The world is rapidly changing as the temperature rises on Planet Earth. In the United States of America, eco conscious consumers are starting to make better choices about their food and energy consumptions. All this as humanity migrates away from the fossil fuel trust fund on planet Earth and into renewable energy alternatives.

Lenzr is here to help! The serial photo contest website was built to help start-ups and technology companies find relevance on the web. Canadian photographers can submit images of People Building Things like sailboats and parade floats or just digging moats or making cages for goats around their home or business. This summer a lot of people are busy installing solar panels on the rooftops of their homes, barns and garages. Do you have any pictures of that?



EcoDeckBuilder is an eco friendly deck building company that raises the bar high on green buildings, and leaves tiny carbon footprint for other home renovations and repair contractor firms to follow. These solar powered builders specialize in creating fences and gazebos, verandas and wooden decks, docks and basically anything you need made of timber or recycled plastic lumber that's cut and fashioned into your backyard paradise using the energy from the sun. EcoDeckBuilder makes and uses green energy in state-of-the-art solar powered construction sites. Have a look at their equipment trailer below.


The trailer above was designed and manufactured by Solarline Power which makes portable solar power generators and customizes equipment trailers for you particular business needs.

Morning Sunshine photo contest is sponsored by Solarline Power. They will donate an iPad to the partipant that uploads the highest ranked image when voting ends Oct 1st 2010.



In this web challenge, participants are asked to submit images of people and objects enjoying the first rays of morning light, anywhere on Planet Earth.



The article Solarline in the age of portable solar power that was posted on the Lenzr blog August 8th, 2010 really does a wonderful job outlining the innovative company and the opportunity present in this competitive affair.



There is also a nifty new countdown mechanism that accepts and displays all uploads until voting begins September 20th 2010, at which time it ranks them.



The VIEW FROM THE ROOF photo contest asks photographers to please scale the heights of their homes and take snaps of their surroundings. Contest ENDS Oct 1st 2010

The smart player would upload images with memorable skylines - make sure there's some recognizable landmarks on the horizon. Lenzr asks for pictures from around Canada but any foreign or domestic landscape with exceptional points of interest will be allowed. This iPad donated by a flat roof repair and roof whitening business centered in Toronto Ontario.

Here is Dan Sheridan of All Weather Roofing hanging out on a flat roof north of Toronto with the CN Tower in the distance.

In all three contests the voting begins September 20th 2010 and the highest ranked photograph automatically wins the prize when each contest ends October 1st, 2010. Must be 13yrs old or older to enter, open to all Canadians, excluding Quebec.The photo contests have returned on Lenzr!

Once again Lenzr has become a very interesting serial photo contest website that harnesses business to make art. In this space the membership decides the winners and so networking and telling friends to vote for your pictures is half the battle - the other half is taking a great picture and writing a compelling caption.



In May and June 2010, the Crowded Places photo contest on Lenzr is set to collect and rank shots of busy intersections and congested shopping malls and offers as prize a free Blackberry Curve smart phone!

This engagement comes courtesy of a web development Toronto firm that makes easy to use custom websites and custom software including state of the art business applications that are of course very search engine friendly destinations which soon become crowded places online.

The 50 Going on 15 photo contest is a very different story and rather than focus on crowds Lenzr members want to upload and rank beautiful individuals with a little grey in their hair acting like teenagers and doing something reckless and unusual.



Sponsored by a sophisticated over 50 and stylish ezine in Toronto, the prize is over 50 lbs of chocolate delivered by a refined an elegant Toronto chocolate company.

Who has got time for a photo contest these days? Well when the prizes are this good, you make time! All of these web challenges end May 1st 2010 and in each case the prize will be awarded to the Lenzr member that uploads the most popular snapshot as decided by the rest of the members. Its 100% democratic

Check out these four very different competitions that actually raise the bar and are a quite high minded in their aspirations to banish obsolete equipment and collect green and innovative ideas along with energy saving tips and tactics.

BACKYARD PARTY EVENTS

The eleventh photo contest on Lenzr Backyard Party Events expects to collect pictures of people enjoying the exterior of their own properties and bringing in and assembling the equipment nec to make a party. Show us your Dad hosting a pool party, happy guests eating delicious BBQ food or just any good pictures that show off your backyard 'get togethers'; show us parties that you can't forget. This is a chance to show us how you celebrate in your backyard in your own awesome and unique ways.



The winner will receive a 10 x 10 white pop-up tent courtesy of Absolute Tent and Event Services, a downtown Toronto party rentals business plus a $500 gift certificate that can be spent on anything in the shop. All your gift possibilities can be found in the party rental catalog.



Submit your pictures of Backyard Party Events as soon as possible. It's a numbers game on Lenzr and the member with the highest votes / views and comments wins the prize May 1st 2010.

FIRE AND ICE

The unique fire photography photo challenge is sponsored by an Ontario geothermal installation company that hopes people who participate will be more inclined to look closely at fire and think about its elemental properties. The authors of the quest hope to better illuminate everyone's understanding of this valuable new earth science.



The Fire and Ice photo challenge on Lenzr requires photographers display only winter conditions fire pictures. Show off steaming pots over breakfast cooking fires heating coffee pots and cooking eggs and sausages, melting snow and ice. Do you have any pictures of your grandfather stoking a boiler in an old maple sugar shanty? Do you have any pictures of houses on fire? in a snowstorm?



The prize is a GeoAir PCO air purifier unit that uses ultraviolet light to break up the toxins from the breathable atmosphere of your home. Get more details about the geothermal installers sponsor and prize on the Lenzr blog.

HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

Lenzr asks photographers to get creative and respectful of Earth's environment - please submit images that show enviro-art. Be proud of your green lifestyle! Lenzr has issued the How Green Are You? photo challenge and hopes that good honest everyday citizens will share their own green tactics with the rest of the world.

Now is the time to snap pictures of hybrid cars, rooftop gardens and recycling bins. Do you have a solar heated swimming pool ? Do you compost your own yard waste? What have you got? Please upload any innovations that you have, or things you think might just inspire others to lead greener lives.



This forward thinking photo contest on Lenzr is sponsored by an eco positive Toronto grass cutting service that transports lawnmowers to and from customers houses in bio fuel trucks. The firm is solar powered and uses panels mounted on their trucks and trailers to charge lawnmower batteries. With electric lawnmowers powered by the sun's energy, the business is very sustainable and they use organic mulches and grass treatments too. In addition to everything else, they're also probably the quietest crew on the block, because electric lawnmowers are typically very quiet.

But we're making noise about the prize, a Neuton CE6 battery powered lawn mower seen here. You can read about the sponsor and the Neuton CE6 lawn mower prize in the Lenzr blog.



OBSOLETE OFFICE EQUIPMENT

The next contest focused camera lenses on old fashioned junk that used to be considered standard equipment. The crap lying around useless in the office is the subject of a photo contest called ]Obsolete Office Equipment.



All across Canada, people are changing the way they do business and they are dropping the old junk equipment that is slow, and cumbersome to use, in favour of newer, faster and more innovative machinery.

Submit shots of desktop computers with hefty monitors, dot matrix printers, telephone switchboards, intercoms and early cellular devices. Obsolete Office Equipment hopes to collect shots of giant old school pocket calculators or even paper ribbon fed adding machines.

Contest ends May 1st, when the highest rated photo wins the prize. You can read more about business telephone equipment sponsor and prize on the Lenzr blog.



The reward for uploading the best photo in this challenge (as decided by the voting public) is a 4 line business phone, AT&T model #1070, courtesy of a business phones designer and installer in Toronto. This device has so many standard features it's like it came from the future. You can bet this will be the best phone in the office, for a few years anyway...

If you take a lot of pictures, or are thinking about becoming a professional photographer, then you should keep your eye on Lenzr, a serial photo contest website that always seems to have a couple different challenges and lots of great prizes available for winners. Remember on Lenzr, the membership chooses the winners!



Everyday Tangled Web asks Ontario photographers to take pictures of the cords and cables and chaos inside their homes and offices. The mission is to find tangles that are still functional.

Be sure and tell voters where exactly you saw the wires and what-have-you, and use contest caption to inform members and what you think would happen if those wires were to suddenly break or come loose. ZAP! Its part of the human condition to cultivate chaos, can you capture the confusion in a compelling photo?



The members choose the winner on Lenzr, and in this challenge, the person that uploads the highest rated photo wins a Plantronics Voyager 510SL+ Bluetooth Headset System with Lifter that has been generously donated by an office phone systems business in Toronto. This firm works hard to consult, design and install more effectively business communications systems.



Everyday Tangled Web is open to all Canadians except residents of Quebec and children under 13 yrs of age. This contest ends March 1st 2010

If you're interested, you can read more about S.E. Telecom on the Lenzr blog.

Also appearing on Lenzr this month and until March 1st 2010 is a local offering entitled
Kids in Action which is a photo contest with few limitations. Indeed this is a wide open playing field for all types of photographers. Anyone with family can post pictures of young people being active to win a bright white smile, and a year's supply of dental products.



Submit crazy pictures of children playing tag and hiding from eye in cavities under root beside canal, wearing crown and playing king of the bridge.

This NiteWhite teeth whitening kit is only part of the prize.

Also included is a year's supply of dental products including toothpaste, mouthwash, toothbrushes and dental floss, courtesy of a Toronto dentist in the medical office right across from Sherbourne subway station (at Bloor St and Sherbourne St).

CONTEST ENDS on March 1st 2010. The challenge open to all Canadians age 13yrs or older excluding residents of Quebec.

The Rat Race is a painting by Ruth Wilgress that's composed of acrylic on canvas and measures 18 x 24. The art piece has subtle pink tones contrasted by lime green pigments. The painting is punctuated by microchips on the art.



Ruth Wilgress is a skilled expressive arts therapist in Toronto Ontario.