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
Wow! What an amazing opportunity!!
Oh la la I think I should be there.
I can already see myself in one of the classes. PICK MEEEEEEEE :'-(
Always great to come to FStoppers' site. Cant wait to see whats coming in 2013
Yes yes yes! You guys are so generous. Thank you so much. I've always wanted to go to Dubai.
Yes yes yes! You guys are so generous. Thank you so much. I've always wanted to go to Dubai.
Hi there I really want to go to GPP
Thank you,
love this opportunity to travel :)
You guy rock with the contests and I hope I win! Keep being awesome!
This prize would mean the world to me, Within the next month I will be quitting my full time job to pursue my passion of photography and storytelling fulltime while writing a Cultural blog. This trip to learn from not only great photographers but to get to meet you guys as well and discuss successful blog techniques would be amazing. Add to that the opportunity to produce a story of the culture of Dubai while I'm there as one of my first original content pieces would be out of this world. I thank you for the opportunity to take part in such a great giveaway.
This would be the trip of a lifetime and then to add
the workshops on top makes it just unbelievable. Keep up the great
work.
Would love the opportunity to see the culture in Dubai and PhotoPlus Show! And learn something new always and bring back some memories on my SD-Card.
Love the work you do and instruvctional videos on YouTube!
Pretty sure this trip would not only enhance my photography business...but my life as well.
Kudos to the good people at FStoppers!
awesome! would be very thakful!
It's a pleasure to enter this contest!
It took 15 minutes just to scroll the page!! ;)
What an amazing opportunity...Would defitnitely not miss this, what a chance of lifetime!!!
Totally cool, seems like you guys are almost overdoing it :) Christmas is late this year...
Fstoppers
is awesome! Great info and great contest!
Seriously, this would be the chance of a lifetime. (Posting on all 3 platforms just for good measure!)
Hey, Lee and Patrick,
It's just a two hour drive down I-26 to Charleston for me to join y'all on the flight to Dubai.
It would be awesome to attend the workshops in Gulf Photo Plus.
I see where David Burnett. His photo of photographing the Olympics went viral with his Graflex.
The workshops look awesome! Lighting? I have a Sunpak 522 "potato masher". Portraits? Heck yea!
I still shoot 35mm film. Can I buy film and get film developed and scanned locally in Dubai?
Can't wait to hear who wins this. I smell an EPIC adventure!!!
I Nothing could more special than winning this awesome contest. Good luck everybody
Pretty please
Would love to .. thanks!
Be there with your guys is a good opportunity to come closer to perfection...the first step is done - bought How to Become a Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer, next step is a few amazing workshops and a beer after that, right?
Can't beat this contest.
Really a nice contest by FStoppers.... :)
Great. I've already book that week off. Now I may have somewhere to go.
I'm in!
This is totally awesome, the site rocks and this prize is gold!
Dubai + Gulf Photo FTW!
That would be GREAT, yoe are awesome fstoppers
That would be GREAT, yoe are awesome fstoppers
The chance is small, but still better than the lottery. (so I hope... ;-))
Extra awsome. Good luck to all.
This is truly a once in a lifetime chance ( for me at least ) and an amazing contest that you put together. Wishing a blast for whoever will be the winner ;)
I woudl love to shoot a time lapse in Dubai for Fstoppers.
Greatest-price-EVER!
Wow, this would be such an amazing opportunity, and in such a beautiful city!
Would be amazing :)
Woow Amazing,, Awesome,, Dubai is a great place to boost my photography skills,, hopely i can meet you there,,, You guys rock!
cheers!
This would be the trip of a lifetime! Thank you Fstoppers for my daily dose of photography!
There is no better place in the world to take photos of awesome things than Dubai, I would be so honored to be able to go there and fulfill a dream!
I have my Passport ready and camera gear packed!! Pick me please!
This is the best contest I've ever seen!
This is the best contest I've ever seen!
This would be the start to moving my wedding career . Learning from the master would build my conference . i Live in London cuts the cost of air fair.
Wow, what a contest! I just got my first fullframe, a Canon 5D mkIII, and this would be the most fantastic way to learn more about photography, getting inspired while just having loads of fun :)
I am following fstoppers for quite some time, thanks for creating and updating such a wonderfull website. And thanks for giving us the chance to attend Gulf Photo plus event in Dubai, where we as photographers can learn so much!
Cheers
Mertens
This is an opportunity of a lifetime! I would love to have the chance to learn from the best!
Love photography, love Dubai, would be great to win such a fantastic prize.
I'm just wondering how I can attend ALL the workshops. I can't! Choosing is way too hard!