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 WINNER (1st Place) of the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is fa1sal with his photograph Autumn Resurrection!!!

• A $500 Gift Certificate courtesy of PhotoBook Press
• A $300 Gift Certificate courtesy of Mpix
• A Cotton Carrier Camera System courtesy of CottonCarrier
• A Commercial Licence + Domain + Hosting courtesy of Imagevuex
• The Alchemy Business Software Package (13 plugins) courtesy of AKVIS
• An Airport Acceleration camera bag courtesy of ThinkTankPhoto
• A $100 Gift Certificate and 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
• If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a $200 Gift Certificate from Amazon.com

You can congratulate Faisal here in the WINNER (1st Place) Award Thread as well as by posting a comment on the photograph here in the Corner Galleries.