Grabbing Opportunities - Competitions

I've been looking at lots of photography competitions, ideally trying to find free entry or student ones, here are some of what I found, most have a submission charge so I won't be entering them yet they're useful to know about in case I want to submit in the future.

http://bigpicturecompetition.org/
Enter your images into the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition by March 31 2014 for your chance to win a share of the $20000 in cash and prizes. Your $25 entry fee permits you to enter up to 10 images into the competition. Presented by the California Academy of Sciences. Our vision is to engage and inspire the global community to become stewards of the natural world through compelling conservation imagery.

http://www.onemillionphotographers.com/about/how-it-works/
onemillionphotographers is both an on-going project to create the world’s largest online photographic image gallery and a real-time photography competition. Submit your work in any of the eight image categories and have your photography showcased in its own permanent Gallery space, identifiable by unique location coordinates.  Your image can then score points in the competition and earn you money from downloads.

http://www.life-framer.com/
Life Framer is a non-profit driven photography competition designed to source and showcase outstanding photography from amateur, emerging and established photographers. Our aim is to bring exposure to talented photographers from all over the world: your talent, your vision, your life. Every month we make a call to arms to the global photographic community to respond to a theme. In it for you is the chance to be exhibited in our end-of-year exhibition, as well as some amazing prizes along the way.

http://shoottheland.com/Shoot The Land is an exciting new monthly photography contest that is designed to inspire, recognise, expose, and reward talented photographers around the globe. This contest gives all photographers a purpose to create powerful landscape photography, as well as a regular deadline to work towards.

http://www.emergingartistaward.com/This competition is open to entrants above 18. Participants are requested to submit an exhibition project which consists of a series of artwork using the media of their choice or a combination of media and support. The subject should express a contemporary issue or an original concept and should be preferably executed using innovative technique of production. The participant should explain how the work proposed is original as well as the concept behind it. It should reveal the universe of the artist, the inspiration and imagination which make the project personal and unique. This series should preferably have not been exhibited or little before to preserve its emerging characteristic.
http://natgeotraveller.co.uk/2014/competitions/photography
We’re once again on the the lookout for your vision of the world through a lens. Last year we received thousands of UK entries and were truly impressed at the incredibly high standard of submissions. This year we’re back with more great prizes, new judges and fresh categories. Tour the site, see the existing entries, and then get snapping!