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.

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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.

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.

Mpix.com is a company that is already used by a fair number of people around the Corner. Thankfully, they not only sponsored the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, but also are gaving away $1,200 in gift certificates to the winners - that’s a lot of prints (and books and other press items)!

In addition to offering prizes to each of the 10 finalists of the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, Think Tank Photo is also offering a free camera bag to any member of the Corner that makes a purchase of over $50 from Think Tank Photo. Spend at least $50, get a FREE camera bag. Use coupon code WS-171 and you're all set. Here's a closer look at Think Tank Photo, and the prizes they're offering for the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest.

One of the single, most valuable prizes available to be won in the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest is the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Printer courtesy of Epson Canada. Here’s a closer look at Epson Canada, as well as the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 printer.

Over the next couple of days, during the voting of the Final Round of the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, we’re going to have a chance to meet some of the sponsors that have made this amazing contest successful. We’re starting with GetData, our lead sponsor who not only donated prizes to the top 10 finalists, but also donated a free copy of ExplorerView to each person that entered the contest. Check out what they had to say below, and make sure to check out their site at www.getdata.com.

Since the winners of the 2007 Photograph of the Year contest have been announced, a bunch of my time has been taken up by organizing the prizes, and tying up loose ends around the contest. One of the things that is always a bonus when putting our contests together, is all the cool people and advertisers/sponsors I get to work with, and I just wanted to make a quick post about one of our main sponsors of the 2007 Photograph of the Year contest: ScanCafe. Read more »