Photo Competitions & Contests

Digital Photographer and Samsung are joining forces to launch the fourth annual awards, with better prizes and categories than ever before!

Prizes
Our exciting competition categories mean there are six chances for you to win a fantastic Samsung prize.

Overall winner:
The overall winner for the whole competition will win this amazing bundle (pictured left): a Samsung NX10 +18-55 OIS lens +30mm Pancake lens, a 50-200mm f4.0-5.6 OIS lens and a SEF42A flash gun.

Category winners:
Each category winner will win a fabulous Samsung EX1 camera worth £399. They will also win a year’s subscription to an Imagine Publishing magazine of their choice and a print of their image. In contrast to previous years, the format of the awards for 2010 will see a brand new competition category launched in each issue of the magazine. There will be six photographic categories in total – each designed to push the creativity of photographers.

Competition Website

It’s that time of year again, buds are bursting, birds are singing and the BBC Countryfile Photographic Competition is under way. Last year the competition was more popular than ever, with more than 30,000 entries. The best went into the Countryfile Calendar, which was sold in aid of Children In Need, and raised £779,226 for the charity.

This year, the programme is hoping for even more inspiring entries. The theme is A Moment of Magic, and you can interpret that anyway you wish, as long as your photo captures a magical moment that makes the rest of us wish we’d been there to see it.

Photographs must have the countryside or natural world at their heart, and can feature landscapes, people, British wildlife (plants and animals), farmyard animals or countryside activities, but no pets or garden plants please. And do state if the images are of British wildlife in captivity.

Competition deadline: 27/08/2010

Competition website

Many of our planet’s treasures are being threatened – by climate change, over-development, pollution and other destructive human activities. From polar bears and tigers to whales and ocean coral; many of the things we cherish are endangered and disappearing.

Photography is one way to make sure our favorite things live on. Sumbit your favorite images of:

• nature,
• landscapes (urban or rural),
• wildlife,
• cultures,
• conservation.

Deadline: 31/08/2010

Competition website

The third annual competition opened in March 2009 with a deadline of November 30th 2009. Uniquely among major photographic competitions, all entrants can receive professional feedback on their entries – after the judging of the competition is completed and on request. The competition is open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike. 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. You have to pay a fee to enter. But unlike free competitions, we provide feedback on request (after the judging), we have a huge range of cash and other prizes available to winners and to runners-up, together with the unique prize of having a photograph exhibited in our special exhibition at Kew Gardens. Being a finalist of International Garden Photographer of the Year will not only bring you a prize – it could be a life-changing event!

Deadline: 30 November 2009

Competition Website

Within the framework of the 20th Bird and Nature Festival, that will be held from April 10 to 18, 2010, we invite world-wide photographers to participate in one of the most expected events of the spring.  We are pleased to announce the opening of the photo competition, do not hesitate to register now. Award of € 1 500 for the “Grand Prix”.

Deadline to register : November, 15, 2009

Competition Website