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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Firstgreatwestern.co.uk has recently announced My Favourite Journey Photo Contest. Your photo must be a view on the First Great Western network which could be anything from the White Horse at Westbury to ancient medieval castles, Roman Bath to the enchanting Thames Valley, the beautiful coastline of Devon to the sweeping hills of the Malverns.

The winners will each receive a digital photo printer and return First Class train tickets for two people for a First Great Western journey. Twelve runners up will receive a pair of First Great Western Standard Class return train tickets. You can submit your photo from here, and hurry!..the closing date for all entries is 12 noon on 28 July 2006.

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Nikon has recently announced the 31st Nikon Photo Contest International which has been held by Nikon Coorporation since 1969. This year’s contest theme; ‘At the Heart of the Image’ will have the following categories; Free Subject and Smile, Smile, Smile!

Entries are accepted from 1st September to 30th November, 2006. Entries sent by conventional mail should be received either on or before 30th November, 2006. Entries sent via the Internet will be accepted until 24:00, 30th November, 2006, Japan time.

Further information is available here

Microsoft is hosting a photography contest for college and university student photographers from around the world to showcase their artistic talent and photographic style. The Microsoft Future Pro Photographers Photography Contest will have the following categories: ‘Nature & Landscape’, ‘People and Portraits’, and ‘Fine Art’. The winner will get a $20,000 Grand Prize and digital prize package including Dell Precision Workstation Computer and Canon EOS 30D DSLR camera.

You can start to submit your photographs by clicking on the image above. Hurry! All entries must be received by Wednesday May 31th 2006.

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HP Canada and the 2006 CONTACT Toronto photography festival have recently announced photo contest entitled ‘Imaging A Global Culture’. The contest will give photography enthusiasts a chance to have their photographs exhibited at The HP Gallery created specially for the duration of the 10th Annual CONTACT Photography Festival, May 1-31, or online via the contest entrant’s gallery.

Prizes are including an HP Designjet 130nr printer and $1,000 in printing supplies for the printer, retail value of $3,999, HP Designjet 90r Printer with approximate retail value of $1,795, HP Photosmart 8750 photo printer with an approximate retail value of $600.

You can enter the contest by online or in person at The HP Gallery, 510 King St West, Toronto from April 1- May 20. More information is available here

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National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has recently announced winners of The Best of Photojournalism 2006.

1st Place: David Guttenfelder, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Afghan people run away as an Afghan military helicopter crashes in the Panjshir Valley after a memorial ceremony marking the 4th anniversary of rebel commander Ahmad Shah Masood on September 10, 2005. Two passengers were injured, but no one was killed, in the helicopter which was carrying military and government officials from the memorial events.