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Submit your photos and videos to You Witness News to have them considered for use on Reuters.com, Yahoo!, and the Reuters professional picture service, used by thousands of news organizations worldwide. If your images are selected for the Reuters wire, we will arrange to pay you for their use.

When you send images to pics@reuters.com, please provide the following so that we can review and post them:

Your full name
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A brief description of the event you captured with the place and date that it occurred

The next images shown across the world's newspapers, television channels, and news sites could be yours. Share your take with the world.

What makes a good news photograph?

As you're thinking about taking news photographs, think about what constitutes a good picture.

Most importantly, it will be of interest to a wide audience. It may depict an event in the news: a train crash, a clash in the streets, deliriously happy fans the moment the big game is won.

Or it may not be of a strictly 'news' event. It could be an out-of-the-ordinary moment in time in an otherwise ordinary day. Something that has novelty and impact. For example, a model falling over her huge heels on the catwalk, or a fox running down a city street, or a fire station catching fire.

Uniqueness is compelling. A picture that no one else took has much more news value than one taken alongside a rank of other photographers. A good news picture will tell a story without words. It will have context by showing the surrounding scene, or show the emotion on the faces of the people in the picture.

Timeliness is critical. Whatever the content, a news picture can lose its value in a short space of time. News events move quickly, and the shot of a mini tornado you took last week may have been destined for the front page when you took it, but of no interest to a newspaper or a website a week later. There are exceptions if the event is of huge significance and rarity. For example, a photo of a tsunami wave could still be of great interest days after it struck.

Restraint is important. Please remember, absolutely no photo is worth harassing others, putting yourself or others in danger, or getting in trouble with the law.

We're looking forward to seeing your pictures.

Reader contributed photographs published by Reuters

These images illustrate some of the qualities that make a good news photo: They were timely and provided a direct, "in-the-moment" view of a dramatic event.

These photos of the aftermath of the London bombings of July 7, 2005, by eyewitness Ivan Peredruk, were published by Reuters.

Photos of a New York City thunderstorm on June 1, 2006 submitted to Reuters by witness Martyn James.

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