Thanks Sherry! I think I'd be sad to move through 2014 without this thread, so I'm definitely in! Besides, I'd say DLR has the edge in our Disney decision making process right now.
I'm so impressed with all your detail shots. I missed so much it's like we were at different parks or something!
But with this being our first trip for the holidays, I think I was just too busy soaking up the big picture to focus too much on the small details.
I'm loving your B/W and sepia shots!
Thank you so much for the kind words,
Janet! I really appreciate it.
I hone in on the details, that's for sure! Yes, I think that when you make a first trip anywhere -- and this was your first holiday trip to DLR -- you look at the whole entire scene. It's the repeat visits that lend themselves more to capturing the details, I think.
I use the b&w and sepia features infrequently -- only when I think a subject merits it, and even then the usage is reserved for a select few shots -- but I'm glad that you like them! I think that color is the most appealing thing, of course, but it's okay to venture into other territory every so often!
I hope you're able to get to DLR again soon, but please hang out here as long as you can stand us!
Subbing in too! Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year! I haven't been following along or contributing much lately, simply because I'm envious of everyone's trips and plans. About a month before my holiday I got hit with unexpected, ongoing and expensive chiro sessions, this has meant I'll need to cancel this years trip
. On a brighter note though, my chiro sessions next week go to once a week instead of the three I was having and then once a month from March. This means I can get my budget sorted and start planning again for 2015!
My brother got married recently to a lovely girl from Atlanta that he met online and they want me to go to the US with them in 2015 as he's never travelled out of Australia and she hasn't really travelled much within the US, they also want our mum to come too. I agreed as long as it was during the holiday season and I could go to
Disneyland- they all said yes! So I'm over my whiny, moany dummy-spit about this year (for now anyway, who knows what I'll be like in December!) and ready to save and plan to the max!
Welcome,
Luisa!
I'm glad you made it over here.
I don't think you were being "whiny, moany" at all -- it sounds as if you have a very valid reason for not being able to go to DLR for the holidays this year. But you did go in 2013 (in November), correct? And you'll go in 2015, so at least it's not that huge of a gap in between trips. In fact, 2015 will be Disneyland 50th anniversary/birthday so there may be extra fun in store that year -- who knows?
Great photos
Sherry! I so look forward to seeing them.
I don't remember talking with an operator, but I do remember the non-Disney parks layouts were more within my design tastes than the Disney Parks one. And yes, the photo quality wasn't as I expected and a bit grainy. Overall, I think the final product was a good one. I had the calendar mailed to my house.
In hopes of getting a better quality photos, I made a couple of smaller collages, but not the poster size. More in line of an 8 1/2 X 11. I picked those up a my nearest Walmart. The photo quality was better, but I seem to remember I could not pick up the calendar at a store but had to have it mailed. I liked the colleges so much I made a few of them this year to decorate my stateroom door on the
Disney Cruise I took back in October.
Here are some pictures of the calendar I made:
As you can see, you can do a lot of pictures or just a few, add a quote and pick the back rounds to fit the theme of the month.
Liza --
Thank you!
I saw the pictures of the calendar you made a few years ago (we were all posting photos of our calendars, if I recall), but are these photos ^^ from that calendar or the one you put on your stateroom door? (Some of the pages look like pages I saw before, and others look newer.)
In any case, it's a very nice combination of Disney's stock photos and your photos!
And I think we all did a combo of collages, where we put many photos on the pages, and solo pictures or maybe just 2 pictures per page. I have pages with 14 or 15 photos, and pages with one or two photos.
I vividly remember you telling me that you had to ask someone for help on a certain feature because you couldn't figure out something layout-related. I thought you did an online chat on the Snapfish website with an operator (they are usually there for live help), not talked on the phone, but maybe you just wrote in.
I just want to be clear, so no one is confused -- the photos you posted above are of Snapfish's calendar.
The current FREE calendar offer that I was telling everyone about (until January 7th) is from Shutterfly, not Snapfish. The layout is similar, but different. The borders are totally different.
Looks so good! I wish I had gotten one, but I got the Mickey demitasse dessert during the Christmas in July Limited Time magic week (it had strawberry shortcake). I didn't make it a point to get one during my Christmas trip last month.
I remember that you said the summer version during that Christmas in July week had shortcake. I even remember that you had an appointment that afternoon, so you were only headed to DLR for a few hours! I remember a lot!
I didn't get the demitasse. It was there in front of me, so I took a photo of it. If it had strawberry shortcake in it I might have gotten it! I did, however, try the yule log for the first time...which was a little too much -- too rich, too dense, too something or another -- for my liking.
We were fortunate to be able to go back in the fall for MHP and I am super excited to plan this next trip! 
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Thank you for joining us.
