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: "3-Way Bulb," by Eric Turmail, Florissant, Missouri
About this week's photo, Eric says: "After seeing a lot of digital photos with distracting 'blown-out' highlights, I thought I'd intentionally use a light as my subject. I mounted my Canon G3 on a tripod only inches away from this bulb and shut off the rest of the room lights. I closed down the camera's aperture, and experimented with the amount of light different shutter speeds allowed. The rest of my family always wonders what I'm up to with odd setups like this. But they always seem to enjoy the pictures when I'm done."
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