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CHNEP 2012 calendar: The calendar will be distributed in early November.
We live in a beautiful place in the world, and many of you have captured this beauty in your artwork, as is evidenced by the calendars produced by the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) since 2005. The earlier calendars are available as PDF files.
We ask you to select the images you would like included in the CHNEP 2012 calendar. By August 31, let us know the images you'd like included. This step is now completed. Be sure you sign up for Harbor Happenings, the CHNEP's free newsletter, by September 14 so that you will automatically receive the 2012 calendar in the mail. This step is now completed.
Do you want to help distribute 2012 calendars? This step is now completed. Please let others know who you think may be interested in participating.
Step 1: Submit entries by 5 p.m. on July 14. This step is completed. This information is available as a one-page flier and an entry form.
You can have your artwork published! The CHNEP encourages you to submit up to three images that capture the beauty of the natural environment found in the CHNEP study area. The images could have been captured by the young or old, amateur or professional, today or 50 years ago, and in any medium (photography, oil, illustration, etc.) The goal is that the 2012 calendar will depict the diversity and beauty of the natural environment found within this geographic area, which may include estuaries, rivers, streams, native plants, native wildlife, and people enjoying these resources.
Thank you to those who have generously given of their time and talent to help create calendars that depict the beauty and diversity of the natural environment of southwest Florida.
There is no entry fee and the only "rules" are:
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If you email the photographs, please complete the online form. If you mail the images, please complete the printed form and include a print out with your CD.
CHNEP staff will have the final decision on entries posted and printed and will not display images that are obscene, provocative or whose content is otherwise questionable or whose quality does not conform to the standards as specified here. CHNEP retains sole discretion as to what constitutes inappropriate content.
Step 2: By August 31, select the images you'd like to see included in the 2012 calendar. This step is completed.
If you'd like more details about the images submitted, read below.
When you are ready to let us know which images you'd like included, please go to the online survey. This step is now complete so the online survey is no longer available. For the CHNEP 2012 calendar, more people submitted more entries than ever before. A total of 180 people submitted 490 images that are posted in this online survey. Before August 31, we ask for your advice on which images to include in the calendar. The results of the survey help further the process of developing the calendar but other considerations also help CHNEP produce the final calendar. If you'd like a peak at the 490 images submitted, a contact sheet is available (PDF @ 4,690 KB). (The free software Adobe Acrobat Reader is available at http://get.adobe.com/reader/.) This year we attempted to group similar subjects together. Also, some images could be categorized multiple ways so please don't rely solely on this grouping to guide you in your review. About two of every five images submitted is of birds.
The goal of each calendar is to have images that depict the beauty of the natural environment of southwest Florida as defined by the CHNEP. This definition restricts images to the greater Charlotte Harbor watershed, which includes Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee and Lee counties and portions of Highlands, Manatee, Polk and Sarasota counties. The "natural environment" to CHNEP is defined as native landscapes, plants and animals and people enjoying this environment. While nearly half of the images submitted feature birds, we would like the calendar to depict the diversity of the natural environment found in southwest Florida. Please base your vote with the CHNEP 2012 calendar in mind.
Are you ready to let us know which images you'd like included? Please go to the online survey.
Step 3: If you aren't already receiving the CHNEP newsletter Harbor Happenings, please sign up by September 14 to receive this free quarterly newsletter and the 2012 calendar in the mail. This step is completed. (No action is required if you already receive the newsletter or you submitted an image for consideration.)
If you want help in digitizing your image, contact The Set-Up in Cape Coral (239/542-4142 or info@thesetup.com) or a local commercial printer. Scanning costs are estimated to be $50 an image.
The resolution of the images you submit will determine how the image can be used in the calendar. To be considered as a feature image, the resolution must allow the file to be printed as an 12" x 9" image at 300 dpi. Images that conform to a 4 x 3 ratio (12 x 9) are preferred as they conform to the anticipated print size of the calendar. Those with resolutions lower than this will be considered as smaller images to appear within the dates of the calendar.
From WiseGeek.com -- The term megapixels is used by digital camera manufacturers to describe the resolution at which the cameras are capable of taking pictures. In most computer contexts, resolution is given as two dimensions, such as in a computer display resolution of 1600 x 1200, which represents a width of 1600 pixels and a height of 1200 pixels. Digital camera manufacturers take the sum total of pixels generated by multiplying the two dimensions, so that a camera capable of producing images at 1600 x 1200 would produce a total of 1,920,000 pixels, or 1.9 megapixels. The website Unlikelymoose.com includes a digital camera conversation chart.
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