Currently running photo contests to submit your work

Here’s a list of currently running new photo contests in case you’re looking to submit your work.

Please note that I am not associated with the mentioned organizations or competitions in any way. I’m just updating you on the latest news about currently running photo contests, same as I receive them!

Astronomy Photographer of the Year – 2011

The Astronomy Photographer of the Year Flickr group, exhibition and competition are organized and owned by the Board of Trustees of the National Maritime Museum (‘Royal Observatory Greenwich’).

To enter the Astronomy Photographer of the Year photo contest you will first need to add your photos to the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group on the photo-sharing website, Flickr. Once you have done this, fill in the online application form on the competition’s official website. Through that form you will be able to nominate your chosen category and consideration for any of the relevant special prizes.

If you are under 16 and would like to enter your photos into the Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year category or Robotic Scope Image of the Year special prize, you can complete a special online application form on the competition’s official website.

Entrants may submit up to five photos per month to the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Flickr group, and five photos in total to the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition – this includes entries via the official website by Young entrants.

The categories and prizes are:

Overall winner – Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010

• Prize: £1500

Earth and Space
This is for photos that include landscape, people and other ‘Earthly’ things. Your picture should also include an astronomical subject – for example the stars, the Moon, or near-Earth phenomena such as aurora.

• Winner: £500
• Runner-up: £250
• Highly commended entries: £125

Our Solar Syste
This is for photos of our Sun and its family of planets, moons, asteroids and comets.

• Winner: £500
• Runner-up: £250
• Highly commended entries: £125

Deep Space
This is for photos of anything beyond our Solar System, including stars, nebulae and galaxies.

• Winner: £500
• Runner-up: £250
• Highly commended entries: £125

Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
This is the competition category for under-16s.

• Winner: £500
• Runner-up: £250
• Highly commended entries: £125

The judges will also award three special prizes:

People and Space
This is for photos that include people in a creative and original way.

• Prize: £350
• Runner-up: £125

Best Newcomer
This is for photos taken by people who have taken up the hobby in the last year and have not entered an image into the competition before. The judges will give special consideration to those using simple and inexpensive start-out kit so please update your photo’s Flickr description to say what you’ve used.

• Prize: £350

Robotic Scope
This is for images that have been taken by robotic/remote telescopes and that have been processed by yourself.

• Prize: £350

Prizes will be payable in Pounds Sterling. All winners will also receive a one year subscription to Sky at Night Magazine.

Deadline: July 13, 2011

For more info on the Astronomy Photographer of the Year – 2011 Photo Contest, click here.

Articles of the humanity photo awards 2011

Articles of the humanity photo awards’ mission is to call upon responsible photographers who respect and love life to take their cameras, in the context of stories/portfolios:

To explore and rescue the endangered folk cultures of all the world’s nationalities by means of photography;

to profoundly record the changes and evolution of various folk cultures in a genuine and vivid form;

To record, spread and share the multi-cultures of the world to enhance mutual understanding and exchanges of human beings and to promote the world peace and development;

To contribute to the World Folklore Photo Museum with world culture records.

Photo contest categories

The contest is based on picture stories/portfolios of between 8 to 12 images. Please enter into the following categories:

• Portrait & Costume
  Portraits of people from different nationalities; costumes and adornments featuring diverse ethnic cultures, including everyday dress, ceremonial dress, hats and shoes, adornments and hairstyle, etc; the make of costumes and adornments; distinctive attire customs such as dressing etiquette and taboos and so on.
• Architecture
  Traditional dwellings, public facilities, special architecture (e.g. religious buildings) in terms of the construction process, structure, interior layout and furniture adornments of all kinds; the influence of the surroundings reflected on features of the local architecture; dwelling habits of different ethnic groups.
• Living and Production Custom
  The traditional ways of production and life, including everyday work, such as fishing, hunting, farming, forestry, animal husbandry, handicrafts industry, etc; business trade and transportation; living habits and ways of dieting as well as food making; comprehensive life customs in series, of a specific region, of a nationality or a tribe.
• Festivities
  Annual and seasonal festivals; festivals on production and recreation, religious ceremonies, temple fairs and other traditional folk activities
• Education, Recreation, Sports & Technology
  Education, traditional ecology, folk science and technology, folk medicine and sanitation, folk crafts, traditional sports and recreational activities, and local dramas, etc.
• Traditional Rites
  Including birth, adult rite, wedding, funeral, taboo, worship, morality, respect for the old people, traditional etiquette, and traditional ceremony for individual, family, village or ethnic group, and religious rites.

Photo contest awards

• Humanity Photo Grand Awards: 6 (one for each category)
  A prize of US$2000; an award certificate; a book/CD-photo collection of the HPA 2011; an invitation to attend the award ceremony and the opening ceremony of the premiere exhibition of “Memories of Mankind VII”; transportation fee and a 3-9 days hotel accommodation; prized works to be put on the premiere exhibition
• Humanity Photo Documentary Awards: 60
  An award certificate; a book/CD-photo collection of the HPA 2011; an invitation to attend the award ceremony and the opening ceremony of the premiere exhibition of “Memories of Mankind VII”; transportation fee and a 3-9 days hotel accommodation; prized works to be put on the premiere exhibition.
  In addition, photographs of Humanity Photo Documentary Awards will have the opportunities to win Jury’s Special Awards, including Detail-Focus Award, Best Story Award, Interview Skills Award, Photo Editing Award, Best Photo and Text Award, and Persevering Tracing Award. Each winner will receive photographic equipment or product which is equivalent to US$500.
• Humanity Photo Nomination Awards: 100
  An award certificate; a book/CD-photo collection of the HPA 2011; an invitation to attend the award ceremony and the opening ceremony of the premiere exhibition of “Memories of Mankind VII”; a 3-9 days hotel accommodation; prized works to be put on the premiere exhibition

Deadline: April 15, 2011

For more info on the Articles of the humanity photo awards 2011, click here.