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Canon Photography in the Parks Photo Contest 2008
Contest Period: April 22 at 12am (midnight) ET - September 30, 2008 at 11:59pm ET.
Where: Photo must be taken in any park or National Monument located in the US.
Entry Format: JPEG image either taken with a digital camera (RAW must be converted to JPEG) or scanned from a negative, slide or print.
File Size: no more than 10MB in size
Grand Prize: Trip for 2 to a participating National or State Park
1st Prize: EOS 5D with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens kit plus a PIXMA Pro9500 printer
2nd Prize: EOS 40D with EF-S 17-55mm IS USM lens plus a PIXMA Pro9500 printer
3rd Prize: EOS XSi with EF-S 17-85mm IS USM lens plus a PIXMA Pro9000 printer
Six Honorable Mention Prizes: PowerShot G9
Please visit Canon's site for official rules.
Olympus Stylus 1030SW Contest
at Getolympus.ca Winter Photo Contest
Submit your favorite winter-themed photo taken with your Olympus camera. Olympus will pick their favourites and then you will have the chance to vote on which one is the best! Contest open to Canadian citizens (exluding Quebec).
User Submission phase: Until 5/7/2008
Public Voting phase: 5/15/2008 - 5/31/2008
Winners announced: 6/4/2008
Become Canada’s Next Top Mobile Phone Photographer of the Year 2008
Toronto, ON, March 4, 2008 – Sony Ericsson is on “The Search” to find Canada’s Next Top Mobile Phone Photographer, 2008 and award them with a grand prize $10,000 picture-perfect dream vacation.
Ever dreamt of capturing the world-famous view from the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, or snapping a shot of the ancient pyramids in Egypt? Here’s your chance.
All that aspiring photographers need to do is upload their most impressive camera phone photos to www.sonyericsson.com/ca/thesearch/ and submit their shot into one of the three assigned categories: Action and Adventure, Fun and Games, or Everyday Moments.
All visitors to the site get to vote for their favourite photos. The top three vote getters from each category will then be awarded a Sony Ericsson K850i Cyber-shot™ 5 Megapixel camera phone and challenged to capture new images to be submitted for the grand prize—a $10,000 Picture-perfect dream vacation.
The grand prize challengers will be judged by an exclusive panel of celebrity judges. Canadian Idol winner Brian Melo, Techno Blogger Amber MacCarthur and legendary Canadian photographer Peter Burian will select the winners from the nine semi-finalists, before naming Canada’s Next Top Mobile Phone Photographer of the Year 2008.
No Purchase Necessary.
Enter on-line at www.sonyericsson.com/ca.thesearch.
Contest closes at 11:59:59 pm EDT on 23 March, 2008.
Open only to amateur photographers who are legal residents of Canada (excluding Quebec) and over the age of majority.
One Grand Prize: a $10,000 travel certificate – ARV: $10,000 CDN.
Nine Semi-Finalists Prizes: a Sony Ericsson K850i Cyber-shot™ phone– ARV: $500 CDN each.
Odds of winning depend upon the total number of eligible entries received for each prize.
Selected entrants must correctly answer a timed mathematical skill testing question.
Full rules available at www.sonyericsson.com/ca.thesearch.
Phone prize value is approximate and is based on suggested retail prices.
Dealers may sell for less.
Pictures from any camera phone are accepted.
 Canon Europe is inviting all photographers in Europe to take part in their new photo contest, The Assignment. Submit your best work in any of four categories -- Portrait, Landscape, Sport, or Macro photography -- by uploading them onto Canon's website from March 17th 2008.
The winner of each of the four categories will receive € 2000 worth of Canon EOS equipment. The top two category winners will be flown to Vienna where they will get to watch a Euro 2008 football match and compete to determine the overall category winner.
Each overall category winner will be sent on a dream photographic assignment. These incredible adventures will be filmed and broadcast across Europe.
More details and final dates at The Assignment.
[Editor's note: It seems that Reality TV has finally arrived for photographers. How fast can they change their lenses, catch the action at the peak moment, risk limb and life for the prize shot, solve clues so as to be able to photograph the next subject, beautiful models all over the place -- can't imagine the assigment being a boring studio shooting with light arrangements, posing of models, taking exposure, etc. ;o)]
Olympus is running a Photo Contest for students of photography attending 10 participating universities/colleges (and their respective professors). The pictures must be taken on an Olympus E-3 digital SLR. Students can submit 2 photos per category: Speed, Travel and Environmental Issues.
The prize is an Olympus E-3, two ZUIKO Digital Lenses (the ED 12-60mm f2.8-4.0 SWD and ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD, an Olympus travel bag and lens cloth, plus $5,000 in Scholarship money. The three students' respective professors will also be awarded the E-3 camera, lenses and accessories.
Read the complete rules and regulations.
Deadline for entries is March 7, 2008.
What I do not understand is why the requirement of having to use an Olympus E-3? If I have one already, would I want one as a prize? Will I go out and buy one just so I can take part in the contest?
Smithtown Township Arts Council
 The Smithtown Township Arts Council is now accepting entries for a national juried photography exhibition to be held May 3- May 30, 2008 at the Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James, New York.
Juror Christopher James is the chair of the photography program at The Arts Institute of Boston at Lesley University and is an internationally recognized artist and photographer.
There will be cash prizes awarded to the winners.
Work may not exceed 54" in width. Entries must be submitted as 300 ppi jpeg files on CD only (1800x1800).
Send a SASE to: STAC, 660 Rte 25A, St. James, NY 11780 or visit STAC's Website for further guidelines.
Deadline for entries is March 7, 2008.
The competition is open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike. There are no restrictions on the type of camera you use, or the techniques you use to produce your final image. See Competition rules.
There will be a range of cash and other prizes available to winners and to runners-up.
The judges will select around 100 finalists whose photographs will be printed to exhibition standard and shown at a major exhibition at Kew Gardens, London in the summer of 2008, with substantial press coverage. All finalists will receive an invitation to the private view. Details of this will be announced later in the year.
One finalist will win the title ‘Garden Photographer of the Year’ and an under 16 finalist will win ‘Young Garden Photographer of the Year’.
Each category will have a winner and two runner-up prizes. An additional prize will be awarded for the best portfolio and there will be two portfolio runners-up prizes.
Another 50 highly commended photographers will receive a prize. All finalists and commended photographers will have their images shown on the Garden Photographer of the Year website during 2008/09.
Note that there is a cost to enter the competition -- which kinds of defeat the whole purpose of making the competition accessible to one and all.
Closing date: January 31 2008
 MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO. (October 15, 2007) - PENTAX Canada Inc. is excited to announce the launch of their latest online promotion -- “The PENTAX African Photo Safari”. The lucky Grand Prize winner, along with 3 other family members or friends, will spend six unforgettable days in South Africa at the world famous Kruger National Park and Elephant Plains Game Lodge.
Not only will the winner be going on the trip of a lifetime, he or she will also be taking a fabulous PENTAX package consisting of their top-of-the-line K10D digital SLR camera, three top-of-the-line PENTAX lenses including one each of their new SDM lenses plus flash, battery grip and accessories.
In addition to the Grand Prize, there will be a number of secondary prizes to be won including continue reading...
Canon Photography in the Parks Photo Contest 2007
Contest Period: June 1 - September 29
Categories: 1) Landscape or 2) Wildlife
Where: Photo must be taken in any park or National Monument located in the US.
Entry Format: JPEG image either taken with a digital camera (RAW must be converted to JPEG) or scanned from a negative, slide or print.
Dimensions and File Size: 900 x 600 pixels max. and no more than 500KB in size
1st Prize: EOS 5D with EF 24-105mm f/4 is USM lens kit plus a PIXMA Pro9500 printer plus Trip for 2 to any participating National or State Park
2nd Prize: EOS 30D with EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens
Please visit Canon's site for official rules.
Win a HP Photosmart A516 Compact Photo Printer
Holidays 2006 Contest
Photoxels and HP
Canada want to give our Canadian readers
a gift this Holidays Season! The prize is an HP
Photosmart A516 Compact Photo Printer and
HP 110 Photo Value Pack complete with HP
Vivera Inks and Advanced photo paper.
 
HP Photosmart A516 Compact Photo
Printer and HP 110 Photo Value Pack
All you have to do is answer the following question:
"What do you like to take photos of?"
(approx. 50 to 100 words, i.e. "not too short,
not too long") and email it to us by Thursday
Dec 14, 2006 midnight Eastern Standard Time.
[Contest runs from Fri Dec 8, 2006 to Thu Dec
14, 2006 midnight EST.]
Please read Contest
rules
National
Geographic - Your Shot
Be a National Geographic Photographer
 Take
your best shot—and send it to National Geographic.
Your Shot features editors' selections
from the first 5,000 photographs submitted online
each month [beginning on the 15th of every month].
Each month features a theme and new themes are
announced monthly in National Geographic magazine
and on their website.
For contest rules, guidelines and submission
forms, please visit: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/yourshot/rules.html
Contest
rules, guidelines and submission forms
Frequently
Asked Questions
To Photoxels readers: We'd like to encourage
you to participate in this contest. A few things
to remember: National Geographic features some
of the most beautiful and interesting photographs
ever published. But to be selected for "Your
Shot," you may have to go beyond the photo
of the flower and landscape.
Think "human interest." For example,
the March
selection breaks all the rules with a photo [blurred
at that] of a dog smack in the middle and lots
of distracting stuff in the background. But what's
distracting to one person is full of interest
to another, and that is what the editor saw in
the winning photo: woman, camera, arm extended,
hand on hip, official badge, interesting fireplace,
man in shorts, painted toenails, f-u-n.
Think "original." Cookie cutter photos
might not cut it. If the editors have seen it
once, they've seen it a thousand times already.
The readers of National Geographic magazine must
want to turn to that page every month and be surprised
and delighted.
Think "human emotions." Does the photo
bring a smile to your face? Or, horror? Or, disgust?
Or, sorrow? Or, awe? Or, hope? Or, surprise? Or,
... you get the picture.
Send it in early. The winning entry is selected
from the first 5,000 submissions for that month.
Submissions are received beginning on the 15th
of every month, and I doubt you'd have more than
a few days before the 5,000 limit is reached.
Also, be sure to keep to the theme. Because it
is a printed magazine, the lead period is about
3 months. So, March 15 submissions are for the
July issue, April 15 submissions are for the August
issue, and May 15 submissions are for the September
issue.
In spite of what some want to believe, there's
no formula to a good photograph. It just moves
you, somehow. Good luck!
Samsung
Photo Contests
Every month four winners will be selected (one
winner per category) based on the applicant's
voting points. Whoever has the most voting points
will be the winner of the month.
NikonNet
Your Turn Photo Contests
You ought to be in pictures! Find out how your
skills match up against the competition's. Check
out the following Nikon and Nikon-sponsored contests
to win money, awards...and maybe even the praise
of your fellow Nikon shooters. Enter
today.
Nikon
Photo Contest International (NPCI) 2006-2007
The Nikon Photo Contest
International (NPCI) is open
to both professional and amateur photographers
around the world.
Theme: "At the heart of the image"
Application period: Sept. 1 - Nov. 30, 2006
Sep. 1st, 2006: Now
accepting entries
Nikon's
Small World 2007 Competition
Contestants may enter Nikon's Small World Competition
on the MicroscopyU website by uploading digital
images directly to our servers. Before you begin,
read the Contest Rules and prepare your images
for uploading according to the instructions. You
may also download a 2007 Competition Entry Form
in portable document format (*.PDF) for submission
of entries through the mail system. Deadline for
all entries is May 1st, 2007.
Photo
Contest
Human interest, more than technical quality, seem
to factor in heavily in this contest.
New
Cosmos of Photography
This contest, irrespective of age, nationality,
entry size, and form, is designed to encourage
creative activities in order to bring out the
full potential of photography, taking up experimental
works such as crossovers of different genres including
gelatin silver prints, and inspiring new original
works going beyond existing stereotypical photos.
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