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.
Awesome contest, congratulations to the winner!!!
Just winning the dvd would be awesome, but the trip is really over the top!
Whomever has been tasked to read these posts deserves a raise. Thank you for being the premiere source for BTS and industry information at no cost to your readers. It does not go unappreciated and the sense of community amongst contemporaries and competitors alike is unprecedented.
Great contest!
Excellent site! love it so much! I actually read every post! Keep up the good work!
I would love to win this!
I continue to be impressed with what FStoppers has become. The content is fantastic, and the sense of community it has created is inspiring. I'd LOVE to go to GPP this year, especially courtesy of FStoppers.
Pick me, please! This sounds amazing!
Very generous of you guys! Congrats.
It will be nice to have a trip and visit this workshops)
The DVDs alone are a great prize, Gulf Photo Plus... OMG.
Keep it up FStoppers
Hey guys, this would be a dream come true to gain incredible photography experience in Dubai. The FStoppers crew is definitely generous and always willing to help novice photographers like myself to grow. :) Kudos!
Me + Dubai + Photography = Dreams come true
Can't win if I don't try....
This would be a great opportunity.
Sounds like an amazing trip!
This is one of those contests that put you to day-dreaming...And even though it is not day time right now, I am dreaming about it already.. Putting aside the great fact of attending seminar of such great photo world luminaries, doing in Dubai.. That's the real thing! I hope I have the chance to ever visit such an exotic (to me) and mysterious place.
Thanks to Lee and Patrick for creating such a great community, and then giving back to it! When so many pros are secretive about thier skills, you guys are always demonstrating ways to encourage us to become better photographers, openly sharing your knowledge and experience, and providing quality information and tools to help us along the way. Would love to win a trip like this, but cheers to you for offering such a great gift and congratulations to whomever wins!
What an unbelievable and inspiring opportunity for anyone in the photography industry.
Just found your website...wow! Packed with great info and lots to explore! Can't wait to win!!
This kind of contests allow people to get deeper and deeper in photography!!! Don't doubt about it and just post something, it's really worthy!
Congratz on the video release! I would love to win this contest sounds like an awesome time and learning experience!
FStoppers - I love your site and am learning so much from it - thank you. One of the first videos I watched on it was a Peter Hurley headshot clip and now I get everyone to do 'chin out and down'! Pick me! Pick me!
Thanks F
Thanks FStoppers for the opportunity. I would be thrilled to go to GPP.
would be a pleasure to participate in workshops on Dubai alongside such great professionals from fstoppers
This is a fantastic oppurtunity to see an amazing place and learn from some amazing photographers. Thank you guys for offering up the chance to make it to the gulf photo plus.
I told myself that 2013 is the year that I chase dreams and passions, and this opportunity would be greatly appreciated if I were to win. I love what FStoppers has been doing, and believe in the vision, and to be a part of Gulf Photo Plus would literally change my life, and inspire me to be the best me I could be. I'm committed to becoming a creative, yet fundamentally sound photographer, so the chance to pick your brains AND attend one the world's foremost phot events would be EPIC.
Plus, my mother relocated to Abu Dhabi a couple years ago, so it would be nice to be on that side of the world and see her!
I told myself that 2013 is the year that I chase dreams and passions, and this opportunity would be greatly appreciated if I were to win. I love what FStoppers has been doing, and believe in the vision, and to be a part of Gulf Photo Plus would literally change my life, and inspire me to be the best me I could be. I'm committed to becoming a creative, yet fundamentally sound photographer, so the chance to pick your brains AND attend one the world's foremost phot events would be EPIC!
Awesome contest! Would love to be part of this!
The best contest!And I hope I will win :)
Sounds like an amazing trip, sign me up!
This is the coolest thing ever! You guys are awesome.
I've wanted to attend this for years now, and while I could probably afford the hotel and cost of the conference, airfare has kept me from attending. It would be so awesome to win this and finally get to go! I promise to say all sorts of nice things about GPP and fstoppers if I win.
This is a great opportunity to travel and learn more about photography at the same time. Kudos, FStoppers and GPP!
It'd be awesome to attend this workshop, I've never attended one and want to learn more so badly. I've watched all your youtube videos and they're always great and super informative. I'm hoping to win!
It would be amazing! I wish to go! :D
I've finally discovered one of my true passions thanks to you folks, FStoppers! A trip like this would be extremely educational and inspirational... I don't just want to take a picture, I want to make art!
Dubai seems like an amazing place to visit just on its own. But to have the chance to meet up with you FStoppers guys and attend workshops together is going to be mindblowing. As a photographer that literally picked up a camera one day and started his own business, I would love to attend workshops that I can learn and take in from pros
This is amazing!
Not sure what to say, but this contest is so attractive. not only for those prize but also experience and learning.
How has this competition been on here 5 days and I only see it now? :) This would be AMAZING!
As a student of visual studies in Delhi, this sounds like the perfect platform to gain practical knowledge of the craft, and it only helps that the workshop's in a fantastic place like Dubai! I have a couple of friends there that I'd love to meet too, so my accommodation would be free - that's less expense and more love for you F stoppers! :*
Do I get extra points for saying I would be willing to give the trip to someone else if I can just have the dvds? Either way, I enter! You guys are great!
As a student of visual studies in Delhi, this sounds like the perfect platform to gain practical knowledge of the craft, and it only helps that the workshop's in a fantastic place like Dubai! I have a couple of friends there that I'd love to meet too, so my accommodation would be free - that's less expense and more love for you F stoppers! :*
Thanks for putting together this awesome chance for someone lucky!
Just discovered your website via a friend in my camera club. Very nice articles and high quality images. Watched a clip of Peter Hurley and learned a lot in a short amount of time. Thanks.
you guys have come up with a great one this time. kudos
Wow! What a chans to gain progress as a photographer! More than happy to go!
Hats off to you guys for putting together such a humongous prize! No price tag can justify the value of a trip to GPP for a motivated and ambitious photographer. Whoever wins better take advantage of the opportunity!