Toda is Sheri’s birthday so I need to wish her a happy birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I hope it is as good of a birthday as is possible!
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BREAKFAST! Some say that is it the most important meal of the day! I don’t know that it is, but was it important enough to enough people to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 8, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):
1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week
2-Monica Jennings – 1 week
3-Suzie Brannen – 2 weeks
4-Lowell Davis – 2 weeks
5-Susanna Funk – 2 weeks
6-Michelle Haupt – 2 weeks
7-Alexis Stensland – 2 weeks
8-Brandon Kahler – 3 weeks
9-Mary Green – 4 weeks (2)
10-Scott Degeneffe – 21 weeks
11-Sabas Hernandez – 22 weeks
12-Mike Vest – 27 weeks
13-Sheri Fakhouri – 31 weeks (2)
14-Logan Kahler – 32 weeks
15-Nathanial Brown – 33 weeks (2)
16-Jesse Howard – 33 weeks
17-Tamara Peterson – 36 weeks
18-Mindi Terrell – 48 weeks (2)
19-Linda Bennett – 77 weeks (2)
20-Sarah Toot – 78 weeks
21-Angie DeWaard – 82 weeks (2)
22-Dawn Krause – 86 weeks
23-Kim Barker – 92 weeks
24-Joe Duff – 93 weeks (2)
25-Teresa Kahler – 104 weeks (2)
26-Carla Stensland – 104 weeks (2)
27-Micky Augustin – 106 weeks
28-Andy Sharp – 107 weeks
29-Bill Wentworth – 108 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 112 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 113 weeks
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 115 weeks
33-Kio Dettman – 117 weeks (2)
Reminder. Here is the updated list of rules for Year 11 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!
2. 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.
3. Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM next Monday.
4. 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.
5. No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
There are still 2 ways to submit:
1. Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
2. Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro.
3. Sometimes, for special people, for special circumstances, we can negotiate something.
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:
Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Iowa) – 1 week
Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 1 week
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa)
Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 108 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 83 weeks
Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 107 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 33 weeks
Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 87 weeks
Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 2 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 34 weeks
Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Mindi Terrell (Iowa) – 49 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Iowa)
Elainie Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 1 week
Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 22 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 23 weeks
Johnathan Stensland (Iowa) – 1 week
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 32 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 105 weeks
Nathanial Brown (Iowa) – 34 weeks
Kim Barker (Iowa) – 93 weeks
Lowell Davis (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 118 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 113 weeks
Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 78 weeks
Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 4 weeks
Carla Stensland (Ogden, Iowa) – 105 weeks
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 116 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 28 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) – 79 weeks
Sarah Toot (E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 94 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas)
Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 37 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Michelle Haupt (Iowa) – 3 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 109 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska)
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 114 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa)
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
37 participants this week! That is definitely the high for this year! WooHoo!
There were submissions this week taken in the following places:
+ Kansas
+ Iowa
+ Nebraska
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas
No new states added this week.
Here is the Year 11 list of states where submissions have been taken:
+ Kansas
+ Iowa
+ Michigan
+ Nebraska
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas
The big milestone this week is Linda hitting the Year and a Half Club! WooHoo!!
But it wasn’t all rainbows and puppies. Funk’s streak came to a screeching halt at 2 weeks. Hopefully she gets back on the mountain this week!
But 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:
RULE OF THIRDS (SUGGESTED BY SARAH TOOT)
RULE OF THIRDS! What a great theme for Year 11 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
I’m not explaining the themes this year, unless it is something technical.
Here is the definition of the RULE OF THIRDS from the SLR Lounge:
“In photography, the rule of thirds is a type of composition in which an image is divided evenly into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, and the subject of the image is placed at the intersection of those dividing lines, or along one of the lines itself.”
You will notice on the theme reveal image I have left the RULE OF THIRDS lines there so you can get an idea of where they are. Every camera gives you the ability to put these lines on the display screen before you take the picture.
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 idea of RULE OF THIRDS in this place that doesn’t follow many rules next Monday.
