Archive for the 'Photo Contests' Category

Mommyblogger Photo Contest

July 12, 2007 | Photo Contests

At The Twinkies: Adventures in Sleep Deprivation.

What: picture of your child/children

By when: July 20, 2007

Details here.

(via BlogHer)

Finding Hope in Photos: Children and Uganda

June 26, 2007 | Charity, Photo Contests, Travel

cross-posted to Marketing Roadmaps

This spring, as I wrote in May, I did some blogger outreach to mom bloggers about HP’s Capture Your Ever After photo contest. This post is a direct result of that project.

The background: Part of friendship is to say thank you. We decided to thank the bloggers who wrote about the contest  by making a donation of an HP digital camera, compact photo printer and some supplies to a charity of their choice.We also decided to send the gear directly to the women, so they could have the pleasure of donating it personally to their favorite local charities.

Because the donation aspect was not promoted in advance, it was a bit of a surprise to the bloggers when they got the email offering them the gear, but  none of them had any trouble thinking of a cause that meant something to them personally. They also all took the time to let us know what they planned to do with it, even though we didn’t make it a requirement that they do so.

Tracey Clark’s donation is going to war-torn Northern Uganda next month with Katie Gardner of San Diego.

Katie is part of a group connected with Children of the Nations. They will be spending three weeks working with children and families in the IDP (internally displaced people) camps.  Some of the folks going will be doing counseling, but Katie and small group of four or five others will be doing photo projects with the children.

She told me that working with third-world children, giving them a chance to use photography as a creative outlet has been a dream of hers ever since she saw the documentary Born into Brothels which documents the lives of children who live in Calcutta’s red-light district.  

“When kids take pictures, they have a unique view.  I’m really looking forward to helping these children experience the world in new ways through photography. I hope it gives them hope for the future.”

Including the camera and compact printer donated by HP, Katie has two brand new digital cameras, two printers, a handful of used polaroid cameras and cash donations from friends and family to purchase supplies. They still need a scanner so they can scan in the polaroids and leave the originals with the children. If  you’d like to help, drop Katie a note at katieann10@gmail.com.

Katie thinks it’s important that we hear and see the smaller stories from Africa and other third world nations, not just the larger than life efforts of celebrities like Madonna and Bono so she is developing a blog to document her Uganda trip. You’ll also be reading more about Katie’s project here and on Tracey’s blog, Picture This.

Over the summer, Katie’s kids in Uganda, Tracey’s daughter Julia (age 9) in California,  Douglas (age 7) here in Massachusetts and two friends of Katie’s in San Diego, ages 7 and 9, will take pictures using some simple themes, including laughter, friends, sunshine and where I live. When Katie returns in August, we’ll do a series of posts showing their worlds through their eyes. It should be interesting to see  the differences and similarities between the American and Ugandan children.

Katie says she hopes these pictures will help Americans better understand what is happening in Uganda:

“Not only do I want the kids in Uganda to have a creative outlet to think about their lives in a new way, I want people back home to be transformed by seeing the world though these kids’ eyes. And I want both sides to really see the potential for hope in places where people have been suffering for so many years. I want people back home to be moved to see how they can make a difference; and even if not in Africa, then how can we make a difference in our own backyard? I’m lucky enough to go overseas, but it’s so easy to be the catalyst for change in our own families and neighborhoods when we allow ourselves to open our eyes to what’s going on around the world.”

Bon voyage, Katie.

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Check out Invisible Children, another group that helps the children of Uganda.

Update, 27 June: Tracey’s post Picture Hope

Tags: children of the nations, invisible children, HP, Tracey Clark, Katie Gardner, charity, digital pictures

World in Focus Travel Photo Contest

June 24, 2007 | Photo Contests, Travel

Actually, it’s two contests – one for amateurs sponsored by National Geographic Traveler and one for professionals sponsored by Photo District News.

Categories: Wilderness Photography; The Human Condition; Extreme Exploration; Urban Landscapes; Snapshots; Open Series.

Entry fee for amateurs is $12 per entry, for professionals, $35. Deadline is August 21, 2007.

Tags: travel, photo contest

Another entry for the HP Shrek Photo Contest

June 9, 2007 | Photo Contests

One of the best things about blogging is that you “meet” people that you would never have the opportunity to meet in “real life.”

Over the course of working on the blogger outreach for HP’s Shrek photo contest, now in its home stretch, I met Melody from Slurping Life. (What a great name for a blog!)

Melody learned about the contest on Picture This, was kind enough to blog about it and tried, initially unsuccessfully, to enter it.

The folks at HP and Snapfish reached out to her and she patiently helped them troubleshoot the problems. You can read all about it on her blog.

The good news: she was finally able to successfully enter a picture in the My Little Ogre contest going on now. Please take a moment to check it out and vote.

Tags: HP, Shrek, photo contest

It ain’t easy being green…

June 4, 2007 | Photo Contests

But at least now Kermit has some friends in Far Far Away.

This week’s theme in HP’s Shrek photo contest is “Green” and photo blogger friend Tracey Clark (Picture This) has an entry, so check it out and vote!

UPDATE:  I’ve noticed that some folks have been using their entry confirmation links for their friends and family to vote. This link will not work. Snapfish will send you a Forward to a Friend (FTAF) email like the one below that includes a copy of your picture, a view and vote button, and at the bottom (follow the arrow on the image below) a hyperlink which is the same URL as the vote button. This is the hyperlink you need to use on your blog or paste into emails if you do not forward the FTAF email directly.

If you do not get a Forward to a Friend email, contact Snapfish for help.

UPDATE July 8 07: For some reason, still to be determined, image links are breaking in this blog, and I can’t find the original screen shot that was linked here. Apologies.

Tags: HP, photo contest, Shrek

Capture Your Ever After with Shrek & HP

May 23, 2007 | Photo Contests

As I mentioned in my initial post, I occasionally help HP with blogger outreach. The most recent project was for the Capture Your Ever After photo contest.

Even though this blog is pretty new, and its readers are probably just me, the designer, my mother and my aunt, I wanted to share it with you.

Tied to the release of Shrek 3, the contest runs for 6 weeks. The first 5 weeks have themes, and the final week is a runoff among the winners of the previous weeks. There are more than 600 prizes per week, and a pretty awesome grand prize, so it is well worth your time to wade through your photo files. The winners are selected by viewer vote, and entrants are provided with a "forward to a friend" link to their photo to make it easy to tell their friends and family to vote for them.

The first two weeks are over (week 2 entries end at midnight tonight.) The third week for entries starts Friday May 25th. The theme is Fairy Tails — pets.Themes for the following weeks are Go Green and My Little Ogre (kids). The runoff follows, with the grand prize winner to be announced at the end of June.

Check it out, and if you enter, remember to let me know. I can’t enter, but I can vote

Tags: HP, Shrek, photo contest