Well, before I post today's contest I'd just like to announce that we have come to a consensus about a winner for week one!

Before I name the winner, I'd like to direct everyone's attention to the three entries that were considered "finalists" this week:

* pruportjoie's portrait here
* cooling1018's portrait here
* ladylemondrop's portrait hereThank you to all three finalists, as ( Read more... )

Your entries so far are too fantastic for words so I'm not even going to try. I can't tell you all how happy I was to open my email and see all of the gorgeous portraits that have been posted -- and I hopefully have even more to look forward to all weekend ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Week 1 contest post! This week, you'll be answering the following prompt:

Please post a photograph of the best portrait you've ever taken, along with a brief explaination of what you were thinking when you took the picture. I'm talking about anything (or everything) from the technique you used to the emotion you felt!Post your ( Read more... )

Okay, so before I make the contest post, here are some questions and answers that I've had in comments:

Can people outside of the United States enter the weekly competitions?At this time, HP is running a campaign geared towards people living in the United States. This means that users from outside the US can (and should!) submit entries to the ( Read more... )

We had so many guesses yesterday -- amazing participation! You guys are pretty good at this blurry thing, too... I'm impressed ( Read more... )

We have a winner from week one! I am pleased to share ohboy_thatsdope's picture of a taxi in New York, which was posted when we requested a picture that shows us a thought or a feeling.

Click HERE to download this picture!

Congratulations, ohboy_thatsdope!

Just to let you guys know, sometime around midnight PDT (so 3:00 AM on the East coast) I'm going to be picking some photographs to showcase for the next week ( Read more... )

I am really glad to see that we got some comments yesterday. There were a couple of people who shared some absolutely wonderful pictures! Let's see if we can't get even more today ( Read more... )

It's really easy to take a picture of something. Even if the picture doesn't turn out exactly the way you wanted it to, you usually still have the image of the object as a memory ( Read more... )

This week, we're going to start relatively simple and openended. Our theme for the week will be photographyYou can post anything you want as long as it's a picture! Do you have something that really captured a special moment? How about a favorite picture of yourself? An absolutely adorable picture of your pet? For some additional ideas, you may ( Read more... )