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Wired.com has periodic photo contests with a wide range of themes. Viewers can vote on all the submitted photos and the top ten rated will appear on Wired.com homepage. The current theme is summer.

“Summer is finally here, and we under-sunned desk turds want to see what fun looks like. Remind us what it is to be young and capable of joy again with a skillfully captured frame.”

See photo contest details and submit a photo!

Deadline Extended until April 18th, 2008

Photography & Photojournalism Contest-

Beyond the Stick is an open category competition for Filipino photographers and graphic designers at Amateur, Advanced Amateur and Professional levels.
Participants are asked to submit photos and images that unmask and expose the “socio economic” dangers of cigarette smoking and the tobacco epidemic.

The object of this Contest is to submit an original photograph or photo with graphics, personally composed by the participant for judging before a panel of judges selected by FCAP. Photos will be evaluated on how well it conveys the theme: “Beyond the Stick” FCAP is especially interested in photographs that depict the societal and economic costs of smoking.

The Contest Period begins on February 15, 2008 and ends on March 18, 2008. All entries must be received by FCAP by 5:00 p.m. of the closing date in order to be eligible to judging.

Contest is open to all persons regardless of nationality or age. Those under 18 years of age must include the written consent of their parents or guardians along with their submission. Employees of FCAP may not participate.

It is a photography and photojournalism competition that allows the participants to submit plain photographs or published works that speak for themselves or those combined with other visuals, texts, tag lines and slogans.

Participants may use any Digital or Film-based camera. Images should be printed on an 8 x 10-inch photopaper. Inkjet or photolab prints will be accepted. . Black and white images will be accepted, but duotone images are not eligible. Digital images will not be returned.Those who submit in digital form will not be accepted.

There are no restrictions as to the use of creative effects at the time of exposure, such as multiple exposures, flash fill, lighting, filtration, etc. or Manipulation of main images, digital retouching and full manipulation (density, contrast, cropping on composition, burning, dodging and global adjustments, layering etc.. )

The photograph may or may not have been taken or executed during the competition period. Entries MUST NOT have won any other contests/competitions. The name of the participant should not appear on the face of the entry. The images and the texts must be original creation and MUST not be owned by another individual.

Continue here for the official competition website

I recently finished reading Dan Hellers book titled “Profitable Photography in the Digital Age.” I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to get a better look into the photography business. I learned a lot about the photography industry and he provides a good background about using the internet to promote your images. The chapters that I really enjoyed were Chapter 2: The Five Truisms of the Photography Business, Chapter 5: Photography Marketing, Chapter 6: Photography Pricing, Chapter 8: The Stock Photography Business

Dan Heller is a stock photographer from California and has one of the most successful individual stock websites on the web.

You can purchase his books online from his website. His site also has a lot of useful information I believe taken from his books that is available for free. It’s not too often that you find someone who is willing to share information like this with everyone.

I also just started another book of his that I ordered at the same time as “Profitable Photography in the Digital Age.” This book is called “How to Make Money with Digital Photography.” It looks like there is some overlap of information in the two books, but just the first few chapters. The second book has a lot more pictures and is printed in full color. I’ll be sure to let you know my thoughts after I have read through it all. So far I have found that the first book provides more information that pertains to what I am looking for.