Through out the year, there are NUMEROUS contests available to you. I have created this page to try to list them all out. Some contests we will focus on as a class (usually Photo II) and will be noted elsewhere (Focus and/or assignment pages). I have put the general due dates...follow the links to find out the exact deadlines which change from year to year. Note Class deadlines are usually 2-4 days ahead of official deadline to allow for mailing, etc.. Some of these have entry fees...but there are prizes...some of them quite good. Others are free to enter and still have prizes. Entering contests that are not required as class will help you to earn bonus points and earn a position on the Lamar/Enterprise Field Trip in April.

See results of some of these contests on the Student Award page.

• September

  • Winnie Rice Festival. $4 per entry. Good prizes. Local contest...with local recognition! GREAT chance of winning if you have good stuff due to the low number of people (compared to some of the national contests listed below) and the large number of categories each with a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as well as HMs. Categories include: Rice, Family Living, Black & White, Open, and Wildlife & Nature (including pets). Class Deadline EARLY September.

  • Football - Canon and NFL has sponsored a shoot out the past couple of years. http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/NFL/site.html#/amateurPhotoContest

• October

  • Reflections - This contest is sponsored by the PTA and is a NQE. Winners from the local chapter (this school) will be recognized, generally with prizes. One year, they gave everybody who entered a prize. Winners will then be advanced to the State and then national level.
  • ATPI Fall Contest - 50¢ entries. Great way to be recognized at the state level among all of the Texas photo schools. Possible scholarship $ in conjunction with other contests. This even will also serve as a FTQE.

• December

  • PIEA - HIGHLY...recommended...LOTS of prizes, low entry fee ($1). Send in your best stuff!! (Note EARLY Dec deadline.)

  • pdnedu Student Photo Contest - Digital Submissions! Was FREE to enter...but for 2007 it was $10...but then the top prize is a Digital SLR ($600) PER category...five cameras total. Do you have some neat digital pictures?

• January

  • Protégé Competition and Exhibition - Art Museum of Southeast Texas - Competition open to 12th Grade Students. HIGHLY recommended...with significant scholarship and prize money available for the winners. Deadline is mid to late January of each year.

• February

  • Third Floor Photographic Society Annual High School Shoot-Out - LOW entry fee of only $0.50 per entry. Lots of categories. Images must be mounted.

  • Self Portrait Contest. Got a Self Portrait (i.e. You shot yourself)? Want to enter it in a contest? Check out the details on the Self Port page. All mounted pictures must be mounted and ready to go for Feb. This can not count as your PDP for the 6 weeks, but can be used for bonus or make up points...in addition to a great opportunity to compete in a contest. The entry fee is only 50¢ per entry.

  • The Art of Photography Show - http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/ National Contest, early Feb. Kind of expensive...but top prize is $1,000! So, if you think you have got a winner, enter it. The more you enter, the less the entry fee...$25 for the first entry, $10 for 2+.

• March

  • SET State Fair. $2.50 per entry. Good prizes. Local contest...with local recognition! GREAT chance of winning if you have good stuff due to the low number of people (compared to some of the national contests listed below). Only one category: Open. If you are 18 or over, you could enter the adult division which has a larger prizes. Class Deadline: Two days before the first Thursday in October.

  • Boomtown Film and Music Festival - Enter your video creations here. Contest Deadline fell during March in 2008 but does vary from year to year...so check in on this one early.

• April/May

  • Hal Fulgham Memorial Scholarship - http://atpi.org/fulgham.htm) ATPI Member Schools Only. April

  • Texas Imagemakers - http://atpi.org/team.htm ATPI Member Schools Only. April

  • Sharon Jacobus Memorial Scholarship - http://atpi.org/jacobus.htm - ATPI Member Schools Only. April

   

  • End of Year Contest - 1st and 2nd year go head to head at Parkdale Mall in a school wide competition. Late April (usually at the end of the 5th 6 weeks.

  • Main F Hall and Library Display - After the Parkdale Mall EOYC, we will bring the winners back to WB and put them on display for a couple of weeks.

  • Hardin County Music Fest - This was in Sept...but must have gotten Iked. So, for the 2008-09 school year, it was moved to May. 

  • Photo Finale - this is a contest sponsored by Trinity High School. Check out the page I created to help track the submission details. This is an email submission contest with a low entry fee...so easy to enter to get some good feedback with some of your images.

• Summer

  •     Texas Photographic Society - National Competition. Deadline is usually in early July.

 

A note regarding contests. They can definitely be frustrating...I will be the first to tell you that. But, like Babe Ruth, you may have to strike out to hit a home run. Personally, I am the KING of Club 6...which is the lowest score you can receive at the BCC Monthly Competition: http://forum.bcc.drewloker.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=99 So, why enter? Because the process of entering forces me to at the very least prepare my images for contest. It forces me to look ver sometimes 1,000s of recent photos that I may never have looked at. And, occasionally, I win one. Maybe one day, I will be famous.

 

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New contest just added for 2008-09 by Region 5 Education Service Center. There is over $750 in prize money on the table with first place receiving $500!! (or...a Prom package valued at over $1,000)

Please stop whatever you are working on and work up a T-Shirt Design in Photoshop.

Your mission: Show us what tobacco can cost you in a t-shirt design in art or words.

Entries must be original artwork incorporating Tobacco Costs messages. No clipart. I think incorporating a photo your took would be a great idea...or it can be free art (using Photoshop or technically you could use Paint.net)

Check out http://www.tobaccocosts.org/students/ for ideas of possible images and slogans. Make it your own. Be creative. Use the filters. Use an image you have taken, put a twist on it (some sort of filter, or reverse image, or something), put some text on it, see what you can do with the text to fancy it up.

Open Photoshop and create a new document that is 8.5 x 11 x 200 dpi.

 

When you are finished...in Photoshop, Save As as a .jpg with a file name of "Tobacco Costs TShirt by your FULL name". Set the Jpeg Quality to 10-12 depending on the file size indicated...trying to keep it to 1-2 MB.

Let me know you are sending the email using the following instructions.

Email the .jpg file to

        TobaccoCostsBeaumont@enviromedia.com

        and CC me at

        lokerd@hotmail.com

Attach the email and include with your entry (in the body of your email). Be sure to put a subject for your

Your name:

School name:        West Brook HS

Teacher’s name:  Drew Loker

Grade:

Address:

Email address: 

Contact phone: 

 

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