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Follow on Google News | PhotographyCorner Announces Masoud Harati as the Winner of the 2008 Photograph of the Year ContestNarrowed down from hundreds of entries through two rounds of community voting, Masoud Harati of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has been announced as the winner of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.
By: Tim L. Walker / PhotographyCorner Masoud Harati took top honors with his photograph titled “Shy and Curious.” The top 10 finalists, in order from 1st runner-up to 9th runner-up include: Mel Brackstone of Queensland, Australia; Sabine Cane of Tawatinaw, Alberta, Canada; Winston Rockwell of Kirkland, Washington, USA; Ermin Monzon of Ajax, Ontario, Canada; Faisal Almalki of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Adul Qadir M. Siddiqui of Karachi, Pakistan; Daniel Braam of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA; Richard Peters of Middlesex, UK; and Lucy Paz of Golan Heights, Israel. All submitted entries can now be viewed in the Photo Galleries on PhotographyCorner.com ( http://twurl.nl/ With over $11,500 in prizes available to be won, and with first prize alone valued at over $3,800, the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year contest received hundreds of entries from all over the world. The entries were narrowed down to 130 photographs in 10 voting groups, where the top two entries in each group moved on to the final voting round, which ended on January 30th, 2009. There are several things that set the contest apart from some of the other “Best of the Year” photography contests. Firstly, winners can be from anywhere in the world, not just limited to the US or Canada, making the contest truly a worldwide photography contest. In fact, some of the past winners are from various places around the world which include the USA, Sweden, the UK, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, Argentina, Israel, Africa, India, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. In addition, instead of having a select group of judges pick a winner, the entire community voted on every photograph, broken down in several rounds. With this unique voting process, every eligible submitted photograph was given a chance to win, not just a select few picked out by judges, giving the community complete power over which photographs were awarded “Best Photograph of 2008.” In an interview about the Photograph of the Year contest, the owner and founder of PhotographyCorner.com, Tim L. Walker, expressed that "the excitement and unique features of this contest display exactly why PhotographyCorner is such a popular and unique home for photographers on the web. Anyone can enter the contest, and anyone can win. I don’t decide. A bunch of “professional” The 9 contest sponsors, including GetData.com, MyPicTales.com, ColorRight.com and SmugMug.com, have offered up an amazing collection of cash and prizes ( http://www.photographycorner.com/ About www.PhotographyCorner.com PhotographyCorner.com is a leading photography resources portal for photographers, which includes member-written articles, tutorials, forums, a community photo gallery, a photography directory, a photography blog, and a collection of photography projects. The site runs a monthly Photograph of the Month contest and eighteen yearly Contest Corner Challenges, as well as providing an area of the site for photographers to receive constructive criticism of their work in the Critiques Corner. PhotographyCorner.com was launched in March 2004. About www.GetData.com GetData is a Software Development Company specializing in Data Recovery, File Previewing, Windows Tools and Computer Forensics Software. GetData's principal product, Recover My Files ( http://www.recovermyfiles.com ), is the industry-leading data recovery software which recovers deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or from accidentally formatted or corrupt hard drives, digital camera cards and other storage devices. For more information, please visit www.PhotographyCorner.com and http://www.photographycorner.com/ # # # PhotographyCorner.com is a leading portal for photographers, which includes member-written articles, tutorials, forums, a photography directory and projects. End
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