2nd Annual Calendar Photo Contest WINNERS!

[Josh]

The following photos are our 2nd Annual Calendar Photo Winners! Congratulations! I will be assembling the photos to send in to Costco for printing and at that time I will ask for their recommendation on how to feature a collage of all the photos submitted to the contest (no promises though). The calendar pre-order form will also be going up soon, so check back for that!
If your photo was one of the winners, please send the full sized, 6+ megapixel original to my email address, josh @ tortoiseforum.org.

1- Tortoise Name: Percy Sledge
Tortoise Species: Sulcata
Taken by: Marissa Wagner

2- Tortoise Name: Egg
Tortoise Species: eastern hermans (Testudo Hermanni Boettgeri)
Terry Le Vesconte (terrypin)

3-Tortoise Name: Sherman
Tortoise Species: T Graeca Ibera
Taken by: David Ashman

4- Tortoise Name: Crush
Tortoise Species: Russian
Taken by: Desiree Chavez

5- Title... People let me tell you bout my beeeeest friend...
Tortoises names... Al and Speedy
Species... Aldabra and Sulcata
Photos by... EJPirog

6- Tortoise name...Bob
Tortoise species...Geochelone sulcata
Taken by...Maggie Cummings

7 - baby desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)
picture taken by M. Cummings

8- Name: Isaac
Species: Geochelone Sulcata
By:Ryan Seiler

9- Tortoise Name: Male and Female
Tortoise Species:Aldabran
Taken by: Chip Longo

10-Tortoise Name: JoJo
Tortoise Species: Sulcata
Taken By: Shelly Long

11- Tortoise Name: Turbo
Tortoise Species: Cherry-head Red-foot
Taken by: Lauren Masterson

12-(nameless)
Astrochelys Radiata
(Radiated Tortoise)
Taken by Gummybearpoop

13- Tortoise name... Nettle
Tortoise species... T.g.marokkensis
Taken by... Kelly Hewitt

 

[shelber10]

cool! when will the calenders be available

 

[Candy]

Congratulations to all of the winners. I loved all of the photos can't wait till next year.

 

[katesgoey]

Congratulations Winners!!! Thanks to everyone who entered for submitting these entertaining and interesting photos!

 

[terryo]

Congrats to everyone....they are all beautiful!

 

[Isa]

Congratulations to the winners

 

[Rhyno47]

Do the winners get a copy?

 

[Stephanie Logan]

WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!

Four out of my five voted pictures got picked! Next year can we have 13 votes? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE? I swear I must have grown twenty new gray hairs from the stress of having to choose just five of those fantastic photos...

 

[Maggie Cummings]

So do we get to pick the month we want our picture to be in. And is that list in the order they won?

 

[sammi]

Congrats! They all look so good!

 

[Yvonne G]

Do the winners get a copy?

Yes, but first...your checkbook???

Yvonne

 

[Crazy1]

Here's a list of the winners in order of their pics as Josh listed them..

1- Tortoise Name: Percy Sledge
Tortoise Species: Sulcata
Taken by: Marissa Wagner

2- Tortoise Name: Egg
Tortoise Species: eastern hermans (Testudo Hermanni Boettgeri)
Terry Le Vesconte (terrypin)

3-Tortoise Name: Sherman
Tortoise Species: T Graeca Ibera
Taken by: David Ashman

4- Tortoise Name: Crush
Tortoise Species: Russian
Taken by: Desiree Chavez


5- Title... People let me tell you bout my beeeeest friend...
Tortoises names... Al and Speedy
Species... Aldabra and Sulcata
Photos by... EJPirog


6- Tortoise name...Bob
Tortoise species...Geochelone sulcata
Taken by...Maggie Cummings


7 - baby desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)
picture taken by M. Cummings

8- Name: Isaac
Species: Geochelone Sulcata
By:Ryan Seiler

9- Tortoise Name: Male and Female
Tortoise Species:Aldabran
Taken by: Chip Longo

10-Tortoise Name: JoJo
Tortoise Species: Sulcata
Taken By: Shelly Long

11- Tortoise Name: Turbo
Tortoise Species: Cherry-head Red-foot
Taken by: Lauren Masterson

12-(nameless)
Astrochelys Radiata
(Radiated Tortoise)
Taken by Gummybearpoop

13- Tortoise name... Nettle
Tortoise species... T.g.marokkensis
Taken by... Kelly Hewitt


Congratulation Great Pics all. Can't wait to get my calendar

 

[tortoisenerd]

So, how is it determined which tortoise is on which month (and the cover)? Congrats to all the winners! I will need to work on getting a better Trevor picture for next year as we were quite disappointing this time around. The new camera is a good start though.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

As I started to holler YEAH! Cuz we have the winner and now we need to pick the months we want; and then the realization crashed to the frontal part of my brain...Holy cow! Can you imagine the fighting over months. I want Bob to be May. That's my birth month. Can you see the fight that ensues over who gets what month...How do we solve that?

 

[Shalon]

I think it was said that the one with the most votes gets to pick first. I am not sure what they are going to do for ties though.

 

[Madortoise]

They will make a great calendar. Congrats, winners.

 

[Stephanie Logan]

I thought Josh was going to pick (start stuffing those cash envelopes as gifts)!

Maybe he should put the months in a hat and then pick them out one by one and assign that month to successive contestants.

 

[K9KidsLove]

Makes sense to me that #1 gets 1st choice, #2 gets 2nd choice, etc.
Great pictures
Patsy

 

[reptylefreek]

Hey Maggie and Yvonne... Not to pry but your two pictures have the same last name and the same first intial.... ? If one of you the better photographer?

 

[Yvonne G]

Yes, one of us is the better photographer!

Yvonne