Nikon UK has announced its new ‘Make Life Easier’ Coolpix game which offers the chance to win a city break to New York for the overall winner, plus a Coolpix S220 camera every day. Players will have their skills challenged in three different shooting scenarios. The three levels of the game focus on a different feature integral to the Coolpix range; at level one, entrants will see the benefit of Smile mode, whilst Blink Proof and Vibration Reduction are featured on levels two and three. To get started, visit the website below.

Website: ‘Make Life Easier’ Nikon Competition

Living Exposed have a competition open for two scholarships to join a photography project on the Big Island from 21 to 25 January 2010. A broad range of participants are sought, from beginners looking to learn more about cameras and all their capabilities to professional photographers eager to apply their knowledge and expertise to something new. All applicants must submit five images and also provide a brief background of themselves and their objectives. The deadline for submission is 7 December 2009. Regular participants are required to pay a registration fee of $950, whereas those receiving the scholarships will be exempt from the registration fee and given a stipend of $500 to help offset travel expenses to and from Kona, Hawaii. To apply for a scholarship, check the the appropriate box on your Exposure application.

Website: Application for Exposure: Hawai’i

Fodor’s Travel and Planet Hollywood have announced the co-sponsorship of travel photography contest, “Show Us Your Las Vegas”. Until 18 December 2009, North American visitors to Fodors.com can upload and share their favourite photos and experiences of Las Vegas with other travellers. The grand-prize winning photographer will receive two nights and three days accommodation for two in a Hollywood Hip room at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. To submit a photo, visit the website below.

Website: Fodor’s Show Us Your Las Vegas Photography Contest

Today, Bing is launching the Bing Photo Contest on Facebook, themed “hometown pride.” The winner will be decided by a combination of popular votes in the first round, editorial selection before the finals, and by popular vote in the finals. The winner will be announced on December 21, and the winning image will be featured on the Bing homepage on 6 January 2010. Note that you need to be a fan of Bing to enter or vote in the contest.

Website: Bing on Facebook

Jenny Price is the lucky winner of a LG Viewty Lite Silver + HP Photosmart A526 Compact Photo Printer.

This competition is now closed.

Camera Phone Zone helps you print your pics for less! Camera Phone Zone always brings you great deals on mobile phone handsets and accessories and now you can get a half price compact photo printer with selected touch screen camera phones!* With its 2.4” colour LCD screen, the HP Photosmart A526 Compact Photo Printer is easy to use and produces beautiful 6x4” borderless prints from all popular memory cards. Now this handy little photo printer can be yours for just £29.99 when bought with the following camera phones:

Samsung Genio Touch, 2 Megapixel: £83.19 RRP
LG KS360, 2 Megapixel: £73.40 RRP
Samsung Tocco Lite, 3 Megapixel: £88.09 RRP
LG Viewty Lite Silver, 5 Megapixel: £97.87 RRP

Camera Phone Zone supplies handsets on the Vodafone network. To find your nearest Camera Phone Zone and to view tariffs please visit www.cameraphonezone.co.uk.

*offer available while stocks last.

Adobe has just announced the call for entries for the tenth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). This premier competition honors the best student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from accredited higher education institutions worldwide. As demand increases for talented designers and developers in the interactive design and development fields, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards spotlight the talented work of students in three categories: Interactive Media, Motion Media, and Traditional Media. Photography falls into the Traditional Media category. For more information regarding the 2010 Adobe Design Achievement Awards, visit the website below.

Website: ADAA

Three teens have been selected as national winners in Sightsavers International’s i-click competition 2009. Emily Tudor, aged 13 from Buckinghamshire, won first prize in the 11-14 category, Stacy Leigh Stewart, aged 16 from Scotland won first prize in the 15-16 category and Lolita Cameron, aged 17 won first prize in the 17-18 category. Their photos, selected from hundreds of entries submitted by young photographers from across the UK, will be displayed in a special exhibition alongside photos by Harry Potter star Katie Leung and X-Factor pop sensation Same Difference. The exhibition, ‘i:click – when actions speak louder than words’ will be held in the gallery@oxo on London’s South Bank from 10 December 2009 – 10 January 2010 and entrance is free of charge.

Website: i-click

The Mail Tribune is now accepting reader submissions for its Rogue Valley 2009 Photo Contest. Mail Tribune readers are invited to submit photos they snapped in Southern Oregon during 2009. Images can be of anything from neighbours and places, to regional events and familiar valley icons, as long as they depict the photographer’s unique take on life in the valley. The submission period is open now and will continue through December 31, 2009. Voting will begin New Year’s Day and continue through January 7, 2010. Reader votes will be collected via online balloting, and will be counted along with votes by a panel of expert judges. Winning photos will appear on an In Focus photo page in the Mail Tribune in January. Grand Prize will be a Vixen VMC 1-10L Telescope from Bach’s Camera. Other prizes will include: a Tamrac 5210 Camera Bag & Digipod 550 tripod to the first runner-up, and a 17x24 gallery wrapped canvas print for the second runner-up. Make sure to read the rules before entering your work.

Website: Rogue Valley 2009 Photo Contest

Now in its second year, the CB Richard Ellis competition sets a brief for photographers to explore “cities at work” at any time during a 24-hour period. The organisers split the day up into 24 hours and allow for up to 24 images per photographer, but only one per hour of the day. Winners for each hour are chosen by their judging panel, and the prize for each hour is sponsored by an international brand. The winner and two runners-up will be given prizes sponsored directly by CB Richard Ellis. The grand prize will be a week’s holiday for two in Jordan. Whereas the previous competition was only open to contestants from the UK, this year they are opening up the competition to all photographers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As with every competition, we encourage you to read the rules before entering your work.

Update: |Due to popular request, entry has been extended for the 2009 competition until Midnight on 31st January 2010.

Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie have been nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010, and their work will be on display in The Photographers’ Gallery, London, from February. The exhibition opens on 12 February 2010 and runs until 18 April. The winner of the £30,000 annual award wil be announced on 17 March. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 rewards a living photographer of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography in Europe between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009.

If you have any interesting photos taken with a Lensbaby, now’s your chance to get published! Your shot might become one of a dozen photographs that will illustrate a new book by Lensbaby guru Corey Hilz, due out from Focal Press in the Summer of 2010.  “The book will feature ‘how to’ and inspirational content, along with galleries of Lensbaby photos by some of the foremost Lensbaby photographers in the world,” Lensbaby says. “At least 12 of the submitted images will be featured in the Lensbaby book. Popular voting on the Lensbaby forum will be used to help decide one of the chosen images. Corey Hilz and Craig Strong will pick the remaining images”. You have until the end of the year to submit up to two photos for consideration. Voting will take place from 1 to 7 January 2010 and the selected images will be announced on 15 January.

Website: Lensbaby

The Mail Tribune is now accepting submissions for its annual Oregon Outdoors Wild Bird Photo Contest. Open to everyone from long-time birders, to amateur photographers, to nature enthusiasts, the Oregon Outdoors Wild Bird Photo Contest invites participants to capture the beauty of their feathered friends in their natural habitats. Participants may enter as many bird photos as they like, but will only be eligible to win one award. All submissions must be accompanied by a completed entry form. Submissions will be accepted through 4:00 pm on 11 December 2009. Full contest rules, as well as submission guidelines and entry forms, are available online at the website below.

Website: Wild Bird Photo Contest

The prestigious Lange-Taylor documentary photography award is now calling for entries. Named after photographer Dorothea Lange and writer Paul Taylor, whose 1941 book, American Exodus, was a milestone in documentary studies, the Lange-Taylor award “was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers”. In that spirit, the award is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. Now in its twenthieth year, the Lange-Taylor award comes with a $20,000 cash prize. The 2009 winners, Christian Parenti and Teru Kuwayama won the prize for their project exploring the “human landscape” of Pakistan. Entries for the 2010 award are to be submitted between 1 and 31 January 2010.

Website: The Lange-Taylor Prize

Via The British Journal of Photography
Photo by Teru Kuwayama

Lomography has announced a special contest that gives you the chance to turn the Lomo LC-A+, billed as a “classic, iconic snapshot wonder”, into your very own masterpiece The Lomo LC-A is a simple, plastic 35mm film camera that has been around for 25 years. The LC-A+ is an improved version of the original LC-A, and Lomography is now asking you to download the Lomo LC-A+ template from its website, cut it out like a paper camera, customise the paper camera according to your tastes, and either upload your customised templates or send them by post to the Lomography headquarters in Vienna. Submissions must be received by 10 January 2010. The winning design will go to actual production as a limited edition model, and the winner will be awarded with an opportunity to travel to the Lomography HQ in Vienna, with flight and accommodation paid. He/she will also receive five of the limited-edition Lomo LC-A+ cameras they had designed.

Website: The Lomography Blog

Sony World Photography Awards is looking to uncover the best amateur football photographs in the world for the 2010 Campaign Award, and offers the winner tickets, travel and accommodation to a FIFA World Cup game in South Africa. Combining the global love for football and sports photography, the Campaign Award seeks to find an image that captures the emotion and the passion of football from the fan’s point of view. All submitted images will be shown in a gallery the Sony World Photography Awards website and rated by the public.  The top 100 images will then be presented to a judging panel chaired by Delly Carr, one of the world’s leading and multi award winning sports photographers. The competition is free to enter and open to amateur photographers from across the globe.  The closing date is Friday 4 December 2009.

Website: World Photography Awards

The winners of the Hahnemühle’s Anniversary Collection awards competition have been selected from 7,100 entries. The competition, part of Hahnemühle’s 425th Anniversary celebration, featured entries from all over the world and was judged by a distinguished panel of international experts. Three winners were selected in each of the three open categories: People & Portrait; Landscape & Nature and Architecture & Still Life as well as three winners in the Student category. The winners were notified and asked to submit their original digital files, but were not told what place they had been awarded. These will be announced at a special Photokina preview presentation in November. The Hahnemühle Anniversary Collection will be touring major photo capitals of the world during 2010.  For exact dates and locations for the entire international tour, visit the website below.

Website: Hahnemühle

Nikon Inc. today announced the launch of a new integrated marketing campaign that includes the first ever “Nikon Festival” to celebrate, inspire and harness the current popularity of content creation shared through social media. Nikon is challenging budding filmmakers to upload 140 second short-form video with the theme “A Day through Your Lens” to the festival’s website. As videos are uploaded, they can be automatically shared with entrants’ social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, allowing instantaneous campaigning for views and votes. Festival entrants will have the opportunity to win one of two awards: an audience award and a judges’ award. The winning video selected by the Festival judges will be awarded $100,000 and Nikon equipment.  Additionally, the video getting the highest average rating and most audience views will be awarded the $25,000 Audience Award and Nikon equipment.

Website: Nikon Festival

Fodor’s Travel has partnered with Princess Cruises to announce the co-sponsorship of travel photography contest, “Show Us Your Italy.” Until 30 November, North American visitors to Fodors.com can upload and share their favourite photos and experiences of Italy with other travellers. The winning photographer will receive a suite of Fodor’s full-colour guidebooks as well as the chance to have their photo published in the upcoming Fodor’s Italy 2011. Ten runner-up winners will have their photographs featured in a slideshow on Fodors.com. As always, we suggest that you read the rules before entering your work.

Kata invites you to design your dream photo bag, and submit it to their Dream Bag Challenge. Each bag will be reviewed by a professional panel of judges. The best design will be selected as the winner, and built exclusively for the designer and packed full of high-end photo equipment, including a Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR camera body, an EF 24-105mm f/4L USM and an EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens, a Gitzo Traveler Kit and a Litepanels Micro Pro lighting kit. For more information, visit the website below.

Website: Kata Dream Bag Challenge

Interflora has launched a photography contest to find the UK’s best rose photos. The submission deadline is 13 November 2009, and all photos must be submitted to [email protected]. Interflora will then add your photo to their blog and leave it up to the readers to vote for the photo they think should win. The competition will close at 2pm on Monday 14th December, all votes will be counted and winners will be announced and notified within 7 days of this deadline. The first prize is an 8GB iPod Nano. Copyright of all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants, but by entering this competition you are giving Interflora the permission to use your image on their blog.

Website: Interflora Blog