Each year, for a number of years now, I have produced a photo calendar, mainly to give family and friends for Christmas. I use Diamond Photo online for this (and for photo-books). For each month’s format, one page is a set of photos, just slightly smaller than a A4 size, with another A4 size page below it containing the month’s dates. The main internationally-recognised holidays are noted, along with some of the main New Zealand ones. The online construction of the calendar can be challenging, and I have learned to order an initial copy to check the colour and the text before ordering the final version.
My 2022 calendar is titled “Fossicking Beaches”. Ten of the months each features a photo of usually a South Island beach taken on a date in 2021 when I visited that beach to look for stones to tumble-polish. Photos of three stones I found on that beach on that day are also included for each month.
Apart from June and December (looked at below), there are a couple of minor variations to the general theme of a visit to a South Island fossicking beach on a particular day. The February Slope Point month and April Gemstone Beach month feature photos taken during two visits, not just one, while September features 2020 photos from Kai Iwi Beach in the North Island, just a couple of kilometres from where I live.
The months of June and December each feature nine close-up photos of stones that have appeared in the previous five months (randomly selected from the 15 possibilities). “Which Beach does each one come from?” This provides a brief activity for yourself or a family member.
The beaches featured in the Calendar are as follows: January = Kakanui (two kilometres north of the village); February = Slope Point (the beach known to at least some locals as Bach Beach); March = Riverton (Back Beach); April = Gemstone Beach; May = Ward Beach (Kaikoura coast); July = Timaru (at the end of Ellis Road, near Jack’s Point lighthouse); August = Leithfield Beach; September = Kai Iwi Beach (near Whanganui, North Island); October = Gemstone Beach; November = Slope Point (the beach known to at least some locals as Thunder Beach).
Also see TumbleStone Calendar 2022 – The Beaches and TumbleStone Calendar 2022 – The Stones.
Keeping in mind that this is essentially an amateur production, if you want to buy one of these 2022 Calendars for yourself, email me at john.tumblestone@gmail.com. To cover expenses, it will cost you NZ$25 (postage included, in New Zealand).
About my 2021 Calendar, see here, and about my 2020 Calendar, see here.
5 thoughts on “TumbleStone Calendar 2022”