The Ventura Harbor Photo Contest, sponsored by the Ventura Harbor Community Council, Ventura Port District, and Ventura Harbor Village, is running its first annual competition. This contest is open only to Brooks students. Photos must be taken at the Ventura Harbor and can be of any subject matter: people, wildlife, stores, ocean/islands, boats, etc. Brooks will print and matte the top 30 photographs, which will be judged by the public on March 26th. First Prize will be $500, Second-$350, Third-$200, Honorable Mention-$100, and 10 passes on Island Packers for runner ups.

The photographs will also be shown and sold at a gallery in the Harbor, and the sponsors retain promotional rights to the winning photos for one year.

Criteria for photographs:

Images must be taken in the Ventura Harbor. The contest is only open to Brooks students.

Deadline for submissions: April 18th

Submisisons should be turned in to Jesse Groves at the Ventura campus. Questions? Email Jesse at jesse.groves@brooks.edu or call (805) 653-8325

Image 08 is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and open to all professional and student photographers residing in the United States. Submit one or more of your favorite images that were created on or after January 1, 2007. The deadline for entry submissions is May 14, 2008. For more information see their website: http://www.asmpny.org/image08/

Entry fees are $15 per image for students who are ASMP members and $25 per image for non-member students. An unlimited number of images can be entered.

If you just can't get enough photo competition, and maybe you've still got that Holga you didn't return after Holgamania! (or one of your own even), then you may want to surf on over to Wired.com's Holga-based photo contest. Basically it's a super laid back "contest" with winners getting.. um, nothing as far as I can tell, other than recognition and mild notoriety among die hard Wired readers. You'll be giving up little to nothing in the way of rights other than, "by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on our site, both here and in a gallery of the top photos." Not the typical photo contest rights-grab, eh?

The only guideline is that the photo is supposed to represent the idea of "wired" however you choose to interpret that. Hurry up if you want to enter; the deadline is this Thursday, February 21st.