Topic: 2006 Photo Competition - CANCELLED

[alohaoa]

Unfortunately I haven't received sufficient entries featuring enough different boats to make this practical. My thanks to those that did submit pictures, but I am afraid the 2006 Photo Competition and 2007 AOA Calendar are cancelled.

Keith Denham
AOA Webmaster

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The 2006 Photo Competition to select 13 pictures for the 2007 Calendar is now underway!

• The competition is open to anyone who wants to submit up to 6 pictures of an Aloha including AOA members, A34 owners, friends of members, etc. 
  
• Pictures submitted for the 2005 competition are not eligible to be entered again this year.
  
• Entries will need to be landscape (i.e. horizontal) JPEG images of 2 mega-pixel or greater (about 1600 x 1200 and usually about 350 Kb filesize and upwards). We'll be reducing the size and compressing them for display on the competition site, but using the full size originals in the calendar.
  
• The photos for the calendar will chosen by secret vote and the people submitting the top 3 entries will receive a complimentary copy of the calendar as their "prize". There was some disappointment that the entries that made it into the 2006 calendar didn't include representatives of every model. For the 2007 calendar we will be including the highest placed 27, 28, 30, 32 and 34 pictures, plus the 8 other highest scoring pictures.
  
• Entries will be accepted September 14th to October 3rd - please send your pictures to email address photocomp@alohaowners.com. If the total size of your email and attachments will exceed 2Mb, please send as several emails each with just one or two pictures attached.   
  
• Once entries close, the pictures will be displayed and voting will be held between October 4th to the 14th, with the results to be announced immediately afterwards.
  

Just one tip from observing the voting last year - while I'd like as many entries as possible, if you have several very similar shots then rather than enter them all, it's probably best to choose and submit your favourite so that votes will get focused on that picture rather than split between them. A couple of entrants probably missed the "top 13" just for this reason last year.

Get the photos rolling in, and good luck to all who enter.

Keith

[Dag]

Unfortunately I haven't received sufficient entries featuring enough different boats to make this practical. My thanks to those that did submit pictures, but I am afraid the 2006 Photo Competition and 2007 AOA Calendar are cancelled.

Keith Denham
AOA Webmaster
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What a pity. May we ask how many models/pictures you did get? Was it the commitment to present at least one of each that sank the contest?

Dag Stenberg

[alohaoa]

Hi Dag,

I agree it is a shame as the Calendar proved very popular last year.

In the end I received 19 entries covering 9 different boats including at least one of each model. At least 5 of these wouldn't reproduce well at calendar size (i.e. they are not of high enough resolution) leaving 14 pictures including 6 of a single boat. This isn't enough to vote on, and couldn't produce a well balanced high quality calendar.

Keith

[Dennis]

Hi Everyone.
This is unfortunate. The Calendar last year was fantastic. It's on my wall right behind me as I type! I look at it frequently and revel in the beauty of the boats and the scenery.

Perhaps it is timely to be point out that the sale of the Calendar last year generated CASH which was used to keep the Aloha Web site available. Without this injection of cash the costs associated with the web site have been covered mainly by Keith. It's extremely generous of him to do this but not something we should all permit on a regular basis. In the future we may not be as fortunate and we should consider alternate sources of funding such as Calendars or sales of other items through Cafe Press. Very few people are interested in having membership fees, and all the associated financial maintenance that goes with it. Making purchases through Cafe Press is one way we can keep things alive. Not only do you help defray the costs of the Association but you get a great gift with the Aloha logo on it to boot!

I would like to heartily thank Keith for all his efforts with the Calendar these last couple of years. Keith also deserves a big round of applause for all the time, effort and enthusiasm he has contirbuted to the Association by creating and maintaining the web site and the forum. It's thanks to Keith that we are all connected and have all the great information available to us.

THANKS KEITH !!!

[Bob Brown]

May I add my sincere appreciation to Keith. This site is wonderful and has helped me on numerous occasions. Keith is a godsend.
Bob on DonnaJay 8.2 #100

[Aloha_float]

Keith,

It's unfortunate that this has happened.  Can you dig through the archives and use previously submitted images?  I was looking forward to buying a 2007 calender.  I promise to submit after next summer's season.  (my first full boating season with an aloha)

Tim