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

Every year, National Geographic’s International Photography Contest draws thousands of spectacular photos from users around the world. This year could be your year—send in your photos for a chance to win a digital camera kit and have your image published in the magazine. Winners will be entered into the Worldwide International Photography Contest.

You can submit up to six photos in three categories—People, Places, and Nature—between now and October 31, 2009. Winners will be announced in early December. There is an entry fee of U.S. $12 for each photo.

Deadline: 31/10/2009

Competition Website

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A brand new international photography competition, the prestigious British Wildlife Photography Awards celebrates and recognise the talents of photographers of all nationalities practicing in the UK while, at the same time, highlighting the great wealth and diversity of the natural history of the British Isles.

At a time when we’re increasingly conscious of the importance of wildlife, habitat and conservation, the Awards will encourage photographers, whether professional or enthusiast, to explore Britain’s natural and urban environments, and discover its bounty of wildlife species, from birds to mammals, insects to marine life.  All images must have been taken in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

Deadline: 31 July 2009

Competition Website