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Announcing the My Life’s A Trip Vacation Photo Contest 2012


My Life’s A Trip shares a Virtual Vacation every day through our #virtualvacay/ Picture of the Day. Now It’s your turn… show me what you did over the summer!

The Grand Prize winner of the first ever My Life’s A Trip Vacation Photo Contest gets a super cool prize package worth over $1000* to use on actual vacation travel!

What did you do on your summer vacation?  My Life’s A Trip wants to see!  We’re re-visiting the classic first day of school essay theme our My Life’s a Trip Vacation Photo Contest 2012

Please submit your best travel photo (and a caption describing it) from your summer travels of 2012


Jen says “I spent my summer watching sunsets in Punta Mita and spotting brides in the Ukraine. I also learned to sort cattle while glamping in Montana, and got lost in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar…”

Super Fly Prize Package

The grand prize winner of the first ever My Life’s A Trip Vacation Photo Contest will get enough goodies to take an actual vacation (or at least a weekend away). I’m throwing my hard earned points and miles in the kitty to put together this grand prize package worth over $1000*:

Second Place receives:

Third Place receives:

Plus, everyone who enters the My Life’s A Trip Vacation Photo Contest receives a one year Award Wallet Plus membership (because of my close, personal relationship with Award Wallet’s president, who is my husband. Yes, that is a disclosure.)

The Judges

I’ve assembled an International jury of superstar photographers with really cool accents from 3 continents to decide the winners and Grand Prize winner in conjunction with My Life’s a Trip. The judges are:

Rebecca Adler Rotenberg ( Los Angeles-based lifestyle & travel photographer)

Misho Baranovic (Melbourne Australia-based mobile street photographer, author, and co-founder of the Mobile Photo Group)

Severin Matusek (head of community at EyeEm and author of Berlin Guide Book)

You’ll learn more about our esteemed panel of judges in our upcoming Meet The Judges Interview series.

How to enter?

To enter the My Life’s A Trip Vacation Photo Contest, email your entry to photocontest2012@mylifesatrip.com by 11:11 pm Pacific Standard Time on October 31st, 2012.

This competition is open to any reader of the blog who has Liked the My Life’s A Trip Facebook page, it’s that simple. You can earn additional chances to win! Just tweet or share the link to this post on Facebook and let us know in your next submission!

Images shot on any camera are eligible. We will allow images to be edited with software as we do not wish to inhibit your creative freedom.

Photos containing nudity will not be accepted. Actually, we reserve the right to refuse any photograph which we deem unacceptable.

Make sure submitted pictures have been taken by you!

If you want to know more about the competition please read our Full Terms & Conditions of entry.

If you have any questions please get in touch via email photocontest2012@mylifesatrip.com

*the prize package is geared towards a winner in the USA. However, My Life’s A Trip has a global audience If the winner is from outside the USA, My Life’s A Trip will do our best to come up with a comparable prize package based on the winner’s location.  We cannot do that, however, for Cuba and North Korea, so entries from these countries are not permitted. As we may not be able to transfer miles to your account, we can book an award on your behalf and it will be subject to availability.  My Life’s A Trip reserves the right to modify the terms of this contest or disqualify entrants based on its sole discretion.

Read the full Terms&Conditions