Since life started, man started to love the nature
, worshiped the sun, the wind and even some holly animals this love enthusiast him to love all things related to the nature by one means or the other. He wanted to stop the time and capture some precious moments or some achievements in the way to civilization to be saved for ever for the descendant to remember their ancestors who were once the rulers of the earth.
This internal desire of saving memories leaded to the invention of photography which ended by digital photography starting with painting on the walls in the ancient times and crossing by drawing on paper and film photography. Now almost all people around the world have photos for their own or captured some photos themselves aside from the professional photographers and amateurs who love to capture many unique photos with their digital cameras. The increasing number of photos captured leaded to holding many photo contests in which many professionals and amateurs share their photos in intense competitions.
These photo contests are held either on a local scale or on an international scale, they are also held either online or on painted paper but the online photo contests are the best because they offer more options for competition and allow more people to compete on an international scale and even allow more options to win. For instance, a magazine photo contest would pick only one or few winning high quality photos, while online photo of the day contests, pick 360 winners at least every year and they are simple to enter and doesn't require high experience or potentials. All you need to do is upload a photo with the required size through a very basic user interface and these contests usually are free to enter and pick many winners every year depending on your photo which has to compete with other photos and move up through the ranks. Many websites offers users the chance to vote to the winner either by just collecting the entries or by counting the time the voters spend on the page.