Chappy Calendar/Photo Contest

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 CALENDAR PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS!!! We want to thank everyone who participated this year!

Believe it or not, it’s time to consider submitting your beautiful photos to be featured in the 2025 Chappaquiddick Community Center Calendar!
Never participated? Learn more below …

The annual Chappy calendar is a project everyone affiliated with Chappaquiddick looks forward to seeing.  We are pleased to announce we will continue with this long-standing tradition and will soon begin preparing to produce the 2025 calendars.  It all starts with your photo submission! 

 The deadline to submit photos is Friday, July 26th, at 3 pm. Voting starts on July 29th and ends on August 23rd at 3 pm. Please consider submitting your photo(s) of Chappaquiddick in its many moods and beautiful vistas by 3 PM, Friday, July 26th, for a chance to win the annual photo contest. 14 winners will be featured (front/back cover & 12 months).

GUIDELINES FOR THE 2025 CALENDAR PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST


1. Photographs should be horizontal and close to 10 ̋ wide x 8 ̋ h  GH.  Digital copies must be submitted along with the hard copy (file size must be at least 300 PPI 101⁄2 ̋ x 7 ̋ ).

2. At most, three (3) submissions per person.

3. Color photos only.  (No black & white, framed, or Polaroid photos will be accepted.)

4. Only photographs of Chappy will be taken.  No pictures of people or pets, please.

5. Back of photo: your name, address, phone number, email, the image’s title, the month, and the picture’s location.  No names or identification should appear on the front of any photograph.

6. The submission deadline is Friday, July 26th, 2024, at 3 pm, with voting beginning July 29th and ending on August 23rd, 2024, at 3 pm.

7. Voting: one ballot per person.  The photograph receiving the most votes will appear on the front cover of the 2025 calendars, and the picture receiving the second-most votes will appear on the back cover.

8. All photographs not selected for the 2025 calendar will be available for pickup at the Chappy Community Center after August 26th, 2024.

9. By entering this photo contest, you agree to allow the Chappy Community Center to use your photographs in the upcoming 2025 calendars.
 

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must drop off hard copies and digital copies emailed of your named photos by 3 pm, July 26th. 2024, so they can be displayed for voting.  Your image has been officially entered once you do so.  

Good Luck!!! 

Sales of the calendar are a significant source of income applied to CCC operating expenses; therefore, we are grateful to all who participated in the photo contest and purchased the calendar.  We want to thank our 2024 Calendar Advertisers and encourage you to support their businesses and encourage new advertisers for 2024.  If you would like to become a calendar advertiser or know someone who does email Tina at chappyccenter@gmail.com. It is $250 for a business card size ad or
$750 for approximate 9 inch x 3 inch.

Remember to follow these steps for your photo submission(s): 

  1. Name your photo (for example, “Moonlight Over Chappy”)
  2. To be considered, please send your high-resolution, named photo to chappyccenter@gmail.com by 3 pm, July 26th, 2024.
  3. Drop hard copies off for the voting display by 3 pm, July 26th.

*If you have any questions, please email us at chappyccenter@gmail.com

Winners will be announced the week of August 25th, 2024.  Good luck!

Be sure to click here to visit the community calendar for important contest dates.