DAMAGED! What a great theme! But did enough people find something roughed up to make it a popular theme?
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 8, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week
*2-Mary Green – 1 week
*3-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
4-Jesse Howard – 1 week
5-Sara Lockner – 1 week
6-Willy McAlpine – 2 weeks
7-Monica Jennings – 6 weeks
8-Becky Parmelee – 6 weeks
*9-Alexis Stensland – 22 weeks
10-Deanna McClain – 35 weeks
*11-Deb Powers – 54 weeks
12-Mike Vest – 67 weeks
13-Lowell Davis – 88 weeks
14-Scott Degeneffe – 106 weeks
15-Sheri Fakhouri – 115 weeks
*16-Logan Kahler – 118 weeks
*17-Nathanial Brown – 119 weeks
18-Tamara Peterson – 130 weeks
*19-Mindi Terrell – 134 weeks
20-Linda Bennett – 163 weeks
*21-Sarah Toot – 164 weeks
*22-Angie DeWaard – 167 weeks
23-Dawn Krause – 170 weeks
24-Kim Barker – 177 weeks
25-Joe Duff – 179 weeks
*26-Teresa Kahler – 190 weeks
*27-Carla Stensland – 190 weeks
28-Micky Augustin – 192 weeks
29-Andy Sharp – 193 weeks
30-Bill Wentworth – 194 weeks
31-Cathie Morton – 197 weeks
32-Elizabeth Nordeen – 199 weeks
33-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 201 weeks
34-Kio Dettman – 203 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.
It is the third Monday 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 the District of Columbia (Which should be a state.)
(These states haven’t had submissions from this year: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.)
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 (Madrid, Iowa) – 193 weeks
Ben Baier (Huxley, Iowa) – 1 week
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Hundertmark Auction in Humboldt, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Kim Barker (Ankeny, Iowa) – 178 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 164 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 1 week
Nathanial Brown (Ralston, Iowa) – 120 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 89 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 107 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 204 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa) – 168 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa State University)
Joe Duff (Texas) – 180 weeks
Joe Duff (Iowa)
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Ames, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 116 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 7 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 119 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 191 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Sarah Karber (Minnesota) – 1 week
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 171 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Near Islares, Spain) – 3 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa) – 36 weeks
Deanna McClain (Iowa)
Cathie Morton (Omaha, Nebraska) – 198 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 200 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 7 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 131 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 55 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Ames, Iowa) – 194 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 23 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Koenig Sphere – 9/11 Memorial – New York, New York) – 191 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 135 weeks
Sarah Toot (White Plains, New York) – 165 weeks
Mike Vest (Polk City, Iowa) – 68 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 195 weeks
Submissions from 34 participants this week. A pretty popular week! A couple of very exciting developments this week. First, Ben submitted his first ever submission! WooHoo! He is taking a couple of photography classes and we are expecting big things from him in the future. Second, Sarah Karber submitted for the first time in a minute. Her first submission this year! Welcome back Sarah!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- New York
- Spain
- 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 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 Elizabeth joining the 200 Week Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! But there was a ton of damage done to streaks. Mary, Sabas, Jesse, and Sara couldn’t build on their submission from last week and their streaks are over.
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:
STATUE
STATUE! 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 STATUE in this place that tries not to be sedentary next Monday.