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.
Wow, I can only imagine the amazing learning opportunity that these workshops will bring. Great on you Fstoppers for making this happen for some lucky photographer out there. May they put all their newly acquired knowledge to great use and become an even better person and photographer after this trip :)
Good luck everyone! It's going to be an amazing experience to whoever that win this ;)
I would absolutely love to go! FStoppers is an amazing website, and I've beena fan since the beginning. I visit here daily and LOVE the Wednesday Rundown's and all the BTS stories.
What an incredible opportunity! If you pick me, I'll, ummm, I'll take your picture... for free! :)
Trip to Dubai and DVD, it's awesome! Irealy need it. A specialy DVD's.
This is pretty much the coolest contest ever. Beyond my imagination cool...what a great opportunity it would be to go stretch that imagination even more at Gulf Photo Plus. Cheers!
One of only a handful of blogs on photography that I a constantly monitor and solely recommend to my friends and associates. Keep up the awesome job F Stoppers!
This is an amazing life changing opportunity, I hope the winner enjoys every moment of it.
I'll do your laundry! Or buy your drinks. Whichever works best for you guys.
I have been learning a lot this past year online about photography and equipment.
This is an awesome opportunity! Thank you.
I really wish that I can make it!!
Amazing Comp. Keep up all the hard work guys!
I love you guys! You are my daily photography caffeine. I feel part of a community here on Fstoppers. Keep up the awesome work!
I'm feeling lucky! (c) Google
This is such an awesome opportunity! My dream location mixed with incredible seminars from the world's top photographers! Incredible! I would love to win!
This is such an awesome opportunity! My dream location mixed with incredible seminars from the world's top photographers! Incredible! I would love to win!
Great opportunity for any photographer, thanks fstoppers!
Looking forward to the trip!!! :)
great contest idea, hope I win and good luck to everyone
It would be so nice to meet you guys over there! Pick me pleeeeeeeeeaaaase!
If I win, I'll wear a Patrick-and-Lee-with-a-finger-moustache t-shirt for at least one week (my mom would be so proud)!
:-)
What a fabulous giveaway! I'd be thrilled to go!
Awesome opportunity. I'd really love to use this chance to meet some of my photography heroes - and learn from them ofcourse.
I am ready to cancel any other appointment for this time slot . . . Done. ;-)
Wow! Great lineup. Great opportunity.
-Emil Handke
Amazing contest! Keep up the good work and all those great giveaways!
Wow! Would love to visit Dubai and learn about shooting techniques!
i love that idea! please pick me :) i'd love to learn shooting somewhere else and new!
take me away from the cold and bring me to where the heat is even just for a week! i would love to go!!!
Dear Fstoppers, I would really be grateful if you point you attention to me))) I am really in love with photography and my dream is to start a photography career. This could be a life changing experience for my family. )))) Have a great time in Dubai if I am not with you there.
It would be the greatest opportunity, and an experience for a lifetime, for me, as a beginner photographer, to visit Dubai for the DPP event. And also, the kindest thing Fstopers could ever give me...All hail Fstoppers!
This is an awesome prize! And thanks for making a competition that is easy to win! Sean McDonald
Been following fstoppers for just over a year now, I love your articles and incessant contests!
Thanks Fstoppers! An amazing photography resource and now my very own travel agency :) Does the winner also get the Nikon mug from which you draw?
Sounds great! Good luck to everyone!
I'd love to go! This is your best contest yet!
Winning this would change my life! It would also be nice not to have to borrow my buddies copy of The Art Behind the Headshot. Your new video looks awesome, want that.
Would love to get to know you guys and buy you a drink - if it has to be in Dubai, then so be it! :-)
See you there
Tom
This is a fantastic opportunity for whoever wins. Sounds great!
To win this and attend the workshop would give me the boost to take my career to the next level.
For years I have worked for agencies, retouching houses and taught photoshop. Recently I have decided to sort myself out and go it alone. This would help me boost myself and my photography to the next level. I have fstopppers open all day at work and read everything you post its awesome! (need to kiss a little ass)
Cheers!
Tom
This is the COOLEST contest idea!!!!!
Photography in one of the most beautiful cities in the world? TYBG
Well that would be awesome fun - if I am the lucky one that would be great!
Winning this would be a dream come true. It would be a chance of a lifetime.
What an amazing prize! I would lose my mind if i won that trip and also the dvd's. I have been following you guys from the small beginnings of the site and Fstoppers is still my go to place on the web for when i want to know whats cooking in the world of photo. Keep up the good work, i appreciate it :)
Sound like it would be the experience of a lifetime. I would love to do this!!
Sounds like it would be the experience of a lifetime. I would love to do this!!
This would be a fantastic opportunity! I've heard so much of GPP (mainly from the Strobist, David Hobby), but so many other places too. Would love to go!
This sounds like an amazing opportunity for any level photographer. Can't wait to find out who the winner is? #birthdaypresent
This is your best contests that you have run, you can't put a price on the value and the opportunity of this trip, I will love to win it
This sounds like an amazing opportunity.
Wow, this truly is an awesome contest. Fstoppers really knows how to treat their followers!