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 would be quite incredible, congrats to the winner!
There is no word, or sentence that sums this one up - it is more than simply epic. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for someone wanting to learn from the most talented in the business. I can't think of a more incredible social petri dish I'd rather be inhabiting as a wannabe awesome photographer.
Fstoppers has got to be my best recent best finds. I've drooled and dreamed about GPP for years now. Hope this is the year my drooling problem stops.
Fstoppers is going to Dubai for Gulf Photo Plus and even I want to! Take me along Fstoppers!
I was in Dubai a couple of months back and as soon as I read about the GPP, I wished I could be there!!
If I win this and come to Dubai with Fstoppers then it would be the best thing to happen to me this year. It would be a dream come true!
Wow! I just spent a month photographing in Abu Dhabi, but never made it to Dubai. It would be so wonderful to make it back to the UAE. Thanks for this chance to go back Fstoppers!
Wow! What an opportunity. I hope I win but if not I hope the winner shares their experience. Good luck to all.
I've never been in the desert, so this is the best opportunity to get some real dust in my camera!!
You guys do amazing stuff, please keep it up!
What a great contest! Would love to win!
I would love a chance to go, after a long and continuous winter AND set to continue, the warmth would be very much appreciated, taking photos in the rain is not fun anymore..!
It would be a once and lifetime opportunity to travel abroad with such a great group of talented and creative people!! Thank you for the opportunity!
Johnny
Entry comment ftw.
Wow! Now this is an amazing offer to be excited about. Not only do you win a great trip but two fantastic DVD's.
I've definitely never been to Dubai, but I salivate at the idea... Going on a trip to such an amazing place would be the highlight of my year. Fstoppers, you all are so amazing and hope that the person who wins this contest appreciates it as they should! Good luck everyone!
At first I was jealous that you guys were going... and now you are ready to take someone with you! That is AWESOME :-)
Bags are packed!
I am an avid fstopper reader and to go to GPP would be an incredible opportunity for me.
what an amazing opportunity! good luck everyone
This would be such an amazing opportunity to get some amazing shots and learn some fantastic techniques!
Encouraging comment. If you can dream it, you can do it! I hope I win.
I think it is one of the most amazing things to be able to learn from people internationally. Travel is one of the best ways to open your eyes to new ideas and way's of life. That can only make you not only a better photographer but a better person as well. This is truly such an amazing gift for someone!
An exceptional contest!
This is really cool of you guys. Thanks. Would love to go.
Swedish fingers crossed! One in a million chance!
I wanna go! i wanna go!!!
This is an amazing opportunity and very generous of FStoppers. Good luck to everyone!
I've always wanted to go to the Gulf. Peter Hurley's videos are great and I'm sure your new video is also amazing. Love what you guys do, keep it up. Count me in!
HOLY MOLY! I would totally do the hammer time dance if I won this! What an awesome giveaway! Fstoppers you never stop to amaze me with your generosity!!
well might as well post, though I'd be curious to see how you collect all these entries and do the draw ^_^
This contest is really fantastic! I love photography, and your projects, whether video or the brilliant images!I wish you a nice day and thank you for all your hard work!best wishesMalte
Thanks for this awesome opportunity fstoppers!!! Hope we win!
Another awesome competition prize from you guys ! I'd love to go to Dubai, meet some of my photographic heroes, and learn learn learn!! An amazing opportunity and one to be taken advantage of thoroughly ! Thanks !
Yes please
this would be nothing short of amazing! whoever wins this is ONE lucky person :)
Holycrap this would be awesome. BTW, I love the production quality on the new Wedding DVD of yours, very nice and classy!
I need to get away, because I am so stressed here. I think that the best thing for any artist is to hang around those that challenge them AND those that differ in mind set. . . usually we simply try our best to hang around those that do not differ from us too much in order to feel easy and safe . . . but the best route for any maturing artist is to adopt Lincoln's strategy of hiring those that fought and differed with him, and hence, made him a better president. I will be a better artist with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and friendships I could not get sitting here on my arse waiting for the next wedding or project . . . as if I am getting LOTS of those.
Pretty much the BEST prize/contest I have ever entered! I love sand and so does my D4's sensor!
A lot of us can just dream about such an opportunity! You guys are going there, but you didn't forget about your readers and that's awesome! thank's for that ...it's time to try my luck : )
This sounds so magical. :) I would be honoured to win this trip and the DVD's ! I've never been to a workshop before and am self taught - so this would be huge ! Good luck everyone!
Fingers crossed... Never won anything, but still hoping... Fantastic opportunity!
Ooh, hope I win. It would be a great trip.
Amazing Contest!!! I don't believe I have chance to win but congrats for winner this awesome trip and workshops.
Wow, this must be one of the coolest contests around. Fstoppers rules
oh that would be so awesome
Oh that would be one of the greatest things that could happen to me right now after all those things going on around. I can't afford going to Dubai and this is the first time I see an opportunity that's available for any country, since I'm from Bulgaria, which is really far :))) Although I'm a pessimist and have never won anything priceless like this, I'll try my luck :)
You guys from fstoppers are awesome, keep going with that awesome work.
Good luck to everyone.
That's for me! I want it NOW :)
Thank you for the contest. ;)
Winning this would be SO AWESOME. Going to Dubai would be a dream come true!
Dubai is a amazing city and i am a fan of fstoppers... i am ready if i will win :-)
Dubai could be a great chapter in my life (: