After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured 7 groups of 21 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 1st Runner-Up (2nd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is dr bouz with his photograph Violist!!!

• A $100 Gift Certificate courtesy of PhotoBook Press
• A $100 Gift Certificate courtesy of Mpix
• A Cotton Carrier Camera System courtesy of CottonCarrier
• A Commercial Licence + Domain + Hosting courtesy of Imagevuex
• A copy of Enhancer Home Deluxe courtesy of AKVIS
• An Urban Disguise 40 camera bag courtesy of ThinkTankPhoto
• A 1-year Pro Account courtesy of SmugMug
• A camera bag courtesy of Daymen and Lowepro
• A Lifetime, Level II Premiere Membership and 10 PhotographyCorner Pens courtesy of PhotographyCorner

You can congratulate Sasha here in the 1st Runner-Up Award Thread as well as by posting a comment on the photograph here in the Corner Galleries.