After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the WINNER of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest!!!

The WINNER of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest is alvibasit with his photograph Tales to Tell, Tears to Shed!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 1st Runner-Up (2nd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to william88 with his photograph Yosemite Valley View!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 2nd Runner-Up (3rd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to floridapix with her photograph Trying to Get Away!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 3rd Runner-Up (4th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to SNiedzwiecki with her photograph Gaze!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 4th Runner-Up (5th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to Bozzzzz with his photograph Castle Hill at Dusk!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 5th Runner-Up (6th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to Alamsyah with his photograph Circle for Togetherness!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 6th Runner-Up (7th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to william88 with his photograph Harmonic Cheers!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 7th Runner-Up (8th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to Putunetika with his photograph Flying to the Sun!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 8th Runner-Up (9th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to Vampirica with her photograph Angel!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured over 225 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 9th Runner-Up (10th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest goes to nrshapiro with his photograph Jade!!

It’s down to the final stretch. Crunch time. We’ve narrowed down over 225 photos to 30 (congrats to the 30 photographs that have photos in the final voting round!). Now we have to whittle down those 30 to 10. 10 photographers will walk home (ok, we’ll technically mail the prizes out) with over $10,000 in prizes (and the 1st-overall winner with $3,250 in prizes!). But before we get to the prizes, we need you to vote on the photos.

Every year, I am blown away by the quality of entries we receive. Even if you’re not a member of the Corner, or don’t want to vote, take some time to browse through the 30 photographs in the 2011 Photograph of the Year Photo Gallery - the photos are outstanding. And don’t forget about our fantastic group of sponsors, including Depositphotos and SmugMug, so be sure to browse through all the sponsors in the sponsors list here and thank them for sponsoring the contest here.

The final voting round ends at approximately 4:00pm EST on Thursday, January 26th, 2011 (9:00pm GMT). So once you’ve browsed through the entries in the 2011 Photograph of the Year Photo Gallery, head on over to the voting thread in the forums to cast your vote.

Good luck to everyone in the final voting round - and congratulations to everyone that has participated so far this year - it’s been an amazing contest (now go vote already!).

We received almost 500 entries for the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year contest - the most to date I believe - and after all the photos were checked to make sure they stuck to the rules, 226 of them are up and ready to be voted on. Due to the number of entries, we’ll do voting in 2 rounds. For Round 1, which runs from January 11th, 2012 to January 18th, 2012, the entries have been split up into 10 different groups of 23/22. The top three photographs in each Group (the three photographs that receive the most votes) will be placed into the final round where they will be voted on to decide the 10 prize winners. In the event of a tie, both photographs will move to the final round.

This year we have over $10,000 in prizes to hand out, including a grand prize worth $3,250!! Check out the stunning list of prizes on the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Prizes page. We’ve got a fantastic group of sponsors, including Depositphotos and SmugMug, so be sure to browse through all the sponsors in the sponsors list here and thank them for sponsoring the contest here.

Make sure you vote in each group during round 1 of the voting process so that all 226 photos get a fair chance. If you have any questions specifically about the voting process, please ask them here (If you have any other questions about the contest, please ask them in the designated discussion thread).

Voting will be secret (ie. no one will know who you voted for, and the results of the vote will not be displayed until after the voting period has ended). You can only vote once in each group, and you must have 5 posts on the forum (including gallery comments) in order for your vote to count. Also, all photographs are anonymous, so please do not identify if you are the photographer of a specific photograph, or if you know which photographer took a certain photograph. You can, of course, vote for your own photograph if you wish.

Here are the links to each of the photo galleries and the polls. You have until January 18th to vote in Round 1.

• Round 1, Group A Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group A Poll

• Round 1, Group B Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group B Poll

• Round 1, Group C Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group C Poll

• Round 1, Group D Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group D Poll

• Round 1, Group E Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group E Poll

• Round 1, Group F Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group F Poll

• Round 1, Group G Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group G Poll

• Round 1, Group H Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group H Poll

• Round 1, Group I Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group I Poll

• Round 1, Group J Photo Gallery
• Round 1, Group J Poll

You’ve got 226 photos to wade through, so what are you waiting for? Check out the entries and cast your vote here!

I love this time of year. Sure, there’s the snow (at least up here in Canada), and the Christmas lights and holiday parties and all that good stuff, but for the past 5 years, it’s also meant it’s time for the PhotographyCorner.com Photograph of the Year contest! And it’s back on, baby!

This year we have over $10,000 in prizes to hand out, including a grand prize worth $3,250!! Check out the stunning list of prizes on the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Prizes page. We’ve got a fantastic group of sponsors, including Depositphotos and SmugMug, so you’re not going to want to miss this one (make sure to browse through all the sponsors in the sponsors list here).

All of the info for the contest is listed (or linked to) on the main contest page - so make sure to bookmark it and head back there throughout the contest. But basically, here’s the low down:

• You can enter any photograph you want (Premiere Members can enter 2!), as long as it was taken in 2011.
• You have to have a PhotographyCorner account (obviously) with at least 5 posts (if you don’t have an account yet, register for one here).
• No over manipulation (no HDR, selective color, signature, borders, etc).
• Images must be submitted by January 6th, 2012, and voting will begin on January 11th (we do voting in 2 rounds: first the images get split up into a number of groups, and the winners of those groups move on to the final round). The winners (yes, we give prizes to the top 10 finalists!) will be announced after voting is complete at the end of January.
• Make sure to read the Rules before sending in a submission (I rejected over 150 entries last year alone!).
• Before Submitting a Photograph, make sure you are aware of what pieces of information are required with your submission (explained on the How to Submit a Photograph page), as well as what limitations there are as to what photographs can be submitted.
• Over $10,000 in prizes available to be won - check out the full prize list here (note: certain prizes are only available for Premiere Members to win - get more information on becoming a Premiere Member here)

Now you know what I’ve been working on the past couple of months, eh? It’s your turn to get to work going through all the photos you’ve taken in 2011 and deciding which one you’re going to enter (or if you’re a Premiere Members, which two you’re going to enter).

Before you start searching through your photographs, though, browse through the list of prizes and the sponsors that are providing those prizes, and make sure to head over to the forum to thank the sponsors for donating over $10,000 in prizes. We’ve set up a specific thread for you to say thanks - before you enter a photograph, make sure you’ve dropped a quick post in there. Of course, if you have any questions, we have a specific place set up for you to ask them as well - head on over to this thread in the forum to ask them.

Looking forward to hundreds on fantastic entries for the PhotographyCorner.com 2011 Photograph of the Year Contest!!!

Finally, after a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, we were very excited to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest yesterday. We announced each of the top 10 finalists individually here on the Corner Blog, but I thought everyone might enjoy browsing through the top 10 winners in order, in once place. So, by your request: here ya go:

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the WINNER of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The WINNER of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is Vince Maidens with his photograph Great Horned Owl - Incoming!!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 1st Runner-Up (2nd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is Parabol with his photograph Poetic Rage!!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 2nd Runner-Up (3rd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is william88 with his photograph Fleeting Moment!!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 3rd Runner-Up (4th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is TenX with his photograph Blowing Confetti Kisses!!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 4th Runner-Up (5th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is SauliusM with his photograph Freedom!!!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round that featured almost 200 photos, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s finally time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 5th Runner-Up (6th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2010 Photograph of the Year Contest is paula with her photograph Street Life!!!