Digital Focus: Calibrate Your Monitor

Hot Pic of the Week

Get published, get famous! Each week, we select our favorite reader-submitted photo based on creativity, originality and technique. Every month, the best of the weekly winners gets a prize valued at between $15 and $50.

Here's how to enter: Send us your photograph in JPEG format, at a resolution no higher than 640 by 480 pixels. Entries at higher resolutions will be immediately disqualified. If necessary, use an image editing program to reduce the file size of your image before e-mailing it to us. Include the title of your photo along with a short description and how you photographed it. Don't forget to send your name, e-mail address, and postal address. Before entering, please read the full description of the contest rules and regulations.

This week's Hot Pic: "Intense," by Samara Brenda Winfield, Los Angeles, California

About this week's winner, Samara says: "This image is one of a homeless man who was walking the streets of downtown's Skid Row. It was nighttime and he had come over to me to ask for money. His eyes captivated me and he willingly posed for my digital camera, which is a Sony Mavica."

Samara says that she captured this picture in the camera's black-and-white mode to capture the scene's startling simplicity.

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