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
I certainly hope that you F Stop here on my name because that would be an awesome trip to learn and photograph in a totally unique place! Plus tossing in other learning material... you guys are over the top.
Thank you FStoppers team for such a nice opportunity. It would be so great to win this trip!
I've never won anything in my life and this would be an amazing trip witch would really help my photography.
Winning would make my 2013 and 2014!
All right, I'm in :) Great effort, guys!
you guys are awesome and I would love to have the opportunity to meet all those cool guys in person and learn from them. thanks a lot for the generous contest, I can't wait till you announce the winner :)
Amazing contest! Would love to go hang out with you guys!
you guys are awesome and I would love to have the opportunity to meet all those cool guys in person and learn from them. thanks a lot for the generous contest, I can't wait till you announce the winner :)
I'd love to visit Dubai to take photos at the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo
Sounds like great fun! I'm ready!
PS: There's no name displayed on my earlier comment. Hope this time it works.
My favorite part of photgraphy is traveling and seeing new things to change your perspective.
you guys are awesome and I would love to have the opportunity to meet all those cool guys in person and learn from them. thanks a lot for the generous contest, I can't wait till you announce the winner :)
You guys rock! I would LOVE to go for this! I had given up on being able to go this year and decided to save up for next year...I can figure out where to stay in Dubai if that helps :)
this is just too awesome not to give it a chance! keep it up Fstoppers, ur blog is one of the bests!
My girlfriend just went on a five months working holiday in Australia with her sister. This trip would be the perfect way to get a poor photo enthusiast's mind focused on something awesome!
this is just too awesome not to give it a chance! keep it up Fstoppers, ur blog is one of the bests!
All i ever tried was combat in the desert.. So as a photographyenthusiast i would love this experience with some of the great photographers.. But if i dont win then i wish the happycamper that wins all the best and hope this will a dream come throu!
Peter Selchau, Denmark
This is an amazing opportunity. Ive attended many workshops thruout the county but have never had the chance to go to Dubai. Is probably one of the places highest on my list of places to see.
Awesome. This FS is best name in the world !!!
I would love a chance to go to Gulf Photo Plus!
Oh i would love to take some long exposures over there... :-)
gimmie gimmie one ticket to dubai!
It's about time I explore GPP!
Thanks for the generous offer, Fstoppers!
I'm the winner!!!
Wedding has always been my passion, the ability to capture moments at the right time, and at the right place.
I've always referred to Fstoppers for lots of inspirations. Keep up the good work!
Great contest and opportunity to learn not only about photography but from another culture
I'd love to attend - thanks for another great contest!
Sounds like a great contest - I'd love to attend. Keep up the good work guys!
What a good luck it would be to win the Dubai experience as well as the DVDs!
One week ago today I resigned from my job to follow my dream of being a full time photographer, this trip and the workshops would help to provide an even stronger starting point.
I would love to go this looks amazing!
What an incredible opportunity!! This is awesome!!
- Hannah Farmer
Wow!!! how many comments... and no fights this time :D
Thanks for creating this opportunity. Good luck to everyone.
Talk about a freaking amazing contest! I've wanted to visit Dubai for years, but stack on some absolutely brilliant photography seminars? THAT is the perfect vacation if you ask me~
Wouldn't that be like a dream come true? Is 13 gonna be lucky for me?...?
Take care, guys! Keep up the good work!
Wonderful Contest!!
Let's try!! Hopig to win...
Greating from Italy
This is a great contest!
As a poor college student studying photography, I must say this would be a pretty awesome oppurtunity. This would be the closest thing to being able to studying abroad for me without the huge student loans.
As a poor college student studying photography, I must say this would be a pretty awesome oppurtunity. This would be the closest thing to being able to studying abroad for me without the huge student loans.
Looks like a great trip!
It would be amazing to win this! I have always wanted to travel to Dubai (the UAE in general) and photograph there. Please pick me! I have my passport and I am ready to go!
Gulf Photo Plus + Dubai... it's an awesome combination!
Got my passport ready! Let's do this!
Would love to have all access pass to the various Gulf Photo Plus seminars of 2013 and would be honored to meet you guys. I have been a fan of fstoppers ever since its inception and it would be great to win this. Once again kudos for arranging this contest.
I would be love to be able to go to the Gulf Photo Plus!
That would be THE trip! Awesome contest!
I know the odds are stacked against me but I'm going to give it a go anyway.
I'm saving up to get to one of these events but it'll be a while yet before I can afford it.
It would be soooo col if Fstoppers were to pay it for me :D
I'd love the opportunity to go on such an amazing trip!
I'm in. Let's go!
hahaha, it's crazy how many people are commenting on this compared to all the other posts on here, and I'm no different. here's me throwing my rock into the wishing well and crossing my fingers :P