2008 Popular Photography Images of the Year Competition

OFFICIAL RULES

1. ELIGIBILITY:
You must be 18 years or older as of September 12, 2008 to enter the contest. Employees of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. and members of their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win. The contest is open to both amateur and professional photographers.

2. CONTEST DEADLINES:
The Contest commences on April 23, 2008 and continues until September 12, 2008.


3. CATEGORIES:
Action/Sports
Architecture
Candid/Humor
People
Nature
Travel/Places

4. ENTRY FEES:
Single Entry: $10

4. PRIZES:
GRAND PRIZE
The Grand Prize winner will receive a 50" Panasonic HDTV, HD Camcorder, Blu-Ray DVD Player, Lumix Digital Camera, and an all expense paid trip to Ireland for two. The Panasonic Prize package will be set up or installed by firedog, Circuit City's highly trained professionals. The winner will also receive a SmugMug Lifetime Pro account with full customization, $500 of free prints/gifts from the SmugMug website, entry to exclusive 2009 SmugMug Workshop, a 3 year world membership from fotocommunity.com, as well as a X-Rite ColorMunki Photo.

CATEGORY WINNERS
The winners of each category will receive a new Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera, a SmugMug Liftetime free Pro Account, as well as a 2 year world membership from fotocommunity.com.

5. SUBMISSIONS
The competition is open to work produced from September 1 2007 - September 12, 2008. Entries can be submitted by uploading the image and making a payment on the www.popphotocontest.com website.

File specifications: submissions should be in JPEG format. This compresses the size of your file and should make for quick uploads. It's important to set your JPEG compression to maximum image quality (minimum compression) in order to prevent deterioration of image quality.

In Photoshop, saving your file via Save As, select JPEG for your image type, and put the quality slider to 12 (all the way to the right).

Filename should not have spaces i.e. "blue car.JPG" instead
"blue_car.JPG"
File must have the correct extension ().
Filename should not have slashes i.e. "women/child.jpg"
Filename should not have odd charachters i.e. "%$@#*()

Contest is open to amateurs and pros.

Employees of Sponsor, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., publisher of Popular Photography and Imaging magazine and popphoto.com web site ("Sponsor") and their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win.

Entrants name, address, email address, and category must be affixed to all entries.

6. JUDGING/WINNERS:
The judging will be done in two stages: The initial stage will be done by the Popular Photography & Imaging promo staff. The second stage will be done by a jury of outside experts selected by the editors of Popular Photography & Imaging. Entries will be judged equally on creativity, technical expertise and aesthetic value. Entries will be ranked in descending order. The decisions of the judges are final.

Winners will be notified via email or mail by October 19th, 2008.
Winners may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, grant of rights, and a publicity and liability release within 14 days of notification, or alternate winners will be selected (alternate will be next highest ranked entrant). By entering this Contest and/or accepting a prize, you agree to allow Sponsor to use your name, city and state, voice and image in connection with publication of your winning entry and for promotional purposes (except where prohibited), without review, notification or approval.

7. MISCELLANEOUS:
This Contest is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and is void where prohibited. Winners agree that Sponsors and Prize Contributors, including their parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors and employees, shall not be liable for injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from participating in this promotion or from the acceptance or use of any prize awarded. HFM reserves the right to verify eligibility qualifications of any winner(s). Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the web site, www.popphoto.com, or who is otherwise in violation of the rules. Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Contest if it is not capable of completion as planned due to, for example, infection by a computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort. In the event of early termination of the Contest, winners will be selected from all eligible entries received at the time of termination in accordance with the judging procedures described above. In no event will Sponsor be responsible for any damages or losses arising out of access to and use of the web sites or the downloading from and or printing material downloaded from said site.

Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or misdirected entries. In the event of a dispute concerning the identity of a person submitting an online entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose name the e-mail account is registered.

8. WINNERS LIST: A winners list will be available upon request once the January 2009 issue is released.

Sponsor: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

Prize Contributors: Panasonic, Circuit City, FireDog, Tourism Ireland, Smugmug, fotocommunity.com

Photo Contest Emotional Appeal 2008

Send us your favorite photo that expresses a human emotion: happy sad tired mad - or any other human emotion.
The Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner will receive a magnificent Tamron AF28-300mm XR VC (Vibration Compensation) Di zoom lens for a Canon or Nikon Digital SLR camera.

Plus, the winning image will be showcased in the Tamron Online Gallery in the Learning section of tamron.com with up to 20 of our favorites.

The contest is judged by professional photographer André Costantini and guest judge professional photographer Emily Wilson. Deadline is 11/30/08 to submit by mail or email.

For more details:

http://www.tamron.com/lenses/scrapbook.asp

2008 Land Between The Lakes Photo Competition

The 2008 Land Between The Lakes Photo Competition is open to all photographers, of any age, who have submitted a complete registration form and entrance fee. If under 18, a signed permission form from his or her parent or legal guardian must be included. Members of the contest committee, contest judges and their immediate families including children, siblings and spouses are excluded.

What To Enter

All Photographs must have been taken in or of the Land Between The Lakes.
Photographs will be judged in the following 6 categories:
1. Mammals - Portraits and Behavior
2. Birds - Portraits and Behavior
3. Small World – Tight Close Up and Macro
4. Connecting People and Nature - People enjoying the LBL
5. Habitat - Landscapes and plant life from wild areas
6. Digitally Enhanced *
*Double exposures, digitally stitched photos and images containing any manipulated or added content should be entered only in category # 6.

You must declare on your entry form if your photograph is of an animal in captivity, such as Woodlands Nature Center, Elk & Bison Prairie or The Homeplace.
No pets or domestic animals will be accepted, with the exception of animals at the Woodlands Nature Center, Elk & Bison Prairie, The Homeplace or animals participating with people in outdoor recreation (for example, hunting dogs or riders on horseback). Please do not harass wildlife in an attempt to photograph it.

Manipulation of images, either film or digital, should be limited to conventional darkroom techniques or basic sharpening, cropping and removal of dust spots. Images should contain only the subject matter as originally seen through the viewfinder (except for the Digitally Enhanced category).

An entrant must hold all rights to a photograph. Photos previously published or pending publication or that violate or infringe upon another person’s copyright, are not eligible. Please do not infringe on the rights of property owners in an attempt to photograph animals.

For more information;-

http://www.lblphotocontest.org/details.htm

Ambience Photography Contest 2008

Ambience Productions is dedicated to promoting creative talent on a global scale. Through our website and contests we showcase some of this talent and introduce the world to new and emerging artists, photographers and writers.

The Ambience Photography Contest 2008 is open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages, from all parts of the world. It is an online, global contest. All categories of photography are welcome; including post processing and computer enhanced images. Let your imagination run wild and those creative juices flow. Send us your best pics and we'll place them before our panel of judges.

Who knows? You just might be the winner of the 2008 Ambience Photography Contest!
Great prize money is on offer for our winners. Winning entries will be showcased on our site along with the entrant's bio. To commemorate your win, you will also receive a downloadable certificate which can be printed out and displayed on your wall for all to see.

For more information:-

http://www.ambienceproductions.com.au/photocontest.htm

Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009

The Nikon Photo Contest International has been held by Nikon Corporation since 1969 to provide an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture for professionals and amateurs alike.

"At the heart of the image" is not only the brand statement of Nikon Imaging Company, but it is also the theme for the 32nd contest, in which entries are invited in two categories. The first category is free subject and the second is entitled "My Planet," and entries to each category are accepted as prints sent by conventional mail or as JPEG images sent via the Internet. With this theme and these categories, we look forward to receiving expressive images from around the world that are true to people's emotions.

For more details kindly visit:

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/activity/npci/npci2008-2009/imgdata.htm