I've found a great competition to combat all the doom and gloom. It involves taking a picture once a month on the 12th for 12 months for 2012 with a prize of a trip to Iceland. check it out at www.2012project12.com. It's very inspirational.
was checking it out and almost signed up .. till i saw it costed 12 euro! so i guess with the conversion... thats like 16 bucks. I dont even know if they would accept me because im from Canada. oh well. Probably wouldn't have won but if its free it would be worth trying.