In Transit Contest

In Transit – Photo Contest
Website: http://www.kiernangallery.com

Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

Entry Fee: $25 for images

Journeys are photographed out of windows of speeding vehicles; blurred, voyeuristic, and fleeting. The vehicles themselves are cultural icons and status symbols: sailboats, muscle cars, Harley-Davidsons, and fixed gear bicycles. For In Transit, The Kiernan Gallery seeks images from and of the vehicles that move us.

Awards:
For this exhibition, juror Jock Montgomery will select up to 30 images for display in the main gallery, and up to an additional 40 to be included in the online gallery. All images will be reproduced in an exhibition catalogue available for purchase. A Juror’s Choice and Director’s Choice will also be announced and both winners will receive a free copy of the exhibition catalogue.

Copyright and usage: Artists retain full rights to their work. The Kiernan Gallery requests use of selected images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition and subsequent display as thumbnails on this website.

Deadline: October 26, 2012

Whether by road, sea, rail, air, or other means, vehicles are both essential and ubiquitous in our daily lives. Photographers have documented transportation history, as NASA launched rockets, Ford assembled cars, and the Wright brothers took flight. As modes of transportation, photographers observe the intersections of cultures on public transit and the isolation of solitary commuters on the highway. Modes of transit spawn communities, and photographers have documented biker gangs and houseboats.

Connect Photography Contest

Connect Photo Contest
Website: http://connect.dpreview.com/contest

Eligibility: Worldwide

Free to Enter

PRIZES. The following prizes will be awarded:

• First Prize: One First Prize winner will be awarded $5,000.00 USD in cash. The ARV of the First Prize is $5,000.00.
• Second Prize: One Second Prize winner will be awarded $3,000.00 USD in cash. The ARV of the Second Prize is $3,000.00.
• Honorable Mention Prizes: Four Honorable Mention Prize winners each will receive $500.00 USD in cash. The ARVof each Honorable Mention Prize is $500.00. The total ARV of all Honorable Mention Prizes is $2,000.00.

Copyright: All Entries must be the original creations of the entrants. By submitting an Entry, each entrant grants to Sponsor a royalty- free, sublicenseable right to use, reproduce, transmit, modify (as to size, format and color correction, only), and display the Photo on Sponsor’s Web site(s) or Sponsor’s pages on social media web sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, for marketing and promotional purposes in connection with Sponsor and/or the Contest. Entrant also agrees that Sponsor may use entrant’s name with the display of the Photo.

Deadline: October 24, 2012

WINNERS’ LIST. After the winners are confirmed, the winners’ names will be posted at http://connect.dpreview.com/contest-rules until May 31, 2013.

You must submit your photo by October 24, 2012 for a chance to win one of our cash prizes. First Prize is US $5,000. Second Prize is US $3,000. And four Honorable Mention winners each will receive US $500. You can shoot with a smartphone or a pro DSLR, or even a compact camera . Process the image as little or as much as you like. Our expert panel of judges will choose winners based on relevance to the theme, originality, creativity and composition. So go out and show us how you connect.

Photos must be the original creation of entrant with a minimum resolution of 600 x 600 pixels and a maximum resolution of 2048 x 2048 pixels, be in the .jpg or .jpeg format, and must be suitable for family viewing and meet other reasonable community standards. Limit one entry per person and e-mail address. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Contest entry period ends at 11:59:59 p.m. (PT) on October 24, 2012. See Official Rules for complete details.

Help A Friend Photo Sweepstakes

Help A Friend Photo Sweepstakes
Contest page https://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/291953

Eligibility: USA, 13 yrs or older

Entry Fee:FREE

Prizes: All eligible entrants will be entered to win one of 10 pairs of $50 gift cards—one for themselves and one for their friend. Entrants may be entered into the sweepstakes again as a friend in the photo of another entrant.

Limit of Entry: 1 per person, or 2 people can enter each other

Copyright and usage of entry : All Entries become property of NEFE upon submission and will not be returned. By submitting an Entry, you and your Friend each grant NEFE all the right, title and interest in and to the Photo, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights. You and your Friend hereby waive all moral rights in any Photo provided by you and represent and warrant to NEFE that any moral rights applicable to such Photo have been waived. For example, moral rights may include the right that a work not be mutilated or distorted without your permission or the right to decide when a work will be presented to the public. You hereby represent and warrant that you have sufficient rights, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise to grant NEFE the rights discussed in this Section.

Deadline October / 4 / 2012

Upload a photo of your friend’s wasteful spending habit and caption the photo with your recommendation for your friend to improve his or her spending. (You must have permission from your friend to use his or her name and likeness in this sweepstakes.)

Woophy Monthly Contest – Picture Your World

Woophy Monthly Contest – Picture Your World
Contest website: http://www.woophy.com/contest/home

Worldwide 18+

Free to Enter

Contest Themes
September 2012 Leisure (tourism, sports, play)
October 2012 Home (how do you live)
November 2012 Life (circle of life, death, birth, conception)

Copyright and usage of entry: By joining the competition you do not give away any copyrights you have. You stay owner of your photo and Woophy may only use this photo for the competition and on the Woophy site.

Deadline: Monthly

Each month the Woophy staff chooses at least one photo as winner of the month and rewards this photo with a photo book. The winning photo will be published in the next newsletter and the book will be sent to you. You can take part as often as you want.

It is Woophy’s aim to create a visual, dynamic and democratic picture of our world. This means we are always looking for photos that tell us something about our earth, life on it, nature, culture, landscape etc.
Monthly themes: November 2012 Life (circle of life, death, birth, conception

Fotoemotion photography contest

Fotoemotion photography contest

Fotoemotion photography contest: We invite you to transmit the state of mind felt by people that show: satisfaction, sadness, fantasy, doubt, fear, longing, happiness, etc. To express these emotions, with images that will endure in our retina, is to truly reflect like a mirror, by way of photography or digital art, who we are and how we feel.

You can participate with your works created from illustrations or photographs. Show us that, to you, a rainy day is much more than an atmospheric phenomenon as we mentioned at the beginning.

Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

Free to Enter

Prize:

• There will be an exhibition in Spain of the 20 winning images that have been selected by a qualified panel of judges, from the first 100 pre-selected that have acquired the greatest number of votes, in Maxó Gallery (Calle Portal Nou, 29 – 08003, Barcelona, Spain) from 23 until 30 may 2013.

• A digital certificate registering your participation in the exhibition will be sent via email.

• A cocktail party will be held to inaugurate the exhibition, on 23 may 2013.

Copyright and usage information: You will preserve the entire author’s copyright and other rights that you already possess in relation with the images that you publish in Blipoint. The authors of the official announcement herein authorize Punto y Línea 07 S.L., a company registered in Spain, legal representative of the blipoint web portal, the non-exclusive right to the reproduction, distribution, and public communication of the works of the finalists, in the following terms:

The right of reproduction: for the sole purposes of, postcards, or posters, promotional press advertising the present official announcement, and publication in diverse intranet media, such as; social networks, within the blipoint web portal, and blogs related to photography and art events, with the sole purpose of making known and promoting the contest winners.

Important dates

• Date of participation: from 24/09/2012 to 21/01/2013
• Voting process: 21/01/2013 to 18/03/2013
• Contest closed: 18/03/2013

The 20 winning images will be displayed at Maxó gallery. Barcelona – Spain, from 23 until 30 may 2013.

Website: http://blipoint.com/contests/fotoemotion/

Dog Star Photo Contest

Dog Star Photo Contest

Contest details:
Stage 1: Photo and caption uploading to Facebook. You are invited to upload your photos starting from Wednesday 5th September at 9:00am AEST until Tuesday 16th October at 23:59pm AEST.

Stage 2: Judges Choice Judges Choice will commence on Wednesday 17th October at 9:00am and conclude at 17:30pm that day. The top ten judge’s choice photos will be announced to the public via the www.facebook.com/petspalace page. There will be a panel of 5 judges who choose the top 10. The top 10 photos will be online for the public to vote.

Stage 3: Public Vote Public voting will commence on Thursday, October 18th at 9:00am AEST and conclude on Wednesday, December 5th 2012 at 23:59pm AEDST. The winner will be announced on Thursday December 6th 2012 at approx. 9:30 AM on the Pet’s Palace website www.petspalace.com.au, Pets Palace Facebook www.facebook.com/petspalace and notified by email. The winner will be the photo that has the most votes/likes. The runner up will have the second most likes/votes.

The DogStar winner and runner up will be announced via the pets palace website from December 6th, 2012 and will remain on the website under competition winners. All judges’ decisions are final. The promoter (pet’s palace) holds no responsibility for any invalid/incorrect or computer errors or viruses and the entrant should check their entry went live correctly on Facebook.

Eligibility: Australia only

Prizes

Grand Prize
*A 16 gig Apple iPad (3) with wifi
*A $200 Pets Palace Gift Voucher to spend online or in-store
*A ‘DogStar’ Banner – the winner will be featured on the pets palace website slider at www.petspalace.com.au for a duration of 2 weeks after the competition.

2nd Prize
*A $50 Pets Palace Gift Card
*A $50 Westfield voucher
*A ‘DogStar’ Banner – the runners up will be featured on the
pets palace website slider at www.petspalace.com.au for a duration of
1 week after the competition (after the winners two weeks on the
site).

3rd Prize
*A chocolate gift pack
*A ‘DogStar’ Banner – the third placed entrant will be featured
on the pets palace website slider at www.petspalace.com.au for a
duration of 1 week after the competition (after the runners up 1
week)

Contestants who place 4th – 10th will receive a treat pack for their dog from Pets Palace.

All entrants to the competition will also receive a $10 Pets Palace gift voucher within days of entering the competition for redemption at the Pets Palace website.

Total Prize pool is valued at $3,800.00

Limit of Entry: 3

Copyright: All entries may be used in the marketing campaigns for any campaigns Pets Palace wishes to include the winning dog and any entrant in. By entering the competition, the person submitting the dogs photo is acknowledging they are allowed or have permission to do so and understand the photos will be made public on the internet and within pets palace’s marketing and advertising materials and campaigns for as long as the company wishes to Australia wide or globally. All entries into the competition understand that their photos will be used by Pets Palace and made visible on the pets palace website and facebook pages and any other marketing collateral that Pets Palace uses for promotional purposes. By entering this competition, all entrants acknowledge that they may be contacted via email for promotional purposes by pet’s palace or their affiliates and by entering the competition, the entrant is opting in to the pet’s palace promotional database. At all times with promotional communication, Pets Palace provides an opt out facility for people who wish to unsubscribe.

Usage of Entry: The DogStar winner and runner up will be announced via the pets palace website from December 6th, 2012 and will remain on the website under competition winners. All judges’ decisions are final. The promoter (pet’s palace) holds no responsibility for any invalid/incorrect or computer errors or viruses and the entrant should check their entry went live correctly on Facebook.

If you are a junior aged 18 or less, you must seek parent’s/guardians approval to enter.

Deadline Oct / 16 / 2012

Contest page link: http://www.petspalace.com.au/dogstar

Photo of the Month Contest

Aperture Light Photo of the Month Contest – September 2012

Website: http://www.theaperturelight.org/Default.aspx

Eligibility: Worldwide

Free to Enter

Prizes: Winning images will be featured online.

Copyright and all other rights remain that of the photographer. Any photograph used by The Aperture Light shall carry the photographer’s credit line.

Deadline: September 30 2012

The aperture light photography awards is now back online, the monthly contest is open to all and free to enter, winning images will be featured at contest website.

Emotion Photo Contest at Linus gallery

Emotion Photo Contest at Linus gallery

Contest link: http://linusgallery.com/emotion/emotion-art-exhibition.html

Cost: $35 for 3 entries, $5 for additional entries

Eligibility : all artists welcome: established, emerging, international, local

Entry Fee: $35 for 3 entries, $5 for additional entries

Prizes: This exhibition will be judged twice for an opportunity to participate in a live juried exhbition.

Limit of Entry: no limit

Copyright: aritsts maintain copyright. Visit our FAQ’S for more information.

Usage of Entry: blog posts, social media sites, call for entries, presentation

Deadline: October 29, 2012

 Move us. Make us feel. Let us see emotion. Enlighten us. Submit your best emotional art for this future exhibition.

All international artists, professional and amateur and all art mediums will be considered in this call for entries from photography, wall sculpture, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. It must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet art acceptable.

*Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for our collective live exhibition at one of our art galleries. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the collective exhibition, which is not a requirement to being a part of the online exhibition.

Make a Splash Photo Contest 2012

Make a Splash Photo Contest 2012

Website: http://www.minispace.com/en_us/background/21/

Eligibility : Worldwide

free to enter

Prizes:
First Place: MacBook Air 11″
Second Place: New iPad 16GB
Third Place: iPhone 4S 16GB
Popular Vote Prize: Yorkie Cuddly Desktop Speakers

Copyright: All entries remain the property of the participant

Usage Rights: The participant grants BMW AG and MINI free of charge a permanent, non-revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable worldwide and unrestricted license to use his/her entries including all pictures, photos and names for promotional and/or marketing and/or communication purposes in any and all media such as, but not exclusively, television, shows, exhibitions, trade shows, events, print and digital media, mailings, public relations, billboards in connection and conjunction with the MINI Space Competition and MINI Competition.

Deadline: October 26, 2012

Earth’s most abundant resource is the inspirational well to draw from for this photography and design competition. We want to see the most dynamic expressions that H2O has to offer.

Explore the many states of water by employing whatever medium you might be master of – graphic design, photography, illustration, collage – we want to see your creativity flow as you dive into a theme that’s absolutely drenched in possibility. Water is just as much responsible for the gushing torrents of a white-water rapid as it is the delicate majesty of a snowflake. With so much visual potential, we want everything from geysers to glaciers to get their 15 minutes of MINI Space fame.
To get your work published on MINI Space, plus the chance to sail away with some enviable prizes, just follow these easy steps.

National Geographic Traveller photography Contest 2013

National Geographic Traveller photography Contest 2013

Website: http://photos.natgeotraveller.co.uk/

Eligibility: UK and Ireland only / 18+

Free to Enter

Prizes:

Win a trip to Utah!

Plus a Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera and 35mm lens worth nearly £2,000

categories: You can enter one of six categories: Action, Colour, Faces, Rural, Urban and Wildlife.

Copyright and Usage of Images

Publicity may be given to the winners. By entering you agree to allow National Geographic Traveller (UK) to publish your photos in the magazine, on the National Geographic Traveller (UK) website, and on the National Geographic Traveller (UK) Flickr and Facebook pages for a period of up to one year. The winning entries may also be used by The Utah Office of Tourism, Delta Airlines, Fujifilm in marketing material relating to the competition.

Winners must co-operate fully for publicity purposes if so required.

Entrants must own the copyright to any photographs entered. Entrants will retain copyright to the photographs.

Deadline: 

Closing date is the 7 December 2012 at 5:00pm GMT. The promoter is Absolute Publishing Ltd, 197-199 City Road, London, EC1V 1JN. Winners will be notified within 10 days of closing.

Welcome to the National Geographic Traveller photography competition 2013. We’re on the lookout for your vision of the world through the power of photography, in association with the Utah Office of Tourism, Delta Air Lines and Fujifilm

Nature Photography Contest 2012

Nature Photography Contest 2012

Website: http://www.alertelectrical.com/28/competition-page

Eligibility: Open to all

Free to Enter

Prizes:

The 1st prize winner – a £250 gift card to spend online or in-store with Jessops.
The 2nd prize winner – a choice of a 1-year hard-copy or 3-year online subscription to Peter Eastway’s Better Photography Magazine.
The 3rd prize winner – the books “The Unguarded Moment” by Steve McCurry and “Karsh: A Biography In Images” by Yousuf Karsh and Malcom Rogers.

Copyright: All entries remain the property of the participant. The participant grants BMW AG and MINI free of charge a permanent license to use his/her entries for promotional and/or marketing and/or communication purposes in any and all media

Deadline: 29 October 2012

From the water that fills our power showers to the cool breeze our ceiling fans provide, we’ve taken inspiration from our product range to create six natural themes for the competition.

Each week, you’ll have the chance to submit your best photos of fire, rain, sun, wind and lightning, ending with a flourish on ‘nature in monochrome’ where you’ll really have the chance to show off your originality and creativity!

App Photo Contest

App Photo Contest

Website: http://www.theappwars.com/

Eligibility: Worldwide

Entry Fee $5 per one image

Prizes: The top 100 Hipstamatic images and the top 100 Instagram images selected will be displayed at the 3RDSPACE Gallery located in the historic University Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
Best in Show – Hipstamatic $1,000 (U.S.) Best in Show – Instagram $1,000 (U.S.) 5 Honorable Vision Awards will also be awarded.
The top 100 Hipstamatic images and the top 100 Instagram images selected will be displayed at the 3RDSPACE Gallery located in the historic University Heights neighborhood of San Diego

Copyright: NA

Deadline: September 25, 2012

App Wars is a showcase of the 200 greatest photographs as shot from the Hipstamatic and Instagram applications. All images submitted will have to be shot with either the Hipstamatic or Instagram applications. Enter your best shots from either application with 200 to be displayed in a month long gallery showing. Two photos will be judged best of show from our panel of judges. This is an open themed exhibition promoting the art of mobile photography and it’s medium in all forms.

Sense of place – Photo Contest

Sense of place – Photo Contest

Website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mythailand/index.html

Eligibility: Contest is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who have reached the age of 21 at the time of entry

Prizes: If any of your photographs are chosen as a First Prize winner, you will be one of 7 lucky travelers to accompany National Geographic Travel Photographer Alison Wright on an amazing all-expenses paid trip to Thailand!. There you’ll travel to the cities of Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket and photograph your journey along the way (ARV $5,000).

Submit a photograph that alludes to or celebrates a sense of place from your experience or imagination. Each entry can be thematically varied, including: culture, people, cuisine, and others.

Copyright and usage: If the photograph contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, and/or if any persons appear in the photograph, the entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the photograph, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the exhibition and use of the photograph in the manner set forth in these Official Rules without additional compensation. If any person appearing in any photograph is under the age of majority in their state/province/territory of residence the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required on each release. Upon Sponsor’s request, each entrant mustbe prepared to provide (within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of Sponsor’s request) a signed release from all persons who appear in the photograph submitted, authorizing Sponsor, Tourism Thailand, and their licensees (“Authorized Parties”) to reproduce, distribute, display, and create derivative works of the entry in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest, in any media now or hereafter known. All releases must be in the form provided by Sponsor. Failure to provide such releases upon request may result in disqualification at any time during the Contest and selection of an alternate winner.

Deadline: Submit up to THREE of your best travel photographs that capture the essence of a sense of place now through September 30, 2012

Think you have some amazing shots? Submit up to three images that capture the essence of a sense of place. These can be thematically varied including shots of culture, cuisine, or people. Photographs do NOT need to be of Thailand. We are looking for the best travel photographs from anywhere in the world. Get creative!

Image of the Year Photo Contest 2012

Image of the Year Photo Contest 2012

Website: http://www.imageoftheyear.co.za/image-of-the-year

Eligibility: This competition is only open to residents of South Africa

Free to Enter

Prizes: 
The TOP 20 images will be publicly displayed at the PHOTO & FILM EXPO during the event and will also be showcased at The HOME OF PHOTO gallery in Brightwater Commons Shopping Centre thereafter. Winning images will be printed at no cost to the entrant.

The TOP 10 images will also be featured in the December issue of PiX Magazine and the
TOP 3 winners will be featured in the magazine with a full bio and showcase of other works.

The photographer with the winning image will walk away with the massive grand prize below!
Certificates will be presented to all finalists.

Copyright: Entrants understand that their images may be publicized in contest promotions, the photographer will retain the copyright of their images and the submissions will not be used for alternate commercial gain without consultation with the copyright holder.
The photographer is responsible for ensuring that the necessary permissions are obtained from models or venues which may appear in the images. These may be requested of the photographer if necessary.

LIVE PHOTOGRAPHY is this year’s contest theme, photographers should submit images which depict their passion for photography. The image may be of any *publicly acceptable subject matter and should illustrate how much passion the art form invokes. Editing is permitted but the image should retain the ‘feel’ of a photograph.
The brief is quite open and judges will accept any image that depicts passion for photography whether it be a beauty shot, landscape shot, fashion shot etc. as long as the image clearly evokes an emotion for the art form by showing to what lengths people (or representations, actual or implied) will go for their passion (photography). A few example images have been uploaded below but photographers are encouraged to get creative. If you’re unsure about the scope of the brief then feel free to mail for confirmation.

Media Contest at 60percent

Media Contest at 60percent

Website: https://www.60percent.dk/media-contest

Deadline:
The contest opens 16 September 2012, at midnight (12:00:00 a.m.) U.S. Eastern Time and closes 16 December 2012, 11:59:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time. No entries received after that date shall be considered.

Contest Name / Theme: Interpret this Quote Photography Contest 2012  – “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”.

Contest Details:

GENERAL RULES

The contest opens 16 September 2012, at midnight (12:00:00 a.m.) U.S. Eastern Time and closes 16 December 2012, 11:59:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time.  No entries received after that date shall be considered.

Eligibility: The contest is open to all photographers, with no restrictions based on age, gender or nationality. Minors are responsible for ensuring their submission is in compliance with the legal requirements of
their country.

Entry is free of charge.

Prizes: 
• First prize (as selected by judging panel) and the “People’s Choice” will be Nordfjord 300 liter Pack of pH Water Enhancing Sachets link and a 27 oz Stainless Steel Water Filter Bottle. View the e-Shop for details on these products.
• Second prizes will be Fjord 60 liter Pack of pH Water Enhancing Sachets link and a 27 oz Stainless Steel Water Filter Bottle – Standard. View the e-Shop for details on these products.
• Third prize will be a 27 oz Stainless Steel Bottle – Standard.

Photos must have been taken in the past 24 months, i.e. after 16 December 2010.

All entries not respecting the theme or the technical/authorship requirements set out below will be systematically ruled out.

Staff working for 60 Percent are not qualified to participate in the contest.

THE SUBMISSIONS

To enter, visit our website and complete an entry form with the required information and submit along with your photograph in accordance with the instructions that follow.

There will be one category open to all photographers.

All Photographs submitted should be interpretations on this water-themed quote by Lao Tzu “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”.

A maximum of three photos may be submitted.

Only images not yet published may be submitted. Photographers can publish their photos after the contest results are announced in January 2012.

Each image that is uploaded should include the following information:
Full name of photographer; location of photo; date photo was taken; include a caption of the photo, and
the full name of the person/people in the photo, if available.

Entries will not be returned to contestants.

Proof of submission is not proof of receipt. 60 Percent reserves the right to examine the original photograph/source material in order to confirm compliance with these rules.

PUBLIC VOTING

Voting is open to all with no restrictions based on age, gender or nationality. Minors are responsible for ensuring their submission is in compliance with the legal requirements of their country.

All voters are permitted to vote a maximum of 3 times per photo. Once by email, once via Facebook and once via Twitter.

Any person wishing to vote are required to submit their email address for voter tracking and prize giving purposes.

All voters have a chance of winning prizes. For every 200 votes a winner will be selected by random. Winners will be contacted via email address provided.
Any person(s) deemed to have submitted more than 3 votes per photo will render all their votes null and void, and will be disqualified.

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS
Only digital photos, in colour and black-and-white, will be accepted.

Digital submissions should be a minimum size of 3,000 pixels in length at 300 dpi non-interpolated (approximately a 20-meg file when opened in Photoshop). File sizes of over 512KB will not be accepted.

You can submit photo files in the following formats: JPEG, PNG and GIF.

No photo should in any way be digitally altered or enhanced except for basic cropping or colour correction. The content and context of the image should in no way be altered or enhanced.

Copyright: The copyright of submitted and winning photos will be owned by the participating photographers. Contest photographers will be able to use their photos, which they retain the copyright to, in their print and online portfolios, exhibitions, books and other publications and to disseminate – including sell – their photos to interested clients. They will be identified as the authors of the photos.

By entering the Contest, all entrants grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide non-exclusive license to 60 Percent, to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest, in any media now or hereafter known, including, but not limited to: Display at a potential exhibition of winners; publication of book, promotion, publicity, news, informational education or awareness usage relating to 60 Percent. Entrants consent to the Sponsor doing or omitting to do any act that would otherwise infringe the entrant’s “moral rights” in their entries. Additionally, by entering, each entrant grants to Authorized Parties the unrestricted right to use all statements made in connection with the Contest, and pictures or likenesses of Contest entrants, or choose not to do so, at their sole discretion. Authorized Parties will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.

Sigma Landscape Photo Contest 2012

Sigma Landscape Photo Contest 2012

Website: http://www.sigma-imaging-uk.com/dp1merrill/index.htm

Eligibility: UK / 18+
This competition is open to UK residents only. All entrants must be at least 18 years old.

Free to enter

Prizes: one lucky winner a shiny new Sigma DP1 Merrill compact camera and a two day photo workshop in Cornwall.

Copyright and usage right: Copyright of all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. Sigma Imaging (UK) Ltd reserves the right to reproduce any submitted images for its own use in connection to this competition without prior permission from the photographer. Where an image is used, the photographer will be credited. Sigma Imaging (UK) Ltd may choose to showcase any submitted images on this website or on its social media as a means of promoting the competition

How to enter…
To enter this competition simply email your best landscape photo to sales@sigma-imaging-uk.com along with up to 80 words telling us how you would benefit from a 2 day landscape photography workshop with this superb camera. Please include your name in the email subject bar and ensure your submitted image is between 2 and 3 megabytes in size and saved in JPEG format. Please include with your entry your Name, Phone Number(s) and Postal Address. Sigma Imaging UK Ltd and Lea Tippett will select one winner from the entries and the judges’ decision is final. Closing date for entries is 23rd September.

Deadline: September 23, 2012

To celebrate the launch of the 46 megapixel DP1 Merrill, we’ve teamed up with Pro landscape photographer Lea Tippett and are giving away to one lucky winner a shiny new Sigma DP1 Merrill compact camera and a two day photo workshop in Cornwall. The workshop will include visits to many of the county’s finest photographic locations such as St Michaels Mount, The Crown Tin Mines, Lands End and Godrevy Lighthouse.

Pinhole World Photographic Competition

Pinhole World Photographic Competition

Contest page link http://szlachetnafotografia.com/en/pinhole-world-competition/

Eligibility: Worldwide

Entry Fee: Free

Prizes
a) Grand Prix which will be awarded to the entry of the highest informational, artistic and technical value showing author’s
original vision. This award will be accompanied by a cash prize of 1000PLN,
b) First Prize accompanied by a prize of 500PLN to be used for purchasing photographic materials in Szlachetna Fotografia (www.szlachetnafotografia.com),
c) Second Prize accompanied by a prize of 200PLN to be used for purchasing photographic materials in Szlachetna Fotografia
(www.szlachetnafotografia.com)
d) Distinctions accompanied by participation in an exhibition.

Limit of Entry Each entrant can send up to three entries which may be either single images or sets of up to six images which will be treated as separate entries. If single images are entered, the maximum number of photographs entered is three. If sets are entered, the total number of
images within one application must not exceed twelve.

Copyright & Usage of Entry
Organizers reserve the right to free reproduction and publication of the entries in the exhibition catalogue, press, TV and the Internet for purposes connected with promoting PHINHOLE WORLD Competition and to store their reproductions for archival purposes. The entrants retain copyright to their work. All entries remain the sole property of the authors and can be claimed in the Organizer’s office.

Deadline
11/30/2012

The competition is open to all photographers. There are no limitations regarding the time and place where the photographs entered for the competition may be taken. The photographs entered must be taken with a pinhole camera. Entries will only be accepted as prints. The minimal size for entries is 13x18cm. In case of entries printed in square format the minimum size is 13x13cm. In case of entries with non-standard proportions the longer side must not exceed 50cm.

Win Olympus TOUGH TG-1 iHS Camera

Win Olympus TOUGH TG-1 iHS Camera

Website: http://www.paintbidtracker.com/photocontest2012/

Eligibility: USA / 18+

Free to Enter

Prizes:

The winner will receive: 1 Olympus TOUGH TG-1 iHS Camera ($399.99 value) and 2 admission passes to SSPC 2013 in San Antonio, TX, Jan 14-17, 2013 (up to a $1,700 value)

The winning photo featured on PaintBidTracker.com and published in JPCL and will receive The JPCL Editor’s Photography Award, presented at SSPC 2013.

Copyright:  Paint BidTracker reserves the right to disqualify incomplete entries and/or contestants who are unable to submit, upon request, a high-resolution photograph of at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10 inches or an original photo negative, print or slide. Submission of copyrighted photos not taken by the entrant is strictly prohibited.

usage of entry  By entering the contest, entrants grant Paint BidTracker/Technology Publishing Co. a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any educational, promotional, publicity, exhibition, archival, and all other standard Paint BidTracker/Technology Publishing purposes. Any photograph reproduced will include a photographer credit as feasible. Paint BidTracker/Technology Publishing Co. will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.

Deadline: November 01, 2012

Our judges want to see creative shots that bring out the beauty of industrial and commercial structures, or highlight the hard work that goes into painting them. Photos should be high resolution, with good technical quality, clarity and composition. There is no limit to the number of photographs you may enter, though only one winner will be chosen.