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, what way I would be able to improve my photography by getting to win this trip and be around some really amazing artists in their own right. I will be free and willing to drop everything to win this trip to learn from the best.
Awesome seeing the contests get better and better. Congratulations on a killer website. Please never die.
Burj Al Arab Hotel is always an architect icon for me. This is a small chance to win once in a lifetime dream, but thank you for the opportunity to daydreaming and trying to make my dream come sooner!
This is an epic opportunity - keeping my fingers crossed!
I would give my left nnnn.... I mean, I would be extremely thrilled to win this contest. FStoppers was the one resource that convinced me to take the plunge in photography, and it has been one of the reasons why my love for photography has grown tremendously since I bought my first DSLR. I'm on the fence now about becoming a professional photographer and this awesome trip may very well convince me to take the plunge, yet again. Thanks FStoppers for this opportunity!
What a great opportunity! Good luck to everyone (but really wishing I win)
I really really really want to go to Dubai!!
I'd love to go!
Dubai would be fantastic.
The best contest ever, and the best way to know and learn in other country!!
This is incredible! I wish everyone luck. Renewed my passport just in case :)
I could not compete in the contest of the DVD 'How to Become a Professional Wedding Photographer Commercial', so this time I'm going to win, and also the DVD of Peter Hurley woooowww, but for me it is a dream, a goal, and a sign from God if I win this ultimate trip, meeting you and the other great photographers. From Venezuela, their number one fan!!!
I would love to go to GPP! How great would that be? You guys rock!
I would loooove to be the lucky winner!
Having never traveled, i'd be grateful to be able to participate in that event.
The first photo site in my Google Reader. Love it.
Would be an opportunity of a lifetime. A once in a lifetime event. Best of luck to whomever gets this awesome chance to improve their photography skills and have an occasion to remember forever.
Hmmm.. Dubai...
I'm not a "professional" photographer in any sense of the word but I enjoy taking pictures and viewing all your videos and posts. But to win a trip to an amazing city like Dubai and soak up all the knowledge from the workshops would be an Invaluable experience.
Good luck to everyone.
It would be absolutely life changing to attend with you guys. What fstoppers does for the photo community is second to none. Thanks for sharing!
Always love the fstoppers content, especially when you guys don't skimp on the controversial content or sidestep asinine comments from haters and speak directly to them. contests like this are just icing on the cake. Keep up the good work guys and gals!
This is unbelievable! Would love to go!
wow, and amazing gift, you guys are become big star. thank you for what you do
I have a good feeling about this ..
Sounds like an awesome opportunity.
I'd love to win this!
Awesome prize, I'd love to go.
Wow, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. SO want to to win this!
This would be a dream come true opportunity! Please choose me
this is amazing!
You guys are great. This workshop would be fabulous!
This workshop would be great. Thanks for offering!
You guys are amazing for doing something like this!
Boy oh boy, this would be the best trip ever!! Can't wait to win it ;) lol
This is the best contest I have seen in a long time!
I would love to go!
This would be an AMAZING adventure, and getting to travel across the world to see some of the most forward thinking individuals of our time... I can barely even contain my excitement for whoever wins, even if it isn't me!
FStoppers.com the reference in photography
It would be an incredible experience for anyone to have in their lifetime and even though I seriously do want to win, I hope someone who needs it more than I do will. I say cheers to whoever wins and have a fun time :D Way to go FStoppers!!!
I would happily miss some class time to make this!
Wow, so many great photographers teaching amazing workshops, this is gonna be a great! Thanks for making this contest open internationally!!!
Would love to go!
This is a no-brainer once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Maybe once in two lifetimes...
Dubai is on my bucket list -- what a memorable trip GPP would make!
Dubai is on my bucket list -- what a memorable trip GPP would make!
Thats pretty cool for a BTS website ;-) Thanks for the opportunity/chance!
Great info and blog!
what a wonderful opportunity provided by Fstoppers, to attending a workshop with the best in the industry at GPP. Not to mention it took place in Dubai, which is one of the coolest city on earth.
Keep my fingers are crossed, both hands
sounds like a good opportunity to visit Dubai :D
i really want to go... i already bought my first workshop!!!