Who doesn’t love (winning) a good photo contest?  Today we helped the Advertising Photographers of America launch the 2009 APA National Photo Competition. This contest – “a celebration of photography and a recognition of extraordinary image making” showcases the work of talented photographers from across the country and is open to both APA members and non-members.  All submissions will be hosted and submitted through PhotoShelter.

PhotoShelter member Tom Sperduto was last year’s Grand Prize winner.

There are plenty of good reasons to get involved with this contest – like the high profile judges who will review your work.  And of course, everyone likes cool prizes.  The Grand Prize winner will receive a basket of products and services from a lot of our favorite companies, including:

• MacBook Pro, 13-inch: 2.26GHz
• Canon EOS 7D dSLR Camera Body, 18 megapixel CMOS sensor, Dual Digic 4 Image Processors (8 frames per second) JUST ANNOUNCED!
• ADBASE Premium Edition One Year full North American Subscription
• PhotoShelter One Year Free Pro Subscription including a customizable website, e-commerce, SEO, and 100GB online storage
• $1,000 credit toward any liveBooks package*
• Lowepro Rolling Computrekker Plus AW
• Winning Image(s) featured in December 2009 “Pictures of the Year” issue of Rangefinder Magazine
• Winner’s Gallery, Year long Promotional Showcase powered by liveBooks
• The Winner’s Book published by Blurb

 (Just one of the above would be a real treat – but the Grand Prize winner gets ALL of them.)  The prize packages for placing 1st 2nd and 3rd are pretty stellar too. 

We’re really excited to host this contest for the first time.  It’s a great connection for us because we respect the work APA is doing to support photographers and help grow their businesses.  Admittedly, we’re also really excited to get the first peek at the outstanding photography this contest is certain to attract.  Plus, we’re delighted to show scores of new advertising photographers how PhotoShelter can be a powerful business tool – for photography websites, online marketing and image sales, secure archiving and image delivery.  And for existing PhotoShelter members – you can submit from your account, which is a nice treat. 

There are 7 different pro categories you can enter (and ahem, win prizes), plus 1 student category, including:

• Lifestyle
• Portrait
• Fashion
• Action (Sports / Adventure)
• Still-Life
• Landscape / Architectural
• Personal / Fine Art
• Student

The deadline for submitting images is September 30. Good luck!
 

» Full contest details
» Enter the contest

 

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