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HARMAN technology’s gem of a Student Competition is coming to a close
The pioneering manufacturer is urging students to enter the HARMAN CRYSTALJET RC competition to be in with a chance of winning US$500 of HARMAN PHOTO inkjet products.

It’s the final chance for students to get their digital photography juices flowing and enter HARMAN technology’s 2009 Student Competition, as the deadline for entries is drawing to a close.

The competition is in association with the manufacturer’s digital inkjet brand, HARMAN PHOTO and designed especially for students residing in USA and Canada. Entries must be submitted on HARMAN CRYSTALJET RC – the newest paper to the range – by November 24, 2009 for a chance to win US$500 of HARMAN PHOTO inkjet products. There will also be six runner-up prizes, each winning US$100 worth of HARMAN PHOTO inkjet paper.
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Nikon Corporation (President: Michio Kariya) is pleased to announce the winners of the Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009 – one of the world’s largest and most prestigious photo contests.

Held since 1969 and currently staged once every other year, the contest provides an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture for professionals and amateurs alike.
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The 2009 19th annual TNT Magazine Travel Writing and Photography Awards recognises and rewards the work of talented writers and photographers. The awards are judged by a specialist panel, including Lonely Planet’s Tom Hall.

Competition entrants can win a share of over £5000 worth of prizes plus finalists work will be:

• Published in a special edition of TNT Magazine
• Exhibited on tntonline.co.uk
• Exhibited at the TNT Sun and Snow Show on October 10

This year’s competition consists of the following sections: Travel Writing Awards, Travel Photography Awards (including the categories: People, The Natural World and Your London) and we are delighted to announce a brand new award for the Best bugbitten Travel Journal. This is in response to the huge growth in travel blogging we’ve seen over the past year, for more information visit the bugbitten TWPA page

Check out our helpful tips to increase your chance of winning.

Last year’s awards had a phenomenal response with a very high standard of entries. The TNT Reader’s Choice Awards were also a success with online voting of our finalists at tntonline.co.uk.

The 2009 competition closes August 21, 2009.

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Fujifilm UK Ltd. is pleased to announce their first ever underwater photo festival; ScubaSnap Weekend 2009. The festival will take place in Looe, Cornwall on the 12th and 13th September and is guaranteed to be a weekend of fun, diving and underwater photography in the wonderful surroundings of the Cornish coast and countryside.

In association with local dive operators Looe Divers, the weekend will include shore diving, photographic tuition and seminars from industry experts such as Mat Trim of Fujifilm and Maria Munn of Ocean Visions, photo competitions, with some fabulous prizes to be won, and a dinner dive and BBQ in the evening.
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New York, 19 June, 2009 -The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Olympus Corporation and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Foundation, launched an Africa-based, eco-themed photo contest today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The contest, titled “Picture This: Caring for the Earth,” aims to profile ordinary people working to reduce the effects of climate change in their countries, cities and communities and is open to anyone residing in Africa.Entries -either single photos or photo essays- must highlight stories that show the people of Africa as stewards of their natural environment. Special attention will be given to photos that take into account the role that women play in protecting their environment. In order to make the contest accessible to all, UNDP along with the AFP Foundation and Olympus is mobilizing all of its social networks, websites and country offices to spread the word across the continent.

“Not only do people in the developing world stand to lose the most from the effects of climate and environmental degradation but they also know the most about what is happening to the natural resources and environment that they depend on for their health, livelihoods and survival,” said Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator, at the contest launch.
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“Global Warming Witness - Mitsuaki Iwago Special” - The Second GWW Photo Contest

Olympus Corporation (President: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa) is to stage an international amateur photo contest in conjunction with its Global Warming Witness - Mitsuaki Iwago Special (GWW) website.

The contest, giving site users themselves the opportunity to become global warming witnesses, will take as its theme “Nature and Wildlife You Want to Protect”*1. Olympus hopes that entering the contest will give more people a feel for the changes occurring in their immediate surroundings, and the priceless nature of much we take for granted. The contest this year will be run according to an open format, with all entries received*2 to be displayed on the website.
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ZINK Imaging Launches Zero Boundaries Product Design Contest to Explore the Future of Printing with ZINK Zero Ink Technology. Competition Offers Up to $15,000 in Cash and Prizes for Product Designers who “Think ZINK”

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ZINK Imaging, makers of the award‐winning ZINK Zero Ink Printing Technology, has launched the first annual Zero Boundaries product design competition.

Products with ZINK are ink‐free, making them mobile, embeddable, simple to use, easy to maintain and the most respectful of the planet than any other printing alternative. ZINK is a catalyst that frees product designers to create and imagine innovative products that were never before thought possible.
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The Sony World Photography Awards 2009 (SWPA 2009) sponsored by Sony Europe with a view to recognizing world’s finest Professional and Amateur photographers was held in Cannes, France from April 14th to 19th in 2009. The event showcased 186 short-listed photographs out of the 64,971 works submitted. On April 16th, the award ceremony was held at the prestigious Palais des Festivals, where the highest honor, the Le Iris d’Or Sony World Photographer of the Year 2009 was announced. Through its sponsorship of the Sony World Photography Awards, Sony aims to support and promote the skills and creativity of photographers around the world. (more…)

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Company Snags Award for Best Product in Telephoto Zoom Lens Category

Ronkonkoma, NY, April 1, 2009 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider for some of the world’s most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, has been awarded the prestigious Professional Photographer’s Hot One Award, in recognition of its superior quality telephoto zoom lens, the Sigma APO 200-500mm F2.8 / 400-1000mm F5.6 EX DG.

The magazine’s editors said the competition’s judges picked the Sigma APO 200-500mm, in “record time,” while citing the telephoto lens’ “status as the only 500mm zoom with a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture.” They also noted its motorized zoom and autofocus, and its compatibility with 35mm, full-frame DSLRs and APS-C type digital cameras. (more…)

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ST. PETERSBURG, FL (March 22, 2009) – Judges starting picking winners in several categories of the National Press Photographers Association’s 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition at the contest’s host site at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies on Sunday.

This year 3,700 journalists from 147 countries submitted 53,000 still images, video, and Web entries in the 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition.

On their first day of viewing entries and picking winners the judges made selections in the categories of Sports Action, Sports Feature, The Art of Entertainment, Conceptual Photographic Illustration, Olympics Action, Olympics Feature, Natural Environment, and Sports Picture Story.
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