PDN and WPPI present PhotoPlus Virtual Event on December 8, 2010

Introducing the biggest virtual photo event of the year! This cutting-edge online event will be jam-packed with educational Webinars. Attendees will have opportunities to chat with the industry's hottest imaging professionals and manufacturers though this unique platform. This is a great forum to learn about new products / services in multimedia and photography, and to gain the marketing tools needed to succeed in today's environment. Just like a live trade show, during this virtual event you'll be able to visit exhibitor's booths and network with other photographers. And best of all, it's FREE and you don't have to leave the comfort of your studio.

Register Today for this free one-day event going live on December 8.


Keynote - Chase Jarvis presents: Creativity and the New Social Art of Photography.

Don't miss this inspiring presentation and opportunities to ask questions live, online, following his presentation.

REGISTER TODAY FOR FREE! THIS LIVE EVENT IS ONE DAY ONLY.


www.pdnvirtualevents.com

ONWARD '11Submission Deadline (Now extended!): 11/30/10

Project Basho is pleased to announce ONWARD ‘11, an annual juried photography competition exclusively featuring the work of emerging photographers. ONWARD focuses on new work that continues to push the medium. With ONWARD, photographers have the opportunity to present their vision and talent to a broad audience.

For submission guidelines, please see the guidelines page.

Photographers: You Have 7 Days to Join the One Life Photo Project!

This is your final chance to join:   SHARE YOUR PHOTOS WITH THE WORLD AND HAVE A CHANCE AT: $25,000 OR AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL   Your final deadline is Monday November 15, 2010 11:59pm EST   CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS   You are invited to share your perspective in a world wide search for photography that illuminates One Life, Your Life. From travel to portraits, to intriguing objects and ideas, your photographs tell stories. Now is your chance to share your vision with the world. Click here to begin.

Advertising Annual Winners

The Best Advertising of the Year, Now Online!

2010 Advertising Annual Winners Now Online!

Communication Arts announces the winners of its 2010 Advertising Competition. Now in its 51st year, this year’s prestigious competition selected 149 winning pieces from nearly 5,000 entries submitted from around the world. The winning projects and a list of the award-winning agencies can be viewed at: "Not surprisingly, the best ideas were the simplest. The biggest ideas didn’t always have the biggest budgets." —Brian Brooker (2010 Advertising Annual Juror) The award-winning work is also beautifully reproduced in the November/December 2010 issue of Communication Arts. Subscribe now and receive the print version of this issue, five additional issues (including the Typography, Interactive, Illustration, Photography and Design Annuals) PLUS, access to all Premium Online Content at www.commarts.com. Every feature article and competition winner from 2004 forward—18,000+ award-winning images and videos—in a searchable, multimedia format.

Photo Plus Portfolio Reviews from Palm Springs Photo Festival + PDN

Portfolio Reviews at PhotoPlus Expo is New York's most comprehensive Portfolio Review program.

Nothing is more important than face-to-face meetings in a time when arranging to meet the people that can change your career is next to impossible.

What could be more meaningful in these changing times for a photographer than getting solid, honest feedback from real-world influencers? Attending first rate Portfolio Reviews is an important way to obtain valued feedback and critiques as well as the possibility of new assignments.

If you don't live there, plan your trip to New York City to spend three days meeting a huge cross-section of potential clients that you need to know. Show your work to book publishers, magazine photo editors, gallery and museum directors and curators, advertising agency creatives, music company art directors and more.

The Palm Springs Photo Festival and Photo District News have teamed up to present this major review program during this year's PhotoPlus Expo at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, October 28-30.

You are invited to register for the Official PhotoPlus Expo Portfolio Review Program. See our on-going list of over 85 Portfolio Reviewers.

The PhotoPlus Expo is America's premiere photography / video tradeshow. Have your work reviewed and spend a day or two checking out all the latest gear.

Please see the Palm Springs Photo Festival website or call 1-800 928-8314 for complete details.

REGISTER NOW

Nonfiction Book Proposal - starts Apr. 15 in NYC

Serious times call for serious writing. And any serious writer will tell you that nonfiction books, the biggest part of the publishing market, get sold through the proposal. In our Nonfiction Book Proposal course starting Thursday, April 15, literary agent Ryan Fischer-Harbage will show you how to write a killer proposal that will make agents and editors take notice.
Class starts Thursday, April 15 and seats are limited so sign up now!

Carmen
Carmen Scheidel | director of education, events, and multimedia content | mediabistro.com
P.S. There's still room in our Breaking into Online Writing seminar on Wednesday, April 7. Click here to register now.

Nonfiction Book Proposal

Complete a polished proposal that will make it out of the slush pile

Get the attention of busy agents and editors and sell them on your book. Got a great idea for a nonfiction book but don't know what to do with it? In this workshop, we'll take your idea, develop it, and turn it into something you can write and sell. By the end of the course, you'll be armed with a fully realized proposal and the knowledge you'll need to get it to publishers. >> learn more In this class, you will learn: How to tell if there's a market for your book The parts of a successful nonfiction book proposal The right voice and writing style for your proposal What your final product should look like What to do with your proposal once its finished How the publishing industry works and how you might fit in

Learn more and register now
Prefer to register by telephone? Call us at 212-547-7890.

PDN's Faces Call for Entries

A FIRST PLACE WINNER will be selected for each category.

ALL FIRST PLACE WINNERS will each receive a digital camera,
a Photo Serve portfolio (worth $860), a PDN PhotoPlus International
Gold Expo Pass, a Crumpler bag and one complimentary 16x20 print
from Modernage - up to $150 value.

ONE WINNER will receive a CP-3800DW Printer from Mitsubishi Digital. 

THREE FIRST PLACE WINNERS will receive a 100 Gift Card from Black River Imaging

ONE SPECIALLY SELECTED FIRST PLACE WINNER will receive a Free Mosaic Album or $500 Gift Card from Black River Imaging

THE WINNERS WILL BE PRINTED IN THE JULY 2010 ISSUE OF
PDN AND IN AN ONLINE GALLERY

NEW FOR 2010!
PDN is expanding our distribution to include over 5,000 creatives!
Winning work will be seen by industry photo editors, art directors
and art buyers!

• CELEBRITY/EDITORIAL PORTRAITS(STUDIO) • ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITURE

• SELF-PORTRAITS  • ANIMAL PORTRAITS

SINGLE ENTRY SERIES STUDENTS

$35 PER IMAGE $50 PER SERIES $20 (SINGLE OR SERIES)

A Series consists of up to six visually-related images that will be judged as a single entry.

*Pay $10 per entry for the extended deadline: APRIL 5, 2010. All entries received after March 15, 2010 will be charged an extended deadline fee of $10 per entry.

or go to facesphotocontest.com

PDN's Photo Annual call for entries

 

Prizes/Awards/Recognition

An awards celebration for the winners will take place in May 2010 in New York, NY. The winners and their work will be featured in the May issue of PDN and on our Web site.
NEW THIS YEAR! The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and Maine Media Workshops Scholarship and Prize for New Directions in Creative Photographic Portraiture. Photographers are invited to enter portrait photography for consideration in this new category.
The winner will receive $15,000 and a solo exhibit at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Prizes total over $20,000!

Marty Forscher Fellowship

The Marty Forscher Fellowship recognizes students and young professionals with a talent for humanistic photography. The fund will award two grants in 2010. Photographers are eligible by entering humanistic documentary images to the PDN Photo Annual. The Fellowship is sponsored by Parsons School for Design and Photo District News.

Here are some of the PDN PHOTO ANNUAL recent entries:
http://www.pdnphotoannual.com/entries.shtml

Computers and the Internet are Inspiring Us to Create

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by: Daniel Punch

Computers and Internet are not deadening our heads; they are inspiring us to create!

The Internet is sometimes criticized (usually by parents who think their kids need to be outdoors more often) as leading people to be sitting in front of their computers all day growing bulbous, lethargic and (depending on who you talk to) stupid. I think that the opposite can often be true. My friends and I have recently been inspired to new creative ventures through the time spent online. Read More>>