2004 messing-about in boats Calendar Contest!

[Frank Hagan]

messing-about.com will once again sponsor a calendar contest!  The winning entry will get their image on the cover, and a free calendar.  The proceeds will go towards support of messing-about.com.

How to submit an entry:
I already have an entry from Larry Jacobson, who burned the image onto a CD to mail rather than email.  If you want to do that, email me for the snail-mail address!  

Or, email your entry to frankhagan@ev1.net

What can you submit?
Your entry should feature some aspect of boatbuilding, enjoying home-built boats, traditional nautical subjects, sailing, and the like.  Don't be afraid to submit a picture of an unfinished boat or a spectacularly interesting shop with a pile of wood soon to be a boat ... you don't have to wait until launch day to have a picture that will interest us here!

Image Details:
The image size for the calendar is 11 x 8.5 inches, with a bleed to 11.5 x 9 inches (we use a black border for the bleed, as this area can be lost in trimming).  Image resolution is 150 - 300 DPI.  Please convert the image to PNG format (preferred) or JPG format.  File sizes must be kept below 4MB for PNG format and 7MB for JPG.  

For JPG files, remember not to use too much compression, as it degrades picture quality.  A good tip is to print out the picture at the 11 x 8.5 inch size and see how it looks.

About "Resolution" and "DPI"

Resolution and DPI are often used interchangeably, but they are quite different.

Any digital image is composed of pixels. The pixels are the small colored square dots that can sometimes be seen when images are enlarged too much, or if you look at your screen close enough. Resolution is the number of pixels in the horizontal direction by the number of pixels in the vertical direction. For example, a picture with 1200 pixels at the horizontal direction and 2100 pixels at the vertical direction would have a resolution of 1200 x 2100 pixels (pronounced 1200 by 2100 pixels).

As you've probably noticed, nowhere in the above definition it is said what size the pixels are. This is where the DPI comes in. DPI is simply Dots Per Inch. A picture with 100 x 100 resolution would be 1 x 1 inch when printed at 100 DPI, and 100 x 100 inch when printed at 1 DPI!

There's a tradeoff. The bigger the resolution, the bigger the image is. It will take more disk space, occupy more memory when loaded, and will take longer to be transferred through the Web. On the other hand, the bigger the resolution, the better the image looks when printed. We feel it is better to wait a bit more for your photo to upload than to have a bad print at the end.

So fire up the cameras, and let's get some great pictures submitted!  I'll announce the winners as soon as we have 12 great entries, in plenty of time for Christmas gift giving (I'm sure SWMBO will LOVE a picture of your messy shop!)

Oh yeah ...
In submitting your picture, you are giving messing-about.com the right to use it in the 2004 messing-about in boats Calendar, but you retain all other rights to the picture.  messing-about.com can use a reduced or thumbnail reproduction of that image in flash animations, HTML pages, etc. in order to market the 2004 calender, but will not use the image without your permission for anything else.

[capt jake]

[Gaylen Beardsley]

Good choice Jake

[Frank Hagan]

Sorry guys ... "Beaker" is a copyrighted character, and Sesame Street will send their lawyers after me.  One of them is the scariest guy you've ever seen ... big tall yellow guy with this humongous orange nose.

[Gaylen Beardsley]

I suppose we could disguise Beaker...so no one would know it was him

Sort of a Mrs. Doubtfire thingy    

[Frank Hagan]

Beaker in drag!  I like it!

Bill sent me a very funny flash animation thing ... Sesame Street theme and "L is for Lawyer" graphics.  

[Wild_Dingo]

So Frank... ifn I send the winning pic do I gets a years subscription to the mag for nix??

How many entry pics can I send... just one? 2? 4? I mean I gots some real ubeaut pics of me canoeythingy AND Ive gots some real beaut pics of a great stack of Aussie Tuart and SheOak timber thats gonna be a boat... when I get around to it! and when possumpoop decides Ive depleated the hunny do list enough AND when I get the flamin shed emptied out a bit of her junk!... so how many yer want Frank?  

[Frank Hagan]

So Frank... ifn I send the winning pic do I gets a years subscription to the mag for nix??

How many entry pics can I send... just one? 2? 4? I mean I gots some real ubeaut pics of me canoeythingy AND Ive gots some real beaut pics of a great stack of Aussie Tuart and SheOak timber thats gonna be a boat... when I get around to it! and when possumpoop decides Ive depleated the hunny do list enough AND when I get the flamin shed emptied out a bit of her junk!... so how many yer want Frank?  

You're welcome to send as many as you want ... but you'll have to explain them to this northern hemisphere guy.  Up here, we don't have SheOak (I don't think, anyway ... unless that's a kind of PERSON, then we must have them because we have ALL SORTS of people here!)  I know what an American Tart is, but not an Aussie Tuart, so that might take some explaining too!

The canoeythingy would be nice ... Capt Jake has a fine, furniture quality kayak which made the calendar last year.  Not sure if it ever got wet though (the kayak, not the calendar.)

Dingo, show us the shot with your, ahh, that =====grin on your face, with you in it.  Tried to find it, but I think it sank off that side of the Earth.    

[Anonymous]

Gidday Mike
I dont know how Frank would feel about me postin a pic of me stunningly good lookin self here... could cause conupshuns of the degestive system to some folks! sigh gawd mate its hard to be humble
Me and me baby!



Then theres a swag of these treasures... which Im sure every proud dad and mom have!







two things... first I just gotta update the pics! and secondly we usually double up or as in the above triple up... so that leads to third we just gotta build some more!

Then theres the timbers for me boatbuilding on the front lawn... can yer see a boat there? huh? can yer?? huh??? SheOak on the trailer and Tuart stacks these stacks have grown a tad since this was taken they now include some few planks of Jarrah which I dont particularily like {to drab    } and one single board of Wandoo which I nailed when my sis left for Broome the other week  



Okay thats enough from me... so I can send as many as I wish Frank? damn yer gonna be sorry yer said that mate!!   no I'll be gentle  

[TexasPhil]

So Frank,

Is there only going to be one picture? or 13? (cover and 12 months), or 14? (one on the back too?)

[Frank Hagan]

TexasPhil:  There's a photo for each month, and the winning photo gets not only a month, but the cover.  Then there's a single picture wall calendar that takes one picture (or, like last year, a great collage that Bill Bird designed).  

Dingo:  How many people fit into the canoethingy?  Looks like you aren't quite taking on any water with just three.  Some of us will have to come over there and help you fill that thing up.  (Do you have a "Coast Guard" down there?)

[Anonymous]

Oh great one, update has been a while.     Has Capt. Jake sent you the one under sail yet?

[capt jake]

Not likey yet! ;D

[barnacle5]

nothing ventured nothing gained. thanks, Barnacle Bill

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