"In the space of 20 weeks, the world’s biggest photo contests, Digital Camera magazine’s Photographer of the Year, received a massive 101,000 online entries from 126 countries.The overall £10,000 prize winner will be announced at the exhibition of winning and commended entries, taking place at Mall Galleries, London. The exhibit will be open to the public from the 9th – 13th December."
Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009 Contest
The entry period closed in September. I flipped through the one gallery featured on "Telegraph." Although several of the shots were very nice, half of them did not impress me. They lacked technical difficulty or signs of planning or preparation. Some of them looked like my own photos that I've rejected. With that impression, it is unfortunate that I did not enter. But, a few shots were also very impressive, and I would find it difficult to do better.