As we get deeper and deeper into quarantine, I think that there is a chance that participation rates will decline. However, this week, we did manage to make it all the way to 27 straight weeks of double digit submissions! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to me… Read More »WPC – WEEK 238 – GOVERNMENT
Wow! 26 straight weeks of double digits! I’m so impressed! But you didn’t come her to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Monica Henning Monica Henning Monica Henning Monica Henning Elizabeth Nordeen Kim Barker Dawn Krause Angie DeWaard Aaron… Read More »WPC – WEEK 237 – MUSIC
This is Day 1 of me working from home for the next couple of weeks. So far, so good. I haven’t been crushed with the loneliness of isolation, yet. However, I also have been chatting quite a bit with people. So maybe it will set in this afternoon. One bonus… Read More »WPC – WEEK 236 – ENTERTAINMENT
FASHION barely drew enough interest to march our double digit submission streak all the way to 22. I mean, if you’ve seen the way my friends dress, it is obvious that FASHION wasn’t going to appeal to many of them. Not everybody is a dandy like me. But you didn’t… Read More »WPC – WEEK 233 – FASHION
OLD was not the most popular WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme, but we still managed to have double digit submission for the 21st straight week with a certain amount of ease! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 232 – OLD
20 WEEKS IN A ROW! That is right, this is the 20th straight week with double digit submissions! Glad to see there are so many people out there that belong to a FAMILY and like them enough to take their picture! But you didn’t come here to listen to me… Read More »WPC – WEEK 231 – FAMILY
Today is a very big day in the history of my oldest friends. Not just because one of my old friends climbed a building and set his shirt on fire and got arrested yesterday. No, because today is Bill’s birthday! Happy birthday Bill! +++++++ Looks like the streak lives on… Read More »WPC – WEEK 230 – REFLECTION
A HUGE week for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! A COLOSSAL week! WORK was the 18th week in a row with double digit submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Kim Barker Carla Stensland… Read More »WPC – WEEK 229 – WORK
Another big week for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Double digits for the 17th week in a row. Double digits easy. Easier than walking a Thunderbird. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 228 – COUNTRY
I would be remiss if I didn’t open today without wishing everybody a Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today, I want to share some of his words following the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Often our movement has been referred to as a boycott movement. The word boycott,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 227 – TEXTURE
FOOD was another very popular theme. We have reached 16 straight weeks of double digit submissions! Someday I’m going to have to have a look and see what is the record for the most submissions for one week. I don’t think today is that record, but there were a healthy… Read More »WPC – WEEK 226 – FOOD
14 weeks in a row! 14 weeks in a row of double digit submissions! I hope you guys prove me wrong and we hit 15 weeks in a row with HDR because you guys knocked in out of the park with CANDID PORTRAIT in more ways than one! Because I… Read More »WPC – WEEK 224 – CANDID PORTRAIT
13!! Lucky number 13! 13 straight weeks of double digit submissions. With the holiday season, it might be rough getting to 14 straight weeks and I will be in Kentucky next Monday. However, that doesn’t change the deadline. So plan accordingly, this week is a very easy theme! But you… Read More »WPC – WEEK 223 – LANDSCAPE
Another healthy week of submissions. The 12th week in a row of double digit submissions! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about submission rates. You came to see the submissions: Kim Barker Kim Barker Christopher D. Bennett Tamara Peterson Micky Augustin Andy Sharp Michelle… Read More »WPC – WEEK 222 – SPORTS/GAMES
HIGH PERSPECTIVE proved to be a highly unpopular theme. That is the bad news. The good news is that by skin of its teeth, HIGH PERSPECTIVE had double digit submissions, to run the streak of double digit submission to eleven! Woot! Woot! My best prognostication is that the streak will… Read More »WPC – WEEK 221 – HIGH PERSPECTIVE
Before we get into the meat of today’s post, I just want to throw out a quick prayer request out there. On Friday when I was ringing the bell for the Salvation Army, a woman that I don’t know handed the money directly to me and asked me to pray… Read More »WPC – WEEK 220 – COLORFUL
PURPLE was not anywhere near as popular as ORANGE, but I don’t think that is a reflection of the color so much as the time of year. However, PURPLE did inspire enough people that we manage to hit double digits for submissions for the 8th week in a row! But… Read More »WPC – WEEK 218 – PURPLE
I would be remiss if I didn’t start out this post to saying Happy Veteran’s Day. I don’t have a photo to back up these sentiment, so instead, let me remind you that veterans often struggle greatly when they leave the military. The suicide rate for veterans of 35 per… Read More »WPC – WEEK 217 – ORANGE
Now is as a good of a time as any to check in with THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’m sure I did a bunch of interesting things in the month of October, but I’ll let you be the judge of whether or not I capture that while taking my daily THE… Read More »Selfie Project – October
I was a little worried that our 5 week double digit submission streak wouldn’t his 6 weeks with FORMAL PORTRAIT. I hadn’t received some of the normal early submissions, and I translated that into a lack of enthusiasm for the theme. However, there was a deep late arriving enthusiasm. In… Read More »WPC – WEEK 216 – FORMAL PORTRAIT
Once again, LINES was a very popular theme. We hit double digit submissions for WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE for the 5th week in a row! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! Monica Henning Andy Sharp… Read More »WPC – WEEK 215 – LINES