REMINDER THAT THE TIME IS FAST APPROACHING WHEN YOU CAN MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE YEAR 13 THEMES FOR THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. YOU CAN DO THAT BY AND ONLY BY LEAVING A COMMENT IN THE LAST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLNEGE POST IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER AND THE FIRST WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE IN NOVEMBER. NO TEXTS. NO EMAILS. NO SNAPS. NO HAND WRITTEN LETTERS. ONLY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THOSE TWO POSTS!
DREAM! A great theme! But did enough people have dreams to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, October 13, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Brandon Kahler – 1 week
2-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
3-Mary Green – 2 weeks
4-Becky Parmelee – 2 weeks
5-Suzie Brannen – 5 weeks
6-Willy McAlpine – 7 weeks
*7-Monica Jennings – 11 weeks
*8-Alexis Stensland – 27 weeks
9-Deanna McClain – 40 weeks
*10-Deb Powers – 59 weeks
11-Mike Vest – 72 weeks
12-Lowell Davis – 93 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 111 weeks
14-Sheri Fakhouri – 120 weeks
*15-Logan Kahler – 123 weeks
16-Nathanial Brown – 124 weeks
17-Tamara Peterson – 135 weeks
18-Mindi Terrell – 139 weeks
*19-Linda Bennett – 168 weeks
*20-Sarah Toot – 169 weeks
*21-Angie DeWaard – 172 weeks
22-Dawn Krause – 175 weeks
23-Kim Barker – 182 weeks
24-Joe Duff – 184 weeks
*25-Teresa Kahler – 195 weeks
*26-Carla Stensland – 195 weeks
27-Micky Augustin – 197 weeks
*28-Andy Sharp – 198 weeks
29-Bill Wentworth – 199 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 202 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 204 weeks
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 206 weeks
33-Kio Dettman – 208 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.)
The following states are missing from this year:
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- New Hampshire
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- 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 (Colo, Iowa) – 198 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Cozumel, Mexico) – 207 weeks
Kim Barker (Ankeny, Iowa) – 183 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Des Moines, Iowa)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 169 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 6 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Bass Creek High Bridge – Iowa) – 125 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 94 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 112 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 209 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 173 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 185 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 121 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Dublin, Georgia)
Mary Green (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Mary Green (Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 124 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 196 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 176 weeks
Sara Lockner (Des Moines, Iowa) – 1 week
Willy McAlpine (Toledo, Spain) – 8 weeks
Deanna McClain (Polk City, Iowa) – 41 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 203 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ohio) – 205 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Albuquerque, New Mexico) – 3 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 136 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 60 weeks
Deb Powers (Polk City, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Missouri Valley, Iowa) – 199 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 28 weeks
Carla Stensland (Jefferson, Iowa) – 196 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 140 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Sarah Toot (Chicago, Illinois) – 170 weeks
Sarah Toot (Mt. Sterling, Kentucky)
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 73 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 200 weeks
Submissions from 33 participants this week. Kind of a “mid” week! Some people have dreams. But not a lot of people.
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- New Mexico
- Mexico
- Nebraska
- Ohio
- 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
- Mexico
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
That is 36 states, 1 district, and 8 foreign countries!
The big milestone this week was Bill reaching the 200 Week Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Sabas and Brandon couldn’t build on their submission from last week. Their streaks are over before they began.
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:
#INSTAGOOD
THERE IS A SPECIAL RULE FOR THIS THEME! FOR THIS WEEK, YOU CAN ONLY SUBMIT 1 PHOTO!
#INSTAGOOD! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! #INSTAGOOD is the 2nd most popular hashtag on the Instagram. It is (theoretically) reserved for the best pictures you post on the Gram. In the contxt of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, OT is to pick the best picture you take this week and submit it. And since there can only be 1 best, for this week, submissions are limited to ONE. And may God have mercy on your soul if you even consider sending me multiple pictures and ask me to pick the best one!
This is the fourth time that #INSTAGOOD has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a few favorites from the Ghosts of #INSTAGOODs Past:
Suzie Brannen – Week 346
Sara Lockner – Week 422
Cathie Morton – Week 446
If you want to peruse all 109 previous submissions, click on the link below:
#INSTAGOOD HISTORICAL CATALOGUE
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 image in this place that gets my best shot, most of the time next Monday.