2012 Calendar Project: The Final Product

I just realized that although I took photos of the final, printed calendar, I never posted them! What was I thinking??

So, without further ado, the final calendar project, created by yours truly, with photos taken by moi:

The 2012 Calendar Project: March (v3.0)

Rome... again.

Yes, I know, this is my third iteration of the month of March. March was the first graphic I created... way back in February. Since then, the style of the graphics evolved. I tried to make March conform to the rest with version 2.0, but failed. I think it's because Rome is my favorite place. I wanted the page to be SUPER SPECIALLY AWESOME. No pressure, right?

Well, I finally made something I can live with. I promise, there will be no more versions of March for this Calendar, because, well, I ordered the Calendar. Done! Shazaam! Photos will be posted when the finished product is received.

Without further adieu, the finalized March graphic:

2012 Calendar Project: January

San Simeon, California/Hearst Castle

“My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."
Julia Morgan
(Architect of Hearst Castle)

2012 Calendar Project: May

Barbados
 (Many of these images were taken at The Crane Resort in Barbados, one of my favorite places on the planet!)

"The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen

2012 Calendar Project: October

The Great Salt Lake, Utah

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust
strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort
of home and friends. You are constantly off balance.
Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep,
dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the
eternal or what we imagine of it. 
-Cesare Pavese

2012 Calendar Project: August

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,

Which man deemed old two thousand years ago.

Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,

A rose-red city, half as old as time.

-Dean Burgon

2012 Calendar Project: December

Monterey, California

"It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday." -- Beryl Markham

2012 Calendar Project: March, Revised

March bugged me. And it didn't match any of the others. So I fixed it. Try this one on for size:

“While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls - the World.”
        -Lord Byron

2012 Calendar Project: July

Malta

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

2012 Calendar Project: September

ISTANBUL (Not Constantinople)

"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
- Alphonse de Lamartine

(PS: I think this calendar page may be my favorite so far. Istanbul is a photography dream come true. This one and Santorini.)

2012 Calendar Project: April

April in Cairo. Yes please!

2012 Calendar Project: November

Ye Olde London Towne

"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." -Samuel Johnson

2012 Calendar Project: June

How does one say Voila! in Greek, I wonder?

Santorini. Thira, Greece.

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."  - T.S. Elliot

2012 Calendar Project: March

I've decided to make my own calendar for 2012. As it's already January and it'll take me a little while to create the graphics I want, I'll be beginning my calendar in March. I may extend it through 2013. Who knows?

Here's the deal: I'll be taking my photography from various cities/countries/spots on the planet and creating a piece of artwork of sorts for each selection. I mean to add a quote about the spot as well. I've completed a draft for my first calendar page, what do you think? (Click on it to view larger)

We'll begin with Rome. Because it's my favorite place. Because it's amazing. Because "The ides of March" happens in, uh, March. Duh. Because, why not?