After 5 days of voting, Brad V emerged victorious as the winner of Contest Corner Challenge #57: Pollution. The fifty-seventh Contest Corner Challenge asked photographers to photograph some form of pollution, or the negative effects of pollution on an environment. There were a lot of great (if not depressing) photographs of pollution all over the planet, but Brad’s photograph of an orange, smog-filled, night sky behind numerous smoke-stacks spitting pollution into the air easily won the contest with over 25% of the votes from a total of nineteen entries.

For winning the contest, sponsored by our good friends at SmugMug.com, Brad will receive a free, 1-year subscription Pro Account (a $150 value!!!). You can congratulate Brad on his victory in the award thread, and you can find out which photographers took which entries in the CCC#57 Photo Gallery. Oh, and if you want to see how the voting played out, the results are being shown in the original voting thread.

Congratulations again, Brad, on an excellent photograph and convincing victory!