Secret Santa 2015 - opening today November Nov 22, closing Dec 14

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Secret Santa 2015 - opening today November Nov 22, closing Dec 14 for registration to take part in the gifting of images.

How to sign up
By Dec 14 send D-B-J a PM with Secret Santa as the subject and your screen name, your email inside and your mailing address ( in case your secret Santa wan's to send a print)​

How does the process work after I sign up?
Sometime soon after Dec 15 D-B-J will send you the screen name, the email and the mailing address of the person whose Secret Santa you will be.

You have the choice of how to fulfill this pledge:
  • Send your recipient a jpeg of your choice of your own images and permission to print it
  • Contact your recipient, reveal yourself (do not expose yourself) and give them a choice of what image of yours they'd like.
  • Do either of these delivery methods above but with an actual paper print. (It's up to you to get the address.)
FAQ:
Behavior that won't work

Saying that you want to take part in a response on this thread is not enough. You must send D-B-J a PM with your screen name and email..
Telling me or him that you have the same email as last year - I threw all that stuff away.​

"But, I'm not a good photographer" - that was said a lot last year.
The response to that now is, as it was then, 'so what'.
It is the giving of what you have done that is the gift.
But I don't celebrate Christmas for any reason!
OK, but you can join in this gift giving without taking any religious vows.
You aren't going into a seminary or convent or becoming a priest or monk or any of that.
You are celebrating a community.
Am I signed up?
If you don't get an email from D-B-J as confirmation within 2 days after you sent D-B-J the PM, no, you are not signed up so send D-B-J a PM again.
If the PM doesn't have both the screen name and your email, you won't get a confirmation, so be certain the PM has the two needed pieces of information.
I missed the sign up period.
If D-B-J hasn't got everybody assigned and the PMs sent, he'll try to work it out - but don't hold your breathe.
Resolution and color space.
Let's assume the gift images will be printed at 12 x 18 (2:3) or 11 x 14 (4:5) with resolution of 250 pixels/in or more in sRGB color space and 100% quality.
Or as close as you can get.
My file is too big to fit in email.
Use wetransfer.com or any other free ftp service
I didn't get an image.
Let D-B-J know by PM and he will bug the lazy Secret Santa


Last year, everyone who signed up actually both sent and got images.

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But isn't it not secret if I send them a message? I think you should collect addresses so we can just send it along to them so it's a surprise? I mean, I know others work, and would rather it be a complete surprise. I trust that you won't divulge my info to scammers [emoji5]️
 
What Lew will do is collect the names of everyone that participates, then after the closing (Dec. 14), he'll send everyone another member's name so they can contact them and make arrangements to get them their image. Until then, who you will get an image from, and who will get an image from you, is the secret.
 
What Lew will do is collect the names of everyone that participates, then after the closing (Dec. 14), he'll send everyone another member's name so they can contact them and make arrangements to get them their image. Until then, who you will get an image from, and who will get an image from you, is the secret.

I guess..
 
Last year there were 60+ names and addresses which meant a totally unbelievable amount of sending emails, collecting and resending addresses.
I spent a great deal of time, which I don't have this year.

If you are willing to do all the emailing, collecting, re-mailing, etc. I will be more than happy to collect the names and emails of those who want to participate and turn it over to you or anyone else who wants to do the more intricate arrangements.
 
Last year there were 60+ names and addresses which meant a totally unbelievable amount of sending emails, collecting and resending addresses.
I spent a great deal of time, which I don't have this year.

If you are willing to do all the emailing, collecting, re-mailing, etc. I will be more than happy to collect the names and emails of those who want to participate and turn it over to you or anyone else who wants to do the more intricate arrangements.


Sure! I could do that. That way it's truly secret [emoji106]
 
To get off-track a bit, let me tell you what just happened.

Last year a fair number of people missed out on signing up for the Secret Santa because they didn't see either the post or the notice in my signature.

This year I wanted to try to ensure that as many people as possible had the opportunity to sign up so I went unto three or four threads and added a post with a link to this thread.
And some, or perhaps several people reported that innocent single, non-disruptive post as spam - and the Mods had to go by the letter of the rules and respond.by removing these posts.
I ask that those people who did report that post as spam acknowledge they did so in this thread.
I'd like to make certain that I ignore those kinds of mean spirited people in the future..
 
Last year there were 60+ names and addresses which meant a totally unbelievable amount of sending emails, collecting and resending addresses.
I spent a great deal of time, which I don't have this year.

If you are willing to do all the emailing, collecting, re-mailing, etc. I will be more than happy to collect the names and emails of those who want to participate and turn it over to you or anyone else who wants to do the more intricate arrangements.


Sure! I could do that. That way it's truly secret [emoji106]

Will do.
Look for the list in a couple of weeks.
And thanks for taking the load off me this year, I am pretty bogged down with other stuff.

Lew
 
Last year there were 60+ names and addresses which meant a totally unbelievable amount of sending emails, collecting and resending addresses.
I spent a great deal of time, which I don't have this year.

If you are willing to do all the emailing, collecting, re-mailing, etc. I will be more than happy to collect the names and emails of those who want to participate and turn it over to you or anyone else who wants to do the more intricate arrangements.


Sure! I could do that. That way it's truly secret [emoji106]

Will do.
Look for the list in a couple of weeks.
And thanks for taking the load off me this year, I am pretty bogged down with other stuff.

Lew

Hey anytime! Just keep me posted [emoji5]️
 
I'm in for this year! Looking forward to it!
 
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C'mon people! This was fun last year! Sign up!
 
How about an update?

(Hehe! I also got this bumped!)
 

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