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.
843 Comments
Being able to work with you guys in Dubai would not only be awesome. It will be a life changing event for me. :)
Being able to work with you guys in Dubai would not only be awesome. It will be a life changing event for me. :)
Looks like an awesome event
Long time listener, first time caller!
Dubai is an awesome place to have get a photo education. Fstoppers rocks!
This is awesome!
This would be awesome!
So my address for the ticket confirmation is... Lol. Send Me.
Holy moly, that is some price. Since I'm fresh out of photo school, this would be an awesome learning experience :-D.
Hope I win! GPP is always interesting and exciting!
Holy moly, that is some price! Since I'm fresh out of photography school, this would be an awesome learning experience :-D.
I've dreamed about going to Dubai for ages! Photo inspiration X 1,000,000
Thank you lee morris for helping create an amazing and educational website! goodluck to whoever wins!
I would settle for just your 2 DVDs. Well --- almost. Great GPP Workshops, exotic location. Many thanks for the opportunity and for sharing your knowledge. - Doug Deas
this would be awesome.
WOW This is so Awesome, I am not a pro photographer but the past year I learned so much from you guys ! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and inspiration ! This website is the best in its category and I would be more than flying high if I could participate to Photo Plus ! You keep on giving, best of luck to all, Thanks. Matt
Who realy want to be there, must try this contest!
Oooh, pick me!
- Joe
I've been trying to get my motivation going again, Fstoppers helps a lot! This trip I can't imagine what this trip would do for it!
Amazing! A newbie like me would be overwhelmed at this!
Good luck with your new website missed it for the day that you were down and Dubai would be AMAZING !
What a life change opportunity!! You guys are being so helpful, full of inspiration and encouragement, I see the passion and beauty in the photography through Fstoppers and your works. I believe this generous precious present will more than just make someone's dream come true, it will change their life! Thank you! Jay
Good luck with your new website, missed it for the day it was down and Dubai would be AMAZING
This is an amazing opportunity and one of my dream destinations! I love Dubai! Fingers crossed!
This would be an unforgettable trip, somewhere i have always wanted to travel and this is an importunity that comes rarely! pick me :)
I would love to experience GPP and check out Dubai! If you pick me I'll be your best friend!!
I'll throw my hat in too. Awesome contest, and love this blog.
What an awesome place to learn from the best in business
This would be an amazing trip :) fingers crossed!
I would love to see the photographer shootout at GPP this year! Especially because of Heisler's creative heckling... and photography.
Being at the bring of starting my own photography this would be worth a million times more for me than 4 years of being a student at an university
This certainly would be a sweet trip.
not too long to wait either!
Sign me up! :-)
I like making films hurraah!
This would be absolutely amazing! so much talent in one place
Being able to make this trip would make you feel better because you are helping a good photographer to be well knowed, now in Dubai. Thanks in advance.
Would love the opportunity to make this trip !
What an awesome trip! Take me!
This is an amazing contest.. thanks for the opportunity!!.
Would love to travel to Dubai :)
I work a day job and am a Photographer at night,I do get some work weddings engagements and allot of live Bands ... I Think my work is OK and im not afraid to charge people to do a wedding ..my prob is marketing myself That im horrible at It ,I mean im an awesome Guy people love me ..but I cant make that next leap to a consistent lineup of weddings ..I think one of your workshops would be a great help to me ....... please pick MEEEEE
Like many others have said, this is an awesome opportunity! F stoppers is becoming an almost daily visit for me. I love the range of topics discussed here, and the comments section is always worth a read too. Always keep learning!
I'd be happy just to win the DVD's. To be able to go to Dubai for GPP would be insanely EPIC!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!
Wouldn't that be a great combo to go to Dubai and GPP...thanks FStoppers for the chance!
Where's the dotted line to sign?
I would love to go on this trip! Ill be 18 in February, I hope I can still enter, this would be a trip of a life time!
I love Fstoppers and am very apprciative of the wealth of information this blog has blessed me with :)!
Great Contest! Have wanted to go to Dubai for GPP since I first saw it on Strobist.
That would be a great opportunity.
I am starting my second career as a photographer, am in my second year at technical college in Georgia, in commercial photography, this would go a long way to jump starting my career... mojophoto.org
Please, please, pretty please pick me...