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Member Activities / Auctions and Sales for Fundraising / Re: 2012 Wildlife Calendar is now officially available for sale
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on: 27-Nov-11, 07:42:59 PM
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Who are the people that were lucky enough to have their photos included?
Kris, The photo credits are on the back cover of the calendar. I chose to not do a voting poll for the calendar. The selection process was one that I stole from the Kodak camera club in which anonymous submissions were rated on a 1-5 scale and in which people could not score their own submission (if applicable). This process seems to be fair for surfacing the pictures that merit the highest photographic appeal and helps avoid selection based on bias or popularity. Some of the pictures that I received could not be used because they were nowhere close to the minimum specifications defined by Zazzle calendar. Again, my apologies for not communicating more closely with those who submitted those pictures. I will provide individual follow-up to you. Lou
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Member Activities / Auctions and Sales for Fundraising / 2012 Wildlife Calendar is now officially available for sale
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on: 27-Nov-11, 07:11:55 PM
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The 2012 Wildlife calendar is now 'officially' for sale. Finally! The lateness and the poor communication is all on my shoulders - I had the responsibility for the wildlife calendar and I had some personal things going on in my life that took me away from staying on top of this to the degree that I should have. My sincere apologies for this. At any rate, I finally managed to coordinate the process enough to get a draft calendar out to the merchandising team for them to look at. They did find a couple of errors on the calendar and so I just now went in and fixed the errors. Note: If you ordered one using the link that had been posted, you will have to re-order because I deleted the draft calendar that someone discovered and provided the link to. My sincere gratitude goes out to members who submitted pictures; all of you who have anxiously waited for something to materialize have been so gracious and patient. Luckily, I think we have plenty of time to order these as gifts to support rfalconcam. Thanks, Lou P.S. Congrats to Patti in Kentucky for getting the highest scoring entry in the picture scoring process that I coordinated. I used her picture for the cover!
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Member Activities / Auctions and Sales for Fundraising / Re: 2012 Calendars
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on: 08-Oct-11, 02:33:01 PM
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There's still lots of time to submit your wildlife pictures for the 2012 calendar, but I thought I'd send out a reminder because the weekend is here and it's a good time to go looking back for one of your favorites!
Lou
PS Just a reminder that we're looking for wildlife pictures without any hand of man element. In other words, the picture cannot contain anything that's made by us humans. Of course, you might be able to edit or crop out an element that is man made, so that's okay. It's just that the final image needs to exclude stuff like sidewalks, telephone pole wires, etc.
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Member Activities / Auctions and Sales for Fundraising / Re: 2012 Calendars
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on: 05-Oct-11, 04:42:02 PM
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I've received a few entries so far. Keep 'em coming. I also want to offer my assistance for those who are struggling to get the picture to the needed specifications. If you'd like me to do an edit of your picture, I would need the original, unedited picture file sent to me by Oct 10th. Just send it to me via email ( ltcapuano@gmail.com). I'll make an attempt to crop the image, get it to the appropriate size, and do minor adjustments (brightness, contrast. sharpness) if you'd like. I'll send the edited picture back to you so you can submit it. Reminder: only one picture submission/person. Note: If there are other folks on the board who want to offer their assistance as well, please post that here! Thanks, Lou
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Member Activities / Auctions and Sales for Fundraising / Re: 2012 Calendars
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on: 03-Oct-11, 08:09:50 PM
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One way to check pixel size and dpi is to simply go into explorer, find the file in your folder, and right click on the file name. Then, select 'Properties'. When the properties window opens, go to the 'Summary' tab and it should display your pixel width and length and your dpi resolution. Your picture needs to be 2200 (width) x 1700 (length) pixels and the dpi needs to be at least 200 dpi. (DPI stands for 'dots per inch' and the calendar maker suggests that images be at least that to have a quality print.) As far as getting the image to the needed specs, there's several ways to do it - it depends on your picture editing software. There are some free software packages out there to help. Here is a link to a site with a free editing tool that I have used: http://www.irfanview.com/Lou
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Other Nature Related Information / Falcon Web Cams / Re: Buffalo Falcon News 2011
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on: 26-Jun-11, 02:38:35 PM
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Wow! Very exciting day at Central Terminal! Chessie, one of the two females, had an accidental fledge incident. She tried to fly but the extremely high winds caught her and sent her into a tree. She was hung up in the branches, flapping around for over an hour while five watchers tried to locate her. Con't HEREMany many thanks to our dedicated Rochester friends, Carol P, Kathy O, Dana, Lou and Dan Some pictures to go along with Sage's report.. http://tinyurl.com/3nw2ndyLou
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Rochester Falcons / Falcon Watches / Re: Falcon Watch 4/2 and 4/3
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on: 04-Apr-11, 04:57:18 PM
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Breath-taking shots, Lou. I don't even know what else to say. Loved them. Is that the crow that crashed? Yes. It crashed into the Wilder building. Amazing that it escaped with all of the railings and iron work of the fire escape and a falcon on its rear. The picture was taken after the crash. It's blurry, but I was happy to get both the falcon and the crow in the shot. Lou
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