Here is a quick advertisement before we get into ADVERTISING!
The Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group is having a clothing drive to help stock the free clothing closet at Augustana Lutheran. If you have any clothes that meet the requirements in the flyer to donate, bring them on down! You can donate them at Boone First United Methodist Church during office hours (8-1 Monday – Friday methinks) or before or after worship service on Sunday morning or… bring them down when we are having Youth Group, which would be this Wednesday from 6-8 PM. Or you can track down a member of the Youth Group on your own, but I’m not going to tell you how to do that.
Thanks!
ADVERTISING! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, March 2, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Mary Green – 1 week
2-Monica Jennings – 1 week
3-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks
4-Sarah Karber – 6 weeks
5-Deanna Peters – 10 weeks
6-Jesse Howard – 10 weeks
7-Kio Dettman – 16 weeks
*8-Deb Powers – 79 weeks
9-Mike Vest – 93 weeks
10-Lowell Davis – 113 weeks
11-Scott Degeneffe – 132 weeks
12-Sheri Fakhouri – 142 weeks
13-Logan Kahler – 143 weeks
*14-Nathanial Brown – 144 weeks
15-Tamara Peterson – 155 weeks
*16-Mindi Terrell – 159 weeks
*17-Linda Bennett – 188 weeks
18-Sarah Toot – 189 weeks
19-Angie DeWaard – 192 weeks
*20-Dawn Krause – 195 weeks
21-Kim Barker – 203 weeks
22-Joe Duff – 204 weeks
*23-Teresa Kahler – 215 weeks
24-Carla Stensland – 215 weeks
25-Micky Augustin – 217 weeks
*26-Andy Sharp – 218 weeks
27-Bill Wentworth – 219 weeks
28-Cathie Morton – 221 weeks
29-Elizabeth Nordeen – 224 weeks
30-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 226 weeks
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:
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 219 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 193 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 1 week
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 220 weeks
Carla Stensland (Templeton, Iowa) – 216 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 222 weeks
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone County, Iowa)
Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 196 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Deb Powers (Altoona, Iowa) – 80 weeks
Deb Powers (Prairie City, Iowa)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 225 weeks
Jesse Howard (Kelley, Iowa) – 11 weeks
Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa)
Joe Duff (Pasadena, Texas) – 205 weeks
Kim Barker (North Platte, Nebraska) – 204 weeks
Kim Barker (Longmont, Colorado)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 17 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 189 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 144 weeks
Lowell Davis (Des Moines, Iowa) – 114 weeks
Micky Augustin (Jefferson, Iowa) – 218 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 94 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 160 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Ottawa, Illinois) – 145 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Munster, Indiana)
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 7 weeks
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 190 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
Scott Degeneffe (Indianapolis, Indiana) – 133 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Mahomet, Illinois)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa) – 227 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 143 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 156 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 216 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa)
Willy McAlpine (Boone County, Iowa) – 1 week
Submissions from 32 participants this week. An extremely unpopular week!
A huge thanks to everyone that included the location of their picture with their submission! And a huge thanks to everyone that submitted before Monday morning! Makes my job so much easier!
- Week 547 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Illinois (New)
- Indiana (New)
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Colorado (Nathanial)
- Florida (Cathie)
- Illinois (Nathanial)
- Indiana (Nathanial)
- Iowa (Tamara)
- Kansas (Linda)
- Michigan (Mary)
- Minnesota (Sarah K.)
- Missouri (Scott)
- Nebraska (Bill)
- Nevada (Nathanial)
- New York (Sarah T.)
- Ohio (Nathanial)
- Pennsylvania (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- Utah (Nathanial)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wisconsin (Dawn)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
That is 21 states!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Carroll, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Story, and Warren.
The big milestones this week was Tamara joining the 3 Year Streak Club!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Mary couldn’t build on her submission from last week. Her streak is over before it 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:
YELLOW – SUGGESTED BY DEB POWERS
YELLOW! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
Here are the Year 13 rules!
- YEAR 13 – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE RULES
- 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. In fact, pictures being submitted by Sunday night are GREATLY APPRECIATED!
- 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. PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ASK YOU!
- Please submit images that are OVER 1000 pixels at their largest side. DON’T OVERCROP! Look at this page on a computer, if your images are considerably smaller than everyone else’s pictures, then you are sending too small of images!
- ABSOLUTELY NO USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!
- How to Submit
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. I’m not putting my phone # here. If you know, you know.
This is the 3rd time that YELLOW been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are a couple of my favorites from the Ghosts of YELLOW Past:
Stephanie Kim – Week 99
Elizabeth Nordeen – Week 248
To peruse the entire YELLOW Archive, click on the link below:
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.