Leading nationwide architectural practice ADP has launched its first photography competition, Bricks and Mortals. The winner will be awarded a £1000 commission to photograph one of ADP’s completed buildings, plus £750 worth of camera equipment vouchers. Open to higher and further education students, in their final year of photography and similar courses, as well as Part II and Part III architectural students, the Bricks and Mortals judges will be lloking for the entry that best captures the subtle interaction between people and the built environment. Closing date for entries is 30th January 2009.

The Annabel Williams 2009 Photographic Awards are aimed at all wedding, portrait and lifestyle photographers. There are seven different categories to enter, with the overall winner awarded ‘Annabel Williams Photographer of the Year 2009”. With a total prize fund of more than £10,000, the awards will run until 31st March 2009. The entry fee is £5.00 and you can enter as many categories as you like.

The winners of Sony Ericsson’s World View 2008 cameraphone competition have been announced. The camera phone photo entitled “Peace” by Marriane Nill from the Philippines has won the ‘Expert’s Choice Award’. Marriane received a once in a life time photography trip for two, worth £10,000. Gisela Cañete from Argentina was named as the winner of the “The People’s Choice Award”. World View 2009 will kick off in the first half of 2009.

Tamron has announced the winners of its 2008 Wet & Wild user photo competition. John O’Bryan of Moscow, Idaho won the Grand Prize title, winning a Tamron AF28-300mm VC zoom lens, and Donald Handley was named the People’s Choice winner. The theme of the 2009 contest - Americana - Photographs That Define American Culture - was revealed earlier this week.

The winners of the 2008 Olympus BioScapes competition have just been announced. Mr. M. I. “Spike” Walker of Staffordshire, England, took top honors for the shimmering image of what is called a fairy fly. Mr. Walker’s image triumphed over more than 1500 other images and movies - a competition record - to earn him $5000 worth of Olympus equipment. This year, in addition to Prizes 1-10, 70 other images and movies were recognized with Honorable Mentions. Twenty of the 2008 winning and Honorable Mention images will be displayed in San Francisco at an event on December 14, and then will begin a national tour.

The theme for the 2009 Tamron User Photo Contest is “Americana - Photographs That Define American Culture”. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a Tamron AF18-270mm zoom lens worth $599. Pictures submitted must be original, the property of the photographer, and photographed using a Tamron lens. The 2009 Tamron User Photo Contest is open to Tamron users residing in the United States and all entries must be received no later than October 31, 2009.

The Coral E-Current Photo Contest invites photographers to submit their underwater images for a chance to win a copy of the photography book Reef. Winning photos and photographers will also be spotlighted in an issue of E-Current Photo, Coral’s free electronic newsletter. The contest will run on an ongoing basis with a new winner announced every other month. The deadline for the January 2009 contest is December 15, 2008.

Sony Ericsson have launched a new photo competition where you can become an official Sony Ericsson Photographer. The winner will go behind the scenes at key red-carpet events in 2009 and also get an 8 megapixel C905 camera phone. To enter, you must be based in the UK, submit a ‘never before published online’ portrait shot, and rally votes for your entry.

Modern Virtues & Modern Vices is a new competition from the Royal Photographic Society that aims to recreate a forgotten scandal of Victorian photography. Printed from 32 separate negatives, combined in the darkroom to make a single image, Oscar Gustav Rejlander’s controversial work juxtaposed images of piety and debauchery to dramatic effect, and caused a public sensation in 1857. Competition entrants will be asked to digitally combine and alter images to create a modern version of ‘Two ways of life’. The winning entry will receive a prize of £500 and a free year’s membership of The Society. The closing date is 30th April 2009.

Win a session with a professional family photographer, $50 Target Gift Cards, or a year’s supply of milk (!) in Gather.com’s Halloween photo contest. Simply share a favorite Halloween costume photo to enter, with the five most-viewed entries in each of 5 categories being announced as finalists. The winner of each category will receive a $50 Target Gift Card, and one Grand Prize Winner will receive a professional photo shoot with a local photographer for his or her family. From today through Thursday, November 6th, entrants can post their photo contest submissions.

Enter Canon USA’s “Why do you love football?” photo contest to win a trip to Super Bowl XLIII. Two winners, one adult (over 18) and one teen (13-18), will each win a trip for four plus a Canon Digital Rebel XSi camera kit (pictured) - just submit your youth football photos to enter. The contest is open now and runs until December 3rd 2008.

Website: Canon “Why do you love football?” Photo Contest

Gary Eastwood’s photo “Barney on a jetty in December, Hove beach, East Sussex” is the winner of the Take a View - Landscape Photographer of the Year 2008 contests. Now in its second year, the UK’s prestigious Take a View competition challenged photographers to capture the diversity and beauty of the British landscape. The finalists’ works will premier in a free exhibition at London’s National Theatre between 18 November 2008 and 17 January 2009, all printed using the new Epson Stylus Pro 9900 large format printer.

The second annual Photographers of Tomorrow student photography contest has just started. Open to certain US universities, the theme of this year’s contest is “Your World: The Art of Technology Through Your Eyes”. “The Photographers of Tomorrow contest is a way for the next generation of pro photographers to showcase their work nationally, build their portfolios, and be recognized by their peers and critiqued by some of the world’s most accomplished photographers,” said John Knaur, senior marketing manager, Digital SLR, Olympus Imaging America Inc. The grand prize winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship and an Olympus E-3 camera, ED 12-60mm f2.8/4.0 SWD Zoom lens, ED 50-200mm f2.8/3.5 SWD Zoom lens and gadget bag.

Corel are giving away a Sony A300 DSLR in the ‘Before and After’ photo competition. To enter, you have to improve your most dreadful photo using Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 and then submit both the ‘before’ and ‘after’ image. Corel have provided some video tutorials for that extra bit of help. All entries must be submitted by Thursday 18th December 2008.

The winners of the 2008 Nikon Small World competition have been announced. Michael Stringer’s dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) was magnified 200 times and taken using darkfield and polarized light. “My objective was to display diatoms in today’s modern style, through the careful application of colors,” said Mr. Stringer, “I couldn’t be more pleased that the Small World judges recognized the artistic vision in this image.” The 2008 gallery of winning images can be viewed at www.nikonsmallworld.com .

There’s over $75,000 of prizes up for grabs in the 2009 International Underwater Photo competition. The 4th annual international underwater photography and video competition series hosted by UnderwaterCompetition.com starts this week. Prizes include premium dive travel, underwater photo and video equipment, scuba diving gear and more. The deadline for submissions is January 15th 2009.

PNY has launched the “Let Our Memory Capture Your Memories” photo contest to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Parents can submit a favorite photo of their child to the contest and encourage their friends and family to vote for the photo. The contest runs until January 31st 2009, and PNY will donate $20,000 to St. Jude in the winner’s name. PNY are separately donating $100,000 to the hospital.

Andrew Sassoli-Walker, from Southampton, UK, is the winner of the Container Shipping Information Service global photography competition. Launched in August, and entitled ‘The box that changed our lives’, competition applicants were asked to email unusual or creative pictures of container boxes. Judge Nick Souza said: “Container shipping affects every single one of us. We might think that they are boring steel boxes, but this competition has shown them in a new light and exposed the variety of places, climates and uses that they are put through.”

The Fujifilm Student Awards 2009 is now open for entries. The Awards, now in its 24th year, is the longest running and most prestigious student photography awards in the UK. The winner will see their image on the cover of the next edition of Rachel Carson’s revolutionary book Silent Spring, published by Penguin Books. They will also receive £200 worth of Fujifilm Professional film and 25 Penguin Classics titles of their choice.

Smithsonian.com’s 6th Annual Photo Contest is now open for submissions. Contestants can enter photographs in five categories: The Natural World, Americana, Altered Images, Travel and People. Fifty finalists will be selected, ten for each of the five categories. The winning entries will be published in the print edition of Smithsonian magazine during summer 2009.