Becton, Dickinson and Company (“BD”) is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. It is launching a photo competition titled “Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition.”

There are NO ENTRY FEES for this Competition.

COMPETITION AWARDS BY CATEGORY
Best Global Health Story: $5,000 cash
Best Global Health Image: $2,500 cash
Best Global Health Multimedia: $2,500 cash

All Winners Will Receive:

PhotoServe Portfolio ($860 value)
1 year subscription to PDN
2012 PDN PhotoPlus Expo Gold Expo Pass
All-Access Big Love Pass to the 2012 LOOK3 Festival

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The Hunt - © Stefano Pesarelli

National Geographic has published the Winners of its Photo Contest 2011 in the People, Nature and Places categories. More than 20,000 images were submitted by professional and amateur photographers from more than 130 countries. Shikhei Goh won the $10,000 grand prize for his Splashing picture of a dragonfly weathering a rain storm. The Hunt by Stefano Pesarelli (above) of a big cat hunting an impala was obtained by panning the camera. It wonderfully evokes speed and drama.

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Want to play guinea pigs for a couple of university professors? They promise to pay you for the study, which is supposed to be a “nature photo contest for professional photographers.” Those who participate will be paid $10, and may be eligible for a $1,000 prize if chosen as the winner.

The researchers are Christopher Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia’s school of law, and Chistopher Buccafusco, an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law.

We went through part of it and it seems to be a pretty interesting subject. But we did not go through the whole thing so we don’t know what “ethical” stuff you may encounter down the road (after all, they specialize in intellectual property and apparently had to clear the study with the UVA’s Internal Review Board, aka research ethics committee).

So if you have a couple of minutes to spare, a nice landscape photo, and don’t mind some possibly convoluted outcomes, why don’t you give these two professors a hand in their study?

To participate, click here.

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Sony World Photography Awards 2012 Last Call for Entries

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Today, Wednesday 07 December, the World Photography Organisation, issues a last call for entries for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s most comprehensive photography competition. The deadline for entries is Wednesday 04 January 2012 giving photographers from across the world just four weeks left to enter.

The Sony World Photography Awards is free to enter and open to photographers of every ability, whose work will be judged by an esteemed panel including such international experts as curator & writer Susan Bright (2012 Chair of Judges) and Jon Jones, Director of Photography for the Sunday Times Magazine. The winner of the L’Iris d’Or/ Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year Award will receive $25,000 (USD) and the overall Open Competition winner, $5,000. All category winners will also be presented with Sony’s latest digital imaging products.

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Win a life’s worth of concerts! On December 5th, the ultimate Rock experience is back! The reference for online musical games in augmented reality is back in a totally new version.

Sponsors of the operation the guitarists Nono (Norbert Krief) and MattRach invite themselves into the game!

Check also the Jam Session: http://youtu.be/dBrZ1Ty0-cI

Samsung MV800

“Designed to be easy-to-use, flexible and fun. Measured solely by these three key credentials it scores well.”

We’ve added a new Samsung MV800 [QuickPrice Check] review to our Reviews Matrix.

TrustedReviews has published their review of the Samsung MV800, an ultra-compact with 16.1MP resolution (on a 1/2.3-in. CCD image sensor), 5x wide-angle optical zoom (26-130mm equiv.), Optical Image Stabilization, 3.0-in. Flip-Out Touch-screen LCD (288K-dot), Smart AUTO, P, Night Shot, Live Panorama, Magic Frame, Picture in Picture, Smart Filter, Effects, 3D Photo, Pose Guide, Zoom Noise Reduction, Intelligent Portraits, and HD 720p Movie 1280×720 @ 30fps.

You can read the Samsung MV800 Review @ TrustedReviews.

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The National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 has received amazing submissions and, if you have not submitted your photos yet, better hurry for the deadline is November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. What I like about the photos are the comments the photographers include with each photo to give a background or note about where and how the photo was taken.

There are three categories: People, Places, and Nature.

Enter the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011.

You can also download many of the pictures to use as background for your desktop, iPad or iPhone.

View a sample of the submissions at: theatlantic.

Google is teaming up with Saatchi Gallery, London to offer student photographers around the globe a chance to showcase their work on the worldwide stage. If you are a student aged 18 years or older then this contest is for you. Pick from one of 10 categories and submit up to 8 of your best shots by January 31, 2012.

The 10 categories are:
Me
Food
Travel
Fashion
Action
Street
Sport
Night
Sound/Silence
Point of View

For some unmentioned (probablt legal) reasons, students from the following countries are not eligible: Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Libya, Liberia, Zimbabwe, or Myanmar (Burma).

Here are the relevant rules governing copyrights:

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.

As between you and Sponsor, each entrant shall retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in the entry (including moral rights) subject to these Official Rules. However, by entering the Competition, and to the extent allowed by law, entrant grants, but solely in relation to the promotion and/or advertising of the Google Photography Prize or Google+ service only, to Saatchi Gallery, London, Google and Google’s affiliates, licensees, promotional partners, developers and third party marketing entities (“Permitted Users”) a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to modify, rearrange, copy, reproduce and adapt the images only to fit the format required for product web pages and marketing materials, and to publish and use the Photographs themselves and the content of and elements embodied in the Photographs, including any names, locations and likenesses, for the duration of the rights, in any and all media, including but not limited to digital and electronic media, computer, and audiovisual media (whether now existing or hereafter devised), in any language, throughout the world, and in any manner without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation. Google will not commercially exploit the Photographs and all such rights of commercial exploitation remain with entrants.

Enter the Google Photo Contest.