At left: Oars by Edward Mole.

With over 12 million visitors a year, the Lake District has become one of the most popular British holiday destinations. With close on 1000 square miles of breathtaking countryside, it’s a photographers’ paradise and now, once again, photographers both professional and amateur are invited to take part in the second annual photographic competition held by the visitors’ website The Lake District Guide ( www.lake-district-guides.co.uk ).

Following the success of the website’s first photographic competition, the organisers are keen to encourage this year’s photographers to be as creative as possible and to keep an eye out for those more unusual shots of the Lakes. Although this is not to discourage the beautiful landscape shots on offer at every turn in one of the most photogenic areas in Britain, the unexpected photo can always bring a fresh viewpoint and a new appreciation of the familiar. The photographs can be of landscapes, people, places or activities. Indeed, anything associated with the Lake District is welcome.

Deadline is 31 October 2007. Visit the site for details.

Via: Digital Photography Now

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites college students from the arts, including industrial design, architecture, computer design, and the fine arts, to submit their work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon.

The art contest gives students and faculty an opportunity to form an inter-disciplinary team to collaborate with science and engineering departments, either at their institution or other institutions, to produce the most well-informed art work possible. One suggestion is that the art project be a for-credit semester long effort and include consultations with science departments to develop the final entry.

Entries will be accepted in three major categories: two-dimensional, three dimensional, and digital. Each category will have pre-determined size limits. Contest opens in August 2007 and all entries are due no later than 1 December 2007. Visit NASA for details.

Surface Magazine announces a nationwide search for the best new fashion photographers to showcase in The 10th Annual American Avant Guardian Issue and Exhibition. The Avant Guardian Contest invites photographers working or studying in the U.S. or Canada, who have not published a fashion editorial before 2006. DEADLINE: July 9th, 2007. Simply stated, the Project LAUNCHES CAREERS. LAUNCH YOURS. Submit to The Avant Guardian Online. ENTER AT SURFACEMAG.COM and START TODAY.

The 8th Seoul International Film Festival is open for entries. Seoul International Film Festival Net Section is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on the Internet and New Media.

The festival runs from 6 September to 31 December, and submission deadline is 13 July 2007. For the official competition, only works competed after January 2006 are eligible. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding the genre, length or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental work, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted. Visit the site for details.

VIA: networked_performance

The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Research and Development Department launched this new awards scheme in 2005 – the RIBA President’s Awards for Research – to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by PhD students, academics and practitioners.

The awards will help to promote and champion high-quality research and encourage its dissemination and incorporation into the knowledge base of the profession. They will contribute to raise the profile of architects - practitioners and academics – engaged in outstanding research, and raise awareness of the need for research across the profession to foster innovation and strategic thinking.

Submission deadline is 30 July 2007. Visit the site for details and contact information.

The British Academy has announced the call for entries for The British Academy Video Games Awards. There are 13 awards categories and any game is eligible as long as it has been or will be released in the UK between 6 October 2006 and 31 December 2007.

All entries will be grouped into categories and voted on by the industry and BAFTA members. The highest-scoring titles will then go to a jury that will be chaired by a member of the BAFTA video games committee. BAFTA juries will judge the entries and decide on the nominated games and winners. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday 25 September and the winners on Tuesday 23 October at The British Academy Video Games Awards at Battersea Evolution, in London.

Eentry deadline is Friday 6 July. Visit the site for details about categories, etc.

VIA: Crowdedbrain