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Mysterious Places Contest Results

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 2:04 am

We would like to thank everyone who submitted photos to our Mysterious Places Photo Contest. Matthew and I spent days sifting through thousands of fantastic entries and last week we posted our shortlist of 12 finalists so that you could vote for the “People’s Choice” winner. The voting is now over and we can reveal the overall winners!

Before proceeding, we would like to thank our terrific sponsors, Lensbaby and SmugMug, who generously donated over $2,000 in prizes! All of the photographers below receive a prize as described on this page.

The overall contest winner is Paul Marcellini with his wonderful image taken in a Florida swamp. The spooky atmosphere, the twisted trees and the detail of the alligator drag-marks in the foreground create an image that epitomises the theme “Mysterious Places”. Congratulations to Paul for creating a truly original and striking shot!

Given the success of this contest, we will certainly be launching another photo competition in the near future! If you would like to be notified when this competition is announced then please subscribe to our blog via RSS feed or email.

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Travel Photography Contest: Mysterious Places

Posted on June 28, 2009 at 9:47 pm

This competition is now closed!

We are excited to announce the second Burrard-Lucas photography competition! With over $2,000 in prizes, this contest promises to be even bigger than the first!

This is a travel photography contest with the theme “Mysterious Places”. Let your imagination and creativity run wild!

This competition has been generously sponsored by Lensbaby and SmugMug. We have some fantastic prizes on offer…

Prizes

1x Overall Winner:

1x People’s Choice Winner:

2x Runners up:

8x Highly Commended:

The “People’s Choice” winner will be selected by public vote at the end of the contest.

The deadline for entry is 31st October 2009. Please read the rules before entering.

More about the prizes…

Lensbaby

Lensbaby makes selective focus SLR lenses which work on Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, and Pentax cameras.

The Lensbaby Composer is the prefect travel companion; it is compact, lightweight and full of creative potential! Based on a unique and innovative ball and socket configuration, the Composer delivers smooth selective focus photography with unparalleled ease. Photographers simply tilt the lens to a desired angle and then focus with a focusing ring. The result is an area of sharp focus (the “Sweet Spot”) that can be moved around the frame.

Click here to find out more about the Composer.

The Lensbaby Muse is an easy to use lens that opens up a new realm of fun in focusing! Squeeze the Muse to focus, and bend your “Sweet Spot” around the frame.

Click here to find out more about the Muse.

The new Lensbaby Optic Swap System gives you the freedom to break the rules and express your vision even further. The system works with all of Lensbaby’s new lenses and includes Double Glass, Single Glass, Plastic, and Pinhole / Zoneplate Optics. Each optic has its own unique look and feel.

Click here for a comparison of different optics.

SmugMug

SmugMug offers you everything you need to kick start your online presence! From displaying photos on your own personal website through to printing and selling your work, Smugmug provides an easy to use, customizable and fully featured solution. Features of both pro and power accounts include unlimited storage and bandwidth, customisable themes and web addresses, video hosting, password protected galleries, dedicated support and much more! Pro accounts also allow you to make a profit by setting your own prices for print and digital download purchases – exactly what you need to get your online photography business up and running!

Click here for an overview of SmugMug’s services.
Click here for a description of SmugMug’s Pro service.
Click here for a full listing of SmugMug account features.

Rules

• This competition is open to participants worldwide, aged 18 or over on the closing date.
• There is no entry fee.
• You must be the photographer and owner of the copyright for any image entered.
• Entrants can submit a maximum of three images to this contest.
• Please keep digital manipulation such as cloning and compositing to a minimum; your photograph should faithfully represent the scene as you saw it. HDR images are allowed.
• Submitted images should be a minimum of 1024 pixels along the long edge.
• Images must not include a watermark or border.
• You will retain copyright of your entries at all times and will always be credited alongside your picture.
• By entering this competition, you grant us a non-exclusive licence to display your photograph in connection with this contest. This may include syndication of the 12 winning photographs by the media (but only in connection with this contest). Winners will always be informed if their photographs are syndicated and will always be credited next to their image.
• Under no-circumstance will we use submitted images for commercial gain unless it has been agreed on a case by case basis with the photographer.
• The deadline for entry is 31st October 2009.
• People’s Choice prize voting will run from 7th-14th November 2009.
• All winners will be announced on 16th November 2009.
• You can enter online here.

This competition is now closed!

Wildlife Photography Competition Results

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 12:30 am

We would like to thank everyone who entered our recent Wildlife Portraits competition. Matthew and I have been overwhelmed by the response and have spent the last week sifting through the 3,500 photographs that were submitted.

The overall standard of photography was fantastic and we had an extremely difficult task in whittling the submissions down to a final selection. We had to be very harsh and eliminate any photo that wasn’t technically perfect. We then took into account more subjective factors such as composition, originality, atmosphere and character to pick the images that stood out the most.

In the end Matthew and I unanimously settled on Thomas Vignaud’s Tompot Blenny as our winner. The perfect framing and spot-on exposure combine to beautiful effect. Thomas has used the strobe light masterfully to gain a sense of the blenny looming out of the darkness. Ultimately however, it was the blenny’s characterful face and frilly appendages that clinched it for us! Congratulations to Thomas – he has won a Olympus SP-570UZ digital camera.

We have also selected two runners-up and eight highly commended entries which we feel exhibit the wonderful quality and diversity of the images that were submitted. All of the photographs appearing here fought off stiff competition and deserve special praise.

Given the success of this first competition, we have decided that we will launch another photo competition soon! If you would like to be notified when this competition is announced then please subscribe to our blog via RSS feed or email updates.

Now without further ado, click here for the winning pictures!

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Wildlife Photography Competition

Posted on January 24, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Update! Click here to view the winning pictures from this competition

We are excited to announce the first Burrard-Lucas.com photography competition!

The theme is “Wildlife Portraits”. A photograph of any animal is eligible as long as it was taken in the wild. The competition is open to participants worldwide, of any age. Scroll down for a complete listing of rules.

We have a fantastic prize on offer for the winner: an Olympus SP-570UZ, a camera with a 10-megapixel sensor, a 2.7-inch LCD screen and 20x optical zoom with image stabilization – a perfect combination for wildlife photography.

This competition is now closed

Rules:

• Anyone is free to enter this competition.
• There is no entry fee.
• All entries must be photographs taken by you.
• Please do not submit more than three images to this contest.
• You retain all rights to your images.
• By entering this competition, you give us permission to display your photograph in connection with the contest.
• Please keep digital manipulation such as cloning and compositing to a minimum.
• Winning photographs will be selected by us and our decision is final.
• Deadline is 30th April 2009. Winners announced 7th May 2009.

This competition is now closed

Prize kindly donated by Matthew Burrard-Lucas.

12-18yr old Winner in RSPCA Young Photographer Awards

Posted on December 14, 2008 at 6:16 pm

On Friday I attended the Awards Ceremony for the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2008. I won the 12-18 year old category with my fox image. My elephant photograph was also placed as highly commended. The awards were presented by TV personality, Matt Baker.

Leopard cub photograph in Washington exhibition

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I have just returned from a trip to Washington DC to see my Leopard Cub photo in the Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards exhibition. My winning photograph, which has been reproduced at 4×6 feet in size, features alongside the other stunning images from the 2008 competition. The exhibition is being held until May 2009 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

See all the winning photos here: Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year – Category Runner Up

Posted on October 25, 2008 at 11:07 pm

We have spent the day at the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in Germany. Will and I got the runner up prize in the “Other Animals” category of the competition. Here is a picture of us standing next to our photograph in the exhibition gallery.

See all the winning photos here: GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008