Hot Pics
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: "Seahorse," by Larry Lynn, Grand View, New York
Larry took this picture of a long-snout seahorse at a depth of 60 feet on Frenchman's Reef off at Roatan Island in Honduras. He used an Olympus C-5050 inside an Olympus PT-015 underwater housing.
Larry adds: "This was a very difficult shot. The seahorse is only about four inches long. The current was brisk, and I had to hold on to something with one hand and shoot single-handed. This is not easy to do underwater with current. If you hold your breath to steady yourself, your buoyancy increases, so you rise. If you let out a breath, you sink. On top of that, about 5 other divers were jostling to get in for a shot."
Hot Pic of the Month: Each month we choose one of our weekly winners to be the Hot Pic of the Month. For our January winner, we chose "Winter Rose," by Ken Runyan from Willits, California.
Congratulations to Ken and to everyone else who won a Hot Pic of the Week last month. Keep those entries coming!
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