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SmugMug Pro Account Giveaway!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

thumb_smugmug-pro_280x170-1We’ve teamed up with leading photo hosting and sharing provider, SmugMug, to bring you another great giveaway!  Win a SmugMug Pro Account for a year—a $150 value—in this new contest.  We’re sold on SmugMug, especially their Pro Level. Their Pro level membership lets you proof, archive and sell your photos online. You get gorgeous galleries, full pricing control, unlimited photo and video uploads, full customization options and tools to protect your photos.

We have three easy ways to win, and each counts as an entry!

  1. Like SmugMug on Facebook.
  2. Like OPG on Facebook.
  3. Leave a comment below on this blog article that you’d like to win.

We’ll pick the winners by random drawing on Friday April 1 (no fooling!) and notify the winners by email.

Good luck and thanks to our pals at SmugMug!

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Why SmugMug Pro Video Transcript

Chris Macaskill: Our passion for photography goes beyond just sharing them online because it’s our passion and our life and our legacy. How do we deliver our client’s perspective of the world?

Don Macaskill: How do we deliver the best photo sharing experience to our customers?

Chris Macaskill: How do we give them what they need? Those are the questions we’ve been asking ourselves since the beginning.

Don Macaskill: They are the questions that drive our business, that drive our product.

Sam Nichols: What we have done is it allows photographers and artists to show the world how awesome their stuff is.

Dale Federighi: Photography in and of itself represents a person’s view of the world.

Michael Soo: I am a photographer because I have to be.

John Harrison: Being able to capture the essence of these fantastic places that I’m at.

Brian Strong: We deliver the complete solution to help them manage their world.

John Harrison: And if no one sees them, then what’s the point? And the way that SmugMug has helped me establish my presence, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today.

Larry Abitbol: There’s a lot of great things working at SmugMug, but one of the greatest is their continuous new product development.

Dale Federighi: We have a really rich feature set that a lot of pros simply want to use and know will benefit them.

Sam Nichols: We make things cool.

John Harrison: Whether it’s a small thumbnail or a gigantic panorama, it looks beautiful.

Michael Soo: It can be customized It can be integrated It’s a no- brainer.

Man: I’ve used SmugMug in general as really a group of photo geeks.

Chris Macaskill: Our passion for photography goes beyond just sharing them online.

Brian Strong: 90% of this company are photographers.

Chris Macaskill: We can understand why they’re passionate about a feature, why they want it to wok one way or the other.

Don Macaskill: It really helps mold a product that pros really love and want to use.

Chris Macaskill: Because we are photographers.

Don Macaskill: It’s how we’ve grown the feature set. It’s how we’ve innovated and extended the product.

Stephanie Theune: We listen to all of our customers. What you actually say comes in and we hear it, and we hope to react.

Don Macaskill: So, we went out and got the best print lab we could find after lots of testing. Bay Photo, which I think is the best professional print lab in the world.

Larry Abitbol: We’re proud to be providing the professional print services for SmugMug.

Chris Macaskill: The quality of the craftsmanship is like no lab I’ve ever seen in the world.

Don Macaskill: SmugMug is a different kind of company. We built it that way from day one.

Dale Federighi: I love the company.

Sam Nichols: This is beyond a full-time job for me.

Stephanie Theune: It’s not just a job for any of us.

Man: We’ve got my wife, who’s the chef, who cooks awesome lunches.

Man: We eat together. We play together.

Man: Everybody who starts in the company gets their face painted.

Man: I’ve never felt so a part of a team and a family.

Frederique Dame: It’s just a very energizing environment where everyone is really living their passion.

Michael Soo: What SmugMug does is they deliver my love and my life and my passion.

John Harrison: SmugMug really helps me deliver my perspective of the world.

Frederique Dame: It’s more than a company, and I am very grateful to be part of this.

Chris Macaskill: SmugMug is a company where we just followed our passion for photography, and we wanted to make the biggest, most beautiful galleries for your photos and videos that you could find anywhere on the net, and that’s what we’ve done.

Winners Announced In Our Big Gear Giveaway!

Friday, February 11th, 2011

 

We have winners!

These folks were drawn randomly today and will be receiving an email shortly.

We are truly thankful of our friends and supporters from around the world.

Thanks to all who entered and watch for future giveaways!

 

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Black and White Contest Winners Announced

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

I want to say this was probably the hardest Black and White contest I’ve ever had the privilege of judging. Before I announce the winners I want to remind everyone that I enter contests every year and guess what? That’s right, I don’t always win. I know can you believe it…;)  If there’s one thing I’ve learned from not only entering contests but judging them is this: we look at every image based upon composition, exposure, etc., but in the end, to be very truthful, it’s very subjective. Either an image speaks to a judge or it doesn’t. I have to come to terms with this when I submit my own work for contests and I hope everyone here understands the same.  Moving forward…

I want to thank everyone for entering and as always there are no real losers. As a matter of fact, I would say everyone was a winner because your work has been seen by well over 12,000 unique visitors!  This truly was the best Black and White Photo Contest with the most talented artists to date.

I want to thank my partners for helping me put together a great contest and for donating killer prizes for our winners.

Black Rapid for donating a strap of your choice.  Black Rapid is the only strap I use on my camera…Period!

Outdoor Photo Gear for donating Nik Software Silver eFex Pro. Outdoor Photo Gear is simply the best when you need expert advice!

Drum roll please….

The winners of the Second Annual Black and White Photo contest are:

Portrait Photography

Saeed Rezvanian- Portrait Days

 

Landscape

Steve Silverman-  The Tin Man

Still Life

Peter Rose- English Country Tea Time

Congrats to the winners.  Please feel free to email me so that I can arrange delivery of your prizes.  I want to thank everyone once again for entering.  It was just a wonderful contest with some amazing images.   Keep posted because this Wednesday I’ll be updating my blog with the honorable mentions. 

Thanks again, John

Enter Our Black & White Photo Contest!

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

John Batdorff Black and White photo Contest

The last time we did a photo contest with John Batdorff, it was a huge success! We gave away a Black Rapid RS-W1 Women's strap to one lucky winner, and made a lot of new friends in the process.

This time, we’ve added more prizes and categories for this new contest:  Black and White images in Landscape, Portrait and Still Life. 

Prizes this time include your choice of Black Rapid Straps and Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro.

Read the contest rules and enter here or on our Facebook page.

Enter a Black and White image, vote on your favorites, have fun and win some prizes!  A big thanks to John for including us again!

We Have A Winner in the Snow Monkey Caption Contest!

Friday, January 29th, 2010
 

"Before that Nat Geo spread you could have this whole place to yourself … now just look at it!"
–Tom Twigg

Our friends at Digital Photo Experience, Rick Sammon and Juan Pons, have judged the best caption for our contest, and picked Tom Twigg's caption above.  Lucky ( and creative) Tom gets his choice of NEOS Overshoes!

We're leaving all the entries up for your reading pleasure.  This contest was a blast, and we'll repeat it with a new image in the future!

Congratulations to Tom, thanks to Rick and Juan, and thanks to Martin Bailey for such a fine image!

 

Snow Monkey Caption Contest
 

Congrats to Ted Stark!

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Ted_headshotTed Stark is the winner of our Canon 5D Mark II giveaway contest.  Thanks to Scott Bourne, this contest was “re-tweeeted” around the world!

We couldn’t have a nicer guy for a winner:

Theodore A. Stark is a Colorado native and an avid nature, wildlife, and architectural photographer. He also does portraiture work, focusing in the candid style.

Stark has been involved with photography since 2001 when he experienced a life changing event that, literally, changed his perspective on the world around. Add to that Stark is a Type I Diabetic and, as he puts it, “… I am aware that I -very well- may lose my vision at some point, so I should share what I can see while I still can.”

Stark is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Management Information Systems. He and his wife, Erin, currently live in Centennial, Colorado.

Awards:
2009 – Winner – “A Time Machine, A Magic Wand” – Denver Photo Contest – Four Seasons Private Residence Denver

Exhibitions:
2009 August – Backstage Coffee House, Denver, CO – “Urban Life”

You can view Ted’s website here: http://www.tstark.com/

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Win a $100 Gift Certificate!

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Store just by posting an image to the OPG flickr group.  On October 1 we will randomly pick an image from the group and award that lucky photographer the certificate.

Enter as many images as you like, up to 2 per day.

Even if you don’t post, you will enjoy browsing the group as our members have put up some wonderful stuff!