By Dianna Smith
COMA member, Lisa Solomon, an attorney, enthusiastic mushroom forager and business entrepreneur, pitched an intriguing fund-raising idea to us that goes something like this. For an investment of $100, COMA will be able to sell customizable mushroom photo cards from a web-site store-front. Select any one of 30 photos of mushrooms taken by COMA members for the front. Inside the card upload any photo (fungal or otherwise) from your computer. Write your own inspired greeting - or select from a list of clever suggestions. Cards cost $2.95 each, plus postage. COMA will make $1 on each card sold through the website. For this to work, we hope that whenever you need a card for any occasion, you will think of mushrooms! If we make any money, it will be used for education projects.
Now here is where you come in. Please submit your favorite mushroom photos for our COMA card-cover contest. The judging will be made by a committee of two or three individuals who themselves will not be entering the challenge. Everyone’s submissions will be anonymous, with only a number to correlate the contributing photographer with his or her photos. To ensure that several people have an equal opportunity to be among the ‘winners,’ no one photographer can have more than five winning photos. Understand that by entering the contest, you agree that COMA has a right to publish your photo/s on these cards. The artist will be given credit on the back of the card along with the COMA logo and a link to our web site. So, all you photographers in the club, please e-mail me (diannasmith@optonline.net) your favorite photos in their original resolution as soon as possible – or send the photos to me on a CD, so I can attach a number to them and send them on to the evaluating committee. We aim to have this project up and running over the winter, so get those submissions in! Incidentally, continue sending photos you are especially proud of over the years, as we will periodically change the selections.
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