Hey CBRR&R Friends,
It’s me—Quincy, your furry and fabulous spokesdog for the 2026 CBRR&R Calendar!
Our annual photo contest is open, and we’re calling on all Chesapeake Bay Retrievers to submit their best photos for a chance to be featured in the 2026 calendar—our biggest fundraiser of the year!
Here’s what you need to know:
Submit Your Photos:
Two photos per dog
Dogs only—no humans (seriously!)
Horizontal / landscape format only
High-resolution files (300 dpi, over 1MB)
No cropping or editing—send us the original file!
Want to Reserve a Calendar Day?
Win a Feature Month in the Calendar!
Pre-Order Your Calendar:
Don't miss your chance to support rescue and see your beautiful Chessie in print.
Upload your photos today and get those tails wagging!
Love & Licks,
Quincy 
& the 2026 Calendar Committee
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Tips for calendar photographs--this is important!
We've been working with the calendar photographs and design for several years. There are always a portion of entries that must be rejected for the main image contest because of small file sizes. We thought we'd share some notes about taking and downloading. Check out this helpful link on the
CBRR&R Website! Keep reading for more tips and tricks to get a successful photo entry.
We need landscape/horizontal photos. Vertical photos just don't work. If you need a visual on what we mean,
click here to check out this great tutorial.
For reproduction purposes, submitted photographs need to be BIG! Yes, really big, high resolution, high quality photos. In technical terms, that means 300 dpi and at least 12 inches wide if you went to print it out on a traditional printer. Photos that are too small will look pixelated, grainy, and blurry when they are blown up. To make sure we have the highest quality calendar possible, we don't want to do that!
And...don't crop your photos! We can tell (yep, we can!). Cropping out people or copyright watermarks (boo!) or trying to crop to change the shape of the photo only deteriorates the quality of the original file. If your photo is otherwise award winning and happens to have a human toe in the corner that we didn't notice when we approved it, WE can take care of that on our end if your photo makes the cut.
If your photo is small or a vertical image, consider submitting it to the "
reserve a date" section instead of the calendar contest.
If you're interested in learning more, check out
this article. For example, in most cases, your file size will be over 1MB which means in probably has enough "data" to be a high resolution photo. Horizontal images are required, as the calendar has a horizontal format.
Most digital cameras, and phones, will produce acceptable files, just so long as the download is made at the largest possible size. Before taking the photographs, if the camera has a setting for file size, make it as large as possible. We know it's not always easy to get the photos off your phone in the largest file type possible. We have found that if you can email the photo file to yourself, you will be able to select the file size that you are downloading from the phone and sending. Always choose "actual size" for the attachment.
And, if you are using your phone, hold it horizontally…or "landscape!" That will create a horizontal photo that will have a more likely chance of making the contest.
There is a bit of a process to set up an online account for this site even to submit a photo. While no payment is required for submission, there is a sign up process. Please be sure to complete the entire process so your photo is submitted. We find "half submitted" photos in the system and can't do much to help.
And finally, please check your email. We find that quite often that when we reach out from our volunteer email addresses we never hear back. You will get an email telling you that your photo has been approved for the contest (and also if it has been rejected). Once your photo is approved, please GO VOTE! Share the photo to get your friends to vote.
We're looking forward to seeing your dogs!