Pic of the Month is our monthly photo contest.

It is the place where our readers get to showcase the best of their photographs to see what the world thinks.

Your pictures should be no smaller than 600x800 pixels, but there is no set maximum, though very large images will take a long time to upload, so for your own sake, try and keep the filesize to under 800kbs.

You can enter as many pictures as you like, but you are not allowed to upload more than 20 mb per month.

We only accept JPEGs and you can only upload pictures for which you own the copyright.

You will of course retain the copyright, and we will not redistribute your images, but you do licence us to use them on site.

The grand prize in our contest is a big fat zero, though you do get to have the warm fuzzy feeling which comes from knowing that you are the best, and get to show all your friends your beautiful picture on our front page.

At the moment there is no theme or restrictions as to the type of images you can enter, it can be digitally edited, but our judges are partial to images that still look like photographs, rather than digital creations. If you do have some photoshop work, feel free to enter it, but remember that this is a photo contest, not a digital art contest.

There are plans to set categorised themes and perhaps limits to the amount of editing allowed in certain categories in the future, but for the time being, you can enter any picture you like, all we are interested in seeing, is your very best images, regardless of the subject matter or how you created it.

You need to Register or Log in to enter the photo, but once you have, you can link to the upload section from here: Enter the contest or via the link in the right column on the front page.

So go on, what are you waiting for, upload your pics!