QOOP Announces Winning Designs for First Week of 2011 Photo Contest for Calendars

Sept. 27, 2010 - PRLog -- QOOP, a leading social commerce community has its first set of weekly winners for its free 2011 Photo Contest for Calendars. The 2011 Photo Contest for Calendars offers photographers and artists the opportunity to design and submit new calendars for the weekly contest through the end of January, 2011. QOOP will showcase the submissions and top finalist on their QOOP Photo Contest Blog, then the editorial committee with choose a different winner and honorable mentions to receive free calendars for each week.

For the week ending September 25, 2010, Heidi Dlubac wins the competition with her beautiful, Bonsai Calendar 2011. Honorable mentions go to: Walter Szymanski for his wonderful, 2011 North American Dragonfly Calendar; Lucent Dream’s Photography for its creative Amperdoodles 2011 Calendar; Christine Richardson for her unique, Make a Wish! with Walter the Starfish Hunter 2011 Calendar. The winner will receive ten free copies of her calendar and the honorable mentions will each receive five free copies of their calendars. The winning calendars can be seen at http://qoopphotocontest.wordpress.com/ along with the other notable submissions and calendar purchasing can be done directly online through http://qoop.com.

Mike Richardson, QOOP’s Community Organizer, and creator of the new structure to the free 2011 Photo Contest for Calendars, said, “The response to our new 2011 Photo Contest for Calendars has been fantastic. We’re seeing a number of creative submissions for long time community members as well as new calendars and image listings by photographers and artist who are just learning about QOOP and our new contest.”

New entrants for the ongoing free contest can upload their images directly to QOOP or import from flickr, then create their calendars at QOOP.com. Photographers and artist will find a simple calendar creator interface at QOOP with editorial control over each page. After the creation process, simply save the listing to myQOOP and fill out the listing with titles, tags, description, and set your royalty. QOOP offers a simple online video to show photographers and artist how easy it is to create calendars and listings.

About QOOP

QOOP is a free social commerce community for artists, authors, photographers, designers, stock image libraries, publishers, and document libraries. QOOP’s site includes a community galleria and tools to set up and share online storefronts anywhere on the web. The amplified distribution of stores and listings allows the social network to act at the traffic engine to drive greater marketing awareness and sales to store listings on QOOP. On demand product sales include ebooks, stock image downloads, photo prints, framed prints, greeting cards, postcards, business cards, photo mugs, photo gifts, photo books, mini photo books, hardback books, paperback books, wire-o reports, and more. For more information visit http://www.qoop.com. QOOP offices are in Mill Valley, California.

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