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25 Mar 2011
This is the next winning entry from the Sony World Photography contest for 2011. Taken in Indonesia, photographer Chan Kwok Hung explains that this action photograph was shot during the annual buffalo race held at the beginning of the farming season. It is believed that a winning buffalo will bring the farmer good luck during that year’s season.
24 Mar 2011
Over 51,000 photographers from 148 countries submitted their work to the 2011 Sony World Photography Open contest. But only 10 of these amateur photographers were picked by a panel of distinguished judges as the winners. The photographers represent every corner of the globe and their photographs represent 10 different categories from action to architecture to travel to people and more. The 10 winning photographs will be exhibited at the World Photography Festival at London’s Somerset House from 26 April – 22 May. Each winning photograph will also be published in the Winner’s Book and each photographer will receive Sony DSLR camera equipment (a great prize in the opinion of a Sony Alpha user). In addition, one of the ten will be selected as the Open Photographer of the Year and receive a $5000 cash prize.
The winners and their categories are:
Action: Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong)
After Dark: Chumlong Nilkon (Thailand)
Architecture: Marek Troszczynski (Poland)
Arts & Culture: Hubert Januar (Indonesia)
Fashion: Edina Csoboth (Hungary)
Nature & Wildlife: Andiyan Lutfi (Indonesia)
Panoramic: Wolfgang Weinhardt (Germany)
People: Raghuranjan Sarkar (India)
Smile: Carlos Henrique Reinesch (Brazil)
Travel: James Chong (Singapore)
There is some incredible talent among these ten winners. I have posted one of my favorites here. But because they all are so well composed and created it is too difficult to select just one. So check back over the next few days for each of the ten winning photographs to be posted.
A photo safari in Kenya ranks right up there with Machu Picchu and the Galápagos Islands as my ultimate dream travel photography destinations. Thanks to iExplore, a world adventure travel company, your (or my) travel photo could win a 7 day Kenya safari trip. iExplore is hosting a photo safari contest and is looking for your amazing photos from around the world. Entries are being accepted until April 15th. The top 20 photos as determined by user votes will make it to the final round for judging by a panel of travel and photography experts. The top two win one of the following:
Grand Prize: $9,000 Kenya Safari
Second Prize: His and Her ExOfficio® Storm Logic™ Jackets and a $500 travel voucher for an iExplore adventure
The other top 18 finalists get a $250 travel voucher.
2 Feb 2011
Although it is only going to be about 45 degrees today in Phoenix we don’t have the kind of “cold” that is easily captured in a photograph. No snow, ice, frozen lakes or the like. So for B & H Photo’s “Cold” photography contest I will have to get a little more creative or head two hours north to the Flagstaff, Arizona area for an image like this. This is a short 2 week contest, so for a chance at first prize, a $100 B & H Photo gift card, get your submissions in by February 14th. They are “…looking for images depicting “cold” that are taken in any and all ways.”
Bissell, as in the floor cleaners, has announced their 4th annual Most Valuable Pet Contest. The contest runs through April 5, 2011. Submit photos of your pet for a chance to have a $10,000 donation made to a pet charity of your choice, along with other prizes.
20 Dec 2010
National Geographic has announced the winners of their 2010 Photography Contest. The honorable mentions alone are amazing works of photography and it seems like it would have been a daunting task to pick just one as the winner. However, they did pick one grand prize winner. The winning shot by Aaron Lim Boon Teck is of an erupting volcano in Indonesia.
Eruption of Gunung Rinjani
Aaron Lim Boon Teck
National Geographic Photography Contest
2010 Grand Prize Winner
Teck’s image is beautiful. There is so much going on yet it is perfectly composed and lit. You can see all the winners here.
20 Dec 2010
Combining travel and photography is a natural thing to do. You can both capture the memories of your travel experiences and create great photographic art as you explore the world. So it was only natural that Frommer’s, one of the top travel guide publishers, combined the two in their 2010 Favorite Travel Moments Photo Contest. After reviewing 4,000 entries the editors at Frommer’s narrowed it down to one first place winner and 4 runner ups. The winning photo was this sperm whale off the coast of Dominica in the Caribbean captured by Peter Allinson. For this prize winning image he got $4,000 and a Tamron zoom lens See a slide show of all the winners here.
Weather can be an interesting and challenging subject to photograph. It presents a lot of opportunities for some spectacular images. So USA Today is offering us the chance to get some recognition for those images. The USA Today Weather Photo Contest is running from now until November 19th with 3 cash prizes. First prize is a $500 American Express gift card; second prize is a $300 gift card and 3rd prize gets a $200 gift card.
1 Nov 2010
Outdoor Photographer Magazine is hosting its 3rd annual Nature’s Colors Contest. Now is the perfect time to capture the colors of nature. The entry deadline is November 30, 2010 and there is a great prize package for the winning photo.
Grand Prize Package:
and GH2780QR head
That’s a lot of good stuff.
First Place Package:
and 496RC2 head
Still a very decent haul for second place. So be sure to get outside and find the perfect shot of Mother Nature’s colors at this time of year and then enter your photo here.
Also, if you don’t have a subscription to Outdoor Photographer you can get one for only $10.98 at Amazon here
I’m a little late to the game here, but there is still plenty of time to enter the final contest in Tamron USA’s year long photography contest. But first you should catch up with the winners of the last phase, Summer Rituals. Then it is on to Fall and Winter (hard to believe already). The last contest is titled Fall into Winter. And as the name suggests the photographs entered should represent the Fall and Winter seasons. That can be anything from fall leaves to Thanksgiving dinner to snow covered landscapes.
Here are all the details:
