It’s a crazy time of year for a lot of people - I know that - kids going back to school, vacations coming to a close, busy times at work. I get it. But if you could, I’d love it if you could squeeze in a couple of minutes and cast your vote for the Contest Corner Challenge #55: The Face of Education. Read more »

With Contest Corner Challenge #54 complete, we've announced the 55th CCC - The Face of Education. For most places around the world, the end of August/the beginning of September marks the time where the kids head back to school. What better time to capture the "face of education?"

With over 30 entries, we knew Contest Corner Challenge #54: Dark Outlines was going to be a tough vote, but one photographer and photograph stood out among the rest: J.K. Mann and his photograph “The Honeymooners.” CCC#54: Dark Outlines challenged the community to take a photograph of any subject, as long as that subject was silhouetted. Easier than it sounds, though. It was fantastic to see 32 people step up to the plate with some fantastic entries. Read more »

I can’t believe it’s time to vote for another Contest Corner Challenge, but with this three week schedule, time sure flies. That being said, 32 of your stepped up for this one, and we’ve got some fantastic silhouette images to choose from. Read more »

At the beginning of the month we announced Contest Corner Challenge #54: Dark Outlines. By the end of this contest, we’ll be back on track with the regular, 3-week Contest Corner Challenges as well. The task for this contest, while it may seem simple, should get some of your to play around with some different settings on your cameras. Your task? To photography anything you want, as long as it is silhouetted. Read more »

Although we announced the winner in the forums almost a week ago, I’m still doing some catching up, and only getting around to announcing it on the blog today. We had 21 great entries for Contest Corner Challenge #53: Four-Wheel Fotography, but one entry obviously stood above the rest. Read more »

The Contest Corner Challenges are running a little late this summer, but we’ll be caught up in a contest or two. That being said, it’s time to vote for the CCC#53: Four-Wheel Fotography winning photograph. Read more »

Better late than never, right? Here’s a quick update on the past Contest Corner Challenge as well as the current CCC. Read more »

It’s been about 13 hours since we started the upgrade, and we’re obviously not finished yet. The forum is working, but it still looks pretty funny. We’re basically having to rebuild the template (all the files that make the Corner look like the Corner) from the bottom-up, so it looks like it will take us a bit longer than we initially thought. We’re aiming to have most of the design bugs complete by this time (10pm-ish EST) tomorrow (Tuesday) night - we’ll be working on it most of the day tomorrow. In the meantime, feel free to continue to post stuff up in the forums and galleries, and don’t be freaked out if stuff looks different, or you get an error, or it’s blue instead of orange, or whatever - over the next day or two. Because of the delays, however, the winner announcement of Contest Corner Challenge #52, and the announcement of CCC#53 will be a day or two late. I’m aiming for late (as in past midnight) on Tuesday night for the CCC#52 winner announcement, and hopefully mid-afternoon on Wednesday for the announcement of CCC#53 (but don’t hold me to that… it depends on how the rest of the upgrade goes, and how tired I am by midnight on Tuesday night). But enough with the updates - go back and enjoy the new Corner forums. Read more »

With 30 entries of “feathered friends” for our latest Contest Corner Challenge, if you have a bird-phobia, you may not want to check the entries out (hey mom, don’t look at the photos for this contest!). Contest Corner Challenge #52: Feathered Friends asked you all to photograph birds, and we got a wide variety of entries. Read more »

Now that Contest Corner Challenge #51 is complete, it’s time to announce another Contest Corner Challenge. It’s been a while since we’ve done any “animal-related” contests, so all you birders, get your cameras ready for Contest Corner Challenge #52: Feathered Friends. Read more »

Contest Corner Challenges truck along on a pretty regular 3-weeks schedule. Three weeks ago we announced Contest Corner Challenge #51: Who Has Seen the Wind?, then a little less than a week ago, voting started for CCC#51. Now that voting is complete, it’s time to announce the winner of Contest Corner Challenge #51. And with over 16% of the votes, jim3584 has been crowned the winner with his photograph titled “Baby the Wind Must Blow.” Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, we announced Contest Corner Challenge #51 which asked photographers to “photograph the wind.” Now, I know what you’re thinking: “How can one photograph the wind?” Well, we may not be able to actually photograph the wind, but as Christina Rossetti’s poem by the same name notes, there are ways to see evidence of the wind all around us, and 28 photographers took up that challenge and captured evidence of the wind in a photograph. Read more »

I didn’t have a Contest Corner Challenge idea for CCC#51 when it came time to post up the contest earlier this afternoon, so I was doing what I normally do when I haven’t come up with an idea: wandering around inside and outside the house with a camera in my hand looking for inspiration. I stepped outside, and the wind blew the door right out of my hand. Voilà! The wind! But how does one photograph the wind? Read more »

In one of our biggest Contest Corner Challenges in recent history, with a total of 48 entries, fa1sal, with over 8.5% of the votes, won with his photograph titled “Rhythm Nation.” Read more »

I know it’s a day late, but with 48 entries and a long weekend here in Canada, what did you expect? Despite my lateness in getting the voting started, I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait. Check out the 48 entries we received!!! Read more »

The announcement may be a couple of days late, but that doesn’t make the win any less fantastic: Gil Paz, aka zaplig from Giv’atáyim, Israel won Contest Corner Challenge #49: Play Ball with his photograph “Broken Window.” Read more »

As I mentioned in the email I sent out a couple of days ago (which you only would have received if you’re a member of the PhotographyCorner Forums - you can register here), I’ll be out of town at a conference most of this week (May 4th - 9th), so, unfortunately, the winner of Contest Corner Challenge #49: Play Ball won’t be announced until I get back into the office. To make up for that, though, I’ve announced Contest Corner Challenge #50 a couple of days early. Read more »

The entry period for Contest Corner Challenge #49: Play Ball has come and gone, and we’re now in the voting stage of the CCC. With the minor controversy over the subject of the contest, I was surprised how few entries we received (ok, it wasn’t horrible, but it’s the lowest number of entries we’ve had in a while). Read more »

Just a quick post to let you know that you should have received the April 2008 Newsletter in your inbox already. If you haven’t, you can read it online here. It’s obviously a fantastic newsletter (like always), and it’s sponsored by Parade Portfolio Management Tools. You’ve gotta read the whole way through, though, because there’s an important announcement regarding Contest Corner Challenge #49: Play Ball. Read it to find out.  Read more »