Steven De Decker and Tess Driessens’ winning photo from the 2012 contest.

Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos for our 2016 calendar contest, we’ve received some great submissions! For those who haven’t yet gotten around to it, you’ve still got one week – the deadline is Saturday, November 21. If you have any great anole photos, we would love to have them in the contest! And just to remind you, the first and second place winners will receive a free Anole Annals 2016 calendar, woo! So send in your pics, let’s make the 2016 calendar great!

To remind you, here are 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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