Contest will award 20-inch iMac to best iPhone photographer

February 7th, 2008, 10:01 am · Post a Comment · posted by Sonya Smith

All you budding photographers with iPhones prepare, a picture contest is underway.

The iPhone Photography Awards contest runs through March 31 and the top winner will receive a 20-inch Apple iMac computer. A few iPhone photos are already featured in the IPPA gallery. The photo at the left is from that gallery and it was taken by Corey Beaman.

The IPPA creator, Kenan Aktulun, is an avid photographer and design enthusiast who said the contest started with the iPhone.

“When I got my iPhone I was very impressed and fascinated by how much it changed my use of a cellphone. I started seeing the similar effect in other iPhone users behaviors as well. So the idea of this competition is to celebrate this change and encourage the creativity of the iPhone users. Initially I setup the award as a beta to inspire the iPhone owners but the overwhelming response led it to where currently is,” Aktulun said.

He also said that buzz about the competition is growing and entries have started coming in from across the U.S. and from a few other countries.

Contest rules:

Costs for entering are: $2.50 for each photograph, $5 for three photographs, $10 for five photographs.
The contest runs through March 31 with the following categories: nature, flowers, landscape, seasons, sunset, trees, wildlife/pets, other, people, children, culture, family, lifestyle, portrait, special, travel, food, still life and sport.
Judges will award several Certificates of Honorable Mention to entries in each category. All photos will be entered for the top award: title of IPPA Photographer of the Year and an Apple iMac 20-inch computer. The work of the top winner and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category will be publicized on the IPPA online gallery and in an IPPA annual book about eight months after the contest ends.
Photos will be judged on the basis of artistic merit, originality, subject and style. Entries will not be returned and only winning entries will be kept on file for promotional purposes. All photos used by IPPA will credit the photographer.
For more rules, click here.

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