CALENDAR PHOTO CONTEST!!!

[bro paul]

lol, Marcia...I'll have re-read the Christmas story

 

[Milwaukee Reptiles]

Love the idea Marcia. I assume these will eventually be for sale?

Bummer you're only taking Leos since I sold them all last year

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Brian, if this works out I see no reason why we couldn't do another one for all geckos! Surely you have some photos saved from your leos??? Yes, the finished calendars will be for sale!

 

[Milwaukee Reptiles]

I have some of my leos, but they are almost entirely all 'for sale' types of shots, and nothing worthy of a calendar. I'll dig through them and see what I can find.

Maybe someone wants to bring a few leos over....?

 

[Grinning Geckos]

I don't know where this might fit...isn't there a month without a holiday? Anyway, I've always love this pic. This is a cropped version

 

[Jeremy Letkey]

Marcia, are you looking for theme only pics or just about anything goes?

 

[LadyGecko]

Nice pics everyone !!!

for summer
Here's Samson in the grass

 

[ludothegreat]

First pic is of Hollywood. Sketch is the one with the halloween stuff.

 

[Jeanne]

These are so great pictures, it's going to be a hard decision on which ones go in the calendar I'm sure

 

[DanTheFireman]

Marcia, is there an optimal size ? Will a size that will be small enough to post here be too small to blow up ?

 

[Grinning Geckos]

Yea, I'm sure she'll need files with a much higher DPI to make the calendar. My pic would look AWFUL if she tried to print from the file I have on the site.

 

[Milwaukee Reptiles]

Ideally you would want at least 150-200dpi, so at 8x11 you would want approx (1200-1600 x 1650-2200) minimum (unless the picture is only part of the 8x11?), generally printers recommend 250-300dpi, so you'd be looking for at least about 3 megapixels, ideally closer to 5.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Marcia, are you looking for theme only pics or just about anything goes?

Themes would be great, but not necessarily in every case. I think what I'd like to avoid is like what Brian said.. 'for sale' types of shots. What I originally conceived was something along these lines:

January - snow, skiiing, New Year's party
February - Valentine's Day
March - St. Paddy's Day, wind
April - rain showers, Easter
May - flowers, spring colors
June - beach, picnics,
July - 4th of July, red, white, and blue
August - BBQ
September - back to school, sunsets
October - Halloween, pumpkins, fall colors
November - Thanksgiving, more fall colors
December - Holidays

Marcia, is there an optimal size? Will a size that will be small enough to post here be too small to blow up?

Ideally, we would like to see a finished product at around 200 dpi at 8.5 x 11. This makes for a huge pic here, so perhaps when cropping or editing a copy or thumbnail could be made at the 500W pixel range for posting here?

 

[Jeremy Letkey]

Oh yes... April will be mine. "Rain showers hmmmm.

 

[Perefalcon]

lol jeremy

 

[Blazin]

Cool idea I'd been wanting to do one for years! This should be awesome!

 

[RoseT]

Well it think I had to much fun with this one..lol I was going to use my mack snow for the shot but he was in shed So the next best thing my Bold Stripe! I'll use the mack snow later for the same shot maybe he will look better.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Cool, Rose!!!

 

[nwheat]

What a fabulous idea, Marica! I can't wait to have one of the completed calendars! I haven't had time to take any new pictures, yet, and I doubt I can compete with some of the awesome photographers we have here, but I thought you might like to see this pic again from last Christmas!

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

AWWWW!!! It's Jack Frost! Gosh, he's beautiful... I have had 'sellers remorse' ever since you bought him!

Great calendar pic, Nancy!!!