Photo entry to Travel Photographer Of The Year 2013 is closing
Entries for this year’s Travel Photographer of the Year awards is going to close on October 1st 2013. For those who wish or plan to take part but are still working very hard on it, hurry up and submit your entries by this month, according to a reminder email sent by TPOTY recently to me.
With support from Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky, cazenove + loyd, Fujifilm, Genesis Digital, Photo Iconic, Plastic Sandwich, the Yosemite/Mariposa Co. Tourism Bureau, San Francisco Travel and Sonoma County Tourism, there are some fantastic prizes to be won. Entry is free for Young Travel Photographer of the Year and entry fees start at £10 for other categories. Here’s a reminder of the categories and prizes:
Monochromal – portfolio
Black and white photography presents a very different challenge for photographers and, with the absence of colour, good composition is key to creating impactful images. Prizes include a chance to walk in Ansel Adams’ footsteps in Yosemite.
Wild Stories – portfolio
The natural world is full of remarkable moments and these make great single images. However it also has many stories which often go untold or can’t be captured in a single images. Prizes include £1000 cash.
Vanishing and Emerging Cultures – portfolio
Throughout history cultures have evolved, emerged, and vanished. And today it all seems to be happening faster than ever, with the growth of technology and its spread across the world. Prizes include Fujifilm XPro 1 camera and lenses.
Metropolis – New Talent
This category is about the urban environment and/or urban life. There are many facets to urban life and big cities are vibrant melting pots where cultures and nationalities mix. Prizes include tuition with Eamonn McCabe, plus a Fujifilm X100s.
Extraordinary – One Shot
The ordinary is hard to photograph but the extraordinary is arguably harder and it takes a keen eye to translate the extraordinary into an equally impressive image. Prizes include a cazenove+loyd inspired journey to Morocco.
En Route – First Shot
This category is for inexperienced, amateur photographers. We live to travel, and may even travel to live, and often it is not the destination but the journey itself which provides the most photographic opportunities and memories. Prizes include Fujifilm XP60 and tuition from Photo Iconic.
Travel Shorts – HD Video
Travel Shorts reflects the developments in HD video in stills cameras. The winning films will feature in our exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in 2014. Prizes include Fujifilm HS50EXR.
Crowded Planet – Young TPOTY
This planet is teeming with life – crowds of people, flocks of birds, big groups of insects – and full of busy places, like roads full of cars, railway stations packed with passengers, streets bustling with people. Prizes include £250 cash, Fujifilm X20 & XP60 cameras.
Overall Winner – The Cutty Sark Award
This is the Big One! The Travel Photographer of the Year 2013 will win the Cutty Sark Award. Prizes include £5000, a superb whisky collection a bespoke, personalised surfboard and a magnificent trophy.
Full details of how to enter can be found on www.tpoty.com.
If you’re one of this year’s winners, you’ll see your images displayed at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London in the summer of 2014. The 2013 exhibition has just ended on 18th August and remarkably broke all attendance records for the Society, with a remarkable 48,061 visitors in just 38 days.
I did not visit the exhibition this year, though I wish I could. I’ve been there 2 years ago when on my trip to London and hope will be able to visit it once again next year. – Travel Feeder
About The Author
Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
