NBN Calendar?

[JennyMorgan]

Is it feasible? Is it desirable? Anyone interested? I appreciate that we are not the largest forum in the world but we don't need a huge print run.

[Hockham Admiral]

That's a Great offer, Peter!

[deebee29]

I would buy one

David

[watershed]

I'd be interested,depending on content/price. Wouldn't be keen if it had too many modern boats in it,they're covered quite well in the brochures,but classic boats in Broads landscapes would have me reaching for my debit card!

[JawsOrca]

I'd buy one.. our yacht club (used to.. before I took over webmastership) did a photo competition each year.. members submitted pictures.. the best 12 got featured.. (they did something to pick the front cover and were sponsored by the local chandlers)...

[JennyMorgan]

I had VistaPrint do some calendars for me a year or two back & they were really excellent. About £150.00 for 25 but that's no profit to the forum. I'd be happy enough to put something together but I would want cash with order. Oh, and 13 good pictures!

[Guest]

I'd certainly be interested, but it needs to be good! There seem to be plenty of decent photographers on this forum, enough to come up with a nice varied selection of photos. The skill is in the selection - I'm not sure that the competition approach used somewhere else I could (but won't) mention ended up with anything like the best pictures.

 

Seeing this is JM's idea I suggest that he takes charge and gets things organised

[JimG]

I'd be interested too. Beats the Charlie and Lola calendar the wife always buys!!!

[Wussername]

A Broadland Pirelli theme perhaps?

Old Wussername

[JennyMorgan]

Realistically, I suppose, a tenner a calendar to include p&p, surpluses to go to a deserving charity perhaps.

I agree, the competition route is not the route I would wish to take. However I do suggest one picture per contributor, that way we sell twelve calendars! 12 iconic Broads pictures from 12 different photographers, easy! Whatever, I'm open to ideas and comments.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

Why not make it with pictures contributed by the members?.

 

Get the members to send in some pictures, and select the best 12, what do you think?.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

I`m going to have a look at my photo`s again, though i doubt they`re up to the standard of some on here?.

[JennyMorgan]

Why not make it with pictures contributed by the members?.

 

Get the members to send in some pictures, and select the best 12, what do you think?.

Exactly what I had in mind, sorry that I didn't make that clear.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

Exactly what I had in mind, sorry that I didn't make that clear.

 

 

You DID Peter, i just did`nt read ALL the posts above

[kadensa]

If we're going to have a calendar can I make a plea for it to contain more than just the usual windpump/sailing boats/sunset pictures?     I'd like to think that NBN members could come up with something a little more original.

[JennyMorgan]

If we're going to have a calendar can I make a plea for it to contain more than just the usual windpump/sailing boats/sunset pictures?     I'd like to think that NBN members could come up with something a little more original.

Hi Kadensa, I suspect that I know what you mean, perhaps you have a snap or two that we could consider.

Me, I might be a long term chocolate box photographer but I'm a pictorial rebel at heart!

I think it inevitable that there will be a sunset or two but we need twelve shots so something for most folk.

What do people want? Come on, submit! I can always correct crooked horizons so get snapping and choose your best.

Sorry, Kadensa, but this one is both a cliched sunset AND a dreaded sailing boat but thankfully I've avoided a wind-pump!!

[JawsOrca]

Ohh I'm a huge fan/addict of broadland sunrises and sunsets (even better if there's a windmill/pump and even a timber sailing boat in them!) much better than shot of a orange bathtub  (No harm intended to orange bathtubs).. but agree these probably are a core essence of the broads which is probably what the calendar should capture...

[mbird]

How about a windpump AND a swan 

 

Or a dyke AND a swan?

 

No swans or mills in this one

 

Or even a misty sunrise

 

I'll get me coat.....!

[BroadScot]

Oye you'll be Moded Mark!....Alan sort him out!    

 

 

Iain.

[JawsOrca]

Geez Mark.. they are stunning...!

[kadensa]

Can we have a closing date for entries, please?   

[littlesprite]

I think I agree with Kadensa on this  subject, why not have a theme based on working Norfolk.

 

Pictures of someone working in a boat yard, reed cutting, a boat lift.

[BroadScot]

There is the boat lift. ok it was 2004

 

 

 

 

Iain.

[ranworthbreeze]

If you wanted the calendars to be self funded all the shots could be of riverside pubs on the Broads with the landlords footing the printing costs. This would help the pubs as well as raising funds for the forum. Just a thought.

I must say that I do like the idea of forum members taking the pictures and making it a bit of a competition for the 13 pictures.

 

Regards

Alan

[BroadScot]

Yep Alan,

 

I can hear all the members already clammouring into their My Pictures files looking for pics!

 

Iain.