Costco 11.5"x14" premium calendars

I ordered a couple of premium calendars from Costco.com as "samples" to see what the quality would be like. I am not exactly sure what I want to do with the calendars, but I wanted them to be high quality enough to sell if I decided to go down that road.

My impressions:

1) The paper is thick and each page is basically laminated. The quality is nice. They come individually shrink wrapped.

2) The photos do NOT fill the entire page. You are left with large white boarders around the photo you upload.

3) An additional back page is added that seems to detail your shipping info and order info. This really is a bummer and it would require the removal of the back page before any type of sale.

If you know of any other service that provides a high quality calendar, I would love the hear about.

One other note:

Costco seems to have cropped some of the photos in a really bad way. Cutting off entire sections of an image.

The printing also appear darker then the original image.

Hello World

I guess this is my first post to this new blog.

About me. I work for an East Bay software company and in my free time I am a landscape photographer with a little urban exploration thrown in.  Most of my photos are taken in in East Bay parks or on the back roads.

I currently shoot with a Nikon D5100 and mostly use a Tamron Ultra Wide Angle lens.  Photos are usually edited with Aperture on the Mac.

I have been shooting photos since high school but only really got serious about a year go with I picked up the Nikon.  I am still learning and building my skills. I once read a quote that your first 10,000 photos are crap. I am just over 5000 on this camera at the time of this writing. I will let you be the judge.

Your feedback and comments are always appreciated.