2006 Club111 calendar - VOTING NOW OPEN

[MattG]

The response to our request for photo submissions was incredible (see this thread). A quick first pass cut some similar photos and several others for various reasons (vertical aspect ratios were not viewed favorably, for example, though a few made the cut). What we have now is...still a heck of a lot of photos. So, voting will be in two rounds. In round one, you'll be voting for a fixed number of photos from different categories. The winners from round one will go on to round two, where all photos are thrown together into one big pot and you get to vote on any of them at that time. The exact number of photos that will make it to round two is flexible, if for example there are not 3 obvious winners in the yellow Elise category (you SY owners sure like to take pictures of your cars!), we may move more than 3 on to the final round of voting (same with the track pictures).

The voting procedure is simple, if you have broadband (sorry dialup folks, I did my best to reduce file sizes but it's still a lot of images to load). Just go to this link. Fill out your email and EliseTalk name at the top (if you don't have an EliseTalk name, you're probably not reading this, but if somehow you are, just put something creative in that box instead). Follow the instructions that tell you how many pictures to vote on each section; vote on a picture by clicking the checkbox under it. When finished, click on the 'submit' button at the bottom of the page. You'll be redirected to a page confirming your vote was submitted.

We really want this calendar to be available in time for Christmas gifts, so I'm afraid there's a bit of urgency to the voting. Round one of voting will close at 5:00PM Tuesday, November 29. I'll do my best to then quickly get the finalists posted for the last round of voting, with a goal of having round two voting finished by 12/4 and the calendar up for sale a few days after that.

Question for you all - is there interest in having multiple versions of the calendar available? Specifically, one version dedicated to action photos from road and track. The standard Club111 calendar would have a mixture of all types of photos. Thoughts?

[mikester]

Matt, first thanks for stepping up to this monumental task !!!

Regarding multiple versions I'd vote no, because I'll probably buy several Elise-type calendars as it is (Elisetalk, Club 111, SELOC, perhaps a Lotus calendar if available...).

But thanks for asking.

Mike

[Tintin]

Thanks Matt (and anybody else who worked in the background) for getting all the photos organized.

I should have enough time by the 29th to get all my friends and family to sign up with Elisetalk in order to stuff the votes in my favor

[ivan1]

great group of pics...going to be hard to narrow it down....

[Vantage]

Thanks Matt for setting this up. I really like the voting system as it's easy on us.

- J

[JimK]

Done! There are alot of very talented photographers here!

[smoseley]

Matt... just a quick note to let you know that you placed a couple of Jenn's CO pics (the 195 car) in with the SY's. Great job with the photo selection page, though!

[the1raze]

I should warn you all not to look at that link, I just did and my head assploded!

But in all seriousness, thoughs are some of the sexiest shots I have ever seen. My god, props to you all for the beautiful shots, and props to lotus for making one damn sexy car...

Thats all....

[ivan1]

Originally Posted by transio

Matt... just a quick note to let you know that you placed a couple of Jenn's CO pics (the 195 car) in with the SY's. Great job with the photo selection page, though!

the COM trying to move in on our territory

[Beanie]

That was fun. Lots of great photos in there!

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by MattG

Question for you all - is there interest in having multiple versions of the calendar available? Specifically, one version dedicated to action photos from road and track. The standard Club111 calendar would have a mixture of all types of photos. Thoughts?

I'd buy one of each

There are tons of nice shots, its a good thing voting is automated otherwise you all could never come up with winners.

[zOOmz]

Wow! That was hard! Too many good ones to choose from, especially the SY. I just picked the ones that I thought would look best in calendar.

[shameless plug]it it a shame that you can't see Colin's reflection better at that size. Hope he makes it into the calendar[/shameless plug]

hehe

Thanks Matt! and all you terrific ET photographers. The Elise is truly a thing of voluptuous beauty.

z

[MattG]

Originally Posted by transio

Matt... just a quick note to let you know that you placed a couple of Jenn's CO pics (the 195 car) in with the SY's. Great job with the photo selection page, though!

Huh. Yeah, you're right! I wouldn't believe you if it weren't for the photos in the CO section of what is obviously the exact same car (or else an incredibly similar sticker job). Sure looks yellow in the pictures though.

[MattG]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

There are tons of nice shots, its a good thing voting is automated otherwise you all could never come up with winners.

Ugh, I wish! I didn't have time to figure out the automation side of it, so right now, every vote submitted is an email sent to a special address, at which point my garden gnome takes that and manually records each vote on a piece of tree bark (well, it's something along those lines at least ). I wasn't able to find polling software already written that allows multiple selections; I considered creating a php/MYSQL application to do this, but figured it'd be quicker to just tally the votes manually..

[zOOmz]

Hey Matt.. Stan's name should be on that reflections pic not mine. CC just showed up on it mysteriously.

z

[SillyPuppy]

I voted this morning (but unlike a couple weeks ago, I guess we don't get "I Voted Today!" stickers? ).

I like the idea of multiple calendars (if only for the reason that more pics can be used, which hopefully means one with Descartes makes the cut!)...

(Shameless plug: Vote for that Graphite Grey decklid badge close-up!)

Orrie

[Stan]

Please remove my photo from this event. It's listed with another's name, and is also a track photo....but it is not placed in the track section. Thanks.

http://eliseinfo.com/Club111/club111...ctions_-01.jpg

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by MattG

I considered creating a php/MYSQL application to do this, but figured it'd be quicker to just tally the votes manually..

Shoot me an email if you want to do something like this for the '07 calendar, PHP interacting with MYSQL is pretty much all I do at work every day, I'd be more than happy to lend a couple hours to getting a good voting system up.

oh, and my bad on the CO car in the SY section, I didn't really intend for that color to be true to life but I do have the Canon RAW files still if either of those are chosen. They could definitely be made more balanced with a bit of work.

[smoseley]

Originally Posted by MattG

I wasn't able to find polling software already written that allows multiple selections; I considered creating a php/MYSQL application to do this, but figured it'd be quicker to just tally the votes manually..

Ummm.... I'm pretty sure vBulletin allows multiple choice polls. you could have just made a different thread for each poll/section, and created a subforum to put them all in, then stickied them. You can always try using that feature in the next level of voting.

[andykeck]

Originally Posted by Stan

Please remove my photo from this event. It's listed with another's name, and is also a track photo....but it is not placed in the track section. Thanks.

http://eliseinfo.com/Club111/club111...ctions_-01.jpg

Stan, can I beg you to leave this photo in the contest? It's one of my favorites!