ViewBug and 123RF collaborate to inspire photographers

SAN DIEGO - March 15, 2013 - PRLog -- ViewBug, the world's best photo contest community, has collaborated with 123RF, a royalty-free digital media library (http://www.123rf.com/), offering budget-friendly creative content for a new competition that encourages photographers to submit still-life images.  

ViewBug (http://www.viewbug.com/) is an online community for photographers of different levels; boasting a wide range of photographers from casual shutterbugs, to skilled professional artists. Its website has over 4 million pageviews per month with over 160,000 registered photographers. The site provides photographers with the opportunity to get their photos seen by a larger audience. Viewbug is renowned for offering a variety of unique and inspiring photo contests.

The winner will be selected by distinguished photographer Andy Fallon, a Rock 'n' Roll photographer based in London. Andy's music photography has been published in NME, MOJO, SPIN, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Telegraph and The Sunday Times magazine.

"We are excited to bring yet another creative opportunity to our members. 123RF is the perfect partner for this contest - they have an amazing library of images" - Ori Guttin, co-founder of ViewBug

About ViewBug:

ViewBug is an online photo contest (http://www.viewbug.com/photo-contests) community that provides the opportunity for photographers to share photos with chances to win prizes. With ViewBug, everyone can get an opportunity to be discovered. Unlike other photography competitions, ViewBug makes the photography contests fun and social, by providing prizes by the best brands in the industry and including the most influential photographers as judges. Participants can also help judges select winners with a social media voting tool. ViewBug provides a slick profile to showcase your photos and different memberships to accommodate any type of photographer. A fast-growing company, ViewBug is based in San Diego with business development partners in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

About 123RF:

123RF is a royalty-free digital media library that offers a wide variety of commercial and practical high quality stock photos (http://www.123rf.com/), editorial images, vector illustrations, footage, audio clips and exclusive logo design with a budget-friendly price. Acknowledged as the preferred choice of over 2.6 million creative design professionals and advertising agencies, 123RF is constantly providing 30,000 fresh content on a daily basis and it offers more than 18 million high quality Royalty-Free content as seen up-to-date today. The 123RF.com platform is also a channel for photographers, illustrators and designers to showcase their talent, allowing them to promote and sell their creations to a worldwide audience through a sales profit sharing model between 123RF and each contributor. Our clientele consist of American Express, The McGraw-Hill Companies, M&C SAATCHI, Walmart, CBS and many more.