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1st. Place

Red hot chili pepper with smoke by Andriy Dykun

Andriy will receive $500 in cash, 6 month Dreamstime subscription worth $679,99, 1 month TextureVault subscription, worth $50 and the Carousel WordPress theme by Obox Design, worth $50.

2nd. Place

Bottle with red wine and glass by Alexandr Vlassyuk

Alexandr will receive $150 in cash, 3 month Dreamstime subscription worth $369,99 and a 1 month TextureVault subscription, worth $50.

3rd. Place

Vintage Book by Alexander Trankov

Alexander will receive $50 in cash, 1 month Dreamstime subscription worth $128,99 and a 1 month TextureVault subscription, worth $50.

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TextureVault

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Obox Design

Run by brothers David and Marc Perel, Obox are the makers of Premium WordPress, Posterous and Tumblr themes. Obox was founded in 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Carousel is a theme aimed directly at photographers. The idea behind this design was to give you an opportunity to showcase large versions of your photos without the fussy front end functionality.

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It’s been hard selecting this bunch. The overall quality of images submitted to the contest is superb, and most would easily get into any professional stock photo site out there. We would like to thank all the photographers for their excellent submissions.

Please remember that although the images can be downloaded for free, you may only use them for non-commercial projects. If you want to buy a license to use the image, contact the author of the image in question. (Login required)

The images are in no particular order. Click each image to enter the download page.

The website holds over 55,000 design items all together includes:

Ultimate CSS Framework – Easy PSD-2-HTML Conversion

3D Creator – Create 3D elements from any shape or text

3D Software Box Creator – Unique method to create 3D software boxes

• PSD to HTML 960 Grid System Tutorial
• 340 Seamless Vectors
• 25,000 Photoshop Gradients
• 16,814 Photoshop Layer Styles
• 1,545 Vector Illustrations
• 815 Photoshop Patterns
• 2,986 Photoshop Brushes
• 1,105 Adobe Add-ons
• 782 Vector Elements
• 990 High Resolution Textures
• 512 Vector Icons
• 527 Stock Photos
• 902 Pixel Icons
• Web Graphics
• 82 Photoshop Actions

Contest details

• To be eligible to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post.
• 3 Winners will receive a one year membership.
• One entry per person. Duplicate comments will be voided and deleted.
• The contest will go on for one week. The end date is March 28th.
• The winner will be announced next Tuesday, March 29th.

Good luck to everyone!

Contest Schedule

Start date: Feb 1st. 2011
End date: March 20th. 2011
Winner announced: March 25th. 2011

* Cash prizes will be paid via paypal or moneybookers. The winner has 14 days to claim his prize after we contact him. The Dreamstime subscriptions allow for 10 images to be downloaded per day.

Contest Rules

To participate you must follow the rules below, and include the keyword „con2011“ with your entries. If you don‘t use the keyword, the submission is not considered a valid entry.

• Your entries must be submitted using the upload tools on stockvault.net
• Use the keyword „con2011“ with your submitted files.
• Only submit your own work.
  Please note that the author retains all rights to his photos/files.
• Photos, graphics and illustrations are accepted.
• You can submit as many entries as you want.
• Our normal upload terms apply.

Guidelines

Participating in this contest is free.
To enter the contest you must already have (or sign up for) a free account at stockvault.net
Entries are welcome from photographers and designers of all ages, worldwide.
We are looking for good quality photos, graphics and illustrations that are useful as stock materials.

About our Sponsors

Dreamstime

Dreamstime is a distinguished leader in stock photography and a major supplier of high quality digital images at unbelievable prices. All stock images available are provided by Dreamstime community’s photographers, shot on film or digital and approved by our editors. Structured on categories and subcategories, the database is renewed with thousands of fresh images and titles on a daily basis.

Visit Dreamstime at www.dreamstime.com

TextureVault

TextureVault is a community driven supplier of royalty free texture and background images. Unlike the usual stock photo site, texturevault.net focus is strictly on providing high quality, creative and “top of the class” textures and background images that digital artists and designers can use in their creative work.

Visit TextureVault at www.texturevault.net

Obox Design

Run by brothers David and Marc Perel, Obox are the makers of Premium WordPress, Posterous and Tumblr themes. Obox was founded in 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Carousel is a theme aimed directly at photographers. The idea behind this design was to give you an opportunity to showcase large versions of your photos without the fussy front end functionality.

Visit Obox at www.obox-design.com

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Congratulation Bob, the winning image is incredible. So were most of the contest submissions this year, and finally I want to express my gratitude to all the photographers that took part.

I also want to thank the guest judges for their work:
Damien van Holten of reaact.net
Darren Hester of pixelperfectdigital.com
Andreas Climent of andreascliment.com

Catch the light by Anupam Pal

Ball of fire by Anupam Pal

Hang on to your nuts by Bob Garas

Silhouette On The Lake by Gary Bydlo

Seagulls by Jason Hurdis

Although we are listing the top 5 here, there will only be one winner who will receive the $1000 grand prize. Stay tuned, the winner will be announced on the 14th.

It’s getting close to the end if you want a shot at the $1000 grand prize. You now have only 2 days left to submit your entries. We have over 330 entries so far, so hurry up and start uploading your best stock photos. The deadline is February 2nd at midnight EST.

If you want a shot at the $1000 grand prize you have 5 days left to submit your entries. We have around 90 entries so far, so hurry up and start uploading your best stock photos.