From Snapshots to Great shots Landscape Contest

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First Place winner will receive a Learning Library from Peachpit.

Top 3 People's choice win 300 Reward Points plus exposure through our newsletter and blog.

* "Like" the contest and if your photo is selected winner, you get an extra $100 paid via Paypal!

Rob Sheppard is a naturalist and nature photographer and videographer who says his favorite location is the one he is in at any time. Presently, he is spending a lot of time in the chaparral of Southern California and says that the chaparral is one of the wildest and least photographed ecosystems in the country. He is the author/photographer of over 30 books, as well as a well-known speaker and workshop leader. He was the long-time editor of the prestigious Outdoor Photographer magazine and helped start PCPhoto (Digital Photo). Presently he is editor-at-large for Outdoor Photographer. He does workshops around the country with Great American Photography Workshops, plus he does workshops at Light Photographic Workshops.

As author/photographer, Sheppard has written hundreds of articles about photography and nature, plus books ranging from guides to photography such as the Magic of Digital Nature Photography and the National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography to books about Photoshop and Lightroom including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Only and Top Tips Simplified: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.

Visit Rob's blog is at www.natureandphotography.com.

Photos: Submit your best landscape shots.

Limit: 3 entry per participant

Participation: You must own all legal rights to submitted photos

Photo Format: Color, B&W, RAW, Edited and Medium formats are accepted

Copyright: You maintain the rights to all of your submissions

Judging: The contest submissions will be judged based on the creativity, originality and in accordance to the contest theme.

Vote: From November 22th to December 10th, 2012.