Baja photographs needed

Hola Nomad?s,

I?m posting this here rather than in the ?my Baja website? forum in order to get a broader audience?

I thought I would try another time to solicit photographs for the home page of http://www.BajaCaliforniaConservation.org . Everyone is welcome to send in an entry. Right now Ken Bondy?s photographs appear on the home page, but they have been up for a while and so I feel that it?s time for a change. Some of you may recall that I did this a few months back and a couple people sent in photos (Thank you!), but the response was not big enough to have a selection of photos to choose from.

Seven photos are needed for the rotation, one for each day of the week. The photographs should represent Baja & Gulf of California landscapes, flora, and fauna and have been taken there. You can send in multiple photos, but ideally one photo per person will be chosen. The selected photos will have the photographer?s copyright information and a link back to your email or website (if desired).

If you?re interested please send your entries to me at joder@earthnet.net . Please include your name as you wish it to appear for copyright information, the location and year the photo was taken, and a brief statement that says you took the photo and permission to publish it online. Also, high resolution digital images are preferred as scanned images tend to lose quality. So pick your best shot! Artistic and aesthetically pleasing photos that tell a story are encouraged.

Baja & Gulf of California Wildlife & Ecology forums are not part of any organization ? they stand alone as a resource for all of us. I am a student of ecology and evolutionary biology at CU Boulder and the forums are something I created out of a love for the region and a desire to provide an opportunity for everyone to participate in discussions and share information on the ecology and conservation of Baja and the Gulf of California.

Thanks!

gringorio



[Edited on 1-13-2006 by gringorio]

very peaceful photo David... thanks for sharing it. is it one for submission?

Greg, you are welcome to any one of my photos at VivaBaja.com or I have shared here on Doug's forum!

I love Ken Bondy's stuff.

I think your site is great. Here are a couple of contributions that I will offer from my website, if you would like to use them.

Some shots at Mision Santa Maria de los Angeles, Apr. 2003...

One of my favorite Baja areas!

heres one for you Gringorio...

gave me a chance to go and look through some of my older photos

pictures

entering photos

Hey Ya?ll

Thanks for the outstanding response! Part of the fun of this is to have those of you that are interested choose the photos you want to enter (rather than me choosing from a website) so then I have a pool of photographs to choose the seven from. Plus, like many of you, I don?t have much time to spend perusing websites for photos, though I wish I did!

So, If you have a website with photos or a few photos to enter, please email them to me in the largest jpg file size that you have (I think Nomad?s limit?s the file size you can post to 50k). That way we have a higher quality image to work with when placing them on the home page.

**Please include your name as you wish it to appear for copyright information, the location and year the photo was taken, and a brief statement that says you took the photo and permission to publish it online.

Muchas gracias!

gringorio

[Edited on 1-14-2006 by gringorio]

...Mag Bay 2004

yes

yes, but could you please resend them? (i'm groveling in apology for not having saved them in my email files...)

another one for you

skipjack...

we must have been there on the same day

Sisyphus?

Sisyphus

Thanks Skipjack!

"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

Photo request correction

Thanks everyone for the great response! I already have nearly 50 photos to choose from ? it?s going to be a hard choice!

I need to make a correction regarding the home page: Due to the nature of the program I will not be able to have a live link in the status bar to the email or website of the photographer of the chosen photos. This only works if the photos are all from the same person as all the photos in the program can only be linked to *one* address. However, I can still have your email or website visible alongside your copyright credit should you choose to do so.

Anyhow, I?ll let everyone know when the seven photos have been chosen and are up on the website.

Thanks again for the great response!

gringorio



[Edited on 1-17-2006 by gringorio]

Gringorio...

hey eetdirt,

i'm glad you asked. right now it will be the same seven photos rotated in sequence one for each day of the week.

however, i am working on a way to add more photos that would appear in slide show fashion so i could include a larger variety of photos...

i'll keep everyone posted.

gringorio

Thanks!!

end of photo submissions

Hola Nomad?s,

Thank you for the outstanding response for the request for photo submissions? There were nearly 65 photos sent already so I?m going to have to end the submission period!
Every photo sent in was great and I only now wish there was a way to have more on the home page to share with everyone. I?ll keep you posted as to when the changes are made to the web site - and who's photos will appear on the home page. Thank you again for your enthusiasm - Stay tuned!

gringorio

[Edited on 1-19-2006 by gringorio]