The way we always say goodbye to the day: through a beautiful sunset scene.
Thank you all for the amazing submissions and the participation through the votes helping our judges select the winner of the brand new Kodak Easy Share Digital Camera.

Congratulations to the Winner of the Contest:
LKHPhotography with photo “Desert Sunset”

Honorary mentions that must be recognized due to the great imagery:

slycourt with photo “An evening stroll”

annablatterman with photo “windmill sunset”

cjlacsican with photo “img_0054″

billyho333 with photo “ACK sunset”

zoomklick with photo “Days end”

Many new open photo contests with great prizes: Click here!

Beautiful submissions by all participants!  Our judges requested us to say: BIG THANKS for such an eye feast.

It was not an easy task to filter the entries into the Winner and honorable mentions.

To participate in open contests, please click here.

Congratulations to the 1st place Winner of the Ocean photo Contest:

gbaylen with photo “Bubbles” who won a brand new Canon PowerShot A480.

Congratulations also to the following Honorary mentions:

Parabol with photo “Ocean Brushes”

b_radd3 with photo “Sunset 6″

sandyhorvath with photo “OIA skooner sunset”

We truly encourage you to view all the entries of the Nature Photo Contest, they all capture beautifully the delightful and unique aspects of nature.

Congratulations to the photo contest winner and to the runner up photographs.

The First Prize $200 winner is  ”Thors2_0218MM” by mm767cap

The runner up photographs are:

“Memories” by pukkamaru

“White Beauty” by kimmipiev

“Bison at Dawn in Yellowstone” by Steven Dempsey

“untitled” by steve meeks

“tree sil bmead” by cages

What creates a good online community is the participation of the members that belong to it. Thank you all from the ViewBug staff.
One of our most valuable members Dennischeeseman talks to all of us in the interview below:

“I have been an active member of the ViewBug community for just over a year now.  It has been a positive experience for me.  I enjoy starting my day scrolling through pictures as I sip my morning coffee.  I have spent my career in the graphic arts with the production of print and images.  The quality of a picture in a magazine or daily newspaper starts with a good image from the photographer.  Teaching the technical side of photography is easy, teaching the art is quiet another.   The eye of a photographer is one of the toughest things to develop.  By studying the images on the site I can always get a different perspective of how to try and shoot things, different angles, lighting, depth of field, etc.   I welcome and appreciate anyone’s comments/ratings on my shots.

I have met a lot of great users who are open to sharing tips on their shots on this site.  Most of the users are photo nuts who love to talk about their work.    The competitions on ViewBug are another fun aspect for me.  They give me an opportunity to go out and shoot things I may have never thought to shoot. Communities are a good way to meet and share similar types of photographs.  Many users may have seen the “punked” community and wonder what is going on.  This has been a fun group where users get to know each other and have fun picking on each other through pictures. I have been able to make a lot of good friends there.

I love nature photography, whether it is a landscape shot or trying to get a close up macro on something. I shoot with a Canon 50D and have a variety of different lenses. My camera is always with me, so as I walk around I love to hunt for the next great shot.  Things change from season to season, birds migrate, flowers bloom and die, there is always something different even though you may be in the same spot.   So you may see me hiding in the trees trying to get a bird shot or lying on the ground shooting a bug or flower.  All of these relax me from a day of working.  Then, after the sun goes down, I can upload them to my computer and see what I have captured.  The ones I like will be posted on ViewBug.

As for tips, shoot something every day and learn how to use the manual settings on your camera.  The same shot can change dramatically with small shifts in F-stop or shutter speed.  Try taking the same shot with multiple settings on the camera so you can learn what works best in different cases.   The great part of digital shooting is you can take lots of shots and keep only the ones you like. Shoot your passion and it will show in the results of your photography.  Experiment and share!   Thanks for reading!  Regards,

Dennis Cheeseman”

Hello ViewBug friends!

As you know, all the photos inside the VIP communities are eligible to be winners at any time.
The following photos have been chosen by our judges as the February 2010 $10 winning photos of the Gold, Silver and Bronze VIP communities.
Become a member of these communities by accumulating reward points.. learn more

Congratulations to the following winners!

“welcome” by nitti

“bluehotel” by gregomel13

“yellow trees” by jeanlphotos

Congratulations to all participants of the contest for such great and creative images.

As always, our judges truly enjoyed the challenge of selecting the winner amongst so many great submissions.

For more open photo contests click here.

Congratulations to the 1ooo reward point winner dcdead with photo “Is time linear flickr”

Honorary mentions go to:

Kat Robinson with photo “New Orleans Hotel SPA”

saachi_ko with photo “img_7357″

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We take pride in gathering all level of photographers with a positive and engaging
contribution to our photo community. Thank you all for your participation!
Want to be featured next? Let us know by contacting us at members@viewbug.com
Interview with member CPT from Hungary:

” I have found ViewBug by chance, following a link.
There are several pages on the net offering photo hosting, to sell and to print online, most of them complicated to register.
Very colorful and my eyes just playing yoyos when trying to fill the complicated profile, set up my page within.
So I tought okay another one – but to my surprise I’ve found an user friendly setup and design, simple but full scale possibilities even for a foreigner (and not so good english speaking ones) like me.
Another very good experience the people here – friendly and open minded – one hour after uploading my stuff I have already received kind comments, email – belive me, it’s a human touch for me, like a big family.
So yet I am on only since a day or two, but I hope that this is a beginning of a beautiful friendship with ViewBug and the people “living” here, exposing themselves trough their captures.
-          Inspiration is a question how you see things outside – and how this vision will be translated inside your mind and heart by your
emotions, feelings and thoughts.  Basically I think (well, for me) one capture is made twice at the same time: first by the mechanism of your camera, and similarly by your mind at that special moment of shot. As like this, I allways think that it does not matter what
type of gear you use, it can be a simple compact machine, a film or digital hi-tech stuff – the main thing how you see it and the way you compose the shot finaly.
I believe that a classic, or to better say a real artful, individual picture is always more than a photograph, and even if it contains technical errors, still it can be art and premium work. If it is a honest, true capture and the story is inside, generates emotions in you when
watching: you’ve got it.
-          It is the hardest, yet so easy to give tips: in one sentence well – always listen to your heart and practice a lot.)
It is not enough just to see the moment outside – you have to feel it inside. That special instant. And if you listen to that voice, and practice how to listen and shoot parallelly: it will bring the reward soon. It will be a basic instinct by time, you will not have to think
if I should make the shot or not. Thinking takes time.  Milliseconds, but it’s lot. You will be late.
Feel it. With your heart and then that instinct you have learn to set free by practice.
You know, Star Wars – if you are good to listen and obey those inside voices, soon you can be the “Jedi of photography”.

Thank you once more, and have good lights, regards: Gabor Dvornik (Cpt)”

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Hello friends!

The following photos have been chosen by our judges as the January 2010 $15 winning photos of the Gold, Silver and Bronze VIP communities. Remember that all the photos inside the VIP communities are eligible to be winners at any time.

Click here to learn more on how to become a member of these communities.

Gold VIP community winner is “Giraffe Eye” by veny

Silver VIP community winner is  “at the corner of beauty and time” by Michelemeow

Bronze VIP community winner is “Hillside Winter Tree” by beetlestone

All the judges and many of our members loved the creativity shown in the photo entries of the photo contest.

Congratulations to the Following Honorary Mentions of the Body Parts Photo Contest:

First Honorary Mention “Bill fists 2″ by dragon-fly-girl

Runner-up Honorary Mentions:

“white eye” by Exnihilo

Emilyq90

lenaburleson

Submit your best photo now! The winning photo will be published in the July/August 2010 issue of  AmericanPhoto Magazine and wins $100 cash prize paid via Paypal. All level photographers  are welcome to participate and have their photos viewed by thousands of photo enthusiasts and  professional photographers.
For all of you tweeters:
1. Tweet the name of your favorite photo in the contest. In your tweet, include this link,  http://www.viewbug.com/photo-contest/83

2. Thats it! Judges will pick out a tweeted photo and award the tweeter and owner of the photo $25 each.