2nd Annual Calendar Contest Voting Thread! [Scroll down to read the rules!]

[katesgoey]

365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 12 months in a calendar year, and 5 votes for the tortoise calendar contest...
Some of us would like to vote for every photo submitted, but that wouldn't help us select the BEST photos, would it...?

Gee Josh your sound logic sounds alot like my Dad I guess we'll stop whining now so you don't have to pull the car over

 

[gummybearpoop]

Great entries! Good luck to all the submitters!

 

[jhaparth2006]

why are blurred and under 6 MP pics put up for voting?The ##nd pic from below is blurred and out of focus!
Are we just voting for the sake of voting?
I am a photographer myself.What are we doing actually.Some outstanding pics are not being voted!
Like the ##st from the top..WHY?

 

[Josh]

jhaparth2006,
I'm taking people's word for it that their original photo is 6MP or more. If it isn't it will be thrown out, per the contest rules. You can vote on those photos you like best just like everyone else but please don't criticize anyone else's photo. There's no need.

 

[Yvonne G]

Are we just voting for the sake of voting?
.Some outstanding pics are not being voted!

I understand your concern, because I used to be an artist and quite a few things offend my sense of symmetry. I see beautiful pictures because of their artistic quality first, then I see the subject matter. I'm afraid most people only see the subject...not necessarily a bad thing. There are an awful lot of cute subjects in our contest! And, of course, we all have free will. We naturally, will vote for the pictures we like best, not necessarily for the best picture!

Yvonne

 

[mctlong]

why are blurred and under 6 MP pics put up for voting?The ##nd pic from below is blurred and out of focus!
Are we just voting for the sake of voting?
I am a photographer myself.What are we doing actually.Some outstanding pics are not being voted!
Like the ##st from the top..WHY?

I think all the photos up there are under 6mp now. We had to shrink them to post. However, the 6mp+ photos will be sent to Josh directly after the voting ends.

Good luck again to everyone. All of the photos are beautiful.

 

[Kadaan]

About what resolution is 6MP? My original is 10MP but I cropped it a bit.

 

[mctlong]

About what resolution is 6MP? My original is 10MP but I cropped it a bit.

The pixel resolution is for 6mp is around 3008 x 2000. Here's a useful chart
http://www.design215.com/toolbox/megapixels.php

 

[jhaparth2006]

jhaparth2006,
I'm taking people's word for it that their original photo is 6MP or more. If it isn't it will be thrown out, per the contest rules. You can vote on those photos you like best just like everyone else but please don't criticize anyone else's photo. There's no need.

Oh i never meant to 'criticize' anyone.You took me wrong.Sorry anyways.btw what will be the cost of the calendar?Actually i will have to buy it from my own pocket money,so i have to collect money from now itself.what will it cost?

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i still cant change my view..the 21st pic is too good.
i appreciate whomsoever took it.good luck mate.

 

[Stephanie Logan]

So why are there so few people voting on this calendar contest? Seems like we'd have numbers in the 50's and 60's at least, especially since we ONLY GOT FIVE VOTES (still sulking!)

I am surprised that with so many TFO members, only a few are manning up to participate in this excruciating exercise.

VOTE!

I want to see all of my THIRTEEN favorites confirmed winners!

 

[Meg90]

Sad face for me--prolly won't make the calender.

 

[Yvonne G]

So why are there so few people voting on this calendar contest? Seems like we'd have numbers in the 50's and 60's at least, especially since we ONLY GOT FIVE VOTES (still sulking!)

There have been 424 votes...divided by 5 = appx. 80 some odd folks have voted. Some didn't realize they had 5 votes and only voted once, that's why its appx.

Yvonne

 

[Stephanie Logan]

OK. Somehow it just seems like these great photos deserve more than a lonely 1, or 7, votes. The vast majority are so appealing.

 

[Yvonne G]

OK. Somehow it just seems like these great photos deserve more than a lonely 1, or 7, votes. The vast majority are so appealing.

What I have trouble understanding is why some pictures have "0" votes. Didn't the picture's submitter have enough faith in their own picture to vote for it?

Yvonne

 

[Candy]

I would like to thank those of you who voted for Dale. He is very excited about that.

 

[Shalon]

What I have trouble understanding is why some pictures have "0" votes. Didn't the picture's submitter have enough faith in their own picture to vote for it?

Yvonne

Maybe they felt bad voting for their own picture so they voted for other people?

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Sad face for me--prolly won't make the calender.

I feel the same way, everybody talks about how much they like Bob, but then he just gets a few votes? That kind of hurts, then somebody is complaining about the blurry pictures, I'm way sorry about that....but I had to borrow a camera to get a picture that was bigger then the 6mp and I only had a few minutes to take the picture. Mostly it's blurry because it's a picture of a Sulcata catching a thrown strawberry. Can you throw a strawberry at YOUR tortoise and get a picture of him catching it? I don't think so...I personally think that's kind of a rare thing, and how sad that it won't make the calendar...

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't know why you say that. He's in the top 12 right now. He's assured of getting in the calendar already.

Yvonne

 

[Meg90]

Some people (me!) only have three lonely votes! That's a different thing than 18.

 

[Shalon]

I feel the same way, everybody talks about how much they like Bob, but then he just gets a few votes? That kind of hurts, then somebody is complaining about the blurry pictures, I'm way sorry about that....but I had to borrow a camera to get a picture that was bigger then the 6mp and I only had a few minutes to take the picture. Mostly it's blurry because it's a picture of a Sulcata catching a thrown strawberry. Can you throw a strawberry at YOUR tortoise and get a picture of him catching it? I don't think so...I personally think that's kind of a rare thing, and how sad that it won't make the calendar...

I love Bob. He's so cute and has so much personality (and I voted for him.)
I kind of figured that my tortoise wouldn't make it but am excited that three other people thought she was cute enough to vote for her.