Calling All Photogs! MT

Atlanta-based students Shane Zucker and Steven Peterman—arty adventurers after our own camera-toting hearts—are calling all photographers (amateurs, pros, and everyone in between) to join their interactive adventure-themed photo contest. Zucker and Peterman want people nationwide to sign up to document their explorations—having “a good time doing something that you wouldn’t normally do”—between now and November 1.

The guys are sending disposable cameras to anyone who wants to participate, and cameras are due back by December 1. The art show, “A Million Little Pictures, Vol. 3,” is set to happen sometime in December in the city that drums up the most photo entries.

The $16 entry fee covers sending you a camera and postage-paid envelope and includes a donation of $1.25 to one of four charities of your choice—the Humane Society of the U.S., the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Suicide Hotline, or the World Wildlife Fund.

Also worth noting: Zucker told ReadyMade magazine that the used camera shells will be re-used in an installation around the exhibit, and then returned to the camera developer for recycling after the exhibition is over.

While you’re snap-snapping the sites, be sure to click a few with your cell phone and enter National Geographic Traveler’s Mobile World Cell Phone Photo Contest. Your photos won’t wind up on the walls of a gallery, but we’re inclined to think our prizes—a 10-night yacht tour of the Galápagos, a four-night San Francisco getaway, and a seven-day photography workshop in Santa Fe—are pretty sweet as well.

And for you New Yorkers, you can eye the competition at Traveler’s cell phone-shaped kiosk at this week’s PDN PhotoPlus International Expo at the Jacob Javits Center. Not only can you see all the entries submitted so far, but you can download your own entries on the spot. While you’re there, make time to check out 13 giant billboards displaying this year’s 27,000 entries for Traveler’s annual photo contest.

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