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 is an amazing contest! I Would love to be at Gpp it sounds like a great event for a photographer to take part!
Would love to go to GPP and get the DVDs as well!
Many thanks for this opportunity!
Best contest i've seen in a while! Would love to win this!
Wow.. this would be a great opportunity for whoever wins! Great job fstoppers! and All the best for your visit to GPP.
Hope to win this contest! BTW i cleared all of March just in case...
Thanks for the helpful reviews in YouTube.
I would love to go! Plus I already got the wedding DVD!
awesome !
It would be a truly inspiring and humbling experience for anyone that was able to win this trip. As much as I would love to be able to go and expand not only my photography but my culture as well, I'd be happy for whatever person gets the chance to. The trip is truly amazing with a great city as a backdrop and the wealth of knowledge available in the two DVD's is a bargain even at their retail price. To everyone who has entered along with me, I wish you all the best of luck and hope you take full advantage of the winnings.
My passport is ready. This would be such an amazing trip that I can't begin to express it. Traveling to an exotic location with my camera is my dream!
My goal for 2013 is to take my business to the next level, and this trip would be a huge help! Thanks!!
o WOW so meny comments already :D
realy realy amazing contest... i can just dream to be that lucky to win and go to Dubai and learn from this amazing people :)
What an opportunity. I would be thrilled to participate.
What an opportunity. I would be thrilled to participate.
You should have your own workshop at GPP on how to organize cool contests! :D
that's an amazing offer , I hope it can be offered to a winner from outside the states
Cheers from Cairo - Egypt :)
This would totally rock my humble world......
This would be such a brilliant experience!
It would be the best thing It happen for the last 3 years if I win, meet FStoppers and all the others great photographers.
F stoppers you guys make the best videos out of SLR cameras and best idea shots.
Wanna join your trip to Dubai! :)
WOW. JUST WOW!! Win or Loose, just want to say thanks for giving us chances like this!!
I check into my bookmarked fstoppers tab everyday. As a result I'm sure
that I've lost hundreds of hours in my retouching productivity, but the
knowledge gained is invaluable. Cheers guys!
It would be a 90 degrees fahrenheit change in temperature for me, if I win!
what a chance! fingers crossed!
Sweetness...talk about the opportunity to launch yourself into every dynamic off photography. Whomever wins is one lucky kid
what a blessing to the photography community you guys have become in such a short time. Kudos
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I would definitely love to attend Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai!! :-)
I'm just a simple guy. I just learned the basic of photography when i was 30. Yet my age will never stops me.
I wanted to learn more and due to financial issues i can't go to workshops. So i am trying my best to learn in Youtube. If given an opportunity it will be a dream come true to me.And it would be my firsts win if ever :)
More power to all :)
It would be amazing to win, so I hope luck will be on my side :)
The prizes you guys are now offering/giving away are simply awesome. This one is incredible. Been 30 years since I was last in Dubai and would love to go back to see all the changes. The people and landscape were inspiring all those years ago and the desert was simply stunning. Just to see the southern sky at night is mind blowing given all our light pollution here in the UK. Would simply love to win. All the best. George
Fstoppers can make your dreams come true!
Travel, photography, and great video's to watch on the trip? sounds amazing to me.
Ok, I just planned my vacations 1st week of march ;-)
After loosing my dog of 12 years on Christmas day, this would be some needed redirection of both talent and emotion to focus on. And meeting the FStoppers Guys and Hurely would just be the icing on the cake.
Consider me please for a once in a lifetime trip with you crazy guys !
Really great chance to get experience of a lifetime
Patrick Hall is the better looking one. In a manly sort of way.
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This is awesome! I was just crunching the numbers trying to figure out how much it would cost to get there from the Caribbean. I am at the point in my career where this would be extremely beneficial to me! I've never won anything in my life but it doesn't matter because the fact that you are giving away this opportunity to some lucky person alone is amazing. You guys rock!
Good luck everyone and good luck with the wedding DVD fellas!!
This would be the best week ever!
You're always doing really unique things!
Spring in my area is not lovely at all and after a long and gray winter, it would be super great to fly into that workshop to be ready for the wedding season and offer the best !!!!
wow best contest ever i would love to go with you guys it would truly be a trip of a lifetime. And I have been eyeing for your DVD so it would be perfect.
I want to win!
Dubai would be such a great opportunity to expand my skills as a photographer!
I love it! Let's start!
Poor student living off of animal crackers (is there any other way?)...take me to Dubai and I'll share them with you :)
Go, go, go!!