Just a quick post to let you know that Volume 5, Issue 10 of the Corner Newsletter (November 2008 Edition) has now been sent out - just in time for the weekend. So check your inbox, and it should be waiting there for you. If, for some reason or another it didn’t get to you, or you’ve decided that you don’t want to receive the newsletters in email form, you can, an always, read it online as well.

Have a great weekend! Oh, and don’t forget to check out the sponsor of the newsletter: Canvas On Demand - there’s a special, limited-time offer for $25 off a canvas, too! Read more »

It's Friday, which means it's time for another SmugMug Corner interview. This week we meet biotech engineer Daniel Thorp.

It’s been over half a year, but it’s finally time for another Digital Darkroom Contest Corner Challenge. For those of you that either haven’t been around the Corner for that long, or have no idea what the heck a “digital darkroom” contest is, check out the past two Digital Darkroom CCC’s: Digital Darkroom #1 & Digital Darkroom #2. Read more »

In a couple of days the November 2008 Newsletter should be going out, which means that it’s time to hand out Commitment Awards to those that have reached milestones with regards to their post-count in the past month. Commitment Awards are handed out to those who have shown great community dedication & commitment, and have reached a specific post-count milestone (1k, 2k, 5k and 10k). And by awards, I mean award, as there’s only one person who has reached a milestone in the past month (come on, people, step it up!). So let’s do whatever it is you do when congratulating people online (toast them, clap for them sitting there in front of your computer, yell out a big Hip-Hip-Hooray…)… to Kevin (aka grif04) for reaching the 2,000 post mark this past month! Read more »

On many occasions during my time teaching digital photography I’ve had people say to me “oh, it’s winter, I can’t possibly take beautiful digital photos now.”

If you’ve said something like this about winter digital photography then just wait for this…

Did you know that digital photography during winter is one of the most fulfilling creative practices you can do? Digital photography is not just about summer, colour and bright sun shine… it’s much, much more than that. So here are some powerful digital photography tips for winter.  Read more »

We’ve been doing the SmugMug Scavenger Hunts (it’s like a normal scavenger hunt, but instead of looking for things outside, you’re looking for specific photographs found on the SmugMug site) for a couple of months now. The final winner of the SmugMug Scavenger Hunt #2 was announced yesterday, so today, we announced the SmugMug Scavenger Hunt #3. You can read the rules and how-tos here (oh, and did I mention there are over $250 in SmugMug accounts available to be won each month??!). Read more »

The Challenge: to photograph something that captures the essence of your home town.
The Combatants: 24 photographers from around the world.
The Winner: tamara from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with her photograph of her current home town of Llao-llao Village, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina! Read more »

A couple months ago we announced a new contest series called SmugMug Scavenger Hunts and about a month ago, we announced the 2nd scavenger hunt with the objective to locate 15 photographs on SmugMug.com. One week after announcing the 2nd hunt, we awarded our first prize: a 1-year subscription to a SmugMug Pro Account to BlindVision. Then, a couple of weeks ago, we announced the winner of a SmugMug Power Account: NomadRip. Today we announce our final prize for the SmugMug Scanvenger Hunt #2 (as well as reveal all of the photographs from the hunt). And the winner is… Read more »

It doesn’t take much to get great shots indoors. In fact the secret is so simple that it’ll amaze you when you know what it is. Read more »

After a couple of weeks off, we're diving right back in with a new SmugMug Corner interview. This week we meet a native of the former USSR, now living in California, Nikolai Sklobovsky (note that some of the photographs below may be considered risqué - viewer discretion is advised).

When we originally released the Corner Community Chat schedule for 2008, we had yet to figure out the topic of our November 5th chat. newlove, the wonderful mod here at the Corner that has been organizing all these chats, came up with another fantastic theme: Travel Time (no, not Time Travel!) where we can discuss places we’ve lived or visited, and where the best “photography spots” are located in those places. Bring a pen and paper and get ready to take notes so you can plan your next photographic vacation. Meet us in the Corner Chat Room this Wednesday night at 7pm ET (midnight GMT), and we’ll be going until around 9pm ET (2am GMT) and bring some of your best photographic locations along with you! Read more »

Contest Corner Challenge #58: My Home Town challenged photographers to get out into the place that they live and photograph something that captures the essence of their home town. Twenty-four photographers from eight different countries (and believe it or not, 24 unique cities) trekked out into their hometown and their photos are now available to view and vote on. Read more »

Following the voting period at the end of each month, we tally the votes and crown a photograph as the Photograph of the Month. This month richard peters, for the second time in 2008, has one of his photograph declared the Photograph of the Month. His photograph “Red Deer in Sunrise Mist” picked up over 25% of the votes (and you can check out the voting results here). Read more »

When we originally released the Corner Community Chat schedule for 2008, we hadn’t figured out the topic of our October 29th chat. newlove, the wonderful mod here at the Corner that has been organizing all these chats, came up with a fantastic theme: Story Time. It’s just what the name suggests, we will be sharing our best and worse experiences while out in the field. So put your brain on rewind and bring your stories to the Corner Chat Room Wednesday night at 7pm ET (11pm GMT), and we’ll be going until around 9pm ET (1am GMT). It should be a fun, amusing, educational and enlightening night (and for those of you that need it, I’ll be sending out a PM reminder about an hour before the chat starts)! Read more »

Last month we announced a new contest series called SmugMug Scavenger Hunts and we’re already smack-dab in the middle of SmugMug Scavenger Hunt #2. The objective is to locate 15 new photographs on SmugMug.com (you can see the list here), and now it’s time to award the second of 3 SmugMug Accounts (actually, we were supposed to announce a winner a couple of days ago… oops!). This time up for grabs is a SmugMug Power Account. So how do we pick a winner? Well, gather all the entries we received in the first two weeks, and we stick their usernames in a hat (well, actually an online randomizer). We (the randomizer) then picks out one of the correct answers, and they win a SmugMug Power account… it’s as easy as that. And the winner is… Read more »

It’s the last week of October, which means it’s time to vote for the top photograph from the past month. We have 13 photographs to vote on this month, including two by Spicoli and two by jaharris1001. You can check out the entries in the November 2008 Photograph of the Month Photo Gallery and cast your vote in the voting thread. Read more »

Just a quick post to let you know there will be no SmugMug Corner interview this week. We should be back next Friday with another great interview. Instead of reading a new interview this week, why not take a look through the SmugMug Corner Archives to see if there are any in there you may have missed! Read more »

You’ve got no excuse this time. I try to make most of the Contest Corner Challenges accessible to as many people as possible, but obviously, certain geographical limitations do come into play once and a while. This time, though, you’ve got no excuse. We all live somewhere. Even better, I know you all have access to the internet, so I’m guessing not one of you lives in some remote tree fort or anything. I lived in the middle of no where for a year, and even then, I wouldn’t be able to wiggle out of this one. Your task? Take a photograph of your home town. It doesn’t matter if you live in a huge metropolis like New York or Singapore, or you live in a small town or in the middle of no where (like Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories of Canada), you can do this one. Read more »

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. Read more »

Last week, we paid tribute to Carl (aka ohenry) for all the hard work he’s done on the Premiere Projects over the past year (just to clarify, he’s not dead or anything… just passing along the torch!). The torch has been passed to Mario, known around these parts as Nikon_Mario. With this passing of the torch, we’re taking the opportunity to do a little retooling of the Premiere Projects. Read more »