Voting is open for the 2008 Calendar contest

Voting for the 2008 Calendar contest is now open! Before you vote, please take a moment to read through this entire post so your vote will count as much as possible.

First of all, please remember this is both a woodworking AND a photography contest. A beautiful piece of work should not be used if the picture itself is not of reasonable quality. This means that each submittal must have reasonable quality in the following areas:

• Focus
• Composition
• Lighting

So please click on each of the photos so you can see it full-size before you vote (just click the full-size pic again to get back to where you were). This will take a little longer, but it will give you a good idea about focus, and how good the picture will look when printed on the calendar.

The PhotoPost gallery software that we use has a very crude voting & rating system, so we're making the best of it. We will use two different voting methods - one for the monthly entries, and one for the cover contest.

Monthly Entries

Here you are asked to simply go through all 65 images and give each image a rating. You'll see the rating choices under each picture. Basically, you are rating each picture from 1 to 10. A 10 (excellent) is a picture you definitely want to see in the calendar and a 1 (poor) is a picture that you definitely don't want in the calendar. The numbers in between are just shadings between those two extremes. Click the little circle to indicate your choice (don't click on the words poor or excellent), and then click SUBMIT at the bottom. Your vote is not recorded until you click submit! Please DO NOT enter anything in the comment box - just select your vote and click submit.

EDIT: Actually, if you select one of the entries next to "Quick Ratings", your vote will be cast immediately and you don't have to click on submit. Click carefully, though - you won't be able to change your vote!


Cover Entries

This is much more simple, since we will only be choosing ONE cover. After carefully viewing ALL FOUR of the choices, go back to the page that has the thumbnails and click on the vote link under the thumbnail of your choice. You only get one vote for the cover.

In order to give everyone a chance to vote (believe it or not, SOME people don't visit the forum EVERY DAY!!!), the voting will be left open for the whole week and will close on Sunday November 4, at 12:00 noon.

[jeff...]

Well I voted and it was harder than November elections, nice work everyone