We are into June and the solstice is not so far away, so it is time for our seasonal banner competition.

We didn’t exactly get many entries last time, but I see that the number of subscribers has pretty much doubled since then: almost 300 now!

So please comment below with a link to any photos that you have taken or artwork that you have made that you 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 something along those lines. And preferably, but not necessarily, “Summer” 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 Thursday June 13th for submissions 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 June 20th: the summer solstice. The winner will become the banner until the next equinox, and the next competition, and obviously we’ll make it clear in the sidebar who should be credited for that banner.