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.
I would be love to be able
to go to the Gulf Photo Plus!
Oh good lord please let me win... it would be amazing
FIts in nicely with the easter break i'll be having too!
I'd love to learn about wedding photography as at the moment I'm acting as an assistant and this workshop and DVD would boost my career. Thank you so much
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I hope :)
I would love to go to Dubai and GPP. Thanks FStoppers.
PLEASE PICK ME!!!!
This is obviously a roll of the dice. But hey, I use the site nearly everyday so what does it hurt!
PICK ME!
contest entry is me
Long time follower, awesome contest, opportunity of lifetime!!
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It would be a blast to visit Dubai, see the sites, and learn both from the workshop and the DVDs.
I usually only play lotto for big things.....and that's a huge thing.
Gahh! This is an amazing opportunity to learn more about photography :). Good luck everyone! :)
I usually only playing lotto for the big jackpot........That's a huge photographer jackpot!
I hope whomever wins, will get the skills to become as successful as Joey L. or Peter Hurley. This way this prize will be put to good use for the entire community. Going to Gulf Photo Plus is still on my bucket list, but this year the money will go towards camera gear (shooting film is fun, but too much of a hassle nowadays)
Great initiative guys and gals! Congrats!
This is an amazing opportunity and to who ever wins, POST PICS! I want to at least feel like I was there :) I also wish continued success to FStoppers; what a way to start 2013.
Great job guys! Keep it up. It'll be an awesome start to 2013.
I'm sure my photography teacher wouldn't mind me missing class for this once and a life time opportunity and of course this great website and people would be the one who would offer it! Thanks Fstoppers!
Great contest.
What an amazing prize! Great opportunity!
This is a great offer. Usually I'm not a very lucky guy but, ... well maybe it changes one day...
Congratulations for your site, it's really great.
I have never won anything before, but this would be amazing to win! Let's see if Fstoppers can make a dream come true.
I would love to win this and learn everything possible
Chance of a lifetime and such a grand boost if you wanna go pro. Plus a trip out there would be the icing on the cake!
Hey FStoppers. Would be cool if this comp could benefit less fortunate people too. If i got to go to GPP i'd register GulfGivingBack.com (or similar) and use what i'd learnt to spread the love :) Ordinary family's deserve beautiful images too.
Dubai hear i come (if i win of course)!! Great prize, thanks for the this awesome opportunity.
I'd love to win such trip... would be a dream come true for me. I'm quite new to fstoppers.com, but since I know about your site, I'm here everyday. In our small country we don't have so many opportunities for such huge photoworkshops, so repeating myself, this would be a hell of a great experience... Good luck to everyone :)
It has been my dream to go to the GPP ever since that first time and this year was going to be the year...but then, pretty much everything went pear up and what was almost a reality is now nothing more than, well, again, a dream... Now, going with fstoppers, now THAT would be THE perfect dream come true!
I am the thousandth, I win !
WOW there is a lot of comments already, well might as well give it a shot. :)
would absolutely LOVE the opportunity
Have always wanted to go to Dubai and shoot. This is a great idea. Good luck to me.
I never win anything.. Maybe this time.. :)
Send me to The SHOW!!! I need to GO!!! WOO HOO!!!
After this trip i will start my photography business something i dreamed up for years
i would be very happy to win this great price! Thank you for this opportunity to win for free!
choose me! this may be the dream of my life coming true...
The chances are low, but it would be pretty dreamy...
Great oportunity, thanks to Fstoppers
Do WANT!
Hope to visit Dubai, for the first time
Hmmm...I think it broke it the first time...either way...DO WANT!
what an amazing opportunity, to win would be amazing, I love Fstoppers
you guys are great! may the best person win!
This would be such an awesome opportunity. I have always wanted to go to Dubai!
Would love to go as well - and from someone who does not have a facebook account, THANK You for not making that a requirement! :)
Just looking at the promos for the instruction videos, I feel energised already - like as if I've already won something! Count me in for Dubai!
WOW, would be great: seeing Dubai and meeting some great photographers.
I would love to attend Scott Hargis' workshop at GPP! Thanks for the opportunity!