If you’ve taken some great
photos while on holiday, or perhaps really captured the spirit of London
as it celebrated the Olympics, why not enter them into one of the
world’s most prestigious photography competitions?
Entries for the
international Travel Photographer of the Year awards close on September
17th, so you’ve got just a few weeks to submit your images.
Open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world, Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY)
now attracts entries from over 90 countries, and features categories
for all ages and levels of photographers (even beginners). And there are
some fantastic rewards…
The top prize for TPOTY 2012 is the Cutty Sark Award for the Overall Winner,
who will receive £2,500 in cash together with an expenses-paid
international photography commission with a £2,500 commission fee. In
addition, they’ll get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to work with Cutty
Sark Blended Scotch Whisky's master blender, blending and bottling their
own unique whisky.
Individual category prizes include trips to Kenya with Explore, and to
Morocco’s Essaouira Music Festival with Tribes Travel, the very latest
Fujifilm cameras and Adobe software, plus leather portfolio cases from
Plastic Sandwich. There’s also a paid commission to shoot for Condé Nast
Traveller magazine, in a special category to celebrate the magazine’s
15th anniversary in the UK.
The winning images from last year’s TPOTY awards are currently on show
at London’s Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) until September 2nd.
The Society is just along the road from the Natural History Museum,
Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum and Royal Albert Hall, and
the exhibition is free, and it’s open every day, so why not pop along
for some inspiration?
The 2012 TPOTY awards
feature three portfolio categories – 'People Watching', 'Wild Planet'
and 'Journeys' - the Condé Nast Traveller category 'Celebration', a New
Talent award, Young TPOTY (for photographers aged 18 and under), an HD
video category 'Travel Shorts', and a single image category 'Water'. If
you’re nervous about putting your images up against professional
photographers and serious amateurs, you could give the First Shot
category 'Big City' a go. This is just for beginners, and you can even
submit images taken on a mobile phone.
Winning images are also exhibited each year at the Royal Geographical
Society and published in the Travel Photographer of the Year 'Journey'
books – all fantastic exposure for the winners.
Images can be submitted as prints or uploaded online, and entries close
September 17th. Entry fees start at £10 and Young TPOTY is free to
enter. Full details of how to enter can be found at www.tpoty.com.
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