Which anole species will grace the pages of this yr’s calendar? Pictured right here is Anolis allisoni. {Photograph} from Wikimedia Commons.
The Anole Annals Photograph Contest: 2022 Version
Welcome to the Anole Annals Photograph Contest! As in earlier years, we at Anole Annals need your greatest anole images for our 2023 calendar.
Right here’s the way it works: anybody who needs to take part can submit their favourite photographs. The editors of Anole Annals will select a set of 30-40 finalists from that preliminary pool. We’ll then put these photographs up for a vote on this weblog, and the 12 profitable photographs shall be chosen by readers of Anole Annals, in addition to a panel of anole pictures specialists. The grand prize profitable photograph shall be featured on the entrance cowl of the 2023 Anole Annals calendar, and the second place winner shall be featured on the again cowl; each photographers will win a free calendar!
The Guidelines
Submit your photographs (as many as you’d like) as electronic mail attachments to anoleannalsphotos@gmail.com. To make it possible for your submissions arrive, please ship an accompanying electronic mail with none attachments to verify that we’ve obtained them. Pictures should be at the least 150 dpi and print to a dimension of 11 x 17 inches. If you’re uncertain learn how to resize your photographs, the best factor to do is to submit the uncooked picture recordsdata produced by your digital digital camera (or when you should, a top quality scan of a printed picture). In the event you elect to change your individual photographs, don’t neglect that it’s all the time higher to resize than to resample. Pictures with watermarks or different digital alterations that stretch past shade correction, sharpening and different fundamental enhancing won’t be accepted. We aren’t going to cope with formal copyright legislation and ask solely your permission to make use of your picture for the calendar and associated content material on Anole Annals (extra particularly, by submitting your photographs, you’re agreeing to permit us to make use of them within the calendar). We, in flip, agree that your photographs won’t ever be used with out attribution and that we’ll not revenue financially from their use (the small quantity of royalties we obtain are used to buy calendars for the winners). Please solely submit photographs you’ve taken your self, not from different photographers–by submitting photographs, you’re declaring that you’re the photographer and have the authority to permit the {photograph} for use within the calendar whether it is chosen.
Please present a brief description of the photograph that features: (1) the species identify, (2) the placement the place the photograph was taken, and (3) every other related info. Make sure to embrace your full identify in your electronic mail as effectively. Deadline for submission is November 1, 2022.
Good luck, and we stay up for seeing your photographs!
PhD Pupil, Losos Lab, Washington College in St. Louis
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