I only just noticed all the replies to this thread.

I'd just like to add my support to Panny & Linda with regards to this submission process. The process was contractually agreed with Avalanche Publishing, Linda and myself back in 2001, and although Panny has now taken my place as co-editor it remains as it has been for the last five years.

It's a process that works well, and which the publisher is happy with.

It is written into the contract that at least one image from each co-editor is included in the calendar in recognition for their work in this process, for which they are not otherwise paid.

Sometimes the publisher chooses more than one image from an indivdual artist - as is the publisher's right to do so.

Panny and Linda both have the utmost integrity and I trust them implicitly to carry out the process in a fair and appropriate manner.

It's true that the publisher chooses not to vary the style of the calendar very much from year to year - but that is not for a lack of trying on the co-editors part - it's just that Avalanche are in the business of making money, and they succeed in that business because they sell what the market wants to buy...

Please remember ...

This whole exercise is not a competition or contest to find the "best fractal" or the "best artist" or the "best fractal software" - it is an editing process for a professional commercial venture.

Good luck to everyone who chooses to submit their work :-)

Tina

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk