2016 was full of creativity and amazing, but we invite you to make 2017 your best year ever! This year, nourish your photography like never before. We’d love to help, so here are 7 simple ways you can leverage ViewBug to elevate your photography to another level:

1. Go Outside Your Comfort Zone
Push yourself to regularly enter contests with themes that don’t necessarily feel safe and try emulating techniques you see within the community. Regularly shoot subjects that are unfamiliar to you, real growth happens when you’re pushing yourself to explore your limits.

2. Share More
Take your photography to the next level by upload at least 3 images per week. It’ll push you to explore your creativity, shoot, edit, and share. Upload Now

3. Join More Contests
This year, challenge yourself to join at least one contest each week. It forces you to objectively review your work, it exposes your photography to the community, and it exposes you to the creativity of others. View Contests

4. Create A Challenge

Create a challenge, it’s a great way to meet photographers with similar interests and increase your presence within the community. Each peer photo challenge was created by a fellow photographer with a creative spark. Create A Challenge

At any time there are 100+ live photo contest, but with thousands of peer challenges there’s always something to get your creative juices flowing. Plus, it’s nice connecting with other photographers in a more intimate setting. View Challenges

5. Revisit Your Inspiration Gallery
Unlock the power of all those amazing images you awarded by browsing your inspiration gallery regularly. Expose yourself to daily awesomeness by following ViewBug on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

6. Give More Peer Awards
Discover amazing images and new photographers by browsing the galleries of contests and challenges. Receiving a peer award is a boost to any photographer while strengthening your eye and giving you new ideas!  Browse Amazing Photos

7. Follow More Photographers

Do you love someone’s work? Follow them. Following photographers helps personalize your ViewBug experience and commenting on other's photos helps you and them improve as a photographer. Discover Photographers