The Nature Conservancy Photo Contest

[Speed]

Having recently registered my photography business, I no longer qualify as an amateur. For those without that restriction, here's a photo contest for you to enter.

http://support.nature.org/site/PageS...az0zgcr1.app1a

I'd love to see someone from PR win this!

[mjs1973]

Thanks for the link Speed. I spent some time at a NC preserve this past spring. I will have to go through my pics and see if anything looks competition worthy. I better go read the fine print first tho.

[mjs1973]

Having recently registered my photography business, I no longer qualify as an amateur.

Speed,

Is nature photography your full time gig? Here is how the NC difines an amature for this contest:

By amateur photographer, we mean any beginning, amateur, or experienced photographers who do not receive a significant part of their income from nature photography.

[Loupey]

The definition of "amateur" varies considerably. There are some prominent contests which will allow amateur status as long as your income from photography is less than 50% of your total.

A lot of accounting "methods" to ensure a 49% rating if that is one's intention

[Speed]

"Is nature photography your full time gig?"

Only in my dreams...

I'm an endendured servant of Carteret County.

"photographers who do not receive a significant part of their income from nature photography"

Well in that case, I definitely qualify!!!!!

Photography accounted for about 2% of what I made this year!

On second thought, ignore this post. The Nature Conservancy does NOT have a photo contest going on...

;-)

[Speed]

The definition of "amateur" varies considerably. There are some prominent contests which will allow amateur status as long as your income from photography is less than 50% of your total.

A lot of accounting "methods" to ensure a 49% rating if that is one's intention

Apparently.

"A lot of accounting "methods" to ensure a 49% rating if that is one's intention."

I don't have to use any "methods". Photography generated about 2% of what I made this year. I WISH it was higher...

[mjs1973]

"Is nature photography your full time gig?"

Only in my dreams...

I'll second that!!!

On second thought, ignore this post. The Nature Conservancy does NOT have a photo contest going on...;-)

LOL!

Have you gone to the Flikr site to see all the photos that have been entered so far? I looked through quite a few of them at work today. There are some really nice photos on there, but I wan't impressed with the vast majority of them. The pics by Jim Dollar really blew me away tho.

There a little over 5000 photos uploaded to the gallery and most of them are for the Best Nature part of the contest. There were only a little over 300 entered for the Best from the NC Preserve category. So if you want to improve your chances, get to a preserve and start shooting.

[paulnj]

I see alot of mediocre images, but wow some are very impressive!

[Bevb]

I also had a look on the site, and posted some pics, but its a shame that no others other than US citizens can entre the competition!!
and i agree Paulnj, some happy snaps, and some very impressive shots but i suppose thats shows where we all start from.