GRAND PRIZE A luxurious vacation package for two from Delta Vacations including round trip airfare on Delta Air Lines from Portland, Oregon and a 5-night stay at an Amsterdam resort.

In addition, one first place, second place and third place prize will be awa rded in each of The following categories: Faraway Places, Making Waves, and celebrating Oregon

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 5:00pm February 24th, 2012

PRIZES:

• 3 FIRST PRIZES A $600 gift certificate to Pro Photo Supply or one (1) of two (2) $600 gift certificates to Shutterbug.
• 3 SECOND PRIZES One (1) of two (2) $300 gift certificates to Pro Photo Supply or a $300 gift certificate to Shutterbug.
• 3 THIRD PRIZES One (1) of two (2) $200 gift certificate to Pro Photo Supply or a $200 gift certificate to Shutterbug.
• 9 Honorable Mentions: $25 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply

Winning entries will be published in The Oregonian’s Travel section on Sunday, April 22, 2012.

Winning entries will have their photos displayed at Pro Photo Supply and Shutterbug Broadway.

Drop off your ENTRY FORM & photos at:

• The Oregonian
  1320 SW Broadway • Portland, OR 97201
• Pro Photo Supply
  1112 NW 19th Avenue • Portland, OR 97209

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. For the entry form and for full rules, go to www.oregonlive.com/travel. Ends 5:00 PM PT 2/24/12. Open to amateur photographers who are legal residents of Oregon and SW Washington 18 or older, except employees of Sponsors, their immediate families and those living in the same household. Void outside Oregon and SW Washington and where prohibited. A.R.V. of 1 grand prize $5,275, 3 first prizes with A.R.V. $600 each, 3 second prizes with A.R.

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Submit your favorite nature and wildlife images taken in Washington County and the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge

Presented by Friends of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge and the Washington County Oregon Visitors Association.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: April 2, 2012

ADULT PRIZES:

• 1st Place: $300 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply & Leupold Binoculars
• 2nd Place: $150 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply & Lensbaby Composer Lens
• 3rd Place: $100 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply & onOne software
• 9 Honorable Mentions: $25 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply

ADULT PRIZES:

• 1st Place: $100 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply, Leupold Binoculars & a private workshop with Jack Graham
• 2nd Place: $75 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 3rd Place: $50 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply

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Submit your favorite nature and wildlife images taken on Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge!

Presented by The Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards!

CONTEST PRIZES:

• 1st Place: GO PRO HD Helmet HERO (Value of $199), plus 1-year family membership in the Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards
• 2nd Place: $75 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply, plus 1-year family membership in the Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards
• 3rd Place: $50 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply, plus 1-year family membership in the Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards
• 9 Honorable Mentions: $25 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply, plus 1-year family membership in the Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards

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An amateur photo contest benefitting the MESD Outdoor School in Portland, Oregon.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Submissions Closed

This year has five categories to enter photos in, Top 100, Faces, Portland, Youth & Professional.

Awards Gala will be on January 21st at the Oregon Historical Society - Save the date!

Win up to $1,000 cash, great cameras, & other swell prizes!

Simply upload a photo that captures an element or moment in Oregon culture that resonates with you.

You could win by being good!
Judges will review all entries and select finalists for five different prizes. Then we’ll let Internet users decide. You’ll pick the winners.

Or you could win by being lucky!
On all five Mondays in October, we’ll randomly select a winner from all entries received the previous week. Submit a new photo every week for the best chance to win.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Submissions Closed

Call for Submissions

AIA Portland and the Center for Architecture are accepting photography submissions for "Through a Lens" Architectural Photography Competition. Photographers of all ages and skill-sets are encouraged to submit 3 digital images that portray your unique perspective of the built environment.

One winner will be selected by a jury of photography and architectural professionals to receive a $350 gift card to Pro Photo Supply. The winner will be announced at the end of October.

AIA Portland and the Center for Architecture is located at 403 NW 11th Avenue, Portland Oregon.

Visit us or call 503-223-8757 with questions. www.aiaportland.org

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Submissions Closed

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CONTEST PRIZES AND CATEGORIES:

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Contest Closed.

CATEGORIES INCLUDE:

• Racing – The Northwest is full of racing, you name it, on the track, roads, hills or speeding through the streets of towns and cities across the NW.
• Everyday Bicycling – How do you use a bike? Commute, errands, drop off the kids, weekend ride in the country, maybe delivery service or just kids and people joyously celebrating the freedom of the bike.
• Events – Its wide open, fun rides, charity rides, centuries, even bike rallies and conferences, we just need to know where and when.
• Travel – Includes travel around and beyond the Northwest. Maybe you’re seeing the back country or climbing the heights along the route of the Tour de France – show us your best!

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Show us how creative you can be with your Holga, Diana, Polaroid, Spinner, Pinhole or other plastic film camera. Break the rules and challenge your perception!

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES:
Contest Closed.

PRIZES:

• 1st Place: Spinner Lomo Camera + Film + Toy Camera Book
• 2nd Place: Fuji Instax 210 + Toy Camera Book
• 3rd Place: Holga Pinhole + Toy Camera Book
• 5 Honorable Mentions: $15 Lab Coupon + Camera Key Chain

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT:
Pro Photo Supply will unveil all the winning prints on Thursday November 3 at 6:00pm in the Photo Lab. Details to follow closer to the event.

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Showcasing the wildlands, wildlife, and waters that make Oregon a special place.

Grab your camera, hit the trails, and enter the Seventh Annual Oregon Wild Outdoor Photo Contest! It’s open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages (including kids 12 and under in our "Youth" category).

WINNERS: Winners announced here!

OREGON WILD IS OFFERING GREAT PRIZES IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

• Wildlands
• Wildlife
• Waters
• Endangered Places
• Youth

Submit your favorite nature images taken within the boundaries of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge to our 5th Annual 2011 photography competition!

Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge has a total of 5,150 acres of marshes, grasslands, and woodlands. Preservation of the natural Columbia River floodplain is the management objective of the Carty Roth and Ridgeport Dairy units. The River(s) and Bachelor Island units are managed to maximize habitat for waterfowl and other wetland wildlife.

ADULT CONTEST PRIZES:

• 1st Place: $300 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 2nd Place: $150 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 3rd Place: $100 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 9 Honorable Mentions: $25 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply

YOUTH CONTEST PRIZES (18 OR UNDER):

• 1st Place: $100 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 2nd Place: $75 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply
• 3rd Place: $50 Gift Card for Pro Photo Supply

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Our favorite time of year is when the tulips bloom! Send us your best photo taken at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival.

A maximum of four (4) photos total may be submitted.

CATEGORIES INCLUDE:

• Flowers: Show us interesting, unique and beautiful pictures of flowers at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. They can be shot using macro lenses and modes, or consider a zoom, wide-angle or creative lenses. Don’t limit yourself and get creative!
• Details & Macro: Getting in close is the trick for this category. We welcome pictures of small details that tell a larger story. Don’t limit yourself to just flower shots, think abstract; a water drop, insects, leafs, ice crystals, etc. Anything goes as long as it is a tight composition. Remember that a macro image of a flower might also go into the “Flower” category.
• Landscape & Field: These pictures include landscapes, sunsets, field shots of the tulips and may also include hot air balloons or other major landmarks in the fields.
• Catch All: This category is for the pictures that may not fit with the other three categories. But remember it must be taken at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm and may include landmarks such as the Tractors, Windmills, Wooden Shoes, or pictures with People and Animals etc.

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Have a favorite photo of your pet?
Enter the 19th Annual Fuzzy, Furry, & Feathered Friends Photo Contest

The Oregon Humane Society is looking for great photos of cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, horses, and other pets for its Fuzzy, Furry, and Feathered Friends Photo Contest.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Contest is closed.

All winners will be featured in the Oregon Humane Society’s quarterly magazine, on the shelter’s popular website - www.oregonhumane.org, Pro Photo Supply’s in-store gallery and website, and at select Beard’s Framing stores, www.beardsframingstore.com.

All prizes courtesy of Pro Photo Supply, Canon and Beard’s Framing. Winners will be announced by the end of June 2011.

PRIZES AND CATEGORIES:

• Grand Prize: a Canon digital T3i SLR camera from Pro Photo Supply, plus a $250 gift card from Beard's Framing.
• Best Dog Photo: $100 gift card from Pro Photo Supply, and $100 gift card from Beard's Framing.
• Best Cat Photo: $100 gift card from Pro Photo Supply, and a $100 gift card from Beard's Framing.
• Best Other Animal Photo: $100 gift card from Pro Photo Supply, and $100 gift card from Beard's Framing
• Funniest Photo, Child with Pet, Me & My Pet (adult with pet), Youth Photographer (image taken by a child 12 or younger), and Editor's Choice photo: $50 gift card from Pro Photo Supply, and $50 gift card from Beard's Framing.

RULES OF ENTRY:

• Send any size photograph up to 8x10 (no slides, negatives, photocopies, or e-mails). Digital photos must be on high quality photo paper.
• Label each photograph with form below or submitter’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail and the pet’s name.
• Include a $5 entry donation per household with your photo(s). This covers your first five photos submitted. There is an additional $1 fee for every photo submitted after the first five. There is no limit to the number of photos that can be entered.
• Checks should be written to the "Oregon Humane Society." Proceeds go directly to helping find homes for animals at the shelter.
• DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked or delivered by May 23, 2011, to OHS by 7:00 pm or Pro Photo Supply by 5:00 pm.

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Pet Photo Contest
c/o Oregon Humane Society, P.O. Box 11364, Portland, OR 97211; or c/o Pro Photo Supply, 1112 NW 19th, Portland, OR 97209.

DROP OFF AT:
OHS street address for delivery of photos IN PERSON is: Oregon Humane Society, 1067 NE Columbia Blvd, Portland, OR 97211; or

Pro Photo Supply, 1112 NW 19th (at Marshall), Portland, OR 97209. For directions go to www.ProPhotoSupply.com or call 503-241-1112

• Employees or immediate family members of contest sponsors and OHS are not eligible to enter.
• All entries become the property of the Oregon Humane Society, which may, at it discretion, copy, edit, publish, use, adapt, and/or modify entries in any manner, in any and all media, without limitation. Submitter does not relinquish rights to use photo in any way.
• If photos include pets not owned by the photographer, or people not in the photographer’s immediate family, please include written permission from the pet’s owner and/or the individuals photographed to submit the photo to abide by contest rules.

Download official rules and entry form

Call For Entries
3rd Annual 2011 Photo Competition!

Elders in Action invites interested photographers to submit entries to our third annual benefit photo contest celebrating the vitality, courage, wit and beauty of time-honored people. Through your creativity, help us forge a different perspective on aging. Be inspirational!!

CATEGORIES:

• Perspectives on Aging
• Elders and Inspiration
• Vitality

CONTEST PRIZES:

• 1st Place: $600 gift card for Pro Photo Supply
• 2nd Place: $350 gift card for Pro Photo Supply
• 3rd Place: $250 gift card for Pro Photo Supply
• 4 Honorable Mentions: $25 each gift card for Pro Photo Supply

Click Here for complete contest details

California's stunning Mojave Desert, a scenic wonderland sporting three renowned national parks, will be the destination for the Grand Prize winner in The Oregonian's 2011 Travel Photo Contest.

• Faraway Places – With one photo, transport viewers to a place that they dream of visiting outside Oregon.
• Making Waves – Make a splash with an image that incorporates water. Excludes photos taken in Oregon.
• Celebrating Oregon – Capture the spirit of Oregon.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Contest is closed.

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Embrace the Blur

Demonstrate your creativity with blur photography. That's right, instead of avoiding the blur, embrace it! So show us your inspirational photos that "embrace the blur" with toy cameras, through the finder, tilt/shift, night shooting, depth of field, Holga modding and anything else you can think of, just make sure the focus is blur!

Blur can be used to show how life feels more than how it looks. Use it to draw the eye, create a sense of motion, and show life more for how it feels than how it looks.

This photo contest is sponsored by Lensbaby, makers of awesome selective focus lenses. If your submission is selected for this theme, you might get the New Lensbaby Composer Lens or the .42x Super Wide Angle Conversion Lens.