We are very close to a beautiful collection. Your choices so far are perfect. Here are a few more suggestions from your fellow readers. Your responses to this project have been astronomical. And in fact often you have pointed to the same shot, which has been quite startling. 
We can only have one Daisy card though, so here you will have to seriously help me choose between these two. Daisy in front of the car is too long (Daisy enciente) and I am loathe to crop it. I shall keep that one as your first choice for the calender. Many of you asked to consider the cow and her cat! 
Below is a Farmy group shot. Look at Mama with her head resting on Mia’s head. Remember all these photos are in quite a raw state. They will have a lot of work done on them before going to the printers. Though now that I look at this group shot the back of that calf is too close to the edge.
Peghorn. I have a series of these as I crept closer to him (on my belly, thank goodness for my padded clown suit) so there is another that has more space around him. The postcard will be approximately 6×4. 
Moaning Mia’s Moustache. In the original I hopefully can add space for a printers crop (called a bleed) so we do not lose the tip of that ear. 
Mama and her nose. 
Sunrise. 
With postcards there is a certain amount of the image that you will lose in the printing, so if the subject is too close to the edge, the cropping will compromise the shot. The trouble with a large number of the TonTon images is that he has been shot too close. And his action shots are impossible. If the tip of his ears or his tail are cropped off the image will lose its power. And I am not happy with the focus in this shot. (sigh)
We may have to miss TonTon out for now. 
In a Frogs Eye and the Bee on Marbles are IN! They are wildly popular. Even if it is small, we will make sure that this is a perfect retrospective collection.
If you pop back in to help me again today it will be fine as far as the draw goes, everyone who comments, here or on FB or in an email gets one chance. I bet you are wondering how we are going to do the draw. Well, TonTon is undergoing rigorous training on how to draw a name out of the PomPom hat. He is trained to bring me anything I point to then say Gimme, so this is an extension of that command. I will fold each vote into a little paper parcel and he will (hopefully) pick out a piece and bring it to me. Three times. Well that is the plan anyway. A lot can go wrong. I will shoot it for you so that you can see that it will be entirely random. (Random being the operative word) One way or another he will choose three winners.
Yesterday in the morning I cleaned every floor in the house. Then yesterday afternoon I went to the barn and thoroughly scooped every floor out there. So my arms are feeling stretched this morning. I see the dawn coming now. Today the sky is perfectly clear.
The moon last night was so full and so bright. You know I have no curtains, so the bedroom was streaked in light, the window shapes creating long shadows, as though the afternoon sun was blazing but had been put through some kind of lunar photo shop and all the gold had been deleted leaving only silver. The shadow designs were hard and geometrical. I lay in bed in the dark early, early this morning, before I got up to write, watching this light and wondering how to describe it to you. Some images cannot be photographed. They need to be spoken of. Some cannot even do that.
Anyway. I am loving this process of choosing a selection of pictures from the archives for the first collection of postcards to celebrate the 40,000 mark of the kitchensgarden. This first print will not be repeated. It will be a limited edition. Each card will be numbered. This is why I want to get it exactly right. Fingers crossed I have chosen the right printers and all goes well in that department!
Now, it is 19F (-7C) so I am going to put on all my clothes and go outside to play. 6.40 am and dawn. I am getting earlier and earlier. It looks like it will be a fantastic sunny day today.
Good Morning!
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
93 responses to “Last day of giveaway postcard choices and votes.”
what about sheepy in this post – lovely framed shot of her between the doors ? https://thekitchensgarden.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/lets-walkabout-on-the-farmy-today/
I love that shot too! c
Well, as much as I Iove cow and cat, I still love the artistry of the backlit Daisy, Mia’s moostasche and peghorn, and the cat in the barn even more…in other words sticking with my choices from yesterday as they would make such striking postcards! You and your team probably already know this but on Mia, you may be able to clone the top of that image to give yourself some extra image for live area and bleed. You definitely can do that with the grass on the right of the group shot. Would adore having a set of your postcards…add me to the buy list with Chica!
Thank you I have put your name on the buyers list and you are spot on with your observations. Each image has to be perfect. I often crop for the blog pages so the original of Mia has heaps of room. To rework the images we will go back to the originals. From now on i shall be more careful about edges, as the calender shots will need the same attention. c
Thanks! Even if I win, I’ll buy a set for a gift. 😉
Definitely cow and cat. But how can you not have ton ton in it!?!!! Noooooooooo…..! 🙂
NO need to panic, i found another one this morning! It is of her and Queenie .. all good, you can stop panicking now!! (laughter) c
Good look with the printing there is a lot for you to consider. I love the idea of Ton Ton picking the number. I like the shot of Daisy on her own.
I have dealt with printers before so it will be interesting for sure. The guys i have chosen seem very approachable which is half the battle really! c
Good morning C, the cow and the cat are now a favorite as I love to see how animals will find friends with those we’d think would never get along. My daughter had a bunny, he was bigger than my chihauhaus! He’d love to come in the house and play with them!! (he was potty trained!) My chi’s would then curl up next to all his fur and sleep….it was the most special, beautiful thing to see.
It is a sweet shot linda but I a not sure it is of high enough quality, we will see what the tech team says, do you have a pic of the dogs and your rabbit?. c
Hi C,
This is all very exciting. I think Cow and her cat is just adorable and the Rooster in the Garden is another favorite. In fact, I’ve been using a bunch of your chook, rooster and guinea photos as the screensaver on my computer at work.
I love that you have taken the Farmy to work LaTrice! What a treat for them!! c
I like the cow in the door, the one-legged cockerel, the curious sheep and the dog in the blanket. 🙂
good good, (more ticks next to boxes).. c
I hadn’t even thought of the option to buy. Oh, please add me too!
I shall add you to that list spree and thank you!! c
I’m voting for the one-legged rooster, followed by TonTon with blanket, and the cat and the cow!
That one legged rooster has got a good number of votes, i think (if he passes the techs) he should be IN.. thanks greg, we have to have rooster one way or another anyway! c
I love Daisy in the door way, but Pegleg would look great with the bee and the frog in a set! Tough one! All such beautiful photos!
each of these would work together, you have a good eye! c
I love your choices, I want some post cards! Where do I purchase them?
cassie, lovely, well from me, being a reader you will get mates rates. I shall pop your name on the list then i can email you when everything is in order! brilliant.. c
The cow and the cat together is a wonderful shot. 🙂 You always have such a good eye.
It is pretty isn’t .. i must print a larger copy for some children I know. It is one of those ones that you look at until you fall asleep! c
So I had planned to browse through a few months of postings, because I had been missing some really great photos of kitchen equipment in the examples, but then, I didn’t do it because a single voice won’t make the top-8. Instead my vote goes to “Sunrise”, because a variation of that gave me a welcome on your blog for many days/weeks/months (? I’m not sure when you switched the banner picture to sunrise).
Klaus you are naughty, you might have come across something we missed. One voice does count! But the sunrise is lovely. Yes that banner has been here since winter started which seems like a long long time!! c
My favorite so far is the cow and the cat. Of course, I love it when my animals become a family even though they are of different species.
Yikes you have popped up as anonymous, I hope you see this and leave me your name so you can being the draw! v
Poor Ton-Ton, it’s a shame he’s getting left out; I love that photo of him!
Hullo and welcome.. Don’t feel sorry for him he is giving you that look on purpose.. I have found another one of him that may work.. stand by.. c