Alright my gardening friends – get your cameras out. We all know you love to take photographs of your gardens, macros of your plants and flowers, birds and other wildlife- well, why not enter your photograph in a contest and win some great prizes?

Photography Corner, the sponsor of this post, is holding their 2006 Photograph of the Year Content contest. They are giving away over $14,000 in prizes. The Grand prize is worth $3,639.95 USD. I’m not going to tell you everything that’s in it because this post will just get huge, but believe me, the grand prize has 12 different prizes in it, and all of the rest of the prizes are wonderful too.

The contest actually began on December 19th, and it will run until the end of January 2007. However the your entries must be submitted by midnight, GMT on Friday, January 12th, 2007. As long as the photos that you submit qualify with the rules of the contest they will be eligible for a chance to win. The Photography Corner community will begin voting on January 15th, and only community members in good standing, with 5 or more posts on the forum will be able to vote.

So what are those rules anyway? Well I’m going to keep it simple here- you can read the full rules over at Photography Corner. The photo’s must be 1024×768 px and 2048×1446 px in size, and they must have all of their EXIF information intact. The photos should have been taken in 2006, and you should be a member of the Photography Corner with at least 5 posts on the forums in order to enter the contest. You can only enter once photography per person.

The rules don’t sound too hard. I’m already a member of Photography corner, although I’m not sure that I’ve made 5 posts on the forums. Either way that can be done, and I think I can rustle up a nice photo to submit to the contest as well. I don’t know that I have any prize winning photos but I think some of mine might be good enough to place and perhaps win some kind of prize. It’s worth a try. The prizes are very nice.

Good luck to those who enter!