PhotographyCorner.com Announces Contest Corner Challenge #57: Pollution

Barrie, Ontario, Canada, October 03, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Photography Corner ( www.PhotographyCorner.com ) has announced a new Contest Corner Challenge open to all members of the popular photography community. The latest challenge asks photographers to photograph some form of pollution, or the negative effects of pollution on an environment. According to Wikipedia, "pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the physical systems or living organisms they are in. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances, or energy, such as noise, heat, or light energy." Most photographs we take are of "beautiful" or "pretty" things - generally speaking, we don't enjoy photographing "ugly" things - however, it is sometimes the most disturbing of subjects that make for the most powerful photographs.

A challenge winner will be chosen after a five-day voting period by PhotographyCorner.com members when the contest ends on Monday, October 13th, 2008. The site began offering Contest Corner Challenges in July 2004, and new challenges are issued approximately eighteen times per year. If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a SmugMug Pro Account (1 year free subscription) or a $50 Gift Certificate towards prints at SmugMug.com. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a SmugMug Power Account (1 year free subscription).

Photographers who join PhotographyCorner.com have the ability to enter one photograph for each of the Contest Corner Challenges. In an effort to make the contests fair for all members, only photographs taken during the time of the contest can be entered, and only minor post-production photo manipulation can be used.

Contest Corner Challenges at www.PhotographyCorner.com are issued to site members in the community’s forum. Only Premiere Members of Photography Corner (requires a yearly or lifetime subscription) are eligible to win some of the prizes, but all members of the site are always invited to submit photographs to the contest and to participate in the five-day voting window to vote on contest winners and discuss submissions after they have all been received.

About www.PhotographyCorner.com

PhotographyCorner.com is a leading portal for photographers, which includes member-written articles, tutorials, forums, a photography directory and projects. The site runs a monthly Photograph of the Month contests and eighteen yearly Contest Corner Challenges, as well as providing an area of the site for photographers to receive constructive criticism of their work in the Critiques Corner. As a further resource to photographers, PhotographyCorner.com provides photography news, camera reviews, and information on photography contests and events throughout the world. PhotographyCorner.com was launched in March 2004.

About SmugMug

SmugMug is devoted to priceless photos. A father and son team founded the company in 2002. Since then SmugMug has continued to stay a private family owned business, profitable and debt free. Every subscription comes with unlimited storage with no ads surrounding any photo. "White-glove" is the best way to describe SmugMug's customer service. SmugMug believes in taking care of our customers. Real people, real photographers are always available to assist customer's every need 365/24/7. SmugMug provides all the necessary tools and functionality for privacy and security of each priceless photo. For added security each photo is saved multiple times in multiple data centers around the country, making it truly the "Fort Knox" for photos.

For more information, please visit www.PhotographyCorner.com. Tim L. Walker can be reached at 705.321.9542 or via email at twalker@photographycorner.com to answer any questions.

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