FRIENDS! A great theme! But did enough people at least get see acts of friendship to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, November 24, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week
2-Kio Dettman – 2 weeks
3-Sabas Hernandez – 5 weeks
4-Becky Parmelee – 8 weeks
5-Suzie Brannen – 11 weeks
6-Willy McAlpine – 13 weeks
7-Monica Jennings – 17 weeks
8-Alexis Stensland – 33 weeks
9-Deanna McClain – 47 weeks
*10-Deb Powers – 65 weeks
11-Mike Vest – 79 weeks
12-Lowell Davis – 99 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 118 weeks
14-Sheri Fakhouri – 128 weeks
*15-Logan Kahler – 129 weeks
16-Nathanial Brown – 130 weeks
17-Tamara Peterson – 141 weeks
18-Mindi Terrell – 145 weeks
*19-Linda Bennett – 174 weeks
20-Sarah Toot – 175 weeks
*21-Angie DeWaard – 178 weeks
22-Dawn Krause – 181 weeks
23-Kim Barker – 189 weeks
24-Joe Duff – 190 weeks
*25-Teresa Kahler – 201 weeks
*26-Carla Stensland – 201 weeks
27-Micky Augustin – 203 weeks
*28-Andy Sharp – 204 weeks
29-Bill Wentworth – 205 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 209 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 210 weeks
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 212 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:
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 213 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 211 weeks
Cathie Morton (Thanksgiving Point, Utah) – 210 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 206 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 205 weeks
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 204 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 202 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Iowa)
Joe Duff (Houston, Texas) – 191 weeks
Joe Duff (Houston, Texas)
Kim Barker (Woodward, Oklahoma) – 190 weeks
Dawn Krause (Boone County, Iowa) – 182 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Baoase Resort – Willemstad, Curacao) – 179 weeks
Sarah Toot (Baltimore, Maryland) – 176 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 175 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 146 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 142 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 131 weeks
Logan Kahler (Ogden, Iowa) – 130 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Iowa) – 129 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 119 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 100 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 80 weeks
Deb Powers (Granger, Iowa) – 66 weeks
Deb Powers (Granger, Iowa)
Deanna McClain (Boone, Iowa) – 48 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 34 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Ogden, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 18 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 14 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Perry, Iowa) – 12 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Rogers, Arkansas) – 9 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 6 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa)
Brandon Kahler (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 1 week
Brandon Kahler (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Submissions from 33 participants this week. A moderately liked theme. It is decided! Having friends is overrated!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
- Arkansas
- Curacao
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Oklahoma
- Texas
Thanks to Angie’s travels we added Curacao to the Photography 139 Submission Map. Here is the Year 12 list of places where submissions have been taken:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- 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
- Canada
- Chile
- Curacao
- Dominican Republic
- England
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
That is 37 states, 1 district, and 10 foreign countries!
The big milestone this week was Lowell hitting the Triple Digit Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! Logan hit the 2.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! Dawn joined the 3.5 Year Streak Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! Woo! But it wasn’t all good news. Jen found herself without any friends this week and couldn’t build on her submission from last week. Her streak is over before it began. Insert sad face emoji here.
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:
PAPER
PAPER! What a great theme for Year 12 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
This is the first time that PAPER has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
I look forward to seeing your interpretation!
Until next Monday, may you run and not be weary. May your heart be filled with song. And may the love of God continue to give you hope and keep you strong.