Lucas Bustamante-Enríquez’s Grand Prize-winning photo of A. chrysolepis from the 2013 contest (© Lucas M. Bustamante-Enríquez/TROPICAL HERPING)

We know you’ve all been waiting, so here it is! Anole Annals is pleased to announce the return of the Anole Photo Contest, 2015 edition! We’re closing in on November, which means it’s time to gather the best anole photographs for our 2016 calendar. As with previous contests, the goal is to identify 12 winning photos. The grand prize winner will have his/her photo featured on the front cover of the 2016 Anole Annals calendar, second place winner will have his/her photo featured on the back cover, and they’ll  both win a free calendar! (Check out the 2013 and 2012 winners). We’re a bit late getting things going this year, so get your photos in as soon as you can!

The rules: submit your photos (as many as you’d like) as email attachments to anoleannals@gmail.com. To make sure that your submissions arrive, please send an accompanying email without any attachments to confirm that we’ve received them. Photos must be at least 150 dpi and print to a size of 11 x 17 inches. If you are unsure how to resize your images, the simplest thing to do is to submit the raw image files produced by your digital camera (or if you must, a high quality scan of a printed image).  If you elect to alter your own images, don’t forget that it’s always better to resize than to resample. Images with watermarks or other digital alterations that extend beyond color correction, sharpening and other basic editing will not be accepted. We are not going to deal with formal copyright law and ask only your permission to use your image for the calendar and related content on Anole Annals (more specifically, by submitting your photos, you are agreeing to allow us to use them in the calendar). We, in turn, agree that your images will never be used without attribution and that we will not profit financially from their use (nobody is going to make any money from the sale of these calendars because they’ll be available directly from the vendor).

Please provide a short description of the photo that includes: (1) the species name, (2) the location where the photo was taken, and (3) any other relevant information. Twelve winning photos will be selected by readers of Anole Annals from a set of 28 finalists chosen by the editors of Anole Annals.  The grand prize winning and runner-up photos will be chosen by a panel of anole photography experts. Deadline for submission is November 21, 2015.

Good luck, and we look forward to seeing your submissions!

 

Sofia Prado-Irwin
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