Digital Focus: Wide-Angle Tips and Tricks

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 $10 and $100.

A gentle reminder, folks: We disqualify some really wonderful pictures every week because the submissions aren't following the rules. In your e-mail message be sure to include everything we ask for, including a description of your picture and your complete contact information, or your entry is wasted!

Here's how to enter:

Send us your photograph in JPEG format at a resolution no higher than 640 by 480 pixels to hotpic@pcworld.com. 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 regs.

This week's Hot Pic: Wynther, by Donna Alexander, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Donna took this charming portrait of Wynther in her backyard during a reflective moment as the little girl responded to the sound of chirping birds in the tree above her. Donna used a Toshiba digital camera set on automatic exposure.

January's Hot Pic of the Month

Each month we choose one of our weekly winners to be the Hot Pic of the Month. For this first winner of 2002, we chose the striking digital composite Flying Gull, by Howard Schiff of Roslyn, New York. Howard has won a PC World CD case. Congratulations to all the other weekly winners, too--the entries keep getting better and better!

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