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Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

Selecting the winning photographs for our Pet Portraits photo contest has been an epic undertaking! We had around 4,500 entries and the overall standard was incredibly high. There were so many cute and characterful pets and so many talented photographers that judging this contest was a pleasure and a privilege. We had so many favourites that whittling down the numbers for this blog post was quite a challenge. We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered.

Before proceeding, we would like to thank our terrific sponsors, Lensbaby and SmugMug, who generously donated some of the prizes. The winner and two runners-up will receive prizes as described on this page.

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

Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

The second competition in our 2010 photo contest series is now open for entries. The theme is “Landscapes”. We will be looking for beautiful and unusual landscape photographs taken anywhere in the world. The deadline for this contest is 15th August 2010.

Prizes

We have some fantastic prizes on offer including the chance to win a Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR camera (more info).

Lensbaby and Smugmug have generously donated the following additional prizes:

• Winner: Lensbaby Composer and a SmugMug Pro account.
• Runners up x 2: SmugMug standard accounts.

Click here for more information about the 2010 prizes.

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

Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

The first competition in our 2010 photo contest series is now open for entries. The theme is “Pet Portraits”. We will be looking for striking and original photographs of your beloved dogs, cats and other pets. The deadline for this contest is 22nd May 2010.

Prizes

We have some fantastic prizes on offer including the chance to win a Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR camera (more info).

Lensbaby and Smugmug have generously donated the following additional prizes:

• Winner: Lensbaby Composer and a SmugMug Pro account.
• Runners up x 2: SmugMug standard accounts.

Click here for more information about the 2010 prizes.

To receive notification when the winners are announced, please subscribe to our free newsletter. You can either subscribe by email or by RSS feed.

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Update: Click here to find out about our 2011 series of contests.

We are excited to announce a new series of Burrard-Lucas photo contests for 2010! We will be holding four themed competitions on Burrard-Lucas.com and a further competition on our Facebook page.

We have a fantastic grand prize on offer: a Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera!

Burrard-Lucas.com contests x 4

The individual contests will be open for two months. At the end of each contest we will select a winner, two runners up and several highly commended images. The following prizes will be awarded:

• Winner: Lensbaby Composer, SmugMug Pro Account, plus the chance to win a Canon EOS 7D digital SLR camera (see below).
• Runners up x 2: SmugMug standard accounts.

Click here for more information about the 2010 prizes.

Approx. Contest Schedule:
1. 22 March – 22 May, Theme: Pet Portraits – Closed (view winning photos)
2. 01 June – 15 August, Theme: Landscapes – Closed (view winning photos)
3. 18 August – 31 October, Theme: Wildlife – Closed (view winning photos)
4. 2 November – 5 January, Theme: Travel – Closed (view winning photos)

Update: Our 2010 series of photo contests is now over. Please subscribe to our free newsletter to be notified when our 2011 competitions open and to find out what the upcoming themes will be. You can either subscribe by email or to our RSS feed.

Contest for our Facebook Fans

The Facebook Fan contest theme is “Nature”. For details of prizes and how to enter, please click here.

Update: Click here to view the winners of our 2010 Nature Photo Contest.

Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

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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Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

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

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.
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Enter our current photo contest: Pet Photo Competition

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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