Automobiles Citroën has announced a photo contest open to any UK resident aged 18 or older. The theme is ‘Unique’, and the organisers are looking for images that capture this concept in the form of an unrepeatable moment, an exceptional sensation or a singular expression. The photo contest serves to promote Citroën’s newest model, the DS3, which can be personalised to each individual driver. The competition runs until 23rd March 2010, and the winner will receive a Citroën DS3 THP 150 DSport to use for a year with a total mileage allowance of 12,000 miles for the year. To submit a photo of yours, visit the website below. As always, we suggest that you read the rules before entering your work.

Website: Citroën Photo Contest

Canon today announced that Casey Berner, 19, of Illinois and Justin Tijerina, 15, of Texas have been named the winners of the Adult and Teen Divisions of the Canon U.S.A. and Pro Football Hall of Fame “Why Do You Love Football?” photo challenge. The judging panel for this year’s contest included former NFL quarterback Archie Manning along with some of the world’s top sports photographers and editors including Peter Read Miller from Sports Illustrated, freelance photographer Dave Drapkin,Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor Stella Kramer, New York Times sports photo editor Brad Smith andTony Tomsic, a freelance sports photographer who has shot every Super Bowl to-date. Each of the two category winners has won a trip for four to attend Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida. Additionally, both have won a trip for four to the 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival in August where their winning photos will be on display in the Hall of Fame.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) of the U.S.A. is now accepting entries to their 40th annual contest. Contestants have until 6 July 2010 to submit their photos. There are 7 categories, and each entrant may submit up to 25 images. Winners will be published on the NWF website and a selection will appear in their December 2010 issue. There are two $5,000 grand prizes to be won, and the total amount of cash prizes offered exceeds $30,000.

Website: NWF Photo Contest

PentaxForums today launched a new photography competition entitled ‘Panoramic View’. Each registered PentaxForums user can submit one image to the official “PF 2010 panoramic view image contest” gallery, from today until 15 March, 11:59pm GMT -7. The theme of the contest can be interpreted in any way the photographer sees it, even with non-panoramic images. However, each image submission must be captured with Pentax equipment, and be created by and the sole copyright property of the PentaxForums user who submitted it. The file size is limited to 1.5 megabytes. Prizes to be won include a a Nodal Ninja 3 MKII Full Spherical Multirow Panoramic QTVR Tripod Head, a copy of the upcoming photobook “Ghost Towns of the Southwest: Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico” by Kerrick James and Jim Hinckley and a copy of Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009 panoramic stitching software.

Website: PentaxForums

iStockphoto and the Guardian newspaper have launched a new competition called Britain iS. The contest aims to identify the defining images of Britain in 2010, with £3,500 in prize money up for grabs. The Britain iS competition is free to enter and is open to amateur and experienced photographers alike

The winners of the Graphis Photography Annual 2010 awards have been announced. Graphis is internationally recognized as the premier publication covering graphic communications worldwide. Photographers Maikka Trupp, Heinz Baumann, Dazeley, and Andrew Zuckerman all used 33 MP Leaf digital backs to create their winning entries. Gold award winner Andrew Zuckerman said, “The Leaf system has provided me with the clarity and sharpness that the images require with superb reliability.” A complete list of Graphis photography award winners can be found at: http://www.graphis.com/latest/winners/annuals/photography/?book=39

Nikon has just announced the winners of its Nikon Festival, launched in November to celebrate, inspire and harness the current popularity of D-SLR video creation and social media. The Nikon Festival Judges’ Award Winner is Marko Slavnic, a 2006 graduate of the University of Texas Austin, and he will receive $100,000 and Nikon equipment to further his film career. “So many people see filmmaking as this elite thing and that you need a big crew to produce a quality film,” said Marko Slavnic. “I was excited when a friend told me about the Festival, and Nikon has shown people that you don’t have to be a professional to create a film and be seen by a huge audience.” Drawing from his own experiences as a shy teenager, Marko Slavnic’s video submission entitled “Chicken vs. Penguin” is a unique short film that shows a funny, physical story of unexpected love brought to life through a fast food mascot rivalry between a boy and girl. It was shot over two days on Congress Street in Austin, Texas.

Tamron USA announced the first in its series of four photo contests for 2010: Dusk till Dawn asks entrants to submit sunrise, sunset and nighttime images by 31 March 31. The “Dusk till Dawn” photo contest entries will be evaluated and selected by a guest judge, Ken Hubbard, who specializes in landscape and travel photography. Hubbard, Field Services Manager for Tamron, is a pro photographer who has had nationwide gallery showings of his landscape photography. He regularly teaches enthusiasts how to take better photos at dynamic seminars around the country. You can see his work at Ken Hubbard Photography. Email your lo-res images to [email protected], Subject line of email must read Tamron Dusk till Dawn Photo Contest. Winner & Finalists will be contacted for hi-res photos. The Grand Prize Winner will receive his/her choice of one of these Tamron lenses: SP AF60mm F2 Di-II 1:1 Macro; SP AF10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di-II; SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 Di-II VC (pictured); or AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC. As always, we suggest that you read the rules at the website below before entering your work.

Website: Tamron Photo Contest

To mark the re-launch of the Santander brand throughout the United Kingdom, Metro and Santander are asking you to take a photograph that sums up life in your home city. Simply use your camera, iPhone or mobile to snap anything you might see on your lunch break or even on your way home from a night out – whatever you feel represents and celebrates your city. After that, use the upload form below to submit your work. Uploading closes 2pm Monday 1st February. The shortlisted top ten photographs will be showcased on the gallery page. Readers can vote for their favourite image from 2pm Tuesday 2nd February until 5pm Monday 8th February. The overall winner receives £5,000 of holiday vouchers to visit any city in the world.

Website: “One Moment in My City” Competition Upload Form

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award are open for entries. The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is announced for the 31st time, and accepts photo essays from professional photographers until 15 March. The award is given by an international jury “to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images”. The winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will receive 5,000 euros or, alternatively, Leica camera equipment to the same value. Also, a Newcomers Award will be incorporated in the competition, open to all (prospective) pros who are aged 25 years and under. The winner of the Newcomer Award will receive 2,500 euros.

Website: Leica Oskar Barnack Award

The winning images from the 2009 international Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) awards go on display at Adventure Travel Live at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls from January 29th-31st. As well as enjoying over 70 stunning images, show visitors have the chance to win an Intrepid Travel 15-day Wild China trip, and can buy the latest TPOTY book, Journey Three. This publication contains the winning images from TPOTY 2009, 2008 and 2007. Priced at £25, Journey Three takes readers on a trip round the globe, through the eyes of award-winning photographers.Amateur and professional photographers from over 70 countries entered the 2009 Travel Photographer of the Year competition. The 2010 TPOTY awards open in the spring. For further information, visit the TPOTY website.

Website: TPOTY

ViewBug has announced the winning photos of the “Black and White American Photo Magazine Publishing Contest”. The black and white photo contest was first announced in the November/December 2009 issue of the American Photo Magazine. There were over 200 entries and over 6,000 votes on the photos. Winners were selected by ViewBug members and approved by the judging panel. The winners’ photos will be published in the March/April 2010 issue of AmericanPhoto Magazine. The first prize goes to Thomas Hocker for his work featured above.

The Renault MSA young photographer of the year award has been scooped up by 19 year old midlands based photographer, Dom Romney. The judging panel particularly liked the unusual composition and strong use of colour, as evidenced in the photo that accompanies this article. Not only does Dom get to join the prestigious ranks of winners of the Renault MSA Young Motor sport photographer of the year, but he also gets £1,000. To view Dom’s entire award-winning work, check out his website.

Website: Dom Romney

Sony Ericsson has unveiled the global winners of a worldwide camera phone competition called Smile Hunter. Ioana Proca, aged 20 from Bacau, Romania beat off tough competition from thousands of entrants in 32 participating countries across Europe, India, Africa, Latin America and Asia, to be crowned the winner of Sony Ericsson Smile Hunter 2009. Ioana will be jetting off to a selection of the world’s coolest destinations. Visitors to the Smile Hunter website were also able to vote for their favourite smile photo to crown the People’s Smile Hunter 2009. Meglena Kolaksuzova, aged 41 from Petrich, Bulgaria was a clear winner. She has won a bundle of Sony Ericsson goodies. To see the global winner’s images, visit the interactive gallery on the global website.

Website: Smile Hunter

The nice folks over at Photocrati have launched the first round of competition for Photocrati Fund, which will give $5000 grants to non-professional photographers working on important humanitarian and environmental projects. The goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world. The application deadline is 11pm GMT, 15 March 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award. Applicants must be non-professional photographers who derive less than 50% of their income from photography or photography-related activities. The grant is open to photographers over 21 years of age from any country worldwide, but applicants should have a proven ability to produce outstanding imagery, as well as the background necessary to carry out their proposed project. Read the rules in their entirety on the website below.

Website: Photocrati Fund

Canon has launched “The Story Beyond The Still Contest,” allowing photographers and videographers to showcase their creativity in a new style of filmmaking that blends still and video images into a continuous cinematic piece. The contest, sponsored by Canon and hosted by Vimeo, the online video sharing site hosting one of the largest collections of HD content on the Web, invites participants to use the HD video capability of their camera to create short, two to four minute videos. To kick off the contest, Vincent Laforet collaborated with Grey New York to bring his interpretation of a still image to life in a short film entitled “The Cabbie,” which serves as the first installment of a seven chapter collaborative work in which each participant will be asked to interpret the previous winning photographer/filmmaker’s final still image to start their vision for the subsequent chapter. Six winners will be chosen (one for each chapter) based on their submissions and will join Laforet on location to collaboratively film the final chapter of the film. In addition, winners will receive a choice of prizes including Canon EOS 7D and 5D Mark II DSLR cameras or select Canon lenses. For complete rules and to submit “The Story Beyond the Still” videos participants can visit http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill/

The team at Annabel Williams’ Contemporary Photographic Training has launched a competition to win their biggest prize ever, worth more than £9,000. This is not a cash prize, but a place on their prestigious 12 month Bespoke Training Programme. The programme includes 14 modular training sessions at the Annabel Williams Studio in the Lake District, together with intensive ongoing support from the training team and business mentors. The modular nature of the Bespoke Programme also means that it can be fitted around an existing job, or family commitments – until you’re ready to make that big step to running your own photography business. Six finalists will be shortlisted and invited to attend an interview at the studio on 19 June – with one overall winner then chosen to take up this opportunity. Entries are open now and close on 31 May. To enter, submit two prints of your best shots in which you feel you have captured the emotions of your subjects. For full details visit the website below.

Website: Annabel Williams Blog

Now’s your chance to do a photo shoot with one of the most recognisable international faces in fashion, Naomi Campbell. Hosted by Talenthouse.com, this exciting Creative Invite encourages you to submit up to 4 of your best photos within the theme of ‘glamour’. All photos will be posted on Talenthouse for voting after the submission deadline. One lucky winner can shoot - no, not Naomi Campbell herself, but “a model selected by Naomi” - for Glamour Magazine. The deadline is 12 February 2010.

Website: Talenthouse

Voies Off has issued a call for entriesfor the 2010 Voies Off Prize. For the past 15 years, the Voies Off Prize has been awarded by a jury of renowned professionals to an artist for the clarity of his vision and the high quality of his work. Voies Off night projections during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival (first full week in July) have become an international reference for the discovery of emerging authors and the alternative venue that it creates for international photographic creation. You have until 15 February to enter the 2010 contest, whose overall winner will receive €2,000. As always, you are encouraged to read the rules beforehand. Note also that there is a €25 fee to be paid.

Website: Voies Off Online Registration Page

Adorama are launching the APPOS, the first annual iPhone App Awards for Photography as well as an iPhone Photography Contest. The Adorama Photo APPOS Awards will cover six categories of photo software from colourisation, masking/cropping, filters, zoom, panoramic and stop action apps. Along with honouring the software titles and their developers, Adorama will showcase the winning photo apps, chosen by popular vote. Photographers winning awards will be chosen by a panel of judges, in categories including Nature, People, Humour and Creative/Special Effects. Contest entries will be accepted until February 15, 2010. All winners will be announced during the month of March 2010. Prizes include one Grand Prize of a $1,000 Adorama Gift Certificate plus 10 Wacom tablets, fifteen Canon wireless printers, thirty $100 Adorama Gift Certificates and twenty-five $50 Apple App Stores Gift Certificates. All photographic entry information can be found on the Adorama website.

Website: Adorama