Enter your favorite photo from a trip of a lifetime and maybe you'll win another trip of a lifetime.
How many photos did you take on your last adventure travel expedition? How many of those are good photos that you would want to share with strangers?
It could be a sweeping landscape, say, of Patagonia's iconic Torres del Paines at sunrise. Or, a close-up of a saffron-robed monk reading a newspaper in Chang Mai, Thailand. Or, a smiling child holding a baby lamb on the road to Macchu Pichu. Actually, those are some of my favorite pictures, taken on recent trips made more memorable by the wealth of images I took and took home.
These are two photo contests worth submitting your favorite photos to, since both have prizes of another grand adventure.
InterContinental Hotels and Resorts is looking for the one photo that is compelling enough to make the viewer want to visit that place. The contest is called Insights, and it is open for submissions from March 21 to July 1, 2007. Contest judges are photographers from National Geographic, and the winning entry gets a 16-day trip to the remote outback of Australia, the mountains of Tasmania and the Great Barrier Reef. Runners-up win a digital camera and other prizes.
The photography contest from tour operator Intrepid Travel is in cooperation with Lonely Planet. There are five categories of photos --
- real life experiences, for exotic food, transportation and activities
- families, for exploring the world together
- local friends is the smiles and giggles of the people you encounter on the road
- landscapes are sunsets, desert dunes, rice paddies, bazaars
- icons is for the world-famous cities and monuments
You can submit up to four images per category per month until the end of the contest on July 31. If you are lucky enough to win, yo get a trip -- also to Australia -- and the chance that Lonely Planet will publish and use your photo.
