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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Great rules – we do look forward to voting 🙂
Great post, great idea. Sorry, haven’t even got to read your email yet. Will be looking at it shortly. Life got a little hectic this side.
Hooray, a contest for dogs only (or mostly)!
the brown dawgs
This is such a fun idea Jodi. Thank you for your efforts and organizing. Let me know if I can help with anything. Going to check out Lauren’s and Roxanne’s blogs now!
Great idea! I emailed my picture, can you let me know if you/when receive my email? Thanks!
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Sounds like it will be a great calendar – have to go and see if I can find a suitable pic!
Wags to all
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
I am looking forward to seeing all the entries!
Sweet cheese and rice!!
I gotta reblog this and I’ll some other people to it as well.
I have a blog — two of them actually — about my dogs; but I don’t post to it/them every day (or for that matter even every other week). But I do read Lauren’s blog, and would like to have a way to help her out. Do I have to enter the contest to contribute to the fundraising?
Thanks for running this contest. Me and my peoples think it is great what you are doing with the proceeds.
Decisions, decisions!! Looking forward to this, thanks for doing it Jodi 🙂
Hi Jodi
We finally found time to pop over and subscribe to your blog. We will send you our entry. Have a terrific Thursday.
Best wishes Molly
I can’t wait to see all the pictures!!
Can’t wait to see all the pictures! This is fun – win or lose – very cool idea!
Oh my gosh, you guys are so amazing!! <3 xoxo
Thanks so much for doing this Jodi (and for picking such truly worthy recipients). Can’t wait to vote and can’t wait to see my Mazzie on the roster!!!! And love the following piece of your post, with my commentary in brackets:
Some of you have hundreds, if not thousands of blog subscribers [I WISH!!!! FOR YOU AND MAZZIE], 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. [LOVE YOU MORE FOR SAYING THIS.]
Lastly, photo of Sampson & Delilah is fantastic.