Dear news photo junkies. You might have noticed that WeSay.com has added a link for those little share buttons next to each photo. If you see a photograph you like, can you do us a favor and hit those buttons? There's a reward.

By hitting the Digg, Reddit, Yahoo, etc. button of your choice, you'll be sharing WeSay photos with the rest of the world.

The payoff is that by promoting WeSay.com to others, we can offer even more unique and interesting news photos to our mix. (Oh, there's also that advertising thing going on that you know, pays the bills).

Who knows, you might be the one who turns a photographer on to our site. In turn, that person submits a dynamite photo, like the incredible photographs taken by our members now showing in our Photo Contest gallery.

If you have a friend who is serious photographer or know someone who just happened to shoot an awesome photo with their cellphone, turn them on to us.

Seeing a photo on the homepage of an international news site that you helped arrange and watching the views pile up, is very rewarding.

Believe me, we experience it every day.

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The results are in, the votes are counted and while it was a close race, the winners of "Decision '08" are now finally clear. No, not that other decision. WeSay is prepared to declare the winners of our own historic contest, WeSay's Best of Citizen Photojournalism Contest.

Nearly 1,000 images were submitted to six main categories and six alternative categories. We loved all of the entries and our judges were faced with the tough decision to pick just six grand-prize winners. It was so tough in fact we picked several additional honorable mention award winners to showcase more of the great images that stood out to us.

Fittingly, our overall winner submitted a photograph with a political theme. Congratulations to Brian Priebe of St. Paul, Minnesota for winning first place with his poignant photograph of riot police pepper spraying a demonstrator holding a flower outside this year's Republican National Convention. It really is an amazing image! Priebe wins the first of three Apple 3G iPhones.

Murray Stanford of Cape Town, South Africa, and Teresa Hunt of Mt. Angel, Oregon placed second and third respectively and also win Apple 3G iPhones. Their powerful photos exemplify what WeSay.com is all about.

James Thorne, Luna Carlisle and Stephen Swofford won photo gift certificates for their photos and round out our prize winners.

Thanks once again to our sponsors and don't forget the special offers they created just for the contest. www.dotPhoto.com is giving away 50 FREE prints. www.Photographerswarehouse.com is offering a 10% discount on equipment. Enter "wesay" as the promo code.

You can view all of the prize-winning photographs, as well as our special recognition photos here.

Honorable mention winners are on display here.

Congratulations to each of the winning photographers. As always, we encourage you to keep shooting those photographs and if you haven't joined us yet, what are you waiting for? Go here to become a WeSay member now!

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We're happy to report nearly 1,000 photos were submitted to the recent WeSay Best of Citizen Photojournalism Photo Contest. Many of the entries amazed us. Others were intriguing for their raw beauty. Some even made us laugh out loud … in a good way, of course!

All of the photos were great and we are thrilled to announce the finalists of each category today. Photographers who have photos included in any of our finalists galleries still have a chance to win one of three Apple 3G iPhones, or a great gift certificate to buy more photo gear or a free photo book.

While the contest continues, we have special deals from our sponsors you can take advantage of.

www.dotPhoto.com is giving away 50 FREE prints. Go here to grab this offer while it lasts.

www.Photographerswarehouse.com is offering a 10% discount on equipment. Enter "wesay" as the promo code.

Anyone can view the finalists photo galleries as our judges are selecting grand prize winners, which we will announce next week. Go here to view the contest finalists galleries now!

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4,000.  That's the number of photos uploaded by WeSay members to date. Pretty amazing considering our community has only been together for a few months now. If your photos have been featured on our homepage, you can be proud your work was selected among an ever-growing pool of great photos.

Of course if you haven't been featured yet, we encourage you to keep submitting and sharing your photos. Mandi van Oudtshoorn has been an active WeSay contributor and we just featured one of her photos of a scary looking spider this week.

Remember, we put an emphasis on photographs with "informative" quality. In other words, we like current events, big and small, so your odds of getting published on WeSay's homepage are significantly better if you document something going on in your area. News. Sports. Celebrities. Politics. Anything. Bring out your inner photojournalist and let's see what you come up with.

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