I SHOT IT is excited and pleased to announce the new Landscape Photo Competition - a pilot exercise ready to pave the way for a whole new series of themed I SHOT IT competitions.

The principle is simple, for each photo you enter you will pay a sum of $3 and in the same way as the Premium Competition, the prize fund grows with the number of photos in the contest. The competition will run for a total of 2 months.

The winning photos have now been chosen for the Free Competition 2011-09. Results are show on the competition page. We hope you like the winning photos. If you are waiting for the results for the premium competition, you'll need to be patient and wait for a few more days.

Our judges have chosen then winning photos for the Free Competition 2011-08. We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered. There were over 6000 photos for our judges to go through which is a lot! As usual we will send emails to the photographers of the winning photos and hopefully they will tell us a bit about them, which will also be displayed on the competition page.

The winning photos have now been chosen for the competition Free Competition 2011-07. We're sorry for the delay in announcing the results, and we'd like to thank everyone for waiting patiently. We hope you like the judges choice. Click on the competition link above to see the results.

Back in the beginning when we started I SHOT IT, the team had the original concept for the Premium Competition, with its unique way of creating a prize fund that grows as more people enter. We are very proud of that original idea. Our original plan didn’t include the Free Competition, but after listening to our users, we thought it was a very good idea to try it and see how successful it would be – and so it has proved to be. The Free Competition is not only entertaining but is also very exciting because of the wide variety and the nature of the photos you enter. It is what sets I SHOT IT apart from other photo competitions – we have no themes and no strict rules and our Free Competition is truly a competition for everyone.

We had such an enormous entry for the first Free Competition and the standard was so high, it proved very difficult for the independent judges to select just one winner and a number of runners up - especially since they take their job very seriously. We set them the task of selecting only one winner for the Free Competition and we do appreciate and understand that means there will be a lot of disappointed participants. Whilst we have made the Free Competition more frequent than the Premium Competition – there will now be one Free Competition every month – we do ask you take this into consideration when you enter. We think that the value of the Free Competition is being able to look at your own work alongside that of others in a showcase where it is the photo that speaks for itself and to understand the differences between a good photo of a great subject and a great photo of a great subject. Thank you for helping us create the I SHOT IT Free Competition – thank you for your wonderful photos and the pleasure we all have in being able to view them.

Good Luck with your entries. The I SHOT IT team.

The winning photos for the competition Premium Competition 2011 Q2 can now be seen on the competition page. We would like to send a big thank you to everyone who took part. The prize money rose to a staggering $3090.

The winning photo for the Free Competition 2011 Q2 can now be view on the competition page. Thank you to everyone who took part in this competition. It was wonderful to see so many fantastic entries.

The winning photo of the Premium Competition 2011 Q1 has been announced. The prize money for this competition was $1,595 (US Dollars). In the runners-up, there are 3 photos that have won their owner a t-shirt and another 17 photos have been awarded a 'mark of excellence' by the judges. All of the photos and the judge's comments can be seen on the competition page: Premium Competition 2011 Q1. Thank you to everyone who took part.

The lucky winner of our last competition decided to remain anonymous. We respect this wish! We have been told that the photo was taken in the German town of Schwäbisch Hall, looking down from a pub called Sudhaus towards the Würth Museum, during the David Hockney exhibition. This photo was taken with a Leica D-Lux 4.

The second competition Premium Competition 2011 Q1 has now been closed to new entries. The prize money came to a total of $1595 and there were 207 entries. There are lots of fantastic photos in the competition. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition. It wont be an easy job for the judges to pick a winner. It might be a week or two before the judges announce the winner. Thank you for your patience during this time. We will send an email to all registered users once the winner and runners-up have been announced.

A new competition has started: Premium Competition 2011 Q2. Don't forget that if you enter a photo in the first month of the competition then you will receive an extra two credits which can be used at any time during the competition.

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