In the final Contest Corner Challenge of 2011, it’s exciting to see a new winner (hat tip to Spicoli and nrshapiro for generally cleaning up in the CCCs) pick up a win. VTerlakyPhoto, with his photo ‘Birthday of Solitude’ managed to grab over a quarter of the votes earning him his first Contest Corner Challenge victory.

You can check out the other photos that were entered into the contest (and find out who took each photograph) in the CCC#94: Celebration Photo Gallery. The final voting results are also available in the voting thread.

The contest was sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras) - (I promise some new sponsors and prizes in 2012!). Since Viktor is not a Premiere Member, he will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership!

Make sure to drop by the award thread in the forums to check out a full-size version of the winning photograph, and to congratulate Viktor on his win!

After voting is complete for Contest Corner Challenge #94: Celebration (at approximately 7:30pm GMT on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011), it’ll be the last Contest Corner Challenge we do for a little while (we always take a break during the Photograph of the Year contest). You only have a few days left to check out the entries and cast your vote, so take advantage of the holiday break and get your vote in now. You can browse through the entries in the CCC#94: Celebration Photo Gallery, then head on over to the forum to cast your vote.

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras) - (I promise some new sponsors and prizes in 2012!). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

So what are you waiting for??! Go vote right now!

After a great year of Contest Corner Challenges, after this contest we’ll be taking a break until the Photograph of the Year contest is over (more on that soon!). You’ve got over 2 weeks to get an entry in for this one, so I’m expecting a bunch of entries! The theme of “celebration” is wide open. Photograph a celebration (people dancing, a wedding, holiday parties, etc), someone celebrating (someone with a party hat on, opening presents, blowing out candles), or objects that would indicate a celebration is going on (presents, graduation cap, alcohol bottles, etc). Basically, if your photograph has anything to do with celebrating or a celebration, you have yourself an entry.

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras) - (I promise some new sponsors and prizes in 2012!). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Entries are due in by December 20th, and voting will begin on the 21st. Make sure to read through all the contest details here on the contest page (and be sure to read through the submission guidelines so I don’t have to reject so many entries this time!). I’m looking forward to seeing lots of celebratory photographs!

At risk of sounding like a broken record, nrshapiro has picked up yet another Contest Corner Challenge win (his 8th). With almost half of the votes (mind you, there were only 7 entries), it was a convincing win by the CCC veteran. Check out the 7 entries in the CCC#93: Reproduction Photo Gallery, and see the final voting results in the voting thread.

The contest was again sponsored (some new sponsors coming soon - I promise) by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). Since Neil is, of course, a Premiere Member, he will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case (though since he already won this prize a couple of CCC’s back, he’s graciously passed along the prize to the runner-up, tamara).

Make sure to check out a larger version of the creative winning photograph and congratulate Neil on his 8th CCC win in the award thread. Next Contest Corner Challenge to be announced shortly!

It doesn’t happen very often, but every now and again voting for the Contest Corner Challenge and Photograph of the Month contests line right up. Double the voting, double the fun (double the work-load - ha!). Earlier today, voting for Contest Corner Challenge #93: Reproduction kicked off. Then, a couple of hours later, voting for the December 2011 Photograph of the Month got under way.

Usually the Contest Corner Challenges here at the Corner are about going out and taking a unique photograph. This contest, however, we want you to go reproduce a famous scene in a photograph (The Last Supper, The Scream, The Cover of ET, etc). This time, it’s ok to copy someone’s work!

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Make sure to read through all the details in the contest thread before going out and taking your photograph. Entries are due in my November 22nd, and voting will begin on the 23rd (and don’t forget to read through the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations). Oh, and make sure to title your photograph in such a way that we’ll easily be able to identify what scene you’ve recreated.

It’s been a while (you’ll have to go back to Contest Corner Challenge #73 to find the last time), but Spicoli finally picked up his twelfth CCC win with his fantastically creative entry “Ventos Tempus.” You can browse through the CCC#92 Photo Gallery to see who took each photograph, and the final voting results (Carl’s entry got over 22% of the votes) in the voting thread in the forums (we keep the voting private until a winner has been announced, of course).

The contest was again sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). Since Carl is, of course, a Premiere Member, he will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case.

Make sure to drop by the award thread to see a larger version of the winning photograph, and to congratulate Carl on his twelfth CCC win (and someone ask him how he set up the shot - it’s pretty interesting).

I realize the community is currently in the middle of voting for the November 2011 Photograph of the Month, but every once and a while, voting for the PotM and CCC’s overlap. This is one of those times. Check out the entries for Contest Corner Challenge #92: All in Good Time in the Corner Contest Photo Galleries. Then head on over to the voting thread to cast your vote - you have until approximately 4:45pm EST (8:45pm GMT) on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011.

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Make sure you drop by the voting thread to cast your vote while you’ve still got time!

It’s not “time” yet, though I’m expecting that text or call any week now (my wife and I are expecting our first child in the next couple of weeks - yikes!). Your task for this Contest Corner Challenge is to photograph time. It could be as simple as photographing a clock, or maybe a time-lapse showing the passage of time - but you’re welcome to be more creative and photograph “outside the box.” Your photograph just has to have something to do with time. Entries are due in by Tuesday, October 25th, so you don’t have a lot of time to photograph time.

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Get all the contest details in the contest thread in the forums, and don’t forget to read through the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations before submitting your photograph. Now get on it - you’re running out of time!

Voting was a little late, and due to the long weekend, the results were a couple of days late as well. Thanks for your patience - I hope the wait was worth it. After the votes were tallied, nrshapiro picks up his SEVENTH CCC win - his seventh!! You can see all 27 entries in the CCC#91: The Color and the Shape Photo Gallery, and the gallery now lists who took each photograph. The browse through the final voting results in the voting thread to see how many votes each photograph received.

The contest was sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). Since Neil is, of course, a Premiere Member, he will receive his choice between an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case.

Make sure to drop by the award thread to check out a full-sized version of his winning photograph, and to congratulate him on another CCC victory!

Due to some technical problems around the Corner over the past couple of days, voting for Contest Corner Challenge #91: The Color and the Shape started a little later than normal, though we will still have a full 7-days to cast our votes (we’ll just announce the winner a little later, and CCC#92 a day or two late). The entries for this contest came in slowly at first, but we got a decent amount in the last couple of days of the entry period. Check out all 27 entries in the CCC#91 Photo Gallery, and make sure to cast your vote in the voting thread by 3:15pm EST (7:15pm GMT) on Saturday, October 8th, 2011.

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

This was a challenging contest, but we received a lot of creative entries - check ‘em out here, and cast your vote here!

We just announced the winner of Contest Corner Challenge #90: Show Me the Money!, so that means it’s time to get another Contest Corner Challenge underway. The entries for CCC#91: The Color and the Shape (yes the title was borrowed from the Foo Fighers) should predominantly feature a single-colored geometric shape. I know that sounds a little boring, but you’ll be surprised how challenging this one may turn out to be. Some ideas to get you started: children’s block toys, boxes, inside of a cup, sail of a boat, a wall, table top, etc.

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Acme Made (best known for incorporating innovative textiles and materials with contemporary styling to produce attractive bags, cases and sleeves for laptops, eReaders, smart phones, and digital cameras). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive an Acme Made Laptop Sleeve or an Acme Made Kindle Hardback Folio case. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Entries are due in by Wednesday, September 28th, and the voting will begin on September 29th. If you have any questions about the contest, head on over to the contest thread in the forums and ask away. Oh, and make sure to read through the Contest Corner Rules & Regulations so that your photograph doesn’t get rejected. Now get out there and photograph me some colorful shapes!

Although it’s been a few years, jim3584 picked up his third Contest Corner Challenge win last week with his entry “Bured Treasure” to CCC#90: Show Me the Money! with over 15% of the votes. Browse through the 22 entries here in the CCC#90: Show Me the Money! Photo Gallery and check out the final voting results in the voting thread.

The contest was again sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). Since Jim is a Premiere Member, he will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag.

If you haven’t already, make sure to drop by the award thread to congratulate Jim on his win and to check out a full-sized version of his winning entry. The next Contest Corner Challenge should be announced later today.

I’ve gotta say, we’ve got some fantastically creative entries for Contest Corner Challenge #90: Show Me the Money! - and it’s great to see some currency from around the world. When you have a chance over the next couple of days, make sure to browse through all the entries in the CCC#90: Show Me the Money! Photo Gallery. Then, before 3:00pm EST (7:00pm GMT) on Friday, September 9th, 2011, be sure to mozy on over to the voting thread to cast your vote.

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

There are 22 entries to browse through - take a couple of minutes to enjoy the creative entries and see a variety of currencies from around the world (but don’t forget to cast your vote once you’re done).

Yesterday we announced the 90th Contest Corner Challenge: CCC#90: Show Me the Money!. One of the coolest thing about the Corner is that this is a truely international community. For this challenge, show us what the currency from your neck of the woods looks like! Feel free to photograph “old” (but legal!) currency, or brand new stuff - just as long as it’s legal currency in your country. I know money is tight for a lot of people right now, but if you can scrounge up some for a photograph, that’s all you’ll need (it’s free to enter, of course!).

The contest is again being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Entries are due in by September 1st, 2011, and voting will begin on the 2nd. Make sure to read through all the entry requirements before sending in your entry. Full details on the contest can be found in the contest thread in the forums.

Now, Show Me the Money!!!

With his first entry (and even before his first post!), Jason (aka yanyanyan881 won his first Contest Corner Challenge with a fantastic (yet complex and creative) example of leading lines in a photograph.

The contest was sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). Since Jason was not a Premiere Member, he will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

The voting was actually pretty spread out (see the final voting results here), but Jason managed to grab the most of them with just under 20% of the votes. You can view all the entries in the CCC#89: Leading Lines Photo Gallery, then head over to the award thread to congratulate Jason (and see a full-sized version of the winning photograph).

The entry period is over… and now it’s time to check out the entries and cast our votes for the best photograph submitted for Contest Corner Challenge #89: Leading Lines. We received 27 entries for this contest (although not every approved entry completely fits the “leading lines” theme all that well) - check them out in the CCC#89: Leading Lines Photo Gallery. Once you’ve had a chance to browse through the entries (and feel free to leave comments on them in the gallery!), drop by the voting thread in the forums to cast your vote.

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

Voting ends at approximately 4:00pm EST (8:00pm GMT) on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 - so make sure to cast your vote before then!

Leading lines are one of the most popular compositional elements that we, as photographers, can use to draw the viewer’s eye through a photograph (or to draw their eye to a focal point in the photograph that we want to highlight). The subject of your entry into Contest Corner Challenge #89: Leading Lines is completely up to you, as long as the main compositional element in the photograph is a leading line. The entry period began on Thursday, July 21st, and entries are due in by August 3rd. You can get full details on the in the main contest thread in the forums (and make sure to read the submission guidelines before entering the contest!).

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

So you’ve got a week-and-a-half to take and enter your photograph. Looking forward to following the lead lines in your photographs!

The voting was close, but in the end, devonhymelphotography’s beautiful black and white photograph garnered just over 14% of the votes (check out the final voting results here). Contest Corner Challenge #88: Kids Stuff asked photographers to photograph “kids stuff” (baby clothes, toys, furnature, etc), and 19 photographers took the challenge (check out all 19 entries in the CCC#88: Kids Stuff Photo Gallery).

The contest was sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). Since Devon is not a Premiere Member, she will receive a Lowepro Cirrus 100 camera bag.

Now, Devon is fairly new to the Corner, so make sure to head on over to the award thread to congratulate him on his win (and to welcome him to the Corner!).

A couple of days ago the community began voting for the best photograph entered into Contest Corner Challenge #88: Kids Stuff. My in-laws are in town visiting, so I’ve been a bit slow in letting you know about it, though, so you only have the weekend left to cast your vote (sorry!).

First, head on over to the CCC#88: Kids Stuff Photo Gallery and browse through the 19 photographs that were entered into the contest. Then drop by the voting thread to cast your vote. Voting ends at approximately 12:00pm EST (4:00pm GMT) on Monday, July 18th, 2011, and the winner will be announced on Tuesday.

The contest is being sponsored by our friends at DayMen Photo Marketing (an innovative manufacturer and distributor of high quality imaging products and accessories) and Lowepro (inventors and designers of popular camera bags, photographers and lovers of the natural world who take our reputation as The Trusted Original™ to heart). If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Terraclime 100 camera bag. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lowepro Cirrus 100 camera bag.

So what are you waiting for??! Go cast your vote ASAP!