Shutterbugs!  Get out those digital cameras and have your FAVORITE TREE photo featured in our upcoming calendar. 

Each month Cross Timbers Urban Forestry Council will take submissions of photos of champion, famous & favorite trees located in the Metroplex.  One photo will be selected each month for the next year’s calendar.  Send us a picture of your favorite significant tree!

How it works:

• Find a champion, famous, or a favorite tree in the Metroplex (the Dallas and Fort Worth region). If you don’t know where one is, check out these resources.  To protect the tree and the owners many trees are not listed by their exact location, so a little sleuthing may be needed.
  • Texas Tree Trails
  • Historic Trees of Texas
  • The Big Tree Registry of Fort Worth
  • Texas Famous Trees
     
• Photograph the tree with at least a 4.2 megapixel camera in landscape format.
• To increase the chances of your photo being selected, make sure it reflects the season or month, such as fall color, spring bloom, snow or ice, etc.
• E-mail your photo as an attachment along with the following information:
  • Your name
  • The name and location of the tree
  • Or, the name, location and a brief description of the tree for example:
    • Trader’s Oak, Trader’s Oak Park, Fort Worth.  In 1849, Henry Clay Daggett & Archibald Franklin Leonard built a trading post beside this live oak.  Tarrant County’s first election was held under the tree in 1850.  ---- OR ---- My favorite tree is a grand Post Oak standing majestically alone in a field.  The tree is likely 150 years old and it has seen more history of my town than any person living.
  • Complete & submit the photo release form and artwork release form
• DEADLINE for submission is October 31
• Submit electronically to Courtney Blevins or mail submission to:
  CTUFC
  4200 S. Freeway, Suite 2200
  Fort Worth, Texas 76115
  Attention:  Courtney Blevins
  Fax:  817.871.5724

A thumbnail size photo of each month’s winner will be posted right here on our website.  If your photo did not win, take heart.  It could be considered in future months without resubmission.