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2nd Annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

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The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog are proud to announce the 2nd annual Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest.

Since this is only the second time we have done this, we’re still learning, but we do have SOME rules.

They go like this:

  1. We (The Daily Dog Blog and Heart Like a Dog) make the rules.
  2. Submission portion of contest begins immediately.
  3. Photos are limited to one photo per blog (so we can showcase as many dogs as possible.)  If you have more than one dog that represents your blog you can either submit one dog or a photo with both (all) your dogs.
  4. Dogs who have crossed the bridge are eligible to participate.
  5. Photos should be submitted to stone.jodi@ymail.com AND julesmelfi@gmail.com
  6. No photo editing allowed.  Any editing deemed necessary will be done by Julie.
  7. Photo should be a good, high resolution digital image (11″ x  8½” @ 300 dpi output, the largest setting on minimum 6MP camera.) Best quality images are approximately 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels at 300 dpi and a minimum of 1MB.(I have no idea what this means, but thankfully Julie does!)
  8. We strongly suggest your photo is oriented in Landscape as opposed to Portrait.  (This makes for easier formatting when designing the calendar.
  9. Submission portion of contest ends Tuesday, August 20th at midnight.
  10. We reserve the right to use your submitted photo on our blogs for promotional purposes only, with credit given to the photo/blog owner of course!
  11. Voting will begin Saturday, August 24th at 12:01 AM and end Saturday, August 31st at 11:59 PM.
  12. Voting is limited to once every 24 hours. (More instructions when the voting process begins.)

Last year our Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest raised right around $500 which was donated to Roxanne Hawn at Champion of My Heart. This year our fundraising efforts will be for Benny The Frenchie.

For those of you new to this blog, you can read all about last year’s contest here.

All I can say is the contest exceeded my expectations, and Julie designed a damn fine, high quality calendar that I’ve been enjoying all year.

I mean really, how can you look at this picture every day in August and not smile?

Frankie and Ernie

Frankie and Ernie

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Yup, it’s Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking.

Last year we had 20 dogs enter the contest and I’m very pleased to say that Julie managed to fit all the dogs in the calendar.  Of course there are no guarantees we can do that again this year, it all depends on the number of entries.

So start digging through your photos or grab your camera and your dog(s) and start snapping. 🙂  You’ve got one week.

Now go!

Update to yesterday.  Yes, I got the video to load on YouTube (and after it did I flipped a big middle finger to Apple, take that!) so as I promised, here is the video showing exactly WHAT Delilah will do for a frozen piece of pineapple.

The Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

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The Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest is an online fundraising event to benefit two of our fellow bloggers.  Lauren from Life with Desmond and Roxanne from Champion of My Heart.

Lauren, her husband Joey and their dog Desmond were hit very heavily by Hurricane Sandy. They lost everything on the first floor of their house.

Lilly from Champion of My Heart is fighting a serious, extremely rare reaction to the Rabies vaccine.  Roxanne and her husband have spent thousands of dollars trying to save Lilly’s life.

My hope is the proceeds from this calendar contest/sale will help each of them in some small way.

You’ve waited very patiently for this contest and I suppose I’m as ready as I’ll ever be.  So let me set forth some guidelines.

  • This is a Dogs of Blogville Calendar, your photos should include dogs.  If a cat happens to be in a photo with the dog, that’s fine.  No pictures will be accepted with only cats in them.
  • Thirteen different dogs/blogs will be showcased on the calendar (one for the cover and one for each of the 12 months of the year.)
  • The 13 photos with the top votes will be included in the calendar.
  • Which photo is showcased for which month will be determined randomly.
  • Because of time constraints and fairness, only one photo per blog can be submitted. (I know in a previous post I said you could submit more than one, but I think it needs to be fair and we need to make sure that 13 different blogs are showcased.)
  • No photoshopping allowed.  The experienced photo shoppers that have offered to help will make the decision regarding editing of pictures.  For fairness the only editing that will be allowed will be removing unwanted items from the picture, cropping and adding text which will include the pet’s name(s) and the blog name and address.

If I submitted this photo, I would want the bag removed.

You can see how the bag spoils this picture.

 

  •  Photos should be submitted in jpeg format.
  • The photo should be original digitals, no scanned photos!
  • The submittal phase starts now and will run until midnight eastern standard time next Tuesday, November 13, 2012.
  • Pictures and voting will take place on this blog.
  • The voting process will run for a week.  I don’t as yet know which week, it will depend upon how many photos are submitted and how long it takes me to get them all organized.
  • Heart Like a Dog reserves the right to change or modify the rules as needed.
  • If a photo is deemed of poor quality we reserve the right to request a different photo.

I realize some people may have an advantage in promoting their picture.  Some of you have hundreds, if not thousands of blog subscribers, twitter and facebook followers, some people thrive on competition, I can’t change that.  I would just ask that you be kind to your fellow bloggers as you promote yourselves.

By submitting a photo for this contest, you agree to abide by the above stated rules.

So I suppose you want to know where to send your photos to?

Submit your photos to stone.jodi@ymail.com  be sure to include Calendar Contest in the subject line.

Make sure the name of your pets and the name and address of your blog are included in the body of the e-mail

Any questions?  Have you already picked out a picture?

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