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
This would be travel of my life, but I really wouldn't know how to thanks FS if I won it!
This is a sweet opportunity! Thanks for always providing great stuff FStoppers!!!
Wow! What an amazing gift, thanks for the opportunity to win it!
GPP is at this stage an unaccessible dream, the experience, knowledge, and energy of the workshops are just what I would need to kick me forward in my new Photo Studio venture which is opening in the next few days (http://www.320.ch).
Such an awesome contest! Would love to go learn from the best.
I'm concidering getting your wedding photography dvd anyway, so, if I win it it will be even better. You guys are doing a great job, don't stop, don't slow down.
I already envy the lucky winners!
This is really awesome! I can't wait
FStoppers ROCKS!
What a great giveaway! Thanks again for hosting it and obvi, I hope I win! :)
I cant imagine what it would be like to win this trip!
Good luck to everyone who enters
Super pumped for Fstoppers and how they're putting on this give away. Id love to go, and would gladly take a week off from work to head to Dubai with you guys. I hope whoever wins really takes advantage of the opportunity.
Yeah, would love to go! Keep up the fantastic work guys!
Got the time to go, with my gear visit the place one more time as my chances to do so are limited as we moved from Uganda to nl with our kids. Hope u saw my comment on fb about the heat so be prepared :)
I'm just going to come out and say it...Pick me, I am I huge fan of everything you all do and It would make the BEST Birthday gift ever to be in Dubai with the worlds best photographers on my Birthday!!
FROM Tijuana to DUBAI PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So awesome! would love to go and learn!
I'd love to go check this out! March 8th is also my birthday haha
This is AMAZING. Traveling and learning go hand in hand. (or lens in hand?)
This would be such an awesome experience!
Here I am then for my chance to win this awesome prize. Fstoppers, you rock guys!
Dubai and my name share the same first letter!! omgggg no wayyyyy *explosions* *mind blown* *directed by michael bay* would love to go!!!!
I'll agree to winning
Would love to go and check out Dubai and learn about bunch of stuff from any of these guys teaching.
I could really do with the holiday :) great idea for a prize ;)|
This would be a great opportunity
Would love to travel with you to Dubai and see my heroes there :D
oh i would really love to go to this!!!!
If I win this, i'd be over the moon and in Dubai!
My Mom lives in Abu Dhabi, our birthdays are both in March, I've always wanted to hone my skills and gain insight from the talented community at a photo workshop... this seems like the perfect recipe for a PhotographicReunionBirthday-aganza!
It really would be an amazing learning experience to go to all those workshops.
I'm still learning the ins and outs of photography and would love an opportunity to go to the workshop. Plus it's in a fabulous city with amazing photographers! Thanks for offering the opportunity to all of us Fstoppers!
I am so ready to spend a week learning from some of the greatest while struggling to keep sand out of my gear. And Dubai, definitely on the bucket list!
thats an awesome contest! would love to join!
A fantastic offer and opportunity to learn and improve my skills. Please make my dream a reality
This is an amazing opportunity and fstoppers are one in a million to offer it. I know it's a random draw but I hope the person who wins deserves it!!
Exciting contest - would LOVE to see Dubaii
This would be so incredibly awesome!
I will be there anyway. Yes, Dubai has been waiting for me long enough. They have managed to build the Burj-al Arab and Burh-al Kalifa, but I needed my time. This time has now come. My photography can handle the sheer power of the place, my gear can withstand the deadly sandstorms in the same way Tom Cruise handled it in his last Mission Impossible. I know that Dubai will welcome me warmly with two kisses on both cheeks and that it will leave in my mind images which will transcend any CMOS matrix. I will never be the same person again, not will be my photography.
Thank you for the great contest guys, I just need to win this like all the guys here
cheers
I've always wanted to visit Dubai. Gulf Photo Plus Rocks!!!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this AY-MAY-ZING contest! May the aperture gods smile down upon all the contestants... and.... well... pick me :)
I am a young aspiring photographer and would love this opportunity to learn and experience so much more about the industry!
Fstoppers is awesome! Sounds like a great trip. My fingers are crossed.
This would be amazing and is exactly what I need right now. You guys rock!
I love F Stoppers I find it brings together the very best of pro photographic content from around the world and F stoppers originals is amazing. If I won it would be the perfect gift from the perfect website;)
You don't even have to pay for my hotel. My brother (who I haven't seen in years) lives in Dubai. You could make two dreams come true at the same time.
This would be an awesome opportunity.
Would Love to go! this is a killer contest!
FStoppers and GPP a dream combination.