The NYI World-Wide Photo Contest

In this area you'll find details of current contests, up-coming contests, contest rules and prizes, Entry Forms, prints of winning photographs from recent contests, and names of all recent winners and runners-up. Best of all you'll also find a Three-Step Method analysis of the winning picture showing how the judges came to their decision. Read these analyses carefully and use the insights they provide to increase your chance of winning the next contest. Or simply use it as a guide to taking better pictures any time, anywhere!

This World-Wide Photo Contest is open to all who want to enter - whether or not you're an NYI student or graduate. Everyone! The judges will not know your status, so everyone has an equal opportunity to win.

Current Contest: Speed and Motion

Faster than a speeding bullet! Your mission is to photograph objects in motion, or any subject which conveys a sense of speed. Subjects? Everything from racing cars to crawling babies. Your pictures need to clearly need to show motion. Use a fast shutter speed to stop action, or a slow shutter speed to emphasize motion. Panning to move with the action will also be a good technique for this competition. So choose a moving subject and send us a picture that captures movement.

Current Contest

Entries must be submitted from October 1, 2006, through December 31, 2006. Winners will be announced February 2006.

Deadline for Current Contest:

All entries must be received by midnight, December 31, 2006.

Prizes:

  • First Prize: Certificate and $100.00.
  • Second Prize: Certificate and $50.00.
  • Third Prize: Certificate and $25.00.
  • Five "Honorable Mention" Awards.

Official Rules:

  1. Entries must be submitted along with the Official Entry Form which you access by clicking on this link or the link at the bottom of this page.
  2. You may submit only one Entry Form containing up to three photographs per contest.
  3. Prints or slides may be submitted. Prints may be black-and-white or color, up to 8x10 inches. Please identify each image you submit with your name and phone number. Note: No entries on disk or e-mail. Please list the name of the contest on the outside of the envelope in which you submit your photos.
  4. You must be able to supply a signed release from any person(s) appearing in the photograph or their guardians, but do not send release with entry.
  5. Photos will be judged by the NYI staff and guest professionals in terms of their appropriateness to the theme, creativity, and overall technical quality. Decision of the judges is final.
  6. NYI assumes no responsibility for the prints or slides you submit, and will return them only if you enclose an SASE - a self-addressed, stamped envelope that is large enough to hold the pictures and is affixed with sufficient postage.
  7. NYI has the right to publish any entry at its sole discretion, provided that a credit-line is given to the photographer.

Next World-Wide Photo Contest

And, to give you a good head start, here's a description of what will be the next World-Wide Photo Contest.

Subject: Speed and Motion

Here's a contest to get you into the spirit of the holiday season. Your assignment is to photograph holiday lights. Everything from decorated buildings or the tinsel draped tree in your living room to Hanukah menorahs or even New Year's Eve fireworks and Valentine's Day candles. Extra points will be given to those photographs that include people enjoying the holidays and the lights.

Next Contest Period:

January 1, 2007, through midnight March 31, 2006.

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