Next year’s [PlayRaw Calendar] is ready. It was a difficult selection as it was last year, and formal criteria again had the biggest impact. E.g., for a landscape-shaped calendar, most portrait-oriented images hardly make sense, and these that are in were victim of highly creative cropping by me. A reasonable print resolution was another criterion that had to be met, and I had to cheat with several pictures and reprocess them.
I checked again that there are photographs and edits of as many different people as possible in, but, in contrast to last year, we have some double nominations.
Due to my private time constraints (especially my kids are demanding, the younger one is just 8 weeks old), this was a last minute work. Therefore, please don’t tell me if you find any mistakes or errors .
Technically, it follows last years calendar, but the daylight saving time shifts have been removed, since these are different in different countries. The same affects the moon phases as well, they may be shifted by one day if there are different daylight saving regulations in your country, because some moon phase changes are within ±1 hour around midnight and may shift to the other day in where you are living.
The software involved is again LuaLaTeX for the calendar strips and Scribus for putting everything together. Some images were reprocessed in darktable based on the original xmp files or the embedded xmp in the original uploads.
Featured artists are
month
image title
photographer
editor
license
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Monkey Business
jinxos
andrayverysame
CC BY-SA
1
Glaciers, Birds, and Seals at Jökulsárlón/Iceland
BayerSe
McCap
CC BY-NC-SA
2
Shooting Into the Sun
davidvj
Adlatus
CC BY-SA
3
The Rail Bridge, North Queensferry
Brian_Innes
Jean-Marc_Digne
CC BY-SA
4
Sunset sea
Thanatomanic
sls141
CC BY-NC-SA
5
Vulcan stone sunset
asn
kazah7
CC BY-NC-SA
6
Venise la sérénissime
sguyader
Thomas_Do
CC BY-NC-SA
7
Dockland side view at night
gRuGo
CriticalConundrum
CC BY-NC-SA
8
Eating cicchetti with ghosts in Venezia
sguyader
msd
CC BY-NC-SA
9
maritime museum
wiegemalt
yteaot
CC BY-SA
10
Alfred’s Vision
jinxos
msd
CC BY-SA
11
Crescent Moon through silhouetted fern fronds
martin.scharnke
gRuGo
CC BY-NC-SA
12
Everything frozen
asn
McCap
CC BY-NC-SA
The download link and a preview can be found below.
Yes, especially a great job of the people that contributed the images and the edits. I do only collect, the smallest contribution. But glad you like it .
Of course you deserve it, all that are in do, and many that are not in would do as well – unfortunately, I had to skip many images that would deserve it as well, in most cases because they are in portrait orientation . I wonder if I should change the calendar’s orientation in next year’s edition.
Congratulations to everyone on the awesome shots, and especially to @chris for taking time to put it together!
I have last years that was sent as one of the most awesome gifts I’ve received (from people who don’t feel compelled to give me a gift like family ). I haven’t written about it yet because I’m a bad friend, but I will soon (I also missed writing this years Thanks post and will try to put something up shortly).
I’ll try to write something up to show off the calendar to a wider audience also. Are y’all selling hard copies at all, or just the PDF right now? (sorry, spaced out about NC)
Hm, just FYI, last year’s physical circulation was 1, so there has not been another hard copy. A unique copy – it may supersede Mona Lisa’s face in Louvre museum one day (or, more likely, not) .
So people view overwhelmingly on screen, so maybe include portrait orientation next time? (Re. comment in original post) People can zoom in if they want…
Hm, I am so sorry that I am posting these corrections now and not earlier. I found one error by myself (wrong calendar strip in December, not contents-wise, but the one for the right side) and fixed it, and thought I could improve a bit on the title page as well … if using the logo in this context is allowed?! The new pdf is in the original post, when the upload is finished.
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. I wonder if I should change the calendar’s orientation in next year’s edition.
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