Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! Comfort, calmness, joy, gentleness, levity, hope, faith, relaxation, smiles, caresses, closeness, embraces, acceptance, forgiveness, rest, leisure, end, sunrise, rainbow, freshness, music, medicine, expectation, responses, solutions. What does relief mean to you?
All of these are SOLLIEVO - RELIEF, the selected theme for the 3rd International Photography Contest of the Zoé Foundation. After the success of the first and the second editions, the initiative is back by popular demand with a new and stimulating subject to capture in a click. The professionals and amateur photographers around the world will be able to challenge themselves and express their idea of relief, representing it through pictures. Organized in collaboration with the Circolo Fotografico Vicenza and Fotoclub Il Punto Focale BFI, the contest, sponsored by the international FIAP (International Federation of Photographic Art) and FIAF (Italian Federation of Photographic Associations), is a good opportunity to place yourself in a global context, without any type of expenditure. It is completely free to enter and photographs should be sent in digital form, with no printing costs. Each work will be examined by a judging panel of experts: the President is Antonella Monzoni. Calendar: Closing date: 20TH MAY 2015 Judging: 30TH MAY 2015 Results sent out: from 12TH JUNE 2015 Prize-giving: 27TH JUNE 6 p.m., at the Zoé Foundation (36, Corso Palladio - Vicenza) Prize-giving: 1st place: FIAP and FIAF gold medal + Tripod Manfrotto 190X alluminium 3 sections 2nd place: FIAP and FIAF silver medal + Lowepro rucksuck pro runner 300 AW 3rd place: FIAP and FIAF bronze medal + Silicon Power hard disk drive A15 500 GB
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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! Enter our annual Belfast Parks Photographic Competition for your chance to win a share of £1,000. This year’s competition is sponsored by John McQuillan (Contracts) Ltd.
Simply take a photo in one of our parks or open spaces, and make sure it relates to one of our award categories. Award categories
Take advantage of the rain showers, snowflakes or sunshine to create a unique photo that will stand out from other entries. The photographs will be judged on beauty, creativity and originality. Winners will be notified by Monday 1 June 2015 to attend an award ceremony later in June 2015. Prizes There are prizes for the best photos received in each category:
Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! For the eighth year running, OjodePez and PhotoEspaña are teaming up to offer a prize that will become an object of desire for all documentary photographers. The magazine wants to go further in its defence of the best documentary photography, and to do this it is joining forces with one of the main international photography events.
Participation in the PHE OjodePez Award is open to photographers from all over the world who carry out a work of documentary photography in which human values such as solidarity, ethics, dedication, or justice stand out. The participants must send in a minimum of 10 or a maximum of 15 images. A prestigious international panel of judges will select the best portfolio, which will receive a 2,000 euro prize. In addition, the winning work could be the object of an exhibition and will be published in a special issue that OjodePez devotes each fall to the award. At the same time, the panel will select of series of finalists – no more than nine –, who will also see their work published in the special issue of the magazine. First All photographers can participant in the contest, regardless of nationality or age. There is no entry fee. Second A minimum of 10 or a maximum of 15 images are required. The photographs cannot have been published previously as a series, nor as part of a book, nor have been awarded collectively before. The images must beattached at the time of the registration. Third We don’t want you to waste money on copies and mailings. Therefore, a system will be provided for sending your images via FTP so that all participants can send their work over the Internet. Only entries sent via this system will be accepted. You will be able to enter the contest at www.phe.es. There you will find all the information you need to register and send your work correctly. It’s as simple as that. The deadline for sending images is 8 May. Fourth The prize consists of 2,000 euros plus the publication of the reportage in the fall issue of OjodePez, which comes out in September. Moreover, the possibility exists that an exhibition will be organized for the winning work and the work of the finalists. In the previous edition of the contest, the exhibition was hosted by Fnac, travelling to different cities in Spain and Portugal throughout the year. Fifth In addition to the winner, the panel will select a series of nine finalists whose work will also be published in the September issue. Sixth The 2014 panel of judges consisted of Carine Dolek (Fetart), Mauro Bedoni (Colors), Diego Orlando (Burn), Erik Vroons (Gup) and Arianna Rinaldo, director of OjodePez. An international panel of equal renown will be responsible this year for selecting the winning work and finalists of the contest. Seventh The winner and finalists will be announced in June in PHotoEspaña, as well as in the Fall magazine issue. Eighth Entrants grant an exclusive licence for the purposes of publication and publicity of the submitted photographs selected as finalist and winning images, and for use in promoting the competition in future editions. Naturally, copyright remains with entrants, as does their entitlement to publish their photographs in other media. OjodePezwill only make use of them to publicise the competition, and always accompanied by a photo credit. Ninth The winner and the finalists accept the free reproduction of their images in mass media with the sole aim of spreading the results of the award. Tenth Participation in this contest implies automatically full and total acceptance, without reservations, of these rules. Eleventh You will need a minimum of 10 or a maximum of 15 photographs in JPEG digital format. The Motif Collective, an internet start-up located in Fernandina Beach, Florida just completed its Second International Online Photography Competition.
For a very small entry fee, The Motif Collective allows photographers to take part in photographic competitions where they are independently judged “in the blind” by professional photographers and two of the judges for this month’s competition, Michael Spicer (www.michaelspicer.net) and Stephan R. Leimberg (www.unseenimages.com) were also from Fernandina Beach. The industry does have a number of Photography Competitions but other than the many big “once a year” hosted events by the Big Camera manufacturers there are only a handful of providers supporting smaller worthwhile competitions. The majority of online competitions do not support photographers very well, they charge entry fees without giving out cash awards and those that do only give out a flat rate with no regard for how much in entry fees were collected. The demand for competitions has grown exponentially in the past few years’ right along with the digital photography market and although the exact number is not known it is estimated that over one million paid submissions are made each year. With The Motif Collective winners receive web promotions, press releases and cash awards which are financed by the entry fees. Where competitors are only paying out an average of 0-9% of their entry fees, Motif will always pay out a minimum of 50% of all entry fees to the top three Awards Spots in each competition and for this one they actually paid out 80%. Competitions are hosted monthly and the more competition an event has the larger the prize will be. Right now they just offer one new theme each month with the complete focus of the event on single competition. The winners of the “Landscape Themed” competition were: First and Second Place - Francois Bogaerts (https://500px.com/suske) in Lommel, Belgium for his images titled "Seljalandsfoss" and “Frozen”. Third Place - Janne Kahila (www.jkahilaphotography.com) in Espoo, Finland for his image titled " Tranquilly Divided ". Honoroable Mention - Cliff LaPlant ( www.sierralara.com ) Alpine, California for his image " Reflections in Lake Ediza ". The wining images are displayed here, in The Motif Collective winner’s gallery and are available for purchase at each of the participant’s websites. |