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   2009 Calendar Photo Contest

Enter your garden railroad or indoor layout photos for the 2009 BTO Club Calendar

Enter your favorite large-scale layout photos. The 13
winning photos will be featured in the 2009 BTO Club
Calendar which will be included in the Winter 2008 Big
Train Operator Magazine. 

Images will be accepted in digital or print format. In
order to ensure the highest quality reproduction, see
the following:

Format: 4 X 6-inch (minumum size), 
8 X 10-inch (maximum size) 
photographic prints, color or black and
white. Photos must be clear and sharp and have good contrast.

Mail to:

BTO Calendar Contest 
116 Wayne Dr. 
Belleville. IL 62223-1852

Resolution: Minimum 300 dpi when resized to 8 X 10-inches
Format: .JPG or .JPEG.
Acceptable media: All types of CDs, DVDs, 100MB or 250MB Zip disks 

Remember: An image that looks great on your monitor at 72dpi will print like a mosaic-tiled floor when enlarged. Please keep in mind that if you take a low-resolution digital photo and "size it up", it will become "pixelated" or grainy and therefore will be unusable. If you digital image is not used on the grounds that it isn't of a high enough resolution, please understand this is not a matter of taste or opinion, it's a technical fact. Photos embedded in a Microsoft Word file won't work, they must be separate from the document.

Please burn to a CD or DVD, or copy to a Zip disk and mail to: 

BTO Editor 
117 W. 55th St. 
Westmont, IL 60559

Send in photos of your layout for a chance to have 
your railroad featured in the 2009 BTO Club Calendar. 

Don't delay, deadline for entries is October 1, 2008

Photos become the property of the BTOC, and 
cannot be returned. The BTOC reserves the right
 to limit the number of final entries per member. 

Oh, come on. If I've got to watch my language just because they let a few broads in, I'm going to quit. How the #?$%& can you run a #?$%*@! railroad without swearing? - Caz Dolowicz: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, (1974)

 

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