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.
Dubai is going to become a photographer's heaven for a couple of days, wish I could be part of it!
An invitation to an exotic land were superheroes of photography meet up - well that sounds just mind blowing.
Would be nice to see you in Dubai
Getting a chance to pick the brains of pro photographers-free-doing it in Dubai-priceless-literally I hope..sign me up
Getting a chance to pick the brains of pro photographers-free-doing it in Dubai-priceless-literally I hope..sign me up
This would be a dream come true!
Dubai is such a cool city and to be able to improve my photography there, what a perfect match.
Would love to expand my life experience in to Dubai, awesome contest!
Would love to go too! Thanks for the opportunity!
Travelling for a photography workshop? I'm in :)
this seems to be one of the most important photo events worldwide
This is such a great contest. Love to be traveling to Dubai and improving my photography skills.
This is my chance! :)
The DVDs alone would be sweet....but top that off with hand picked workshops? That is AWESOME!
Fstoppers in Dubai is going to be bananas...And bananas is GOOD!!!
I would love to win this contest! Fstoppers Rules !
wow these is amaising !
Very cool, soon you will be bigger then Kodak.... I mean like in the time before digital, hmm but hang on this is a digital media. Ooops this is all going very messy and not very encouraging but I think you guys are doing a great job. You have become one of the very few websites I basically visit once a day for news and other informal gossip AND you throw in some nice photography once in a while as well.
Well jokes aside, I do really like what your doing and that is not a Facebook like but a genuine like.
Ooooh and btw I would love to go to the Gulf Photo Plus, it would be bloody awesome...
Thanks for what you are doing.
been digging your sight lately, well done content helping me get the next level
I would love to go to Gulf Photo Plus! Awesome contest! :)
Wow, talk about an opportunity! You guys are unbelievable! Did I mentioned I get gitty like a little kid when on a plane? Haha
I would love to win this, even just for the shot at meeting the legend that is David Hobby!
A dream come true to be able to work with Lee and Patrick and all the other talented photographers.
Amazing contest Congratulations to the person who wins this contest.
FStoppers Has simply changed my world, with the material you guys present it had broaden my interoperation on life!! The world is full of creative individuals and you guys do a phenomenal job at show casing that!! there is not a day in my where I dont not visit you guys! thanks Lorenzo!!!
This would be my dream come true. I want this as much as there is rich people and oil in Dubai. Please please pick me. I will wear a arabic clothing and I am willing to have Lee and Patrick tattooed on my butt. Anyway. Have a great trip. Please post pictures and videos for all the losers :)
This would be really good right now in my life. I would love to go.
Leeeeeee Morrissssssss Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Winning this package would kickstart my business in a multitude of ways and help me pursue my passion and dream of travelling and capturing the beauty of the world!
First of all, I enjoy your videos and website a lot. I hope that the person who will win, will have a great time and wonderful learning experience. And you guys rock!!!
For me the Peter Hurley DVD is the cake. Dubai is just the sickest most insanely decadent frosting EVER! Huge thanks to Gulf Photo Plus and Fstoppers for this opportunity.
This truly seems like the opportunity of a lifetime! Being able to meet and network with so many incredible people from all over, not to mention the opportunity to attend amazing workshops and to be in Dubai itself! I hope I win, but luck to all!
oh man that sound so awesome !
Okay this really ruined my day... now i can't do anything productive since i have to dream of going to dubai with you guys!
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Fstoppers, your contest keep gettting better. Would be an amazing trip and experience! Thanks for the opportunity.
Keep up the great work Fstoppers! Love the site. This trip would be a blast to go on
FStoppers what an amazing contest and opportunity!!
Winning this trip would be a chance in a lifetime!!!!!
I'd be thrilled to go to Photo Plus! Awesome!
Wow, this would be awsome! Especially for a poor student like me who could never afford such an amazing trip!
I would LOVE to win this. Could be life changing! At the same time I am terrified of flying... I would endure it for this though! Great contest guys!
Even for me, being in Dubai and Abu Dhabi already, this is a lifetime opportunity. Pleeeeeeease take me ;)
Wow! Love following the site and the potential for more photo education! Plus leaving the cold of Canada would not be a bad thing... :)
This Would be an amazing trip. Thanks Fstoppers
You guys have been KILLING it these past few years. I think I read more posts here than any other photo/video or news page. No joke!
Also- I can help carry some of your gear. :)
Hope to pack my bag and camera for this trip
This would be amazing for my photographer career!
I want to know more about the world that we live in, and the amazing people that are in this field. Adquire new experience and learn from the best! I want to go to Gulf Photo Plus!
i really really really want to win this thing. I have all of my toes and fingers crossed.
good luck everybody!