Global photography competition showcasing the world’s best landscapes & seascapes

Entries Open February 16th
The 2nd International Landscape Photographer of the Year
2015
Sydney, Australia

2014 saw the first year of the competition, and was a great success with 2233 images entered from around the world, culminating in a stunning first collection of the top 101 images. The collection was published in a beautiful coffee table book by Momento Pro.

In this second year of the competition, we are again very pleased to have the depth and judging experience of five of the world’s best photographers, including the overall winner of the 2014 International Landscape Photographer of the Year, Christian Fletcher.

-David Burnett, co-founder Contact Press Images, USA

-Tony Hewitt, 2013 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year

-Jackie Ranken, 2012 New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year, New Zealand

-Jim Goldstein, Fine Art Photographer and Author, USA

-Christian Fletcher, 2014 International Landscape Photographer of the Year

In choosing such a high calibre of judges, the competition aims to set the gold standard and become the best landscape photography competition in the world by attracting the most exceptional images being created globally, each year.

The competition is open to all photographers with the aim of again finding the best 101 landscape images from the past 12 months and publishing them in a beautiful coffee table book which will be available in a variety of formats, including a free e-book.

The judges will also be on a search for the International Landscape Photographer of the Year (based on a folio submission of at least 4 images) and the International Landscape Photograph of the Year.

Each entry will be scored by all judges on the panel and receive a score out of 500. Prizes on offer include US $10,000 cash, trophies, limited-edition copies of the awards book and large framed prints of winning images.

There are also some special awards to keep things interesting, which will change from year-to-year. This year the special awards are;

The MIST & FOG Award

The LONG EXPOSURE Award

The AERIAL Award

The ABSTRACT Award

The SNOW & ICE Award

Entries for The International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2015 open February 16th

Competition closes May 15th, 2015

www.internationallandscapephotographer.com

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Carnegie Council International Student Photo Contest, Deadline October 31

Students everywhere, submit a photo to this Carnegie Council contest that illustrates living together harmoniously despite differences.

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 26, 2013 - Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its first International Student Photography Contest. It's part of Ethics for a Connected World, a three-year global education project in celebration of the 2014 Carnegie Council Centennial.

In a world with tremendous diversity of beliefs and cultures, how can individuals and nations live together amicably? Carnegie Council believes that part of the answer lies in pluralism—the appreciation of diversity and differences, with recognition of and respect for shared values. Students everywhere can take part in this project by submitting photography that depicts the concept of living with differences.

CONTEST ELIGIBILITY:
All students of every nationality are eligible. Non-students will be disqualified. The minimum age is 13.

PHOTO TOPIC: 
Pluralism: Living with Differences.

PRIZES:

• 1st prize: $200 Amazon Gift Certificate
• Two 2nd prizes: $100 Amazon Gift Certificate

Additional photos may be chosen to create a slideshow for the Carnegie Council Centennial and/or posted on the Council websites.

HOW TO ENTER:
Join the free Global Ethics Network (GEN) website and find out more: http://www.globalethicsnetwork.org.

Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is an educational, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that produces lectures, publications, and multimedia materials on the ethical challenges of living in a globalized world.

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Life Framer International Photography Award - "An instant": Call for entries

April 4, 2013 /Photography News/ Life Framer is a monthly photography competition for the present day. It’s a platform designed to source creative work and showcase outstanding photography. Every month the organizers make a call to arms to the photographic community for photographs that best capture the theme. They shortlist their favourites, ask a guest judge to select their winners.

In it for you is the chance to be exhibited in a gallery space in central London, to win cash prizes and to receive some great recognition and online presence along the way.

Theme: "An instant"

Prizes:

The monthly winner:

• US$400 cash prize
• Your image printed, framed and displayed in Life Framer's end-of-year exhibition
• Your image exhibited on Life Framer's website and spread across its social media
• An interview featured on Life Framer's blog
• Feedback from the guest judge

The monthly runner-up:

• Your image printed, framed and displayed in Life Framer's end-of-year exhibition
• Your image exhibited on Life Framer's website and spread across its social media
• Feedback from the guest judge

8 further shortlisted entrants:

• Your image exhibited on Life Framer's website and spread across its social media
• The potential to be included in Life Framer's end-of-year exhibition

Eligibility: Worldwide
Judge: Olivia Bee
Usage rights: Each entrant retains full and exclusive rights to their submitted work
Deadline: 30th of April 2013
Website: http://www.life-framer.com/
Check out all our current photo contests here.

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National Geographic Traveler Magazine Launches 2013 Photography Contest

WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - Competition Is Now in Its 25th Year

WASHINGTON — National Geographic invites photographers from around the world to enter the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. The grand-prize winner will receive a 10-day National Geographic Expedition to the Galápagos for two aboard the National Geographic Endeavour. The contest, which is open now, ends Sunday, June 30, at 11:59 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UCT) (6:59 p.m. ET, US).

Eligible contestants can visit www.nationalgeographic.com/travelerphotocontest to submit photographs in any or all of four categories: Travel Portraits; Outdoor Scenes; Sense of Place; and Spontaneous Moments. The entry fee is $15 (USD) per photo, and there is no limit to the number of submissions per entrant. For details and official contest rules, visit http://on.natgeo.com/16mfbpm.

“Our photo contest turns 25 this year, making it, we believe, the longest-running travel photo contest in the world,” said Keith Bellows, National Geographic Traveler magazine editor in chief. “In the last few years it seems as if the quality of shots has taken a quantum leap forward. The pictures increasingly reflect a more sophisticated way of seeing and interpreting the world, making the judging process more difficult. We encourage photographers to enter their work and compete against the best.”

Judging consists of two rounds of evaluation based on creativity and photographic quality. The second-prize winner will receive a seven-day National Geographic Photography Workshop for one in Santa Fe, N.M.; the third-prize winner will receive a six-day cruise for two on a Maine windjammer schooner. Seven merit prize winners will receive a print of their photo, matted and framed by the National Geographic Imaging Lab, and a $200 gift certificate to B&H Photo.

National Geographic Traveler photo editors will showcase their favorite entries every week at www.nationalgeographic.com/travelerphotocontest. Visitors to the site can view all entries and share them with family and friends through Twitter and Facebook as well as download wallpapers and complete jigsaw puzzles featuring contest entries.

The Galápagos Expedition, in which the grand-prize winner will participate, is a unique experience to join National Geographic aboard the National Geographic Endeavour or National Geographic Islander and experience up close encounters with unique species such as flightless cormorants, marine iguanas and domed giant tortoises. The trip is part of National Geographic Expeditions, the travel program of the National Geographic Society, which provides guided trips spanning all seven continents and more than 60 destinations.

About National Geographic Traveler Magazine
National Geographic Traveler: Nobody Knows This World Better. National Geographic Traveler is the world’s most widely read travel magazine. Published eight times a year, Traveler is available by subscription, on newsstands in the United States and Canada and digitally for tablets like the iPad (on Zinio) and Nook (at BN.com). Its website (www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler) offers inspiring and authoritative digital content including trip ideas, photo galleries and blogs. It also houses travel apps, including 50 Places of a Lifetime that showcases the world’s greatest destinations handpicked by National Geographic’s family of globe-trotting contributors, and the award-winning National Parks app, filled with stunning pictures, maps and tips to explore America’s national parks.

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Pixoto To Add Stock Photo Sales

After experiencing dramatic growth through their increasingly popular photography contest platform, Pixoto.com announces plans to add stock photo sales to their website.

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) September 24, 2012 - Pixoto, the innovative online photography community, recently added the ability for its photographer members to add their photos to the upcoming Pixoto Stock Photo Service. The company has experienced explosive growth since its inception in 2011 and has attracted over 100,000 members due to its proprietary image ranking and voting system called ImageDuel. Pixoto is the first photo contest site that ranks every image submitted by an unbiased quality score.

Pixoto members now have the potential of earning money from their photos by simply checking a “License for Stock” box when uploading them to Pixoto. Pixoto members will earn a fee when designers, editors and marketers purchase and download their photos for use in their editorial and commercial works.

Pixoto Stock, through the use of its ImageDuel voting system, hopes to revolutionize micro-stock licensing for images. Pixoto believes that its ability to rank every image submitted gives them, and their members, several key advantages over traditional stock photo sites:

1. Crowd Validated: With the average top ranked image on Pixoto being voted on by over 100 unique people, buyers can be 100% confident that people love the photo
2. Faster Search: With Pixoto the best images show up first in every search result eliminating hours of paging through mediocre images
3. Fresher Images: An amazing stock photo submitted today will be on the top of the search results tomorrow
4. More variety: Anybody can be a stock photographer with Pixoto because the best images will always rise to the top so they will be able to source stock photos from a much broader audience

Pixoto’s photography contest system is completely innovative, leveling the playing field between participants, who can sign-up for free. Photographers submit images in preset categories such as wildlife, travel, architecture, and specific themes, etc., which are then matched against one another in side by side votes called ImageDuels. The results of the ImageDuels, which are completed by Pixoto members, are used to generate a proprietary ImageScore. The average image on Pixoto collects votes from 100 unique people.
Pixoto gives awards for the best photos in each category every day and its weekly contests have cash prizes. So far, the company has realized astonishing participation from players with over 1 million images already submitted and over 56 million votes cast to date. Pixoto’s ImageDuel system is particularly advantageous for photographers looking for artistic feedback from their peers, as well as the capacity to earn awards, enhancing their own business’s marketing potential.

With the addition of their upcoming stock photo sales to their photography contest arm, Pixoto will add yet another dimension to their increasingly robust presence as an online photography community. Serving artists and photographers alike, the expanded sales presence will reach the public at large, allowing for cross-fertilization of the company’s entire enterprise.

About Pixoto:
Founded in 2011 in Boulder, CO, Pixoto has quickly become the web’s leading photo contest site with more than 100,000 members in more than 150 counties and over 1 million images submitted. Pixoto’s revolutionary ImageDuel voting system aggregates millions of individual voter preferences to create “leaderboards” of the best images in the world. For additional information, please visit http://www.pixoto.com.

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2012 Creative Asia Photography Awards

Call for entries – photographers worldwide

Now in the second year, the awards are conducted in conjunction with the Creative Asia Conference, Asia’s world class photography conference.

16-20 July 2012, Langham Place, Mongkok

HONG KONG

Enter online at creativeasia.com

ONLINE ENTRIES NOW OPEN, closing 13th June 2012

The Creative Asia Awards is revolutionary in its vision to evolve, include and educate its
entrants.

Entries are accepted online as digital images. The entries will be judged online in a preelimination round to determine the top 25 images in each of the 8 categories, and all images judged online will receive feedback from the judges.

These 200 finalist images will be judged live by our panel of experts during the Creative Asia Conference.

New for 2012 - a broader range of categories;
Wedding Photojournalistic, Illustrative/Abstract, Landscape, Wedding Open, Commercial & Fashion, Street & Travel, Portrait, Environmental, Portrait Open

WHAT MAKES THE CREATIVE ASIA AWARDS DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER COMPETITION?
The whole judging event will be broadcast live online with video and audio of the judging panel, judges scores, image previews and interactive audience chat. Entrants can experience from their own location, the insight and education that comes from watching a live judging event.

In the final judging after the pre-elimination scoring, there will be 4 judges and the original
online score will act as the 5th judge, with the 5 scores will be averaged to produce the final
score for each image. The 4 judges will not know or be able to see the original online score.

PRIZES & AWARDS
The 2012 Creative Asia Photographer of the Year will receive a US$5000 cash prize!
The Awards will be judged as 8 separate categories. The 2 wedding and 2 portrait categories will each be combined and the highest scoring image from the combined categories will determine the Wedding and Portrait category prizes.

Category Prizes:
First place US$1000 cash
Second place US$500 cash
Third place US$250 cash

Category and overall winners will also receive trophies.

The Creative Asia Photography Awards is proudly supported by Phottix.

Entries close 13th June 2012. Become a member of Creative Asia and save!
Members info/benefits www.creativeasia.com/BecomeMember
Regular member US$68 per year
Student member US$28 per year
Member pricing US$25 per image (regular & student) with the first image free!
Non-member pricing US$35 per image

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Photo Romania Festival Call For Entries

April 7, 2012 /Photography News/ Photo Romania Festival has returned in 2012 with more than 150 amazing photography events running in Cluj from May 18 to June 18, 2012. This year the festival will include:

• more than 100 exhibitions and multimedia screenings
• photography book launches
• opening receptions
• photography competitions
• artist talks
• photography workshops
• photography fairs
• other cultural events (concerts, theatre plays)

Photo Romania is calling photographers (or groups of photographers) regardless of their age, nationality, themes and styles of photography, to submit bodies of work for solo or group exhibitions. Selected images will be showcased in art galleries, museums, libraries, public space and many other locations from 18 May until 18 June 2012.

Categories:

• Photo series (8 - 20 images)
• Multimedia (a combination of still photography with audio, video, graphics, etc.)

Entry Fee: 10 Euro

Exhibit Prints: 

Printing, framing, and shipping/ repacking fees are the responsibility of the exhibiting artist. For the convenience of those not living in Romania, Photo Romania offers optional fine art printing and framing services at an additional (low) cost to the photographer.

Deadline: May 1st, 2012
 

Artwork Due: May 12, 2012
 

Exhibition Dates: May 18 - June 18, 2012

Submit your work at http://www.photoromaniafestival.ro/call-for-submissions/

2012 Photo Romania Festival Programme:

May 18: Opening reception
May 18 - 19: Photo Romania Marathon
May 21 - 27: Photo Romania Academy (workshops, conferences, screenings, talks)
June 1: Photography events for Children's Day
June 2 - 3: Photography Fair
June 4 - 7: Theatre in Pictures
June 8 - 10: Photo Romania Concerts
June 11 - 15: Photo Romania Competition (Grand Prize: 1500 Euro http://www.photoromaniafestival.ro/concurs/)
June 16: Photo Romania closing party

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2012 WORLD OPEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY™

2012 WORLD OPEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY™ 

LAUNCHES $50,000US GLOBAL SEARCH FOR TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS

Vancouver, Canada  (February 29, 2012)  The worldwide search for the greatest photographers of our generation has officially begun. It is comprised of two major components: the online SOLO (single-image) competition and the pinnacle LIVE event in Vancouver, Canada.

The 2012 World Open of Photography™(THE OPEN) is a $50,000 global search to discover the undiscovered, rediscover the established and bring the very best real-life photographers in the world to the forefront.

“There is a new generation of photographers who are changing the game,” says event creator Doug Perry of media production firm W1. “In this age of rising individual creativity we’re seeing incredible photographers who are out there pushing the boundaries of visual art every day. THE OPEN was created to seek out and discover these artists and connect them to a global audience.”

Today, social media plays a major role in bringing talented photographers into the spotlight. THE OPEN leverages the power of multiple social platforms to seek out and elevate the profiles of its participating photographers. The public curates the online SOLO competition gallery through voting and sharing, the most-loved artists continually moving to the forefront. 

Half of the 200 finalists are chosen by the public, and half are chosen by a panel of the sharpest eyes in the business to ensure the very best images are captured.

Following the global online SOLO competition, attention turns to the pinnacle LIVE event on September 28, 2012 in Vancouver, Canada. Six of the world’s best photographers will be flown to Vancouver, Canada to unleash 7-minute choreographed shows of the best work of their careers. The shows are produced on a massive digital screen with concert-level audio. One photographer will be awarded Best of Show. $50,000US is shared between the winners of the SOLO and LIVE competitions.

THE OPEN is developed by award-winning media production firm W1 of Vancouver, Canada. W1 is renowned for creating bold, original events that discover artists and athletes. W1-produced events have awarded over $1,000,000 in prize money to artists and athletes and drawn a collective live audience of more than 2,000,000 people. Its television specials are distributed to 122 countries.

W1 developed the THE OPEN as the evolution of the renowned Pro Photographer Showdown, a major annual live photography competition in the action-sport industry. W1 developed the Showdown (1998-2006) into a ten-screen digital mega-production that Transworld Media dubbed “The Sundance Festival of Photography.” The Showdown has sold out every year in its 14-year history. THE OPEN expands its reach beyond its foundation of action-sport by also including the genres of street, people and nature. It reaches out to artists in over 100 countries.

“We decided the time was right to blow the doors wide open and launch a truly global search for the greatest photographers of our time. We are as inspired to show the work of the most-published legends as we are with completely undiscovered artists whose careers haven’t yet taken flight.” says Perry.

The live event format is unique and very powerful. The artists spend months preparing their shows, taking the time to choreograph career-defining productions. The shows are typically comprised of 120-160 images designed to take the audience on epic journeys. As 2-time Pro Photographer Showdown winner Blake Jorgensen describes: “These shows are cool because normally your photography is diced up, and then goes to different places – it’s chosen by photo editors and art directors. The photographer himself has very little choice in how the photography is represented, so having a show where you get to creatively display your whole life’s work is pretty much the best thing you can ever do as a photographer.”  (source: Pique Newsmagazine)

THE OPEN is designed to create career-building opportunities for photographers. The online SOLO competition connects with 50,000 creative industry professionals including a broad range of photo editors and creative directors from around the world. The site also enables any photographer to sell gallery-quality prints of their images to be shipped anywhere in the world.

The online SOLO competition runs through August 1, 2012. The World Open of Photography LIVE event is scheduled for September 28, 2012 in Vancouver.

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Established in 1993, W1 is an award-winning media production firm located in Vancouver, Canada. It is best known for creating the World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler, BC. W1 has produced over 250 events and 400 concerts. Its productions are credited with driving over $100 million in economic activity (Canadian Sport-Tourism Alliance).

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Photokore opens the ‘Asian Flavors’ Photo Contest to all photographers

Asia-based stock photo company, Photokore, launches an Asian-themed photo competition today, inviting image submissions that portrays each contestant’s concept of Asia. Images are being accepted from today, March 1.

The contest, ‘Asian Flavors’, is open to all photographers around the world, and is accepting single or multiple image submissions that illustrate the photographer’s personal concept of Asia. Participants can submit images to two categories – People, and Still Life/Objects. Subject matter is left to the contestant’s imagination – traditional, modern, everyday items/situations, conceptual photos, etc. The objective is to submit a photo that portrays the participant’s concept of Asia.

“Asia is a broad and diverse region, and everyone has a different concept of Asia. We’re interested to have photographers from around the world – whether they are located in the region or not - share their perception of Asia through their images.” said Photokore’s President & CEO, Sean Mooney, at the contest launch.

Finalists will be selected by Photokore’s Image Rearch Team, and then be posted on the website for Photokore members to vote for. (Anyone can register on the site, and become a member, for free). The deadline for entries is 15 April

First, second, and third place winners in both categories will receive prizes, which include a DSLR, tripod, and more. The winning images will be exhibited on www.photokore.com

Contest details, and submission guidelines are available at  http://www.photokore.com/photocontest/Asianflavors/?refnum=1366.

About Photokore
Photokore is a royalty-free stock photography site dedicated to offering the unique Asian images to the world, and high quality global images to the Asian market. Photokore’s website supports image uploads and purchases in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Visitors to photokore.com can also search for images in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Filipino, Thai, Hindi, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Landing pages are also available in Arabic, Russian, and Vietnamese.  

All photos and illustrations on photokore.com can be licensed for creative use – whether on a personal website, or in a global marketing campaign – at prices ranging from US$2 – US$40.

For more information, contact help@photokore.com

• Follow Photokore on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Photokore (@Photokore).
• Follow Photokore on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photokore.international
• Follow Photokore on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/PhotokoreAsia
• Photokore:s Blog: http://en.blog.photokore.com

 

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The EPSON International Pano Awards 2012

Prize Pool announced!
The EPSON International Pano Awards 2012
Over US$30,000 in cash and prizes!
Enter online at www.thepanoawards.com

Professional and amateur photographers around the world are invited to enter The EPSON
International Pano Awards to compete for over $30,000 in cash and prizes.

Early-bird entries are open until Friday 20th of April 2012.

The third Epson International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography.
It showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest and most
important competition for panoramic photography.

Prizes include an Epson Stylus Pro 7900 printer, an Epson Stylus Pro 4900 printer, an Epson
EB-1775 Ultra-Slim Projector and US$5000 cash.

Craig Heckenberg, Epson Australia’s Business Unit Manager, says, ……“Epson is pleased to
sponsor the International Pano Awards again in 2012. We are consistently impressed with the
quality of the entries from countries all over the world creating really interesting outcomes
year on year. Epson is proud to work closely with the professional photography industry and
support photographers everywhere in different areas and stages of development.”

Prizes also include an Apollo Motorhome holiday, a Kolor Panogear head and software, two
Gigapan Epic Pro motorized heads, two Nodal Ninja packages, Genius Printing vouchers,
software from Easypano, PTGui and Garden Gnome, and books from Lonely Planet and
Scott Highton/VR Photography.

Thanks to Epson Australia, this year will also see the repeat of the highly popular PMA
display of highest scoring and winning images, this time held in Melbourne, May 25-27.
The judging panel includes some of the world's top panoramic photographers and industry
professionals, including members of the IAPP and IVRPA.

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Connect 2012 Palm Springs Photo Festival

Now in its 7th year, the week-long Palm Springs Photo Festival has become the preeminent photography event for emerging & professional photographers in North America. April 1-6

This event is based on six important and in-depth programs:

• 16 Workshops with celebrated working photographers
• Over 1000 Portfolio Reviews with industry leaders from both advertising and commercial sectors
• 20 Seminars featuring in-depth instruction on technology and business issues
• Daily Symposiums addressing the current issues facing photographers
• Daily Evening Presentations featuring the works of our Workshop Instructors
• Networking Parties, Open Portfolio Review, Slide Show Contests

The Palm Springs Photo Festival is where participants can spend three exhilarating days with a celebrated, real-world master photographer and two days presenting their work to industry experts and attending important seminars. Our attendees make new friends and walk away with a renewed passion for photography!

This year we are proud to welcome the following photographers to our Workshop Faculty:

• -­‐ Shelby LEE ADAMS
• -­‐ Lise SARFATI
• -­‐ Nigel PARRY
• -­‐ Keith CARTER
• -­‐ Ron HAVIV
• -­‐ Nels ISRAELSON
• -­‐ Lisa KERESZI
• -­‐ Vincent LAFORET
• -­‐ Gerd LUDWIG
• -­‐ David MUENCH
• -­‐ Franck OCKENFELS III
• -­‐ And many others

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Carl Zeiss Launches 2011 Photography Contest: “Every Moment Tells a Story”

Entries until January 15, 2012 on Flickr photo community

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 12.2011 - Every moment tells a story. That is the theme of the Carl Zeiss Photo Contest 2011, which was launched today. Anyone can enter the contest provided the photos are shot with a ZEISS lens. It also does not matter if the photographer uses an SLR reflex camera or a smartphone with a ZEISS lens.


The theme

„We are looking for that moment when you not only see a subject, but also a story. We are searching for that very special moment,” says Martin Dominicus, Head of Marketing of the Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division. “Every life, every situation and every place is full of such moments. The ability to capture a moment in such a way that you recognize the story behind it — this is, and has always been, the high art of photography.”

Carl Zeiss encourages photographers from around the world to look for moments that fit the theme, and to submit their best image. The ability to consciously stage a moment of time into an image and press the shutter button at just the right time was mastered by the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. He always knew what image he wanted to depict when the shutter was released. „Cartier-Bresson had an unmistakable way of expressing the story of a moment. We look forward to seeing how the participants of our photography competition capture the moments of everyday life in their own individual style,” says Dominicus.

As in 2010, this contest will again take place on the global online photo community Flickr. Participants should upload their best image to the theme “Every moment tells a story” on the official Carl Zeiss group on Flickr and tag it with the keyword “ZEISSContest2011“.

For more information about the contest and the terms of participation, visit: www.zeiss.com/photo/contest


The jury


Photographers and photo enthusiasts have until Sunday January 15, 2012 to submit their images on Flickr. Subsequently, the jury, consisting of Carl Zeiss employees and professional photographers, will shortlist the best images. One of the jury members will be the well-known Slovak photographer and researcher Filip Kulisev, who has received several international photography awards for his spectacular landscape photography.

The highest number of points will be given to images that have been consciously composed and in which one can recognize a story. The Flickr community will select the ten best images from the jury’s shortlist by designating them as a “favorite”. The images that receive the most “favorites” on Flickr will win.


The prizes

1st prize:
A ZEISS lens of the winner’s choice (ZE or ZF.2) with exclusive engraving +
Carl Zeiss T* UV filter +
Carl Zeiss Comfort Camera Strap +
Carl Zeiss Lens Cleaning Kit

2nd prize:
Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens

3rd prize:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX55 digital camera with Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens

4th prize:
Logitech HD Pro webcam C910 with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens

5th and 6th prizes:
Carl Zeiss Comfort Camera Strap +
Carl Zeiss knapsack+
Carl Zeiss watch +
Carl Zeiss umbrella +
Carl Zeiss Lens Cleaning Kit

7th and 8th prizes:
Carl Zeiss Comfort Camera Strap +
Carl Zeiss umbrella +
Carl Zeiss Lens Cleaning Kit

9th prize:
Carl Zeiss Comfort Camera Strap +
Carl Zeiss Lens Cleaning Kit

10th prize:
Carl Zeiss Lens Cleaning Kit

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The EPSON International Pano Awards 2012

 

Over US$25,000 in cash and prizes! Enter online at www.thepanoawards.com

Professional and amateur photographers around the world are invited to enter The EPSON International Pano Awards to compete for over $25,000 in cash and prizes.

Early-bird entries are open from December 2011 until Friday 20th of April 2012.

The third Epson International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. Advances in digital photography and software such as PTGui and Adobe Photoshop has resulted in an explosion in image stitching, especially in the panoramic format. Panoramic film photography also remains alive and well.

The Epson International Pano Awards showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest and most important competition for panoramic photography.

The 2011 competition saw 3,586 images submitted from 985 photographers in 62 countries.

The 2012 competition is now open for all professional and amateur photographers with an increased combined prize pool of more than US $25,000 in cash and prizes!

Prizes include an Epson Stylus Pro 7900 printer, an Epson Stylus Pro 4900 printer, an Epson EB-1775 Ultra-Slim Projector and US$5000 cash.

2011 saw the successful introduction of a new VR/360 category for ‘immersive’ panoramic photography. The competition also presented a display of winning and high scoring images a the PMA Photo Imaging trade show in Sydney in June, which was attended by tens of thousands of people.

In 2012 we hope to expand the VR category, and will repeat the highly popular PMA display, this time held in Melbourne in May.

The judging panel includes some of the world's top panoramic photographers and industry professionals, including members of the IAPP and IVRPA.

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