Deposit Photos Deposit Photos is a Royalty Free image site that allows buyers to obtain photos via subscription sale or via purchasing credits directly from the site (e.g., 1 credit = $1.00, 50 credits = $50.00, etc.). They have grown extraordinarily rapidly since the beginning of their business over two years ago, and now house over five million images in over 35 categories. Image authors may submit photographs in the…

Fotolia is a stock image website that offers buyers photographs, illustrations, vectors, and videos, based in New York, New York. They have gained quite a bit of popularity in the UK and European markets, as well as having a steady base in the United States. Fotolia has been in business officially since January of 2005, which makes them about “middle aged” when it comes to stock photography sites (with Corbis…

Corbis Images In 1989, Bill Gates started Corbis Images (Corbis means “wicker basket” in Latin, and symbolizes the receptacle of visual media it has become). The site features over 100 million photographs, vector images, illustrations, and professional motion pictures. The site offers Royalty Free (aka Broad Rights) and Rights Managed (aka Limited Rights) content, and has divisions of commercial, editorial, news, sports, and entertainment content. Corbis Images offers its contributors…

Fotosearch Fotosearch started out of a necessity to fill a niche for people who were looking for specialized content and tools for publishing and graphic design. The company started putting together an immense catalog of stock photography that was able to be reviewed and purchased with the help of graphic design software. The site was fully launched in 1998 and was an accumulation of an extensive library for royalty free…

Bigstock is a royalty free image website that buys and sells images using a credit based system. Each photo or image has a credit cost of 1 to 6 credits each and depending on size can vary up to the price of about $3 on the higher end. More and more photographers and designers are adding their works of art to the site every day, meaning that the number of…

Zagat launched “The Twelve Days of Foodie Cheer” – an all-new photo contest available through Zagat’s contest page and Google+. Through the 12-day contest, Google+ users can enter original photos that best display holiday food — everything from gingerbread cookies and roasted chestnuts to holiday hams and other gourmet delights — for a chance to win a daily prize of a $500 gift certificate to a Zagat-rated restaurant of your…

AllPhotoAdventures 2011 Photography contest: Michael The Maven We have 6 categories to enter in and a $1,000.00 prize for each winning category. We also have other prizes from Thinktank Bags and coupons for various training DVDs from our store. The deadline is Dec. 1st, 2011 at Midnight Hawaii time zone. Click here for more information on Micheal the Mavin photo contest information.

AllPhotoAdventures The largest directory of photographic workshops and tours invites photographers worldwide to submit their best photos taken on landscape/nature/wildlife photographic workshops/tours/safaris/trips expeditions. A great prize awaits the winner and the winning photo will be displayed on our home page during one month. Images should be no more than 900×600 pixels, landscape or portrait format, and jpg/gif/png file type. For more information refer to: http://www.allphotoadventures.com/prize.aspx

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts International Photography competition Entries accepted through 12/31/2011 Eligibility: Open – All digital Entry Fee: $10 per Image Voting Fee: $1 Prizes: Best in Competition: $500, Best in Category: $250, People’s Choice Award: $250, Honorable Mention (6): $50 No limit on entries per person Link: http://www.mulabula.com/splash/fmopa.html

Mayor of Summerville GE Cameras ‘Mayor of Summerville’ Photo Contest The premise for our contest is pretty simple. The people of Summerville are looking for a hero, someone to lead them. Think you’re qualified? Then show us. Submit a photo of you (or someone you nominate) making the most of summertime fun to our ‘Mayor of Summerville’ Photo Contest on Facebook. Hitting the fairs, cooling off in the pool, lake…