Iowa) – 201 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 115 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 130 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 190 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Iowa)

Willy McAlpine (Spain) – 2 weeks

Submissions from 35 participants this week. The first popular theme in a few weeks! And I don’t want to wax poetic about how meaningful these meaningful submissions are. But it is a very interesting collection. Submissions from a beach in Florida to a beach in California. From new life to remembering those that are gone. But I think family was the biggest line that can be drawn through the submissions. From parents to children to grandchildren to family recipes to the families we don’t share DNA with. A pretty cool collection this week and you know I’m not blowing smoke when I say that.

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

• Arkansas
• California
• Florida
• Georgia
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Spain
• Texas

Thanks to the travels of Sarah we’ve added South Carolina to the Photography 139 Submission Map! Thanks to Willy’s travels we’ve added Spain to the Photography 139 Submission Map!

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 Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Washington
• Washington D.C.
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming
• Argentina
• Chile
• Dominican Republic
• England
• Ireland
• Northern Ireland
• Spain

That is 36 states, 1 district, and 7 foreign countries!

The big milestone this week was Tamara joining the 2.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! Another big deal is that no streaks were snapped this week! WooHoo!

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:

DAMAGED – SUGGESTED BY JOE DUFF

DAMAGED! 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 DAMAGED in this place that is somewhat of a broken road me next Monday.