Thursday, October 22, 2009

Photo Contest Brings it Home Sweet Home



Enter the Home Sweet Home Photography Competition for your chance to win 2 return flights home to Australia, New Zealand or South Africa with Etihad Airways.
The weather's changed and the days are getting shorter.  Show us what reminds you of home and keeps the homesickness at bay for the chance to win a trip home for 2 people to escape the winter blues.

Closing date for entries is midday, Monday November 30,  2009.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

WeSay Holds Free Photo Contests with Cash Prizes


WeSay holds free monthly photo contests for its members. Membership is free. There are 30 winners each month with cash prizes of $500, $100 and $25. There is no limit to how often you can enter or how much you can win. As a member, you are encouraged to upload photos, preferably a set of photos about an event. WeSay is looking for photos about current events such as national or local news, environment, sports, celebrities or just something far-out. All photos submitted by Wesay members are eligible for consideration and payment.


Enter Free Photo Contest http://www.wesay.com/Pay_For_Photos/omotion will be eligible for consideration and payment!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

National Geographic Focuses On Kids And Prizes


National Geographic will conduct an international competition for the kids photo of the year 2009. One Grand Prize winner will win a five-day, four-night trip to Washington, D.C., including a special tour of National Geographic headquarters. The Worldwide National Geographic International Photography Contest begins November
2, 2009 and ends December 31, 2009.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Aperture Nature Photography Contest


The Aperture Nature Photography Workshop Contest is open. On September 9-12, four winners will join with professional photographers at the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop. Each winner will win a cash ravel allowance, hotel, food, ground transfers as well as prizes from the event sponsors. It’s free to enter. Photographers get to keep all Copyrights to their images. They didn’t mention a deadline, but the winners will be announced on September 9-12, 2009. So that should give you some idea of when to enter.

Winners will be announced September 9-12, 2009

Visit Site: http://aperturenatureworkshops.com/

Nature’s Best Hosts Photography Contests


Nature’s Best Photography hosts a weekly photo contest. Each week they feature a different photographer from around the world. Weekly winners qualify for a chance to have their picture published in Nature’s Best Photography Magazine. Plus, you get a one year subscription to the same magazine. That’s something. If your entry is particularly good, it may be part of their global exhibits.

Deadline: Ongoing, Weekly

Visit Site: http://naturesbestmagazine.com/

Better Photo Photography Contests


Better Photo offers a monthly photography contest covering a variety of topics; Nature and Landscape, People Photography and Elements of Design are a few. This site has been around for a while and has matured over the years. Expect some heavy competition in these monthly contests. Winners typically receive a premium membership to BetterPhoto.com and some smaller gifts.

Visit Site: http://www.betterphoto.com/home.asp

View Bug Photo Contests


View Bug brings an interesting twist to online photo contests. They offer weekly challenges with cash rewards to the winners. Winners can make as little as ten or twenty bucks. Big winners can cash in hundreds! They’ve also got some other interesting social apps if you’re looking to hook up with fellow photogs.

Deadline: Weekly, Ongoing

Visit Site: http://www.viewbug.com/

Word Shooters Photo Contests


Word Shooters gives contestants a new word for each competition. Contestants then bring back a photo of their interpretation of that word. If the word is “ant”, then go get some awesome ant pictures and enter the competition. I’m sure they have better words than ants though. Word Shooters offers cash prizes to winners. The expressed goal of Word Shooters is to increase the use of photography as an art form while providing a source for true photojournalism. Having a few photo contests is a great way to make that happen.

Deadline: Ongoing

Visit Site: http: http://wordshooters.com/

Competico Photo Contests


Competico pays cash to the winners of its contests. A variety of categories gives everyone a chance to get involved. As with most contests that pay a cash prize, Competico asks that you, the photographer, pay to enter. It may be a little like the lottery, but if you know you have a great picture, it might be worth the roll of the dice.

Deadline: Ongoing

Visit Site: http://www.competico.com/

International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers Spring 2009 Photo Contests Results


The ISPWP sets the bar for wedding photography excellence. Membership is somewhat exclusive as the ISPWP holds its members to a high standard. References, both from clients and fellow wedding photographers, is part of the application process. The ISPWP recently announced their winners in their Spring 2009 competition. Winners were chosen in a variety of categories.

See the Results: http://www.ispwp.com/contests

The Wedding Photojournalist Association’s Q2 Photo Contests


The Wedding Photojournalist Association offers quartley photo contests for its members. The WPJA brings together professional photojournalists and wedding photographers. To combine these two techniques in candid, documentary styles with a distinct artistic vision toward wedding photography is the ultimate aim of the WPJA.The WPJA is respected arouond the world and has been recognized in major publications. Each quarter the WPJA holds contests in a variety of wedding categories. The Q1 contest is over and they are preparing for the Q2 competition.

Visit Site: http: http://www.wpja.com/index.htm

Sports Shooter Photography Contests


Sports Shooter is a premiere site for professional sports photography. Sports Shooter offers a vibrant community life with other sports photographers. Share tips and ideas and get to know the people in your field. Sports Shooter holds a monthy contest sponsored by Canon and has a few more yearly contests. Get your zoom out, set your ISO accordingly and take some winning photos. But be prepared when entering contests on this site. There are true professionals hanging out in this site and some of the stuff they get is awesome. Of course it doesn’t hurt to have a field access badge to get closer to the action.

Visit Site : http://www.sportsshooter.com/contest.html

Photography Laureates Hosts Photo Contests


Photography Laureates holds photo contests to help expand the reach of photography and photographers. Through contests and workshops, Photography Laureates generates interest for photographers. By exposing photographers to publishers and clients, Photography Laureates hopes to provide the opportunities for its participants to succeed in the photography business. A cash prize of $6,500 is up for grabs. They also give away cameras and iPods everyday to contest participants.

Enter Contest: http://www.photolaureates.org/upload.php

The Cute Kid Headlines Baby Photo Contests


Got a cute kid? Of course you do. The Cute Kid has free photo contests to let you prove it. Not only could you walk away from their baby photo contest knowing that your kid is super cute, you could also walk away with some big bucks. The grand prize is a whopping $25,000 (college tuition)! Other commercial opportunities could happen too. Cute Kid babies are featured in some Gap Kids ads. These ongoing baby photo contests provide you with a chance to win some of the $5,000 in prizes The Cute Kid awards each month.

Visit Site: http://www.thecutekid.com/

The American Baby Contest Settles on Quarterly Contests


The American Baby Contest was started in 1995 by some parents that were unhappy with other national baby photo contests. So they set out to make a photo contest that was fair and fun, safe and secure. The American Baby Contest claims that it is the largest national baby and child photo contest in the world. They have won over 235 web site awards. ABC also offer tips and contact help with talent and modeling agencies. Each of their baby photo contests is different and there could be as many as 50 winners in one baby photo contest. Categories range from Under 2 to 2-9 Years Old. Top Place winners receive a cash prize while other winners have the opportunity to be published in parenting and baby magazines.

After fluctuating between weekly, monthly and quarterly photo contests, ABC has decided to utilyze a quarterly contest system. That gives you plenty of time to take the cutest picture in the world of the cutest kid in the world.

Visit Site: http://www.americanbabycontest.com/index.html

My Pet Photo Contest supports SPCA


The family run site My Pet Contest provides animal lovers and photogrpahy lovers a chance to mix their passions. Enter your best pet photos in their monthly contests. It doesn’t matter if you have a dog, cat, rat or rattlesnake, My Pet Contest wants to see your photos. Prizes range from $50 to plaques. Entrants will have their best pet photo published on their website for three months.

My Pet Contest is the brainchild of a nine year old girl, Rose. With her parents help, she’s now able to help animals well before she attends college to become a Vet. A portion of the proceeds to My Pet Contest go to support the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. If you’re a winner, and you so choose, My Pet Contest will pass along your Animal Biography Pack to talent agencies.

Prize distributions and pet photo contests take place every month.

Enter Pet Photo Contest: http://www.mypetcontest.com/main/page_pet_shop_online_contest_entry.html

Parents.com Provides Platform for Baby Photo Contests


Parents.com, the online home of American Baby, Parents and Family Circle magazines, offers tremendous opportunities to get your cute kid noticed. Because of their already strong advertiser based gain through their traditional magazine businesses, Parents.com brings to the table baby photo contests sponsored by some major brands. Baby photo contest winners have the chance to appear on the cover of some pretty big magazines as well. Those who simply enter their cute kid in Parents.com’s ongoing photo contests are eligible for a $10,000 prize.

Parents.com also offers pregnant mothers the chance to track their belly growth through monthly pictures that are posted on the site. So, if you want to look at a bunch of pictures of pregnant women’s bellies, this is the spot.

Enter the Baby Photo Contests: https://secure.parents.com/common/profile/regStep1.jsp?regSource=7065&_requestid=108157&_requestid=108157

Modern Dog Hosts Weekly Dog Photo Contests


Moderndogmagazine.com hosts weekly dog photo contests. Weekly winners of their dog photo contests have the chance to have their dog appear in an upcoming issue of Modern Dog Magazine. You can enter as often as you wish. So, take a lot of pictures and send them in. Each Monday the past week’s winning dog photo will be posted on their website. Winners are determined by the number of votes each dog photo gets. The votes are cast by regular people like me and you. Ok, you. You can email and blog and do whatever social-networking tricks you have up your sleeve to get votes for your dog’s photo. It’s kind of like politics, the best PR machine wins! So get your PR machine running.

Visit Site: http://www.moderndogmagazine.com/photocontest

Sunday, August 16, 2009

National Photo Contest Offers Cash Prizes For Monthly Photo Contests


National Photo Contest has had 4,000,000 hits making it a great way to share your best photos with fellow photogs. They offer a variety of categories including Creative, Artistic or Digitally Enhanced. This category really opens it up for those who like to play with their photos. National Photo Contest has a monthly cas prize of $250 for the overall winner of their 7 category winners. They had a free photo contest but recently discountinued that offering. There will be an entry charge of $8.95 to put your photo up for consideration. You can save money when you buy photo entries in bulk.

Enter Monthly Photo Contest: http://www.nationalphotoawards.com/monthlyphotocontestentryform.html

Moms Are The Focus Of Free Baby Photo Contests With Cash Prizes


Contest For Moms hosts free baby photo contests each month. A cash prize, along with other goodies, await the winner of each month’s free photo contest. Winning photos are based on the techincal merit of the photo because “all babies are beautiful”. Contest for Moms also has an active “mom” community offering baby coupons and other free mom stuff. So, put your photo skills to work and take a great picture of your baby because its cuteness may not help in this online photo contest. They want to see quality! These free baby photo contests are for babies 0-5 years old.

Enter Free Baby Photo Contest: http://www.contestformoms.com/babycontestphotos/

Kids and Bibs Now Offers Free Baby Photo Contests


Kids and Bibs announced in May 2009 that they would be hosting free baby photo contests. Each month three winners are announced. Two are judged by a panel of judges and the third winner is decided by parents’ votes. Kids and Bibs also offers a themed baby photo contest and a model baby photo contest. There’s a coolest mom and baby contest too. There’s also a variety of parental advice and tips for moms available.

Visit Site: http://www.kidsandbibs.com/

BabyZone Brings Home Free Baby Photo Contests


Winners of BabyZone’s weekly baby photo contests are finalists in their monthly photo contests. Monthly contest winners are eligible for BabyZone’s yearly Grand Prize. Each week BabyZone hosts four free baby photo contests for the best baby, toddler, pre-schooler, and child photos. BabyZone also offers a comprehensive listing of parenting tips, advice for moms and expecting moms and overall parental community life. If you’re intersted, they have an ovulation tracker. If you’re interested.

Enter Baby Photo Contest: http://www.babyzone.com/photocontest/

Photo Bug Baby Hosts Monthly Baby Photo Contests


Photo Bug Baby’s photo contests are for children ages 0-13 years old. Photos are judged an the technical merits of their picture because “all children are beautiful”. So, your babies ultimate cuteness does not play the deciding factor. You’ve got to put some thought into it a make a great picture. It costs $2 to enter a photo of your kid. So be sure you’re sending in your best stuff. Winners are announced on a monthly basis.

Enter Baby Photo Contest: http://photobugbaby.com/pages/entercontest.php

Little Travellers Gets Creative To Raise Awareness


“Little Travellers” are made by women affected with HIV/AIDS. Made in the shape of people, these tiny dolls are sold for $5 a piece with 100% of that money going to support HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa. The Little Travellers HIV/AIDS Initiative is done in partnership with the Hillcrest AIDS Centre, whose services include medical care, education and awareness, emergency food parcels, long term agricultural development and income-generation programs. Much like Flat Stanley, the Little Travellers’ photo contest asks you to take a picture of your Little Traveller as you travel. Take a picture of your Little Traveller on the Zamboni when you get the chance to ride one. Or hold it in front of Joe Celebrity when you run into him in the bathroom. Prizes are offered to the winners. Before you can enter, however, you need to buy a Little Traveller. Your $5 purchase will help to bring hope into the world and you can have some fun. This one is a no-brainer.

Visit Home Site: http://www.littletravellers.net/

Visit Photo Contest Site: http://littletravellers.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/little-travellers-photo-contest-launched/

Get Your Little Traveller: http://www.littletravellers.net/buy-dolls

EquineSite Promotes Free Horse Photography Contests


EquineSite is a regional horse watering hole. Based out of New England, EquineSite has been serving its constituents since 1999. Foremost a site about all things equine, EquineSite offers free monthly photo contests to amatuer photographers. Winning amateur photographers receive a unique horse-related product each month. The deadline for entries is the 5th of each month. Winners are announced the next day. Some of the better photos that don’t win could be used as promotional tools for EquineSite. These free photo contests are mainy for people in the New England area, but outsiders are encouraged to enter.

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://www.equinesite.com/Photocontest.htm

Canon’s Free Amateur Photo Contest Puts The Focus On Parks


To help encourage recognition for our environment, Canon USA is holding a free amateur photo contest aimed at parks. Take a weekend to visit a park in your area and grab some great pictures. And don’t forget to appreciate the environment while you’re there. Winners of the Canon Photography in the Park photo contest will receive some great Canon gear and a trip for two to a National park. Canon USA will also be hosting workshops in correlation with their free photo contest.

The deadline for entries is September 30, 2009.

Visit Photo Contest Site: http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1326&fromTips=1&ref=36#/home

Sony Offers Free Amateur Photo Contest – Soccergraphy


Sony, a sponsor of 2010 FIFA World Cup, is hosting a free amateur photo contest. The focus of the contest is simple. Soccer. Bring your vision, your view, your experience of soccer to the stage for the world to see. Winners will get tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals and some great Sony camera equipment. The free photo contest is titled, Soccergraphy. It’s a weird name, but whatever-tickets to the World Cup! Photos from the contest will be used to create a photo book. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to charity.

Visit Site: http://soccergraphy.sony-asia.com/

Wiley Photo Contest Is Pure Bliss


Wiley hosts free monthly amateur photography contests. Winners are determined by a voting system. So, if you’re one who has online friends, you can get them to vote for you. Prizes include a $500/£500 cash gift card, cool gear, software, and excellent books. And you don’t need to be a pro; just upload your original images to the site. You can enter up to 10 photos each month. The theme of this month’s free photo contests is Bliss. So, go somewhere filled with bliss and take some pictures. Or find bliss in a glass of water.

This contest is open to United States and United Kingdom residents only.

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://wileyphotochallenge2.smugmug.com/gallery/8352640_MNbxm

Free Photo Contests Are A Battle


Ultimate Photo Battle is an online photography competition. Users submit their photos and vote on other user’s photos. Users can submit model photography, fashion photography, nature photography, aperture photography, landscape photography, macro photography, outdoor photography, and HDR photography. They also offer a Caption Battle. Take your best stab at putting words to pictures. It doesn’t appear that they offer prizes, so if you win you may just have some satisfaction. Ultimate Photo Battle hosts free photo contests, so you don’t have much to lose.

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://www.ultimatephotobattle.com/needlogin.php?URL=photosubmit

Outdoor Eyes Hosts Free Photo Contests


Outdoor Eyes, a webiste combining your love for nature with your love for photography, hosts ongoing free photo contests. There are three categories for submission; Wildlife, Macro/Close Up and Outdoor. You must enter one photo in each category and you must be a forum member at Outdoor Eyes. Sign up is easy and again, it’s free. They only let 48 people enter the contest at a time and they ask that you take your photo entries after the contest opens. It’s an honor system, so behave.

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://www.outdooreyes.com/contestinfo.php3

American Humane Pet Photo Contest Protects Animals


American Humane’s Pets and Pals Photo Contest occurs each summer. All entries in this free pet photo contest must be postmarked on or after June 15, 2009, but no later than July 31, 2009, and received no later than Aug. 7, 2009. Hurry up! Two Grand Prize winners walk away with $1,000 each! Photos must be taken during the time frame above (June 15-July 31). So you can’t enter that great picture you took last summer. Pet photo contest categories are Pet, Pets and People, Down on the Farm and Shelter Life.

American Humane works to protect children and animals.

Visit Site: http://www.americanhumane.org/

Enter Pet Photo Contest: http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-animals/special-events/pets-and-pals-photo-contest/

Dog Ballaot's Free Photo Contests Bring Home Cash Prizes


Dog Ballot offers you a chance to get your friends involved by having them vote for your best picture of Fido. Or Spot. Or whatever your dog’s name is. The top three winners of this weekly free pet photo contest receive $250, $100 and $50 respectively.

Visit Site: http://www.dogballot.com/vote_default.php

Monday, August 3, 2009

Tamron Holds Americana 2009 Free Photo Contest



Tamron, maker of fine camera equipment, is offering a free photo contest for those that use Tamron equipment. If you own a Tamron lens then you must use your Tamron lens in this photography contest. The winner of this free photo contest will win a sweet Tamron 18-270 lens. The deadline for entries is October 31, 2009. Tamron’s 2009 photo contest’s theme is Americana. Capture the essence of the U.S.A. with your Tamron lens and enter up to three pictures and the prize lens could be yours.

Deadline: October 31, 2009

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://www.tamron.com/enews/archives/contest.asp

PhotoEnter Holds Free Weekly Photo Contests


PhotoEnter conducts weekly, free photo contests with cash prizes of $150 and $50 each week. Their weekly photo contests incorporate different themes each week and is open to amateur photographers. Winners are chosen through a votes system. So, if you have any friends, have them vote for your picture. You can buy the beer next weekend with the cash prize you win.

Enter Free Photo Contests: http://www.photoenter.com/

Teen Ink Holds Free Monthly Photo Contests With Prizes


Teen Ink holds free Art and Photography contests each month. Monthly winners of these “teen only” photo contests will get some cool Teen Ink swag and have their winning photo (or piece of original art) published in Teen Ink Magazine. Entries of all kinds are accepted, including original drawings and paintings, and black-and-white and color photography. You can also submit photocopies or high-quality photographs of any kind of artwork, including oil and watercolor paintings, sculpture, collage, computer graphics and more!

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://www.teenink.com/Contests/ArtC.php

Friday, July 31, 2009

DCMag Hosts Free Photo Contest For 2009 Photographer Of The Year


The Digital Camera Photographer of the Year competition is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your images to a global audience. The title of Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009 will be given to the photographer who is judged to have taken the most outstanding and memorable picture entered in this global photo contest. The winning photographer will receive an incredible £10,000. The competition is organised by the UK’s best photography title, Digital Camera. This free photo contest is open for entries until the end of September, when a final shortlist will be announced. Other cash prizes and awards will be received by winning photographers as well.

Deadline: End of September

Enter Free Photo Contest: http://poty2009.dcmag.co.uk/

Create Your Own Photo Contests


FanArtReview hosts ongoing free photo contests. Members can even create their own photo contest to highlight a particular subject or camera setting or lens. You could create photo contests for just about anything. And don’t forget to enter some the over 40 ongoing photo contests FanArtReview always has going on. Members also have the chance to sell their pictures securely through PayPal. There are also photo contests with cash prizes. FanArtReview gives you a lot of ways to share your photos.

Visit Site: http://www.fanartreview.com/index.jsp

Nikonians Focus On Landscapes In 2009 Monthly Photo Contest Series


Nikonians unite! The 2009 Best of Nikonians Images Photo Contest is well underway. Their focus for July’s photo contest is Landscapes. Nikonians, in an effort to promote and recognize as many talented photographers as possible, whose images serve to share, learn and inspire us all holds free monthly photo contests for their members. There are monthly prizes awarded and a final judgement of all the monthly photo contest winners. Grand prizes are awarded at the end of the year. Each month has a different theme to keep things interesting. So, go outside with your Nikon and get in the game!

Visit Site: http://www.nikonians.org/contests/