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2010 entries are now open.

The competition is open to all professional and non-professional photographers with an estimated prize pool of US $80,000.00 in cash and prizes

Major Amateur Prize Announced

The Major Amateur prize of 2010 is a Nikon D5000 DSLR with 18-55mm and 55-200mm VR Lenses valued at $1,500 RRP and a GigaPan EPIC PRO valued at $1,495 RRP.

Capture phenomenal depth and clarity in multi-gigapixel panoramas with the remarkable EPIC Pro.

The Major Amateur prize package is proudly sponsored by Kayell Australia and Gigapan Systems.
nikon d5000 gigapan
kayell
2nd Place, Commercial, Advertising & Fashion
Open Awards 2009     William Long, AU
Open Award Competition

The Open Awards can be entered by professional and non professional photographers and will be judged by industry professionals.

This year offers 8 Open categories, entry fee is USD$35.00 per image with no limit on the amount of images you can enter.

1st Place, Abstract/Illustrative
Amateur Awards 2009     Naomi Frost, AU
Amateur Award Competition

The Amateur Awards is open to non-professional and student photographers.

This year offers 3 Amateur categories, entry fee is USD$15.00 per image with no limit on the amount of images you can enter.

1st Place, Sport
Open Awards 2009     Chan Kwok Hung, HK
2010 Major Prize

The 2010 Open Awards image of the year will receive a $20,000usd cash prize, world wide media exposure, plus more to be announced.

3rd Place, Commercial, Advertising & Fashion
Open Awards 2009     Sean Williams, US
Open & Amateur Prize Pool

The 2010 prize pool is still being finalised. This year we are expecting to have a combined prize pool of over $80,000.00usd in cash and prizes.

5th Place, People and Portrait
Amateur Awards 2009     Kara Baird, AU
2009 Winners Gallery

View the Category winners and Top 50 Category placings from the 2009 competition

3rd Place, Commercial / Advertising
Open Awards 2008     Jim Fiscus, US
2008 Winners Gallery

View the Category winners and Top 50 Category placings from the 2008 competition

Merit Awards

Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze merit awards are awarded as follows

Platinum Award scored 95-100
Gold Award scored 88-94
Silver award scored 82-87
Bronze award scored 75-81

The platinum, gold, silver and bronze awards are recognized by the judges as high quality images and worthy of recognition in the competition.

New Rule changes for 2010

New rule changes to note for the 2010 competition.

Sport & Photojournalism Categories

All images submitted into these categories must be "In the moment" captures. Image compositing will not be allowed.

Winning images in these categories deemed to be composited images will be stripped of their category placing. Read rules.

Interviews and Articles

Peter Eastway on
Being a photographic competition judge.

As part of this years competition we are conducting a series of interviews with our judging team. First up we have our Head Judge and AIPP Grand Master of Photography Peter Eastway.
Read about it on N@'s Blog

Kevin Jairaj on
IMPACT, Storytelling & Composition.

What are the first 3 things you look at in your images when you enter a competition? IMPACT, Storytelling, Composition. That being said, IMPACT will always be first in my images or when I judge.
Read about it on N@'s Blog

Bob Coates on
“Turn your print upside down”

Turn your print upside down after you think you have finished working on it. Leave the room. Come back and see where your eye goes in the image. Is it still on your subject or has your eye gone to another area of your image. The eye goes to the area of highest contrast and if that isn’t your subject you probably don’t have a successful print for competition.
Read about it on N@'s Blog

Dennis Orchard on
Be brave! To enter is to learn.

Be brave. Enter for the experience and the education. Don’t take it too seriously and don’t give up too soon...When you do win, which you will, if you enter and learn from the judging comments, tell everyone and be very very proud of your achievements.
Read about it on N@'s Blog

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