At the end of January, about 3 weeks ago, we announced the winners of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest after weeks of voting and narrowing down the entries. If you missed all the craziness of the contest, you can check out the winners here. The $10,000 in prizes are on their way to being delivered to the winners and it’s time to do a quick look-back at the contest - specifically at all the photos that were initially entered into the contest.

After 2 months of 2009 Photograph of the Year contest craziness, last week it finally came to an exciting close. Hundreds of entries, thousands of votes, and now we have 9 Runner-Ups and 1 Winner: fa1sal with his photograph “Autumn Resurrection” (pictured right). For winning the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest, Faisal picks up $3,250 of the $10,000 in prizes that will be dispersed to the winners. Almost all of the prizes were supplied by 9 fantastic sponsors: PhotoBook Press, Cotton Carrier, Mpix, Imagevuex, AKVIS, ThinkTankPhoto, Amazon.com, SmugMug and Daymen. You can check out the sponsors here, and browse through the list of prizes here. If you haven’t seen the winner photographs already, you can check them out here on the Photograph of the Year page.

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!!!

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!!!

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 2nd Runner-Up (3rd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is johnloguk with his photograph Ghosts of Christmas Present!!!

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 3rd Runner-Up (4th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is MAAQ with his photograph Lemon Splash!!!

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 4th Runner-Up (5th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is jaharris1001 with his photograph Tiny Bubbles!!!

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 5th Runner-Up (6th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is SNiedzwiecki with her photograph Nice Ice!!!

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 6th Runner-Up (7th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is Garry with his photograph Blue Hour Magic!!!

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 7th Runner-Up (Tied for 8th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is nrshapiro with his photograph Garden of Eden!!!

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 7th Runner-Up (Tied for 8th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is masoud with his photograph Catch Me If You Can!!!

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 9th Runner-Up (10th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year Contest is cup4tml with his photograph Morning Fog!!!

A month an a half ago we announced the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest with $10,000 in prizes. We received hundreds of entries, and a little over a week ago, we started voting on them. The photographs were split up into 7 “groups,” and, after a week of voting, the top 3 photographs from each group have moved on to the final voting round (you can read through the breakdown from each group here). Now, 21 photographs will battle it out for your votes to determine which 10 photographs will come away with part of the $10,000’s in prizes, and which photograph will bring home the $3,250 grand prize and be declared the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year.

After well over 2,000 votes in round 1 of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest, it’s time to find out which photographs will move on to the final voting round. The entries were initially split up into 7 “groups” with 21 photographs in each group. The top three photographs from each group will move on to the final round. With voting complete, we’ve tallied up the votes and announced which photographs will battle it out for the $10,000 in prizes, including a $3,250 grand prize.

One of the new sponsors for the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest is software company AKVIS. AKVIS is offering several thousand dollars in prizes for the contest - check out our quick interview with them below:

Another returning sponsor from the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, Think Tank Photo has offered up several fantastic camera bags as prizes for the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest. As a special offer to members of PhotographyCorner, with any purchase of $50 or more from Think Tank Photo, you will receive a free camera bag! Just click here and start shopping to activate the promotion. For more on Think Tank Photo and their sponsorship of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest, check out the interview below.

Last week we announced that, for the first time ever, the winning photographs of the Premiere Projects from the past year will be pitted against each other and voted on to determine which photograph will be the Premiere Project Photograph of the Year. Voting is now complete (check out the results here), and with over 20% of the votes, Uncommon View, the Premiere Project #59 winning photograph by tamara has emerged as the winner!

Premiere Projects are theme based, and with each project, Premiere Members have the opportunity to challenge themselves to grow as photographers. Each projects outlines a topic for the members to photograph. The photos are then submitted for discussion/critiquing/reactions. At the end of the project period (there’s a new project every couple of weeks), a vote is held to determine which photo best represents the theme while maintaining high photographic quality.

Originally the vote was only going to be among Premiere Members in the Premiere Members Only Section of PhotographyCorner, but the Premiere Members wanted to open voting up to the community at large in attempts to encourage non Premiere Members to support the Corner and become Premiere Members themselves. To that end, the HALF PRICE Premiere Membership sale will continue until Monday, January 18th, 2010. Learn about Premiere Membership here, and sign up to become a Premiere Member for HALF PRICE here.

The contest is being sponsored by DayMen Photo Marketing, and tamara will receive a prize pack courtesy of Daymen valued at over $100.

To participate in future Premiere Projects, sign up to become a Premiere Member here for HALF PRICE (Hurry - only a couple of days left to get in at HALF PRICE!!).

Make sure to drop by the award thread to congratulate tamara on her win.

Over the next week or so, during the voting of the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest, we're going to have the chance to get to know some of the sponsor companies a little better. We'll kick it with one of our returning sponsors from last year: Mpix.com.

Over a month after we announced the PhotographyCorner.com 2009 Photograph of the Year contest with $10,000 in prizes (brought to you by PhotoBook Press and the other fine sponsors), it’s finally time for the community to cast their votes. Due to the large number of entries into the contest, just as in past years, we’ve split the voting into 2 rounds.

Remember the 2009 Photograph of the Year Promotion Contest we announced last month? A bunch of you participated and posted links to the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and a bunch of other places. Thanks for helping us spread the news about the big contest! Now that the entry period for the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest has come to a close (and the first round of voting will begin very soon), it’s time to award the prize pack valued at $100 courtesy of Daymen Photo Marketing & Lowepro to the winner.

We put all the entries into a randomizer, and the winner is… wohlerperc with his post on Twitter. Congrats Will! Thanks for telling people on twitter about the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest!

Voting for the 2009 Photograph of the Year contest will begin with Round 1 tomorrow!!