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[Sticky] Winners of the 2024 Photo Contest!

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Wendell
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I'm happy to (finally) announce the winners of the 2024 RPLS.com Photo Contest!

  • Grand Prize: Bill Hart
  • Runner-Up: HuntIceland
  • Runner-Up: John Williams
  • Runner-Up: David Drahn
  • Runner-Up: Brian Riniker
  • Runner-Up: Samuel Phillips
  • Runner-Up: Darren Goheen
  • Runner-Up: SteelheadJEDi

If you are in the list above, please contact me directly via PM or email with your mailing address, so I can get your prizes out to you!

The photos submitted by the fine folks above are now available in our 2025 Wall Calendar, available for purchase here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/rplscom/rplscom-2025-calendar/paperback/product-zm95nzj.html?page=1&pageSize=4

 
Posted : November 27, 2024 2:06 am
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GaryG
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ORDER PLACED! Thanks 

 
Posted : November 29, 2024 5:58 am
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Wendell
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Thanks Gary!


GIF
 
Posted : November 29, 2024 11:07 am
christ-lambrecht
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Woow, great scenery and mostly sunny photo's, great job!

I'm stuck at the office 99% of the time, that last 1% was last september for some rail monitoring during a drilling of a sewer pipe under the railway.

These are the only times we're on site 24/7 when they drill under the rails.

PXL 20240917 203149195
 
Posted : December 1, 2024 11:33 pm
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squirl
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@christ-lambrecht 

We just finished one of these monitoring jobs here too. Same kind of thing. Hope your "rail people" are easier to work with than ours. 😎 

T. Nelson - SAM

 
Posted : December 2, 2024 6:12 am

GaryG
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Awesome calendar!  Made for great Christmas gifts! 

I have to dig through my pics for next year, we needs some east coast representation 😉! 

 
Posted : December 16, 2024 6:53 am
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Wendell
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Yes, I am always very impressed with the quality of Lulu calendars. They do a really good job. 

Would love to get some of your photos next year and see if we can't get something in the 2026 calendar. 🙂

For what it's worth, the biggest problem I have with submissions is resolution. Many people send photos that are too low resolution and blowing them up will pixelate them. Another issue is portrait style photos, and even the high resolution ones can be problematic because I have to carve a landscape size rectangle out of the portrait photo. 

Just a couple things to keep in mind when you are looking through your photos or taking new ones. Always send the originals and try to take them in landscape format whenever possible. Most modern phones have really great resolution.

 
Posted : December 16, 2024 12:30 pm
GaryG
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Posted by: @wendell

Most modern phones have really great resolution.

Hahaha , I still have a flip phone.

 
Posted : December 16, 2024 6:01 pm
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Wendell
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Posted by: @gary_g

I still have a flip phone.

Well, whatever works for ya! 😁

 
Posted : December 16, 2024 8:34 pm