UPDATE: 2018 “Traveling with Ann” Calendar Contest WINNERS
And the winners are …
You voted for your favorite picture and now there are 13 winning photos for the 2018 desk calendar (the extra is on the front of the calendar).
There are 17 winning photos in the 2018 wall calendar version due to multiple ties. The wall calendar also has 24 quotes from Ol’ Man Harvey (12 motivational quotes and 12 “just for fun” quotes).
Check out the favorites you all chose below. Woo hoo!
In addition to the winning photos, we now have 10 lucky voters who have won an autographed desktop calendar. If your name is listed here, please send me an email at reader@anncharles.com with CALENDAR WINNER in the Subject line and your mailing address in the body of the email. I’ll be sending the autographed calendars to the winners in early December.
Amanda Branstrator
Ashley Zehnder
Brigid Fahey
Debbi Gilmartin
Dodie Osbourne
Larry Horton
Mark Davis
Nelsina Apley
Richard Tucker
Tonia Hoover
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all who helped me select which of my photos to include in this coming year’s calendar.
NOTE: If you’re interested in purchasing a wall or desk calendar, visit my Shopify Store.
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From earlier in November …
Yay! Calendar contest time again. It’s time to vote for your favorite photos to go into my 2018 Traveling with Ann calendars.
Check out the pictures below taken during my 2017 travels near and far and chose ONE picture as your favorite in the comments below (type the picture number). Votes will be tallied on November 10, 2017. I’ll share which 12 photos had the most votes the following week. NOTE–Your comment will appear AFTER I approve it behind the scenes (have to keep spammers out).
In addition, I’ll do a random drawing from those who voted in the comments below and choose 20 lucky winners for an autographed desktop calendar!
Let the voting begin! ♥ Ann
WINNER Number One Fiery Sunrise—Prescott, Arizona |
 WINNER
Number Two Christmas Day Storm—Northeastern Texas |
 WINNER
Number Three Back Road Canopy—Central Louisiana |
WINNER Number Four Beach Sunset—Southwest Florida |
 WINNER (Wall Calendar only)
Number Five Winter Morning—Prescott, Arizona |
 WINNER
Number Six Tracks in the Snow—Prescott, Arizona |
WINNER Number Seven Rusted Car—Vulture Mine, Arizona
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WINNER (Wall Calendar only) Number Eight Rusted Remains—Vulture Mine, Arizona
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Number Nine Saguaros Spines—Wickenburg, Arizona
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WINNER (Wall Calendar only) Number Ten Mesa Views—Mesa Verde Nat. Park, Colorado
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 WINNER
Number Eleven Petrified Jewels—Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona |
 Number Twelve
Poppy Time—Prescott, Arizona |
Number Thirteen Stormy Skies—Southeastern Colorado
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 WINNER
Number Fourteen Farmland Sunset—Fayette, Ohio |
Number Fifteen Pokey Beauties—Cortez, Colorado |
WINNER Number Sixteen Black Hills Splendor—Deadwood, South Dakota
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 Number Seventeen
Mt. Moriah Cemetery Views—Deadwood, South Dakota |
 WINNER (Wall calendar only)
Number Eighteen Coop’s Hangout—Deadwood, South Dakota |
 Number Nineteen
Puget Sound Plant Life—Hartstine Island, Washington |
 WINNER
Number Twenty Mesa Verde National Park Lodging—Colorado |
Number Twenty-One Meandering Little Colorado River—Arizona
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WINNER Number Twenty-Two Granite Mountain—Prescott, Arizona
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Number Twenty-Three Fall’s High Desert Yellows—Prescott, Arizona
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 WINNER
Number Twenty-Four Monument Awe—Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah State Line |
Number Twenty-Five Wild Horses—Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah State Line
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 WINNER
Number Twenty-Six Fall Splendor—Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado |
24
I have to vote for number 1. I just love it!
Number 6
Number 22
Number 9!
I choose number 5. 👍🏼😁
Number 7
My vote is for number 4.
16
Number Twenty four
Even though they’re all outstanding,I remember this one the most. It’s unique.
Number 26
One..one..one..love the colors!
Number Two
Number Ten
Loved them all! It was difficult to choose just one out of all these beautiful shots! Thank you for sharing!
So many to chose from!
#1
2
Christmas Day Storm
Number 5
8
Number 8
12
#22
So very many amazing choices! I love them all but if I must choose just one, I choose no. 20. They are all stunning but I keep getting drawn back to the Lodging and imagining the lives loved there. Ann, they really are all amazing. You can’t go wrong.
Number 26
Love them all but #1 has my vote
24
24
Beautiful pictures #1 Is my favorite
I pick #3 picture
Love love love #2
Number 1
# 22
My vote is for 26. Gorgeous photo!!! Love the colors.
20
#4! 🙂
2
#22
There is just something haunting about #8, like there is a story waiting to be told. Love reading all your books, so thank you for becoming an author.
Number 10
Number 1
#1 is my fav!!
#22
Number 2. You make this extrodinarily hard by the way, they are all fantastic.
Number 22
Number 19
Number 18
26
Number 5
These are all beautiful and I had a hard time choosing but I pick #15
Number 26. Difficult to choose just one.
22
18
Love skies in pic 1
Too many good choices!
21
20
#1
the colors are breathtaking
#11
11
22 it’s beautiful
#12
Number 1 for me. A very tough decision. Some beautiful shots 🙂
Number 19
Number 7. Love them all. You definitely could have had a career in photography!
#8
Number 13
Number 24
#22
24
#19
You made this so difficult to pick. They are all so gorgeous.
Number 14 Ilove the colors and the way you were able to capture the shadows. All the pictures are fantastic and it was so very hard to choose just one
#1 , very hard to choose just one . The calendar will be beautiful as always.😊
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24
6. I love them all but a winter approaches here I kind of like looking at the snow from inside my home.
#1
number 4, I am a sucker for sunrise and sunsets!
Numver 22
#1. I’m a fan of sunsets and sunrises.
#11 Gotta love those stones.
Number 22
I pick 22
Have to go with#11
Number five
#1!
#7 this picture draws me in, for some reason.
Totally unfair to make us pick JUST ONE!
#6
The beautiful rays of number 22 is my vote. Smiles!
#6
I really like the Granite Mountain—Prescott, Arizona picture. The sky is stunning.
There should be some pretty scenery of Deadwood in the calendar, so I choose #16.
No. 7
I saw number 1 and fell in love. The others were beautiful, too, but number 1 was the best!
Tough to choose, there are so many great photos in this list! I vote #3. Love you Ann!!! 😍
Hard to choose, but #22 gets my vote this year
22
Number Twenty-Two
Love the way the sun beams shine! 🙂
18
#5
I love snow scenes.
All are beautiful photos but my choice is number 1.
22
Love number 8
#22
#10
They are great pictures, but Mesa Verde is one the places I remember most from our old family vacations when I was growing up.
#8
#25 bc it has horses in it. Really tough to pick only one, #7 is a story waiting to be told.
Number 20
I keep coming back to picture 2. Love it
Gotta love those NW Ohio sunsets. All great pics, so hard to choose!!
#14
Number 18 with the beautiful trees in the background
14 – Love it – reminds me of home 🙂
#4 (although definitely go for #18 if you decide to do a Twin Peaks calendar)
Number 22
#22
Love them all! #1 takes my breath away!
Five.
Number 6. January?. So hard to pick just one
Number six. Tracks in the snow
Number six tracks in the snow
Number 6
#16 stormy skies
Oops #13 stormy skies
Some mamy beautiful photos. I pick #4
I like no 6 for December. They are all so good so hard to pick just one kinda like Lays potato chips you want more than one.
Number 10
Maybe you should do a 24 month calendar? No. 2 is a familiar sight and dramatic too!
I vote for #5…what beauty. so many folks don’t expect the change in seasons in Arizona.
#4 – all of your pictures are gorgeous so it was hard to choose just one!
I absolutely love number 22 !!
Tough choice, but I will go with #5. It shows the diversity in this beautiful state that we have chosen to live.
Number 3
Number 22, I absolutely love the sun behind Granite Mountain!
Ann I think you have a typo…since this is for your 2018 calendar won’t the votes be tallied on November 10 2017 not 2018? 😊. LOVE all your pictures. Many of my favorites have already been chosen, including #6. Some of your best pictures were taken right at Home! 😊. But since this journey with all of us started in Deadwood, you have to include a Deadwood picture! I vote #17. Can’t wait to have the 2018 calendar hanging in my kitchen! ❤️
Very hard to choose just one, but here goes Number One, I love a beautiful sunset and this one is awesome
My vote is for number three. A canopied road leading somewhere, but what will be around the bend? So many possibilities await.
17
Number 1
So many are beautiful. I vote number 22
Number 24 though it was a tough choice between a few of them. Absolutely stunning pictures!
Number 5
So hard to decide…. I love them all! I guess if I have to pick just one #15
I absolutely love Monument Valley, so number 24 is it!
Number 16
Number 18
#3 the trees are very homey
I vote for #10.
Number #22 is stunning
I vote for #6. All the pictures were beautiful, was hard to pick just one.
#15
Number 20 please
Twenty-four
They’re all great. Too bad there are 26 months in a year. But I think I’ll go with #11 as I love those stones.
Number 3
Since I can only choose one, I pick number 25.
I love No. 6. It’s just so crystalline and perfect, like a jewelled mosaic.
8 was my favorite
Number One
Number 4
#17
Number 1!!
They are all gorgeous, it was difficult to choose just one!
Number 9
Number 8
#25
Number 24. But all are beautiful
Number 1 is my choice, although they are all AMAZING!
I will vote for Number 22, but I do love them all!!
Number 17
Number 22 – Granite Mt.
#22…love that SUN!!
Number 1. It reminds me of what my folks used to call “buttermilk” skies.
They’re all beautiful but I especially love #3!
#22
Number 24. BEAUTIFUL!
#17
They are all beautiful! But #4is my favorite!
I love your photography in general but I am voting for #19 Puget Sound Plant Life—Hartstine Island, Washington. It was close with #1 and #7. I am partial to cloud photos and the rusted car is framed great. I guess you just can’t take WA out of the girl. I love the light and how the plants look like they glow.
Number 6. Someone enjoying the pristine snow and only leaving footprints behind.
#22
24
3. No 22. No No 3. Ugh woman you make it difficult….number 7
Number 3
#20
Number 16
Whew, so hard, but going with 22!
So hard to choose, but have to go with number 1.
number 21 is my fav. it just makes me feel light hearted, and joyful.
Picked #6 but lots of special ones like
19, 21, 22, 24 are beautiful too. Good Luck in only picking 12.
Number 13
Number 14. While the Southwest is beautiful, an Ohio sunset rates high as well.
Number 5
Very difficult to choose. They are All Awesome, as Always!!!💜
14
Number 22 is amazing!!!
Number 8
# 5 Love it.
Number 8. Love the detail in the foreground.
24
No. 8. The Vulcan Mine looks like a fun place to explore and I love the rusty wheel
Number one. All of them are glorious but I could look at #1 for a year. No matter what is chosen it will be a winner.
I vote for #22
Photo #22. Absolutely stunning!
16 the black hills is my favorite!!!
I vote for #3.
Number one. All of them are glorious but I could look at #1 for a year. No matter what is chosen it will be a winner 2018
I have to stay with #14, Farmland sunset in Ohio. They are all so very beautiful but that one touches my heart!