Deadline Alert: Enter Traveler’s Photo Contest

The National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest is in its final stretches, and we’re seeing some great talent out there this year (check out our galleries)! The magazine is giving away seriously spectacular prizes this year, so you won’t want to miss your chance to win.

The deadline is July 11th, but the entry fee ($15) goes up $10 in the last two weeks of the contest — starting this 

Thursday, June 28

 — so save yourself a sawbuck and submit your best travel photo(s) today.

If you’ve already entered the contest, check to see if your photo made it into one of our editor’s galleries (and make sure to submit your entry fee — you aren’t eligible to win if you don’t pay).

And if you’re just having fun sifting through all the great images folks from all over the world have submitted, take time to rate your favorites — the judges will take viewer input into account when they pick the winners later this summer.

The prizes: The grand-prize winner will earn a spot on a 10-day National Geographic Galápagos Photography Expedition to experience — and document — some of the most spectacular wildlife on Earth. Other prizes include an intensive two-and-a-half day Santa Fe photography workshop, a National Geographic Traveler seminarNational Geographic Traveler seminar, and $200 gift certificates to B&H Photo.

And, last but certainly not least, all prize-winning photos (10 total) will appear in the year-end issue of Traveler (and on the website)!

You can submit digital photos in four different categories — Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments.

The contest deadline is just around the corner, so read all the rules and fine print, check out last year’s winners for inspiration, and enter your best travel photos today for a chance to show off your talents and win prizes that will help you become an even better photographer.