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Update: Today I’ve closed the comment possibility of this post and I announce the winners of the presents offered Uprinting.com:

• 250 Postcards has been won by Kim and Arpad (see their comments below)
• 1 free 18×24 Canvas Prints is given to Argos.

Congratulations to the winners!

I would like to offer some presents to my most loyal readers in cooperation with Uprinting.com.

In order that I can give you more valuable and interesting content next year I would like to get some feedback from you on which posts you enjoyed the most on Photonovice.net and what photography related topics you’d be happy to read more about in the coming year.

All you need to do is writing a comment below mentioning your favourite topics and you will automatically participate in a completely random drawing of three winners.

The prizes are:

• 250 Postcards for 2 Lucky Readers and
• 1 free 18×24 Canvas Prints for one reader

(3 winners total) from Uprinting.com.

Winners in the United States and Canada qualify for free shipping. Shipping fees will apply to winners outside these areas.

So, make your comment and win!

I’m sure every Flickr user has noticed the Blurb ad on the Flickr starting page that can be seen after login. But I’m not sure that everyone checked it out. Blurb is a printing service: prints user made photo books on demand and delivers it to you at a relatively reasonable price. I write about my experiences with it.

Before actually trying it I was reading quite a lot about complaints regarding the printing quality and color cast some users experienced. However, since my parents birthday was approaching I took the risk and gave it a try and made a book with photos of my sons (I have three now). To be honest the risk was not that high and I mitigated it further with doing the same thing with a local (Hungarian) provider as well.

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