WILD ANIMAL! 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 30, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week
2-Monica Jennings – 2 weeks
3-Suzie Brannen – 3 weeks
4-Mary Green – 3 weeks
5-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks
6-Willy McAlpine – 4 weeks
7-Sarah Karber – 10 weeks
8-Deanna Peters – 14 weeks
9-Kio Dettman – 20 weeks
*10-Deb Powers – 83 weeks
11-Mike Vest – 97 weeks
12-Lowell Davis – 117 weeks
13-Scott Degeneffe – 136 weeks
*14-Sheri Fakhouri – 146 weeks
*15-Logan Kahler – 147 weeks
16-Nathanial Brown – 148 weeks
17-Tamara Peterson – 159 weeks
*18-Mindi Terrell – 163 weeks
19-Linda Bennett – 192 weeks
20-Sarah Toot – 193 weeks
21-Angie DeWaard – 196 weeks
22-Dawn Krause – 199 weeks
23-Kim Barker – 207 weeks
*24-Joe Duff – 208 weeks
*25-Teresa Kahler – 219 weeks
*26-Carla Stensland – 219 weeks
27-Micky Augustin – 221 weeks
28-Andy Sharp – 222 weeks
29-Bill Wentworth – 223 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 226 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 228 weeks
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 230 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:
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Rural Greene County) – 231 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 229 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 227 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 224 weeks
Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 223 weeks
Micky Augustin (Woodward, Iowa) – 222 weeks
Carla Stensland (Okoboji, Iowa) – 220 weeks
Carla Stensland (Arnolds Park, Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 220 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 209 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 208 weeks
Dawn Krause (Ames, Iowa) – 200 weeks
Dawn Krause (Fraser, Iowa)
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 197 weeks
Sarah Toot (New York City, New York) – 193 weeks
Sarah Toot (New York City, New York)
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 193 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas)
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 164 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 160 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 149 weeks
Logan Kahler (Ames, Iowa) 148 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 147 weeks
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 137 weeks
Lowell Davis (Boone, Iowa) – 118 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 98 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 84 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 21 weeks
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 15 weeks
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 11 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Tokyo, Japan) – 4 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Tokyo, Japan)
Suzie Brannen (Ogden, Iowa) – 4 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Ogden, Iowa)
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Ames, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 1 week
Brandon Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Jesse Howard (Logansport, Iowa) – 1 week
Christopher D. Bennett (Saylorville Spillway – Iowa)
Submissions from 35 participants this week. A moderately popular week. But there was a submission from Japan! That was the first ever submission from Asia! The Photography 139 Empire has now reached 4 continents. There have been submissions from North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Someday we might get to Africa and Australia. I don’t have high hopes for Antarctica though.
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 551 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Japan (New)
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- New York
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Colorado (Nathanial)
- Florida (Cathie)
- Illinois (Nathanial)
- Indiana (Nathanial)
- Iowa (Tamara)
- Kansas (Linda)
- Kentucky (Scott)
- 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)
- Dominican Republic (Scott)
- Japan (Sabas)
That is 22 states! 2 foreign countries!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Boone, Dallas, Dickinson, Greene, Polk, Story and Warren.
Their were big milestones this week. Dawn joined the 200 Week Club! WooHoo! WooHoo! Kim joined the 4 Year Streak Club!!!! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! WooHoo! But it wasn’t all fun and games. Mary’s streak is over at 3 weeks. Sadness ensues.
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:
MISTAKES – SUGGESTED BY LOWELL DAVIS
MISTAKES! 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 1st time that MISTAKES 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.