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: "Calhoun Street Bridge," by Michelle Alton, Yardley, Pennsylvania

Michelle writes: "Recently, I became fascinated with infrared photography. After several months, I've had a bit of really satisfying luck. I cross the bridge in this photo every day on my way to work. I knew that clouds look particularly striking in infrared, so I tried shooting the bridge on a particularly cloudy day. I like the end result; all the contrast seems spectacular."

Michelle took the photo with a Canon EOS 10D with an infrared filter mounted on the lens.

Hot Pic of the Month: Each month we choose one of our weekly winners to be the Hot Pic of the Month. For October, we chose "Kokopeli Burn Barrel," by Peggy Dyess, from Burnet, Texas.

Congratulations to Peggy and to everyone else who won a Hot Pic of the Week last month. Keep those entries coming!

See all the Hot Pic of the Week photos online.

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