Show your creative side to your Valentine and you could win a copy of “On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pasty Fundamentals” 2nd edition!

Imperial® Sugar / Dixie Crystals® is conducting a contest to determine the most delectable and innovative Valentine’s Day dessert. Your unique creation must contain at least one (1) Imperial® Sugar / Dixie Crystals® product (ie. granulated, powdered, brown, or cubes).

Submit a story about your Valentine’s Day tradition(s) along with the recipe for your dessert creation.

The winner will be announced on our website and will receive a 2nd edition copy of “On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals” (value $80).

Deadline of entries is on February 28, 2010. For more information please visit ImperialSugar.com

Photographers posses not only a sharpened capability to see moments, even intuit those about to arrive but they have toned their ability to know how to make that split second decision which tells them that what they see, is worth capturing.

It’s an impelling force. This motivating force, sudden wish or urge prompts the unpremeditated act or feeling that has created masterpieces and important historical documentation over the millenium.

We would love to see your “split second impulses”!

Open to all artists working in traditional or digital photography.

Entry Fee: €30,00 euro for 5 images

The First Place Winner : receives acceptance to become a Member of the ARTROM Gallery GUILD (value €200.00 euro), which includes an on-line Artist Portfolio always viewable in the AGG Artist Member Directory plus an e-announcement (value €80,00 euro) sent thru the ARTROM PRess Service to our extensive opt-in mailing list of over 25,000 addresses.

All Top Ten Winners will be featured in the highly promoted on-line
“The TOPTEN SPLIT SECOND IMPULSE Winners’ Exhibition in March 2009.

Deadline of entries is on February 28, 2010. For more information please visit ArtromGallery.com

Have you ever wondered What would it look like if Sinclair Painted Your Pet?

Show us those amazing photos of your pets. Cute, funny or fierce, any Pets / Animals submit the best you have.

Sinclair will choose the image that inspires her the most and then she’ll immortalize your beloved companion as an original piece of watercolor art.

Winning Image to be painted by Renown Watercolor Artist Sinclair Stratton + a Large Limited Edition Signed Giclee Print of the Original.

Deadline is on February 28, 2010. For more information please visit SinclairStratton

What is the competition all about? – The idea behind this competition is that we didn’t want to create a divide between the less and more experienced photographers amongst our members, so what we’ve put together is an idea that will challenge you to stand back and take a look at your photography, think about why you are taking the photo and work out what message that photo sends to the people that are looking at it.

What we want is for you to produce a photograph that says “Life”

There will be four weeks for submission. You can post one photo a week up to a maximum of four images.

This is open to anyone worldwide regardless of photography experience level.

First place is upto $1600.00 USD to spend at DigitalRev
Second place is upto $800.00 USD to spend at DigitalRev
Third place is upto $500.00 USD to spend at DigitalRev

Deadline of entries is on February 28, 2010. For more information please visit DigitalPhotographySchool.com

Submit a Photograph that somehow incorporates the topic. Creative approaches are welcomed  with a specific topic of  “Seascape Photography”.

Seascape photography can be as varied as the beach and waves. The seascape provides opportunities for images that can vary from the calm ocean blue to crashing waves.

Photographs only.  Changes to photographs using software is permitted.  No digital art or traditional artwork should be submitted.  To submit art see our Landscape Art Contest.

The winner takes away a one hundred dollar pre-paid Visa gift card.
Second place will win twenty-five member dollars.
Third place ten member dollars.
$100 Gift Card To The Winner

Deadline is on February 22, 2010. For more information please visit FanArtReview.com

Take a photo with your iPhone and use the iPhone apps of your choice to edit your photo. Then tell us how you created your photos and what apps were used, and earn a chance at winning one of many exciting prizes!

Open to all legal resident of Canada (excluding Quebec)  & United States, who are 18 years old and above.

Prizes:

One – $1,000 Adorama Gift Certificate ($1000.00)
Ten Wacom Tablets ($129.95)
Fifteen Canon Wireless Printers ($129.95)
Thirty – $100 Adorama Gift Certificates ($100.00)
Twenty-Five $50 Apple App Store Gift Cards ($50.00)

Deadline of entries is on February 16, 2010. For more information please visit Contest.Adorama.com

We are looking for artwork that somehow capture the spirit of this day. This is a holiday of love and romance.

While Valentines day must be a focus – creative approaches are welcomed.

This contest is for traditional artists and digital artists.  Digital art is an image in which all elements are created solely on a computer.

Traditional art includes paintings, sculptures and other forms of traditional art. If you have created a digital artwork that uses photography please submit your artwork to our Valentines Photography contest and set your Mixed Media level to its highest level.

The winner takes away a one hundred dollar pre-paid Visa gift card.
Second Place will win twenty-five member dollars.
Third place ten member dollars.
$100 Gift Card To The Winner

Deadline of entries is  February 14, 2010. For more information please visit FanArtReview.com

We’re looking for your very best brunch recipes! Send us your tried-and-terrific egg dishes, do-ahead bakes, easy croissants, coffee cakes and cinnamon rolls, warm fruit compotes, fast-fixing French toast, pancake and waffle recipes, and the eye-opening smoothies and frothy coffee drinks your family and friends ask for again and again.

Be sure to include a few words about what makes your recipe such a family favorite. Also send any fun variations or tips for extra-quick prep. Winners will be published in the November/December 2010 issue of Simple & Delicious.

Each of the 12 winners in the Simple & Delicious “Let’s Do Brunch” contest receives a wonderful prize:

• GRAND PRIZE: $500
• 2nd Place: $300
• 3rd Place: $200
• 4th Place: $100
• 8 Runners-Up: $25

Deadline of submission is on February 1, 2010. For more information please visit TasteofHome.com

Ocean Conservancy invites you to enter our 2010 Marine Wildlife & Seascape Photo Contest.

Send us your best ocean seascape and marine wildlife images. The top three prize-winning photographs will be featured in Splash, Ocean Conservancy’s latest publication. All winning images will be featured online at www.oceanconservancy.org/photocontest.

Subject matter must consist of marine wildlife or marine habitats and must be photograph in natural settings.

Grand Prize:
A $750 gift certificate*

Second Place:
A $250 gift certificate*

Third Place:
A $75 gift certificate*

Honorable Mentions (up to 4 winners):
Exclusive Ocean Conservancy T-shirt.

Deadline of entries is on January 31, 2010. For more information please visit  OceanConservancy.org

Winter can be an introspective and reflective time of the year. There is a certain quiet beauty that comes with this season and many photographers actually prefer this time as more of the surroundings are exposed. Submitted images should reflect this thoughtful time. Both color and B&W images may be submitted.

Theme: Winter
Category: Landscape

Open to all photographers worldwide. Entrants should be 16 years or older and may be professionals or non-professionals. No entry fee for this contest

Six entrants will be awarded and exhibited in an online gallery.
First place winner will receive an online gallery page plus a marketing consultation of his or her work.
Two other winners will also receive exposure online and consultations. All winning images along with artist contact info will be exhibited online.

Deadline of submission is on February 2, 2010. For more information please visit TerabellaMedia.com