Contest

Enter To Win A New Nikon D600 w/AF-S NIKKOR 24–85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR Lens & Free Ticket To TAP at NAB

Posted by scottbourne on December 1, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , .

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Welcome to the next Photofocus contest. This contest starts December 1, 2012 and ends February 28, 2013. The winner gets:

Prizes: Nikon D600 Digital D-SLR Camera, 24.3 Megapixel, Outfit w/New AF-S NIKKOR 24–85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR  Zoom Lens , and a free conference ticket to the TAP digital publishing conference in Las Vegas at NAB. (Ticket only. Transportation, lodging, meals and transfers responsibility of winner if they decide to attend the conference.)

(PLEASE READ THIS PAGE CAREFULLY – IT ANSWERS ALL YOUR LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CONTEST!)

Here’s how to enter.

- Follow ScottBourne on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne
)
- Follow IAEPUB  on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/iaepub
 )

(If you are already following no need to unfollow and refollow – doing so repeatedly will get you permanently blocked and banned from our contests — we have recently blocked or banned several hundred followers who engaged in this practice after the last contest – if you are amongst those people – sorry – no need to enter because you are not eligible.)

- Tweet the message you see highlighted below once! (There is no advantage to tweeting more than once. There is also no penalty for tweeting more than once, but you won’t have any better chance of winning and you may anger your own Twitter followers if you decide to tweet more than once. Please keep track of your own entry. We can’t (and won’t) respond to requests asking about entry status.)

Twitter has changed its policy to no longer allow disabling of link shortening – so if you need to use a different link to get to the same exact contest page that’s fine. As long as people end up on this page – that’s all that matters. The rest of the Tweet must be identical to the one below.

Do NOT put the @ sign in front of Scott Bourne in the tweet. This is to cut down on noise to people who follow you and me.

Here is the Tweet:

Enter to win chance at a Nikon D600 w/24-85 VR Lens from @IAEPUB & Scott Bourne. Please RT. Info at: 
http://bit.ly/SxBcMX

Official Rules: All general Bourne Media Group/Photofocus contest rules apply. In addition:

No purchase necessary to enter or win.

1. You must be 18 years or older to enter
2. You must be following Scott Bourne (
http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne
) and IAEPUB on Twitter - Follow IAEPUB  on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/iaepub
 )
3. You must send out the above tweet EXACTLY as it appears. A failure to do so will disqualify you.
4. The prize will be announced on March 1, 2013 by Scott Bourne via Twitter and on Photofocus.com.
5. US residents responsible for any taxes (if any) incurred as winner. If you live outside the US you are responsible for any taxes, custom duties and shipping in the event you win. We will only ship the prize to a US address. Foreign winners must be able to retrieve the prize from a US address to be eligible to win.
6. If users make lots of Twitter accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Anyone found to use multiple Twitter accounts to enter will be ineligible.

Scott Bourne will keep a record of each tweet in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we cannot and will not answer ANY questions about the contest on Twitter or via e-mail. The information you need is all right here.

Photofocus is excited to be working with IAEPUB. The International Association of E-Publishers is dedicated to helping anyone (including photographers) get published via the vast array of electronic publishing opportunities available today. IAEPUB offers training, trade shows, conferences and membership geared toward helping everyone get their ideas, photos and dreams into e-book form and into the hands of a large audience.

As always, if you are not a fan of these contests, please don’t participate. For the tens of thousands of you who do enjoy the contests, we’ll continue to try to find new contests and new prizes that will make it fun and interesting to be a part of the Photofocus family. Thanks for your support.

*We reserve the right to substitute a different camera of equal or higher value in the event the manufacturer cannot meet demand or to offer a cash equivalent paid in U.S. dollars to any winner.

Enter To Win Your Choice – Nikon D800 or Canon 5D MK III

Posted by scottbourne on October 31, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , .

Time for a NEW contest – to check all of our open contests – visit the OPEN CONTESTS page at Photofocus.com

(PLEASE READ THIS PAGE CAREFULLY – IT ANSWERS ALL YOUR LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CONTEST!)

Enter To Win Your Choice of  a New Nikon D800 or Canon 5D MK III *Body only

This contest starts today and ends on November 30, 2012. The winner gets their choice of a brand new Nikon D800 or Canon 5D MK III (body only.)

Here’s how to enter.

- Follow ScottBourne on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne
)
- Follow IAEPUB  on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/iaepub
 )

(If you are already following no need to unfollow and refollow – doing so repeatedly will get you permanently blocked and banned from our contests — we have recently blocked or banned several hundred followers who engaged in this practice after the last contest – if you are amongst those people – sorry – no need to enter because you are not eligible.)

- Tweet the message you see highlighted below once! (There is no advantage to tweeting more than once. There is also no penalty for tweeting more than once, but you won’t have any better chance of winning and you may anger your own Twitter followers if you decide to tweet more than once. Please keep track of your own entry. We can’t (and won’t) respond to requests asking about entry status.)

Twitter has changed its policy to no longer allow disabling of link shortening – so if you need to use a different link to get to the same exact contest page that’s fine. As long as people end up on this page – that’s all that matters. The rest of the Tweet must be identical to the one below.

Do NOT put the @ sign in front of Scott Bourne in the tweet. This is to cut down on noise to people who follow you and me.

Here is the Tweet:

Enter to win your choice of a Nikon D800 or Canon 5DMKIII from @IAEPUB & Scott Bourne. Please RT. Info at: http://bit.ly/W6VsIY

Official Rules: All general Bourne Media Group/Photofocus contest rules apply. In addition:

No purchase necessary to enter or win.

1. You must be 18 years or older to enter
2. You must be following Scott Bourne (
http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne
) and IAEPUB on Twitter - Follow IAEPUB  on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/iaepub
 )
3. You must send out the above tweet EXACTLY as it appears. A failure to do so will disqualify you.
4. The prize will be announced on December 1, 2012 by Scott Bourne via Twitter and on Photofocus.com.
5. US residents responsible for any taxes (if any) incurred as winner. If you live outside the US you are responsible for any taxes, custom duties and shipping in the event you win. We will only ship the prize to a US address. Foreign winners must be able to retrieve the prize from a US address to be eligible to win.
6. If users make lots of Twitter accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Anyone found to use multiple Twitter accounts to enter will be ineligible.

Scott Bourne will keep a record of each tweet in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we cannot and will not answer ANY questions about the contest on Twitter or via e-mail. The information you need is all right here.

Photofocus is excited to be working with IAEPUB. The International Association of E-Publishers is dedicated to helping anyone (including photographers) get published via the vast array of electronic publishing opportunities available today. IAEPUB offers training, trade shows, conferences and membership geared toward helping everyone get their ideas, photos and dreams into e-book form and into the hands of a large audience.

As always, if you are not a fan of these contests, please don’t participate. For the tens of thousands of you who do enjoy the contests, we’ll continue to try to find new contests and new prizes that will make it fun and interesting to be a part of the Photofocus family. Thanks for your support.

*We reserve the right to substitute a different camera of equal or higher value in the event the manufacturer cannot meet demand or to offer a cash equivalent paid in U.S. dollars to any winner.

Enter to win a brand new EPSON Stylus Photo R2000 Inkjet Printer

Posted by scottbourne on October 16, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , .

Enter to win a brand new EPSON Stylus Photo R2000 Inkjet Printer*

Sorry this contest is only open to residents of the USA.

This contest starts today and ends on November 30, 2012. The winner gets a brand new EPSON Stylus Photo R2000 Inkjet Printer.

Here’s how to enter.
- Follow ScottBourne on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne
)

- Follow Epson_Store US  on Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/Epson_Store
)

That’s it! That makes you eligible as long as you have a US shipping address. Want to double your chances of winning? Read on.

Simply re-tweet my post on Twitter about the contest and you get two chances to win. No need to RT more than once – it won’t improve your odds.

Twitter has changed its policy to no longer allow disabling of link shortening – so if you need to use a different link to get to the same exact contest page that’s fine. As long as people end up on this page – that’s all that matters.

Official Rules: All general Bourne Media Group/Photofocus contest rules apply. In addition:

No purchase necessary to enter or win.

1. You must be 18 years or older to enter

2. You must be following Scott Bourne (http://www.twitter.com/scottbourne) and Epson_Store on Twitter - (http://www.twitter.com/epson_store )

3. The prize will be announced on December 1, 2012 by Scott Bourne via Twitter and on Photofocus.com.

4. Winner is responsible for any taxes (if any) incurred as winner.

5. If users make lots of Twitter accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Anyone found to use multiple Twitter accounts to enter will be ineligible.

Scott Bourne will keep a record of each tweet in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we cannot and will not answer ANY questions about the contest on Twitter or via e-mail. The information you need is all right here.

Photofocus is excited to be working with Epson. They help photographers exceed their vision. Scott Bourne has used Epson printers nearly his entire pro career and they’ve never let him down. Their new papers, inks and printers are simply the best you can buy.

As always, if you are not a fan of these contests, please don’t participate. For the tens of thousands of you who do enjoy the contests, we’ll continue to try to find new contests and new prizes that will make it fun and interesting to be a part of the Photofocus family. Thanks for your support.

*We reserve the right to substitute a different camera of equal or higher value in the event the manufacturer cannot meet demand or to offer a cash equivalent paid in U.S. dollars to any winner.

(If you are already following no need to unfollow and refollow – doing so repeatedly will get you permanently blocked and banned from our contests — we have recently blocked or banned several hundred followers who engaged in this practice after the last contest – if you are amongst those people – sorry – no need to enter because you are not eligible. Please keep track of your own entry. We can’t (and won’t) respond to requests asking about entry status.)

Viewbug/Photofocus $10k Photo Contest Semi-finalists

Posted by scottbourne on August 24, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , , .

We’ve picked another crop of semi-finalists for the Photofocus/Viewbug $10,000 photo contest. Congrats to these fine photographers and see their pictures below.

If you haven’t entered this photo contest yet there is still time. There are no entry fees and you keep all your Copyrights. It couldn’t be simpler, cleaner or smoother.

Last Lensbaby Winner

Posted by scottbourne on July 2, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , .

On June 30 we ended our Lensbaby giveaway by picking our last winner. And the $400 Lensbaby package goes to:

@BrittMiscast

Britt Miscast – congratulations. Let us know whether you use Nikon or Canon and where to ship the lens and we’ll take it from there.

Didn’t win? There are still chances to get great gear free. Go to the Photofocus OPEN CONTEST page to find out what’s available.

Thanks.

Announcing The Winner Of The Viewbug D800/5D MK III Twitter Contest

Posted by scottbourne on June 1, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: , .

UPDATE the first drawn winner was disqualified for not following on Twitter according to the rules so we have re-drawn and the new winner is 

@SoKiwiPhoto

We apologize for not catching this before the contest winner was announced. We’re revamping how we pick the winners since this was technically not supposed to be possible.

On March 1, 2012 I announced a cool new Twitter contest for a chance to win your choice of a new D800 or 5D MK III. Today I announce the winner, selected by random number generator as outlined in our contest rules.

Lensbaby Winner

Posted by scottbourne on June 1, 2012
Posted in: Contest. Tagged: .

Congrats to Heather Webb – all she did was follow @ScottBourne to win a free Lensbaby.

If you’re paying attention you know we’re giving away one Lensbaby a month here at Photofocus. One of the three was given away last month and this month the winner is Heather Webb – @HMWebbPhotog - If you’d like to enter here’s the info - 
http://photofocus.com/2012/04/01/want-a-chance-to-win-a-free-lensbaby/