To celebrate the release of our newest wedding tutorial, Fstoppers is giving away a free flight and accommodations to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai! One lucky reader will fly out to GPP during March 2013 to attend one of the coolest photo workshops on the planet. If you win, you will pick the workshops you want to attend as well as win digital copies of Peter Hurley's The Art Behind The Headshot and Fstoppers' How to Become a Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer. All the juicy details are inside this post
In order to make this contest easy to enter and accessible to everyone, we have allowed readers to enter in three ways. Anyone over the age of 18 can enter and you can be from any country in the world. You can enter across all three platforms to increase your chances of winning.
Enter through Fstoppers.com:
Simply leave an encouraging comment in the Disqus bar below to enter. Any vulgar or inappropriate comments will be removed and disqualified.
Enter through Facebook:
Like Fstoppers and Gulf Photo Plus on Facebook and leave an encouraging comment in the Win A Free Trip To Gulf Photo Plus post on our Facebook feed. Due to the fact that we failed to mention it in the video, "liking" Gulf Photo Plus' Facebook page is not mandatory.
Enter through Twitter:
Tweet the following message in it's entirety to enter. While multiple tweets won't increase your chances, they will give you Karma points with the Fstoppers staff :)
"Follow @fstoppers and @gulfphotoplus and retweet this message to win a free trip to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai http://bit.ly/US4SYy"
All entries must be made between now and Friday January 18th, 2013 at 11:59 pm US Eastern Time. One "semi finalist" from each of the three platforms will be randomly picked. One of those three names will be randomly picked from a Nikon Coffee mug as the lucky winner! Stay tuned for an announcement on Monday January 21st to see who will be packing their bags and meeting us out in Dubai.
What is the grand prize?
The flight and hotel will be covered by Fstoppers (up to a maximum of $3000). Make sure you can schedule time off from whatever you might be doing between March 1st - 8th. The trip is non refundable if you are not able to attend in which case a random semi finalist will be chosen to take your place. Gulf Photo Plus is supplying a winner with an all access workshop pass for any workshops that have availability.
You will also receive a copy of our newest wedding tutorial: How To Become A Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer. You can learn more about this in the video below.
The winner will also receive a copy of Peter Hurley's tutorial, The Art Behind Headshot. You can learn more about that here:
If you have purchased either of the DVD's or your ticket's to Dubai for Gulf Photo Plus and you happen to win, we will reimburse you for everything you have already purchased. Good luck to everyone who enters and I hope you are as excited about this as we are here at Fstoppers.
This prize looks amazing. As a photography student looking for career advice this trip would be invaluable. Well done fstoppers.
Top of the pops panelists, dream classes, and maybe a dream come true in 2013! Would love to go!
It would be a dream come true
No matter if I win or lose, the Wedding video has been fantastic so far. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Wow, what an amazing prize! I would love to go to GPP. Thanks fstoppers!
As somebody who is just starting out in a photography career, a trip like this would truly be invaluable and a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Being able to learn from such experienced and knowledgable photographers would be priceless - especially listening to both Lee and Patrick's stories on the Wedding DVD serves as such great inspiration! I know it won't be easy, but I am happy to put in all the hard work and effort needed to make it a success, and realise my dream. Bernard
Gulf Photo Plus must be an amazing experience, The photoshoot out would be the best part. Thanks for F Stoppers for giving everybody an opportunity to participate
It Would be wicked awesome if I win this. Thank you for this chance of a lifetime.
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I dont think there a proper comment that be put here for this. Like everyone said, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for many, and for others something normal. This, like you say is the best place to be if your into anything photo related and honestly yes i would love to go!. Even if i dont go, enjoy the trip and remember to have fun
Winner also gets a copy of your new Commercial Wedding Photographer dvd AND Peter Hurley's Headshot dvd? WOW.
That alone is an incredible win!
I would be thrilled to bits if I could attend the GPP and I am curious to see Dubai. A very generous offer, fstoppers!
I've been in a photographic/life slump lately and this trip is exactly what I need. Thank you for even giving me a chance to win this life changing experience, F Stoppers.
Let´s see if Dubai was in my destiny, since I´ve dropped an offer for a job there last here on a huge resort on the beach~! Life has so many twist, and thrills, that seems indeed a ride on an amusement park~!
I am in!! well I want to be in :)
Awesome contest & amazing experience! Way to go Fstoppers.
Awesome contest, would love to go
I found you guys on Twitter and I'm so glad I did! I've bookmarked your website and will be returning often. Thanks for all the valuable and free information!
Dubai sounds good! Especially now as it's -19°C outside, here in Finland... :P
I've always wanted to go to Dubaï and this is the perfect opportunity! Thanks for this contest!
I watch your tutorials on YouTube all the time and value the education fstoppers has provided me. This trip blows me away, I can't believe some fortunate photographer will be given an education and trip of a lifetime just by letting the world know how incredible you guys are. Thank you for the amazing and unbelievable opportunity!! Keep up the great work in the world of photography!
What a great contest!
Thank you FS & GPP for the opportunity! Dubai has been on my list of "places to see," if I won, I'd be, seriously, over the moon.
Super cool opportunity! Would be an amazing learning experience.Plus the Fstoppers original videos? What more could you want???
You guys are so cool, and thank you for this blog, from colombia --- The contest rocks :D
I really love seeing all the awesome new posts from fstoppers! It is my daily stop on the net; some days I don't even go on facebook as much as fstopers lol. It would be an amazing experience and honor to be chosen for this trip and prizes! I have wanted to get these DVDs from the moment they both came out and the trip would just be the best icing on the cake that I could imagine.
Only just discovered Peter Hurley! Must grab this DVD immediate! This man is genuis! And this contest looks unreal - the aspiring photographer x
OMG! what an amazing thing Fstoppers is doing here, love this site, check it every single day! Best of lucks for everyone and congratulations in advance to the lucky winner!
This would be off the chain.
That's really awesome Fstoppers crew! What an awesome trip to get the chance to win.
Oh I would just die to do this. I would never have enough money saved up to travel. and this would sure be pretty awesome. Thanks guys, I love the giveaways.
oh, god- the portraits I would take, the landscapes I would capture, ALL the information I would try to absorb... oh my god I'm getting myself too excited just thinking about it. OH, THE LECTURES, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW MANY MOLSKINES I WOULD GO THROUGH. all the new people to talk with and photograph with... what more could top this in my twenties?!
GPP & FStoppers are Dubai Dream Team!
Shabang!!! Lol... i already read the workshops and i think it's like photographhy superbowl... the best of the best... it has to be a unique experience!!!
I'm a faithful follower of your blog. Keep up the good work and make sure you pick me for GPP ;-)
Mathias ( kontakt@fotografie-md.de )
Wow now that is a way to share the very much deserved succes of this site with all the reader/viewers.
BIg thumbs up for doing this - I thing that Golf Photo Plus is really one of the places to be, so GREAT opportunity :)
A real WOW-Contest! I swear I'll do the Swiss-Jodel if I win this contest!!
DId you know that you have a big fan in IRAN? yep ME!
This would me my one and only chance to ever attend to such a wonderful trip.
Thank you all.
What a wonderful opportunity for someone (hopefully me!).
I'm in! How awesome!
Fstoppers is da bomb.!
I'd love to participate!
What a positive job you guys are doing. Not just bringing information but also giving others chances they might not otherwise have. Kudos.
GPP will be a dream come true.
To meet all my photographer heros would be great.
The DVDs alone would have been a great prize but this is simply the best.
Pick me to pick the brains of the GPP crowd. :)
You guys are simply awesome for offering this great opportunity! I would be ecstatic to win and be able to enrich my craft so much in just a few days. Fingers crossed for the Nikon Coffee mug to pick me :)
Wish I could go! Would be a dream.
The best prize ever!
I love dubai. Thanks for this amazing opportunity
I love dubai. Thank u for amazing opportunity!
Amazing opportunity! Would totally make 2013 a year to remember.