Canadian International Digital Photography Award

The main mission of the Canadian International Digital Photography Award is to discover and support new names in professional photography as well as to acknowledge new digital art of the experienced professionals through the International Photography Contest.

Categories:

Portraiture (people, glamour)
Nature and Wildlife (landscape, animals, urban, rural, wild)
Travel (scenic, travel, cultural)
Documentary (photojournalism, editorial photography)
Lifestyle
Baby and child
Commerce (services, products)
Advertisement

Prize(s):

The Gold Prize is the “Photographer in Distinction 2012” winner – $10,000.00 cash prize, a “Taros” Trophy and an Gold Award Certificate.
The 1st place winner of each category – $500.00 cash plus a “Taros” Trophy, an Award Certificate and a gift from a sponsor.

Entry fee: From C$20 (Canadian dollars)

Your Rights: The photographer keeps the copyrights and all other rights of submitted to Competitions images. Any image used by CIDPA shall carry the photographer’s name. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competitions may be used by CIDPA, and its media partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for three years and author may not pretend to any monetary compensation.

Closing date: 2012-09-27

Website: http://photographyaward.org/contests.html

The main mission of the Canadian International Digital Photography Award is to discover and support new names in professional photography as well as to acknowledge new digital art of the experienced professionals through the International Photography Contest.

Categories:

1. Portraiture (people, glamour)
2. Nature and Wildlife (landscape, animals, urban, rural, wild)
3. Travel (scenic, travel, cultural)
4. Documentary (photojournalism, editorial photography)
5. Lifestyle
6. Baby and child
7. Commerce (services, products)
8. Advertisement
9. Portfolio

Divisions:

* Professionals
* Beginners
* Students

Prizes:

* Gold Prize: “Photographer in Distinction 2011” & Cash Prize $10,000
* Silver Prize: “Photographer in Distinction 2011” & Cash Prize $ 3,000
* Bronze Prize: “Photographer in Distinction 2011” & Cash Prize $1,500
* Gold Beginners Prize: “Photographer in Challenge 2011” & Cash Prize $1,500
* Gold Students Prize: “Photographer in Achievement 2011” & Cash Prize $1,500
* 1st place winners of categories. Cash Prize $600
* 2nd place winners of categories. Cash Prize $400
* Intermediate winners. Cash Encouragement Prize $300 (will be announced in March, May, July and September 2011)

You can submit a Single Image, Series 2-5 images, Series 6 – 10 images, Portfolio. You may enter a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 10 images per category, and may enter as many categories as you wish, however you cannot enter the same image or series of images into more than one category. Image requirements: size under 5MB, saved as JPEG (.jpg) in RGB format and must be no longer than 2500 pixels on the longest side.

Entry deadline: 5 September 2011

Official website: http://photographyaward.org/

Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome. Digital or traditional photography or combinations of both are accepted, as well as toned images.

Prizes:

* The first prize will consists in a cash prize of $ 1,000.
* Winner, Runners up and Honorable Mentions will be featured in the the second issue of the paper-based WonderPick Magazine.

Categories: Animals and Wildlife; Architecture; Digital Enhanced; Nature, Flowers; Still Life; Abstract, Patterns and Textures; Landscape; Seascape and Underwater; Silhouette; Nude and Figure;. Children; Citiscapes and Street Photography; Culture, People, Travel; Sports; Performing Arts; Portrait; Editorial, Photojournalism and Documentary; Alternative processes; Fine Art

There is no limit in the quantity of images to be submitted, but the minimum is five single image. Any single image can be submitted to one or several categories. Online submitted files should have a resolution of 72 dpi, contestants should be able to provide high resolution files if requested for publication. Image requirements: 8 bit JPEG files in RGB profile, the largest dimension should be 1280 pixels (width or height), resolution of 72 ppi, JPG compression quality of 7 or 8.

* Copyright: Artists are the only owner of the copyright their images. Submitted photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting WPGA contests and awards for 2 years.
* Eligibility: Open to all photographers worldwide.
* Entry fee: $60($45) for the first 5 images; $10($7) each additional image.
* Entry deadline: Early Bird – 28 Feb 2011; Final – 31 March 2011

Official website: www.thegalaawards.net/call-for-entries/2nd-edition-black-a-white-contest

The International Photography Contest for Kids is a 2-tiered competition recognizing the accomplishments of young photographers worldwide.

1. Local IPC for Kids Contest: The contest is run on the local level through each of the 13 participating National Geographic Kids editions.
2. Worldwide IPC for Kids Contest: 1st  place images from each of the local contests are automatically forwarded to NGS headquarters in Washington, D.C., for judging against all other winning entries.

Official website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ipc/

The competition is Entries are welcome from any country in the world. There are no restrictions on the type of camera you use, or the techniques you use to produce your final image.

The categories of the Competition are:
(a) Plant Portraits;
(b) Wildlife in the Garden;
(c) Garden Views;
(d) People in the Garden;
(e) Trees;
(f) World Botanic Gardens;
(g) The Edible Garden;

The judges will select around 100 finalists whose photographs will be printed to exhibition standard and planned to be shown at a major exhibition at Kew Gardens, London in the summer of 2009, with substantial press coverage. All finalists will receive an invitation to the private view. Details of this will be announced later in the year.
One finalist will win the title ‘Garden Photographer of the Year’ and an under 16 finalist will win ‘Young Garden Photographer of the Year’.

Each category will have a winner and two runner-up prizes. An additional prize will be awarded for the best portfolio and there will be two portfolio runners-up prizes.

Prizes:

Best overall Single Image*: £5,000 cash and the title “Garden Photographer of the Year”

Best overall Portfolio: £3,000 cash, £2,000 Calumet Photographic Vouchers, plus more than £1,000 worth of vouchers from Manfrotto, Kata and Visible Dust

Best in Category (eg ‘Plant Portraits’): £700 cash, plus more than £700 in Kata, Manfrotto and Visible Dust vouchers

The competition costs £10 to enter. You can pay in British Pounds, Euros, or US Dollars.

As at 26.03.08 – £10 = €13 approx
As at 26.03.08 – £10 = $20 approx

(Note that the exchange rate applied will be that defined by the banking system; we do not have any control over this.)

First, you must choose which category fits your image best.

For £10 you can enter up to 4 photographs in one of the categories. If you wish to enter another category, then this costs an additional £10 for up to 4 photographs . You can enter as many photographs in as many categories as you like.

So you can, for example, buy 4 entries for ‘Plant Portraits’. You can then, if you wish, buy 4 more entries for ‘Plant Portraits’, or 4 more entries for a different category- it is entirely your decision.

Or you may choose to enter a portfolio of 6 themed photographs . This costs £20 per category entered. You can enter as many portfolios as you like.

So you can, for example, buy a portfolio entry for ‘Plant Portraits’. You can then, if you wish, buy a second portfolio entry for ‘Plant Portraits’, or a portfolio entry for a different category- it is entirely your decision.

As at 26.03.08 – £20 = €26 approx
As at 26.03.08 – £20 = $40 approx

Note that portflio photographs will not be judged as single images. They will only be judged as one of six themed photographs.

Preparing your Images

We recommend that you make your final decision on which photographs you are going to enter before you upload them to the competition.

You must have taken the picture on a camera that will enable good prints to be made from them for
the exhibition at Kew .This means that if your photograph is shortlisted, you will need to supply high quality jpeg images of around 1 megabyte as a minimum. More advanced users should aim to supply image files in 8bit TIFF format, with a filesize between 20-50 mb – this size would enable us to make larger prints if desired.

You can still be a winner with a small camera – commended pictures will also be shown in a special online gallery during 2009.

Digital manipulation by software such as Photoshop is allowed.

* Copyright: If your image is short-listed you will be contacted and invited to grant permission for your image to be used to promote the Competition and exhibition only. For avoidance of doubt, no free usage of any photograph is permitted by International Garden Photographer of the Year, or any of its partners or sponsors outside the scope of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition. There is no plan envisaged by International Garden Photographer of the Year, or any of its partners or sponsors, to create a general commercial archive of photographs entered into this competition.
* Eligibility: open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike.
* Entry fee: £10 for single image and £20 for portfolio
* Third competiton opens: March 2009. Deadline Nov 30th 2009.

Official website: http://www.igpoty.com/competition.asp?parent=competition