Sigma Corporation of America is recently announced its first photo contest for U.S. residents only. The ‘Faces in Nature’ photo contest entries must be received by Sigma by March 30 2007 and winners will be announced April 30, 2007. Prizes are including Sigma 70-200 mm f2.8 EX DG Macro zoom lens MSRP $1200, Sigma 12-24mm f4.5-5.6 EX DG zoom lens MSRP $960 and Sigma 70mm f2.8 EX DG Macro lens MSRP $570.

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San Francisco, CA - December 12, 2006 - Photobird.com, the easy way to share your photos, today announced that the new Photobird Photo Contest will start January 1, 2007. This monthly photo contest will be free to enter and everyone who visits Photobird.com will be able to see and vote for as many contest photos as they would like. Each monthly photo contest will have two winners who will receive several exciting, high-quality prizes. Details about the Photobird Photo Contest are available at http://www.photobird.com/contest/ . “Photo contests should be free to enter, offer high-quality prizes, and allow everyone to see the photo entries. The new Photobird Photo Contest gives you all of those features, plus your friends can vote for you,” said Ed Krimen, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Photobird.com. “I’m looking forward to seeing the gorgeous photos that contestants will submit and to award great prizes that the winners will truly enjoy.”

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Last Updated: 13.12.06
Just a friendly reminder that you have less than 4 weeks (deadline: 07.01.07) to submit your photos/videos.

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The 2nd Annual Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com International Underwater Photo & Video Competition, in association with Our World Underwater—over $35,000 in prizes.

(PRWEB) September 12, 2006—Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com have teamed up again in association with Our World Underwater to celebrate the beauty and delicacy of the marine environment with their 2nd annual international underwater photography and video competition. The competition aims to become the “Superbowl” of international underwater photo competitions—with fantastic prizes, celebrity judges and the opportunity to have your images showcased to the world as some of the world’s best. A new website has launched to support the competition at http://www.underwatercompetition.com

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December 6, 2006 - Until December 31, 2006, CameraArts Magazine will be accepting entries for its very first photography contest at The CameraArts Blog. The theme for December will be “People & Portraits.” Only low res jpegs will be accepted, in color or black and white, digital or traditional. Every week during December, we will post the best submissions at http://cameraarts.blogspot.com.

…and that’s not all. For the first week of the New Year, our readers will have a chance to vote on their favorite entries. Three winners will be announced soon afterwards, and each will receive a FREE one-year subscription (or 6-issue renewal) to CameraArts magazine. Photographers will retain all rights to each image and CameraArts will be able to use images for publicity and promotion. One image per person, please!

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The launch of the first ever Landscape Photographer of the Year competition took place on the 14th November 2006. Backed by The Automobile Association (The AA), Take a view is the brainchild of renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite and offers a total prize fund of £20,000, including £10,000 for the overall winner. A six-week exhibition on London’s South Bank will allow many entrants to see their work on public display and a full-colour book of the winning entries will be available from AA Publishing.

Britain’s heritage is celebrated by people around the world and entries are welcome from everyone, whether resident in Britain or simply visiting. Set to become a major annual event, the competition offers various categories for both adults and children, allowing for a wide variety of styles and subjects as long as the images are of the British Isles. Entries will be judged by a celebrity panel from the photographic and film industries.

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Remember the Canon National Park Photo Contest? Canon has finished selecting the 10 best images from the categories of wildlife and landscape from nearly 10,000 images submitted by amateur photographers. It is now your chance to decide the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the photo contest by voting for their favorite landscape or wildlife photographs.

>> Cast your vote for the winning image (01-07 November 2006)

ShootExperience is hosting an online, global photography competition with prizes including an Olympus FE-190 digital camera valued at over £160 for the first winner. What you need to do is to take a photo representing the colour “Red”, then you must buy tickets which will cost you £1 (€1.50) to submit/upload the photographs.

Deadline for entries is the 23rd of October and winners will be announced by Friday the 27th of October.

>> ShootExperience Global Photography Competition

Panasonic is hosting a photography contest to all amateur photographers, of any age, regardless of experience or training in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The first winner gets to stay at the magnificent, renowned Waldorf Astoria hotel. The second winner will get Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 8-Megapixel and the third winner gets the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ3 5-Megapixel.

In addition the Photo Award jury will select the best photos entered every month and the 5 category winners will each receive a Panasonic Digital Radio as well as a Panasonic rechargeable kit containing a 2 hour charger and 4 x 2600mAh NiMH batteries.

You can enter your photos until October 31st 2006.

Canon USA is hosting a photo contest for non-professional photographers who are living in the States. If you have not earned 51% or more of your annual income by taking, selling or marketing photographs, whether as an employee or a freelance photographer, during the last three (3) years, you should head for the nearest scenic National Park with your photo gears ASAP

Prizes are including a mouth-watering Canon EOS 5D DSLR with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, PIXMA Pro9500, and One year membership to Photoworkshop.com for the first winner; EOS 30D with EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM kit, PIXMA Pro9500, and Six month membership to Photoworkshop.com for the second winner; EOS Digital Rebel XT with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens, PIXMA Pro9000, and Six month membership to Photoworkshop.com will go to the third winner.

Contest rules and submission form are available at
http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/nationalparks/index.htm

O’Reilly is hosting a Photo-manipulation contest with some great prizes such as a Pentax K100D Digital SLR and DA 18-55 mm lens kit or an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 printer. All you need to do is take up to 3 of your own photos and manipulate them with Adobe Photoshop, using recipes from any of the 5 O’Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks;

1. Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers
2. Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook
3. Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia
4. Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook
5. Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers

All entries must be created as high-resolution .tif or PDF files (minimum size: 11×14 inches at 300ppi). Winners will be required to provide high-resolution versions of the winning images.

More info is availbale on their Contest Rules page.

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