Hey there, it's your Official Unofficial CBRR&R Calendar SpokesDog “Piper” here calling all Chesapeakes.

We want YOU, er... Photos of you for our Calendar Contest; it's our biggest fundraiser of the year. So use some of that legendary Chesapeake assertiveness to get your humans to send us your pictures -- you could be famous! Upload them via our calendar contest website. Please be sure to include your name (we mean the dog!). Only two photo submissions per dog. No humans! Just dogs! (Don't you love that part?)

I've been working with the calendar photographs and design for several years. There are always a portion of entries that have to be rejected for the main images because of small file sizes. I thought I'd share some notes about taking and downloading.

For reproduction purposes, submitted photographs need to be 300 dpi and at least 12 inches wide. Horizontal images are preferred, as the calendar has a horizontal format. Vertical images can be sent, but the file sizes need to be even larger to maintain the horizontal requirement. In other words, a vertical photograph would still need to be 12 inches wide, which would make it roughly 18 inches tall.

 We check this in PhotoShop. If you don't have photo editing software, don't worry about it too much. Most digital cameras, and phones, will produce acceptable files, just so long as the download is made at the largest possible size.

Also, before taking the photographs, if the camera has a setting for file size, make it as large as possible.

I'm looking forward to seeing your dogs for 2019.

Best,

Tim Myers

We will be using the traditional Sunday to Saturday format for this year’s calendar. Calendars will be shipped in December in time for holiday gifts.

Honor a pet's memory or other hallmark when you reserve a calendar day for their photo. Just choose your favorite photo, choose a day, and donate! First come, first served. Each day requires a $10 donation.



Please consider pre-ordering a calendar. For large calendar orders, please contact development@cbrrescue.org for ordering instructions. Calendar pick up is available in the "greater Chicagoland area."

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