Black and White Spider Awards?

**Kodachrome25** · 5-Feb-2013, 11:21

It's a money grabber, $35 per entry.....Ouch!

I would pass, too many categories and not really in the spirit of truly great black and white photography, no way to differentiate real black and white darkroom work from compu-crap.

**David Higgs** · 14-Feb-2013, 04:56

it is too expensive now, and you are right the images are too small to judge

**dsphotog** · 14-Feb-2013, 23:51

Hard to imagine anything fake on the internet!
I keep getting emails about winning the UK lottery too.

**rich815** · 15-Feb-2013, 05:57

Originally Posted by davisg2370

This is an old thread, but I thought it worth mentioning since some of you may be considering submitting to contests. I saw one of the current jurors was the Senior Editor of National Geographic Magazine, and I contacted her about the Spider Awards. She got back to me today and said she has never heard of them before and is certainly not jurying for it. she said they will have their legal team look into it. While there are plenty of legitimate competitions out there, this one seems bogus.

Ha! That says it all!! Good way to flush $35 away. Online vanity publishing!

**arca andy** · 26-Feb-2013, 07:24

Originally Posted by katie cooke

It's something I've been thinking about for the last few months: which, if any, contests are worth entering. I saw the Spider Awards when looking around online, but couldn't see how it really connected to anything beyond itself.

As far as I can see there's one major one in the UK: the annual portrait prize, run by the National Portrait Gallery, and possibly (if you do travel photography) the Wanderlust Magazine competition, and (for flower or garden pictures) the Garden Photographer of the Year, run by Kew Gardens...and these all because they are a. run by serious groups and b. have audiences above and beyond other photographers.

Are there any others I should be paying attention to in the UK?

Yes the Association of Photographers Awards (www.the-aop.org )you have to be member and I am but its probably one of the most important photographic competitions in the world...oooow is that a subject for another post? The most important photographic competition in the world is...?