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: "A Lovely Couple," by Peter Nelson, Hartland, Minnesota

Peter says: "I hoped to capture some geese in their natural habitat, so I dressed as if I were going deer hunting, with a camouflage net stretched over the top of my head. After waiting about twenty minutes, I heard the first sign of my friends. I hoped my blind would be good enough to make them comfortable to land. Sure enough, the camo netting worked. I was so excited that initially, I started to snap shots of just about everything that moved. As I was shooting, I kept hearing a single goose honking nearby. I turned to look, and to my amazement, I found a goose seeming to yell at another. Every time this mad goose would lunge forward, the other one simply leaned away as if ignoring the conversation. It reminded me of a couple arguing."

Peter used a Canon Rebel EOS Digital with a Sigma 28-300mm lens.

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