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: "Philly Hall," by Tim Young, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

About this week's photo, Tim says: "I took this photo of Philadelphia's city hall on a nice, cool summer evening back in September. I was out and about one evening to try out my new digital camera, a Kodak CX7330. I stumbled into this magic scene more or less by accident. The photo shows off how beautiful the city hall area really is at night in Philadelphia. It has a perfect symmetry of color--a blue sky, white fountain, green trees, colored flowers, yellow building lights, and a nicely lit stone tower. And, of course, there is our famous and historic William Penn at the top of the picture!"

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