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Enter our current photo contest: Landscape 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: Landscape 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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Enter our current photo contest: Landscape Photo Competition

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

Enter our current photo contest: Landscape Photo Competition

On Friday I attended the Awards Ceremony for the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2008. I won the 12-18 year old category with my photography of a fox taken in our garden.

My elephant photograph was also placed as highly commended. The awards were presented by TV personality, Matt Baker.

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

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

Our photo of a Caiman under Stars has been named runner up in the “Other Animals” category of the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 competition!

We took the shot together during our recent trip to the Pantanal in Brazil.