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The following is excerpted from Winning Digital Photo Contests, a new book by Black Star Rising contributor Jeff Wignall. Jim Richardson has a career that most photographers can’t help but envy. As a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine for more than 25 years, he has traveled the world extensively and become one of the Geographic’s most prolific shooters.

Why Does National Geographic Love This Photo? In 2014 National Geographic invited photographers from around the world to submit photos in three categories: People, Places, and Nature. We received 9,289 entries from amateur and professional photographers from more than 150 countries.

Here’s a list of travel writing competitions with details of the competition host, the deadline date, a few key details and a website link for more information. If you host (or hear about) a travel writing competition, please send me an email to Jay(at)Birdsoafeatherpress.com, and I’ll add it to the list.

Cedric Houin of Brooklyn, New York, has won the 2012 National Geographic traveller photo contest with a photograph of a Kyrgyz woman and her daughter sewing with an old-fashioned-looking machine.

Enter the National Geographic Student Photo Contest, and you could win a spot on one of our photography trips! To be eligible for the Student Photo Contest, you must be at least 13 years old, enrolled in grades 7 through 12, and residing in the United States at the time of submission.

The results are in for this year's National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, and the photos are truly exceptional. They were selected from more than 17,000 global entries in the categories Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments.

May 19, 2015 - Pyramid Lines Photo by Juan Aguilar -- National Geographic Your Shot. May 19, 2015 - Pyramid Lines Photo by Juan Aguilar -- National Geographic Your Shot. Stay safe and healthy. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.

The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month. Mikko Takkunen. Feb 02, 2015.. His two sets of photographs, featured below, were made on assignment for National Geographic, and are the first two in a.

National Geographic: Reality or Myth?. The use of photography in National Geographic magazine is an attempt. to document what is happening around the world. A photographers task is to study. culture and then translate their observations through visual imagery. Viewers must. transcend their representational evidence of actual, specific human beings.

National Geographic traveller magazine just selected the winner and the runners-up of its 2012 traveller Photo Contest among more than 12,000 entries from 6,615 photographers in 152 countries.

Carolyn Drake: Sins of the Aral Sea (National Geographic) Photo essay highlights the current state of the vast inland sea that is now 90 percent gone.

See the winning images from the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.