From now till July 19th, you can submit a photo or video of your “moments of wonder” to a dedicated website set up by Samsung, for a chance to win one of 7 DualView cameras or a 24” HD monitor. Your moment can represent an everyday joy or a once-in-a-lifetime event, like sitting front row at your daughter’s college graduation. Note that this competition is open to US citizens only. As always, we recommend that you read the rules before entering your work.

Website: Moments of Wonder

SanDisk has launched a professional photography contest on the SanDisk Extreme Team Facebook page. The submission deadline is 31 July, 11:30pm PT. Entries are accepted in four different categories – Nature, Wedding/Events, Action and Fashion. The grand prize winner will be offered a one year spot on the SanDisk Extreme Team and the grand prize winning photo will be exhibited in the “Winner’s Circle” gallery showing during the PhotoPlus Expo in New York City. The four finalists, the winners of each category, will each receive a $1,000 cash prize and their photos will be featured in the online Winner’s Circle gallery. Eight runners-up will receive $250 worth of SanDisk memory cards, and their photos will be featured in the online Winner’s Circle gallery.  The winners will be announced on or around 31 October.

Website: SanDisk Extreme Team Facebook Page

Stella Artois is encouraging its Canadian fans to submit their best photography for a chance to win a Sony digital SLR camera. The competition is organised around five themes including “Travel”, “Good Times”, “Stylish”, “Urban” and “The Life of Légere”. To enter the contest you must have Internet access, a valid Club Stella Artois profile and email address. The top five finalists will have their photos professionally developed and put on display at the Stella Artois Canadian Draught Master Finals in Toronto. A Grand Prize winner will be chosen at the event and they’ll be eligible to win† a Sony Alpha digital SLR camera with DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. Four runners-up will be eligible to receive a Sony Cyber-Shot 12.1-megapixel digital camera.

Website: Club Stella Artois

G. H. Mumm today launched an online photography competition. Take the best snapshot of what you think is the best set of a “stunning dinner to celebrate the world’s beauty”, and upload your picture to the competition website. You have until 7 July to submit your entry. The winners will be announced on 14 July together with the revealing of the Mumm Explorer Experience destination. The Mumm Explorer Experience is an invitation to a once in the lifetime gastronomic experience orchestrated by a Michelin star Chef, as part of a true and authentic expedition alongside a real adventurer. The winner of the photo contest will be awarded the opportunity to be part of the experience, while eight runners up will receive a bottle of Mumm Cordon Rouge champagne.

Website: Mumm - The Game

This year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Award goes to the Swedish photographer Jens Olof Lasthein for his portfolio, “Waitingfor the future – pictures from Abkhazia”. Abkhazia is a disputed territory that is considered to be a part of Georgia international law. “The future of the people there is just as uncertain as that of their home country. It is precisely this uncertainty that Lasthein has captured in his photography,” Leica says. You can read an interview with the winner at the Leica Camera Blog.

The National Wildlife Federation encourages all US based photographers to take part in its 40th photo contest. The contest offers cash prizes totaling more than $30,000, as well as other gifts to be awarded to winners from seven categories in three separate divisions: Professional, Amateur, and Youth. Winners will be published on NWF’s website and a selection will appear in the December 2010 issue of National Wildlife Magazine. The deadline for entering NWF’s photo contest is 6 July. Note that there is a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year membership to the National Wildlife Federation and six issues of National Wildlife magazine

Website: NWF Photo Contest

Essex photographer Claire Moir has scooped the top prize in the Envisage Photography Awards. The prize has been awarded for her portrait of 5-year-old ELissa Faith Keating (see above). The Award includes a cash prize of £1,000 which Claire splits with her client who commissioned the winning image.

ZeissImages.com, the recently launched online photo gallery of images captured with Zeiss lenses, has just announced its first photo contest. The theme is “As seen through your eyes”, and there are five categories - Landscape, Glamor, People, Nature and City/Architecture. ZeissImages.com members can submit up to 3 photographs per category.There are no fees or exchange of services required to participate in the contest, but it is mandatory that photographs submitted be taken with a Zeiss lens. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 2010.

Website: ZeissImages.com

Jacky Parker has won the People’s Choice Plant Portraits award with her image entitled ‘Soft tones of Autumn’ (see above). Jacky says, “the IGPOTY competition provides me with a treasure trove of inspirational ideas and encouragement. This year I am enjoying the challenges of the ‘4 Seasons’ competitions, bringing myself out of my comfort zone and looking at new aspects of garden photography.”

CEWE Photobook, Europe’s largest wholesale photo-finisher, has launched a new continent-wide photography competition. The Europe is Beautiful competition invites photographers to upload their eye-catching shots to a dedicated microsite for the chance to win one of 500 prizes, including a two-week luxury cruise, trips to London and Paris, and more. The winning images will also be displayed at photokina, and incorporated into a commemorative CEWE Photobook presented to the winners. There are four categories including “my home and family”, “my town and everyday life”, “my country and its culture” and “moving towards Europe’s future”.

Website: CEWE on Facebook

Burrard-Lucas Photography has launched a Landscape Photography Contest. The competition is open to participants worldwide, aged 18 or over on the closing date, which is 1 August 2010. The winner will be awarded with a Canon EOS 7D camera (pictured), a Lensbaby Composer and a SmugMug Pro account. Two runners-up will receive SmugMug standard accounts. Entry is free for up to three entries per photographer.

Website: Burrard-Lucas Photography

Travelodium Travel Club and Magazine have launched a new competition for people who love to travel. The objective is to help other travellers by writing about the best places and secrets that most travellers won’t know about in the city/town that you live in. Although this is primarily a writing competition, the organisers would also love to see your photographs. “It would be fantastic if you could send in a least one photo of one of the principal tourist sites of the city,” says magazine editor David Cronk. The best entry for 2010 will win $1000 of travel products.

Website: This is My City Travel Writing Competition

The Master Photographers Association (MPA) has announced details of its 2010 Master Photography Awards. The Awards are open to all qualified members of the Association, plus there are also several categories that are open to all professional photographers anywhere in the world - not just members of the MPA. Categories include wedding, portrait, landscape, scientific and commercial. The entry fee is £8.50.

Website: Master Photography Awards

Mykindofphone.com has launched an online competition offering the winner an opportunity to participate in a six-night Kenyan photo safari tour. To enter, you need to submit a photo telling a personal story which they have taken with their mobile phone to a photo sharing site; provide a short, snappy explanation of the emotional journey behind the image; and tweet about it alongside the competition’s hashtag ’#snap @mykindofphone’. The competition, which is open to UK residents only, begins today and runs until Thursday, 3 June 2010. The winner and a frined will be taken on a £6,000 Kenyan photo safari tour from 26th June to 4th July 2010. For full entry details, visit the website below.

Website: My Kind of Phone Photo Contest

The prestigious Sony World Photography Awards are now open for entries. The festival will expand to four major cities across the globe throughout 2010 and 2011, visiting San Francisco, Mexico City, Shanghai and London. Professional and ‘serious enthusiast’ photographers are invited to join the Professional competition and will be judged on a body of work. The 14 professional categories are arranged into three genres - Commercial, Fine Art and Photojournalism & Documentary - and new categories include Lifestyle, Still Life, and People. The Open competition, which replaces the amateur competition, has been created for the growing number of people with a love of photography. It has nine categories, and is judged on a single image. The 2011 competition closes for entries on 5 January 2011. Winners of the Professional and Open categories will each receive their trophies at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony in London on 27 April 2011.

Website: Sony World Photography Awards

Insight Guides and The Independent on Sunday have announced a travel photography competition in which the winner will receive a photographic commission worth £3,000. Any UK-based adult who thinks his or her photography is a cut above the average holiday album can enter by submitting three images that, having been taken since 1 January this year, capture the essence of a destination, using ‘earth’ as the theme. Photographers have until Friday 10 September 2010 to submit their entries, and the winner will be announced in the travel pages of The Independent on Sunday along with the winning portfolio. For further information, entrants should visit www.insightguides.com as terms and conditions apply.

International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) is reminding interested photographers that the submission deadline for its spring seasonal competition is 31 May. Part of IGPOTY’s brand new format, ‘4 Seasons’, the theme of the spring competition is ‘Spring into Life’. If this sounds interesting, visit the IGPOTY website via the link below to enter your work. All entries will also automatically go through to the main IGPOTY competition at the end of the year.

Website: IGPOTY

Artists and photographers Ben Raynor, Chris Mear, Robert Attard, Anna Taylor and Nicola Thompson are announced winners of the 2010 Free Range Art Award. The diverse selection, embracing Ben Raynor’s humorous mixed media drawing Albert alongside Anna Taylor’s subtly emotive photograph Grandad (shown above), demonstrates Free Range at its best, the organisers say. Each selected work will be produced as a print in a limited edition of 25, giving the artists the opportunity to sell their work. The exclusive limited edition prints of work by the five winners will be available to buy at Free Range 2010 and also online at CultureLabel from 3rd June.

Website: CultureLabel

The RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2010 (YPA10) is now open for entries. Photographs can be submitted in the post, to arrive no later than 5pm on 23 August, or online on the contest website until the closing date of midnight on Monday, 6 September. The overall winner will get £1,000 worth of Olympus kit of their choice. Additionally, Danny Green - one of the world’s best wildlife photographers - is offering the overall YPA10 winner the chance to join him for a three-day photography break. Danny will pass on some expert photography tips as well as share his inside knowledge during the annual deer rut in Bradgate Park, in Leicestershire.

National Geographic and Energizer have teamed up for the third annual Energizer Ultimate photo contest. Through Wednesday, 30 June, aspiring photographers can visit the website below to enter one photo in each of six thematic categories: animals/wildlife, nature, travel, people/cultures, weather and action/energy. The winner will have their photo featured in the December issue of National Geographic magazine in an ad for Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries, and they’ll also be awarded the trip two to the Greek Isles.

Website: Energizer Ultimate Contest