 Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! International Images for Science is calling for images that cover all breadth of science from medicine, forensic science, zoology, engineering, astronomy, all scientific fields.
The competition is open to all, RPS members and non-members. There are three age specific categories: Aged 17 and Under, Aged 18 – 25, and Aged 26 and Over. The competition is free to enter and the closing date is Sunday 1st May 2016, Midnight GMT. International Images for Science is supported by Siemens, please find more information about the sponsor and The Curiosity Project HERE. BBC Focus Magazine are supporting International Images for Science as Media Partner and Spectrum Photographic as the exhibition's Print Sponsor. The final 100 chosen images will be selected by an expert judging panel featuring scientists, photographers and imaging experts. The panel will also select the medal winners. Prizes
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 Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! The National Tattoo Photography Awards 2016 will soon be calling for entries. It does not matter if you are a young, old, amateur or professional photographer... we cater for all.
The brief is simple: Produce an outstanding tattoo themed photograph. This year, there are even more ways to enter: 1) Enter via Facebook. Head on over to our facebook page here and submit your chosen photo to be in with a chance of winning! 2) Enter via Instagram. Simply snap and share your photo, tag @skindeep_mag and use hashtag #NTPAwards2016 for your chance to win! 3) Enter via Twitter. Simply snap and share your photo, tag @skindeepmag and use hashtag #NTPAwards2016 for your chance to win! Closing date for entries: Midnight 17th January 2016 SHORT LISTED EXHIBITIONThey will be displayed for the duration of the event at Tattoo Freeze on the 31st of January 2016, with the paying public voting for the eventual winner. PRIZE The overall winner will receive amazon vouchers to the value of £350. The prize is subject to availability and an equivalent prize shall be sourced if not available.  Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! Since 1991, the Bay of Somme, internationally recognized as a major spot on the migratory routes, celebrates the return of spring and birds with the Bird and Nature Festival.
In 2016, for its 26th edition, it will be held from April 9th to 17th. Nine days of exciting activities to watch, marvel, learn and educate! Every year, the Bird and Nature Festival launches its 2 photo competitions: the International Wildbird Photo Competition and the Young Photographers Competition. They will result in an exhibition during the event. This competition is an ethical contest. Pictures of domesticated, trained or captive wild animals or pets are prohibited. It is the responsability of each participant to adhere to all international laws pertaining to the location where the photo has been taken, including those regarding protected species. Participants are expected to keep in mind the well-being of the birds and their environment, and to avoid injury or distress to the birds or destruction of their habitat. Any photo that, in the Jury’s opinion, has been achieved through unethical or harmful conduct will be excluded from the competition. PRIZES AND AWARD CEREMONY Prizes can not be the object of a counterpart in cash nor of whatever nature and are not transferable.
 Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! Photographers from 93 different countries submitted their favorite shots – more than 26,000 of them – to our 12th Annual Photo Contest. The winners, announced here, represent the most striking and memorable photography we saw among the entrants. From Pham Ty’s Grand-Prize-winning shot of seamstresses working with fabric reminiscent of an ocean to Joydeep Mukherjee’s touching portrait of a mother and child in a flooded room, these photographs capture a moment in time for Smithsonian.com readers around the globe.
Do you have what it takes to capture a prize-winning shot? Enter our 13th Annual Photo Contest or explore a selection of nearly 300,000 photos from photo contests past! WHAT ARE THE PRIZES? GRAND PRIZE WINNER: $2,500 CATEGORY WINNERS: $500 READERS' CHOICE WINNER: $500 MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY WINNER: $500 UNITED ECOSKIES SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL LEADERSHIP AWARD: Two economy round-trip tickets for travel between United States, Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. For full details, see our RULES.  Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! SEARCA PHOTO CONTEST 2015 will award entries that best capture how smallholders participate in the value chain (production, aggregation, processing, and distribution) of fresh produce (crop and livestock), commodities, and handicrafts as a means of promoting agricultural and rural development. We are looking for photographs that depict real situations in which the smallest producers are able to link to and profit from modern integrated markets (domestically, or even abroad).
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First Place - USD 800.00 Second Place - USD 500.00 Third Place - USD 300.00 People’s Choice - (via Facebook voting) - USD 200.00  Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! The Photomatix HDR Challenge is a photo contest that accept entries in two categories: Realistic HDR and Creative HDR.
The Fall 2015 Photomatix HDR Challenge Contest is now open. Entries will be accepted until the 31st of December 2015. The winners will be announced by the end of January 2016. Prizes st Prize Creative HDR: US$500 Amazon Gift Card + Photomatix Pro Plus bundle license 1st Prize Realistic HDR: US$500 Amazon Gift Card + Photomatix Pro Plus bundle license 2nd Prize Creative HDR: US$200 Amazon Gift Card + Photomatix Pro license 2nd Prize Realistic HDR: US$200 Amazon Gift Card + Photomatix Pro license Amazon Gift Card may be replaced by an Apple Gift Card, if preferred. Categories The Creative HDR category applies to images of any scene processed with HDR settings in the style of Photomatix Presets such as Vibrant or Painterly for instance. The Realistic HDR category applies to images of a high contrast scene made up of several exposures and processed with HDR settings in the style of Photomatix Presets such as Balanced or Natural. If your image is processed in a style on the border between creative and realistic, you may choose whichever category you find the most appropriate. HDRsoft reserves the right to change the category you have selected, if necessary. Judging The Prize winners and Honorable Mentions will be determined by a panel of judges made up of a guest judge and ten photographers from the HDRsoft team. The guest judge of the Fall 2015 Photomatix HDR Challenge Contest will be announced in November. The judges will review the entries for each category and pick two 1st Prize winners (one for the Realistic HDRand one for the Creative HDR category), two 2nd prize winners for each category, and up to 20 Honorable Mentions. The 1st Prize, 2nd Prize and Honorable Mentions photos will be published on the HDRsoft.com website and posted on HDRsoft social media sites.  Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! Anyone can participate with any kind of camera. Photography has the power to bring people together from all over the world. Olympus is proud to host this Global Open Photo Contest to connect photographers worldwide, and we look forward to your participation. Categories and ThemesRepresented by digital cameras that help preserve fond memories, Olympus' products provide happy, healthy lives and a bright future for all people around the world. For the Olympus Global Open Photo Contest, we thus will feature Life, Future, and People as permanent categories, each in which we will provide a different theme every contest. In addition to the three categories designated by subject matter, the Technical Category will present two themes which designate a style or technique of photography. Prizes Prizes will be presented to one Grand Prize winner plus fourteen winners per theme. Grand PrizeLatest Olympus PEN Camera + Lens Kit and 1 Million Japanese Yen    Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! On the occasion of SkyPixel’s one year anniversary, we’re celebrating our community’s incredible creativity with the 2015 SkyPixel Photo Contest. With this competition, we aim to show the world why aerial imaging is the next evolution of photographic art, and highlight new talent with our platform.
As the world’s largest contest dedicated to aerial photography, the 2015 SkyPixel Photo Contest gives participants the chance to have their work elevated to the next level and seen by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Adding to this, we’ve got incredible prizes from sponsors like Adobe and Zeiss, and a Grand Prize that includes the DJI Inspire 1 RAW and the recently released DJI Osmo. Show your art to the world. Enter your photo today. RULES
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 Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! The Art of Building photography competition is an international showcase for the very best digital photography of the built environment. It is open to both professional and amateur photographers.
The competition is run by the Chartered Institute of Building and celebrates the creativity of the industry, the passion of the people who work within it, and the impact their work has on those who make use of the final construction. We are now open for entry! You have until 29 November 2015 to submit your photography to us. This years winning prize is £3,000. Want to see the standard? Then check out our galleries and see what it takes to be successful.  Our free photography contest recommendation of the day! The deadline for receipt of photos ends on November 9, 2015. There are only a few day days to close the XIX convocation of the International Humanitarian Photography Award Luis Valtueña, one of the most outstanding events of the year photographic whose mission is twofold: to promote humanitarian values and solidarity through photography and serve at the same time , as testimony and denunciation of social injustice , with special attention to those images reflecting the consequences of rights violations, armed conflict, natural disasters and social exclusion.
The organizers want to encourage everyone, professional and amateur, and of any nationality to participate, especially women, whose presence is still smaller than its fellow photographers. Next November 9th is the last day of term , and since then the jury will meet to decide the winner and finalists of this year. After 18 years, there have been nearly 12,000 snapshots, taken by more than 3,300 photographers and photographers . This year, when MDM celebrates its 25th anniversary , we want to recover the words the writer Susan Sontag wrote in 1980 in his book "On Photography" to thank all the people who dedicate their time to photograph the injustices and make them know. And we hope that, while they continue succeeding, more people will join this complaint and found work in the International Humanitarian Photography Award Luis Valtueña, a channel for display. The images have the ability to arouse desire and awareness (...) Without political, photographs slaughterhouse of history simply experience, in all probability, as unreal or demoralizing emotional blows. The nature of emotion, including the moral outrage that people can feel to the photographs of the oppressed, the exploited, the hungry and exterminated also depend on the degree of familiarity with these images. (...) The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image It is tell us: That's the surface. Now think - or rather feel, intuit - what is beyond, what should be the reality if this is your appearance . The prize: 6,000 euros in cash. In an effort to continue the mission of denunciation and testimony of the contest, the prize itself consists of a scholarship of 6,000 euros for the winner to carry out another photography project in countries where MdM has set operative. An initiative that has allowed the development of Irish jobs like Andrew McConnell, who with his project "The Long Night Sahrawi" won the World Press Photo in the category of portraits. Or like Fernando Moleres, who won second prize in the World Press Photo in the category of reports of daily life with the same image with which he won in 2011. Or Valtueña Olmo Calvo, "Births in the roof of the world " made in Bolivia. One of the images from this project got an honorable mention in the National Prize of Photojournalism 2014. |
