Your friendly mods have been thinking about adding a banner to the community. After a chat, we have decided to A. Make it seasonal and B. See if you folks have any photos or artwork that you’d like to offer as candidates for the first banner.

So please comment below with a link to any photos that you have taken or artwork that you have made and would like to be considered for the banner. Let’s say a maximum of three items per person; photos that you have taken or art you have created and have the rights to; something suitable for the subject of the community: maybe a natural landscape, or wildlife, or volunteers working for the environment (as long as you have the permission of anyone identifiable in the photo); or sewage fungus…(no, maybe not that one). And preferably, but not necessarily, “Spring” themed.

I’m not absolutely clear about the optimum dimensions etc for a banner, but the size and shape of the section that appears varies with the browser dimensions and appears differently again in the sidebar, so keep that in mind. Otherwise the larger the better.

We’ll leave this post stickied until Tuesday March 12th for submissions (and I think that both of us mods will also submit something), then we’ll put up a voting thread for the following 7 days with all the submissions that we have by then and then decide the winner – basically on votes, but the mods reserve the right to disqualify any ‘Naturey McNatureface’ ones or others that we really don’t think are suitable - on Mar 20th: the Spring equinox. The winner will become the banner until the summer solstice, and the next competition, and obviously we’ll make it clear in the sidebar who should be credited for that banner.