I have tremendous great news. Today we got our sweeping Grant of Permission from General Motors for the use of Avalanche images and the use of our club logo. This is a much broader agreement with Brand Management and Legal than we had in January of 2002 when a lot of these ideas were just a twinkle in our eyes.
What EXACTLY does this mean. It means the loophole calendar we were going to make is no longer required!
In the LOI I sent to General Motors I specifically covered our desire to make a calendar using images of modified and unmodified Avalanches.
So here are the NEW requirements.
1) We need very high resolution images of high quality. This includes background, lighting, focus, and sharpness of the image. It should be free of reflections of other vehicles. There should not be extremely bright areas due to sun reflection and other areas that are dark.
2) Nice scenic backgrounds. No one is going to want to look at your driveway for a month (sorry) or the parking lot of the A & P. Nature scenes, outdoor scenes get special consideration. The background should be as interesting as the Avalanche.
3) As spelled out in our agreement the Avalanche needs to look reasonably nice. If you're submitting an off-roading picture a dirty Avalanche is fine. However a dirty Avalanche sitting on a road by a forested stream isn't going to cut it.
4) Must be free of OTHER copyright issues. Sadly if you've put raised white letter BFG tires on your Avalanche or say a Fox Racing sticker you're Avalanche can't be considered. One could argue that we're violating their copyrights. Any large logos from any non-GM brands or non-OEM brands (so raised white letters on the OEM Goodyears or Firestones is OK but not others) is out.
5) We need four seasons shots.
Now, if your picture was in the running for the first batch of asks - YOU'RE STILL IN THE RUNNING! We had some GREAT images submitted that are going to be used. If we get enough images they're is nothing to stop us from doing multiple calendars. e.g. a four seasons calendar, an all off-road calendar, an all 1500 2WD calendar, an all 1500 4WD calendar, an all 2500 calendar, etc. etc. etc.
Finally we need the images stat. Because we're into March the value of a 2003 calendar is plunging and I want to be able to put this up in market by mid-March at the LATEST.
So - let's see those pictures! BTW - when you put them up here for people to see - it's OK to submit smaller images (and it's preffered) than the full size print ready image. We'll ask you for the fullsize when we're ready to go to print.
Want to see the other pictures...
Original 2003 Club Calendar Thread
What EXACTLY does this mean. It means the loophole calendar we were going to make is no longer required!
In the LOI I sent to General Motors I specifically covered our desire to make a calendar using images of modified and unmodified Avalanches.So here are the NEW requirements.
1) We need very high resolution images of high quality. This includes background, lighting, focus, and sharpness of the image. It should be free of reflections of other vehicles. There should not be extremely bright areas due to sun reflection and other areas that are dark.
2) Nice scenic backgrounds. No one is going to want to look at your driveway for a month (sorry) or the parking lot of the A & P. Nature scenes, outdoor scenes get special consideration. The background should be as interesting as the Avalanche.
3) As spelled out in our agreement the Avalanche needs to look reasonably nice. If you're submitting an off-roading picture a dirty Avalanche is fine. However a dirty Avalanche sitting on a road by a forested stream isn't going to cut it.
4) Must be free of OTHER copyright issues. Sadly if you've put raised white letter BFG tires on your Avalanche or say a Fox Racing sticker you're Avalanche can't be considered. One could argue that we're violating their copyrights. Any large logos from any non-GM brands or non-OEM brands (so raised white letters on the OEM Goodyears or Firestones is OK but not others) is out.
5) We need four seasons shots.
Now, if your picture was in the running for the first batch of asks - YOU'RE STILL IN THE RUNNING! We had some GREAT images submitted that are going to be used. If we get enough images they're is nothing to stop us from doing multiple calendars. e.g. a four seasons calendar, an all off-road calendar, an all 1500 2WD calendar, an all 1500 4WD calendar, an all 2500 calendar, etc. etc. etc.
Finally we need the images stat. Because we're into March the value of a 2003 calendar is plunging and I want to be able to put this up in market by mid-March at the LATEST.
So - let's see those pictures! BTW - when you put them up here for people to see - it's OK to submit smaller images (and it's preffered) than the full size print ready image. We'll ask you for the fullsize when we're ready to go to print.
Want to see the other pictures...
Original 2003 Club Calendar Thread
I wish we had scenery like that in my area 
