We want to congratulate all our winners on such great prizes and thank our sponsors too! 

In the meantime, visit the site and have  a great day!

One of the reasons why Jules Café hosts a contest every month is to encourage readers to come back and visit the site. Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section.

So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe. Leave a comment below with the prize you’d want to win and maybe you will.

One of the reasons why Jules Café hosts a contest every month is to encourage readers to come back and visit the site.
Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section.

So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe.

In honor of our next Coffee Break, Doug Boutwell of Totally RAD Actions, our prize this month is 21 beautiful textures called “Dirty Pictures.”

If you like bringing more dimension and depth to your images, this is the solution for you. 21 beautiful textures to enhance your photos. An intuitive interface for organizing textures and finding the perfect one to compliment your image. Get things going with just a few clicks! It’s super easy and powerfully customizable.

They call it Dirty Pictures, but you can call it your new best friend for adding a little edge to your photos!

Check it out here!

To enter the contest, simply leave a comment below and tell us your favorite Totally RAD action! Give Doug a little love.

Jules Café has fresh, new content all the time, and it is built to help you, the photographer learn, grow, and share!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section.

So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe. In honor of our latest Coffee Break with Kevin Kubota, our November prize will be $100 Kubota Bucks for anything you want at the Kubota Image Tools shop! It’s like a kid in a candy store, the plethora of amazing-ness that they offer there. Think of all the things you could have… action paks, DVDs about lightroom, the amazing DASHBOARD… oh the possibilities are endless….

What we want from you for our comment section is your favorite Kubota Action. Leave a comment in the comment section and let us know how Kubota Image Tools has changed your life and you could be the lucky winner of $100 Kubotabucks to spend on anything you like. Kevin’s treat. Thanks Kev!

Look in the Grow section to find information about lighting, shooting, and equipment. The Learn section will have articles about business, marketing, networking, conventions, and workshops. You can find inspirational interviews and information about photography contests, charity work, and other fun tidbits in the Share section. So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a chair with your laptop, and dive in to Jules Cafe.

Along with championing the quest to figure out SEO, Lawrence Chan of www.tofurious.com and our featured photographer on Coffee Break this month offers some digital solutions for photographers such as pre-designed album templates and blogs. Lawrence is donating one of his super cool album templates to a lucky winner on Jules Cafe! Check it out here

So for this month’s contest we want to know your favorite webtips. In honor of Tofurious and his SEO workshop, what is your favorite website? Where do you find yourself going every day? Is it facebook? A favorite blog? Where do you go for inspiration? Leave a comment below, and we’ll choose a winner at the end of the month! Thanks!

Now, here comes the opportunity to win yours!

In honor of the “Little Angels” Calendar that Lori Nordstrom devised to contribute to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, please use the comment section here to tell us about your favorite charity and possible ways to contribute to that charity as a photographer. It can be either a brand new idea that you’ve just come up with or it could be something that has been going on for years. We just want to hear about possible ways to give back!

You know, we have a whole section here in Jules Cafe dedicated to charity posts, and I would love to find more inspirational places to check out. After you click the “view/add comments” above this post to leave your comment, be sure to not only check that out, but to read Lori’s Coffee Break!!

Thanks to Craig and his fantastic company, Lensbaby, Jules Cafe is giving away a brand new Lensbaby Composer to one lucky winner!   With the Composer, Lensbaby introduces a completely new lens, delivering a smooth selective focus — just tilt the lens to the angle you want and focus.

All you need to do is read Craig’s Coffee Break and leave a comment for him.  The comment needs to be about how you have learned to see the world differently —- whether it was through an adventure or an  experience you had, seeing through a new lens, an experience with your children… whatever made you stop and see the world through different eyes.  We want to know.

Photography is all about learning to see the world through your own experience and sharing that experience with others.  Let us experience how YOU see the world, and you just might find yourself with a brand new lensbaby.

TO WIN: Because using custom presets will really speed up your workflow, please leave a comment about your BEST workflow tip if you’re interested in winning Nathan’s presets.  At the end of the month, we will choose one of the comments, and and that commenter will win the prize!

Your tip does not have to be lightroom related… it can be about any workflow tip you want to give.  Be sure to come back and check other comments – a lot of people have some really great advice. Why not learn from each other?  

In the meantime, don’t forget to check out Photographer’s Edit.  Not only do they have amazing presets, but they are a fantastic place to outsource your editing and color correction.  And if you are a Pictage member, you get a discount!!

I’m very excited to announce that Tamrac has donated an Adventure Messenger 4 (in your choice of red or grey) for our April prize!!

I was SO impressed with all of the thoughtful answers you gave to last month’s question about what you could do for your business if you dedicated 15 minutes a day.  Because this month’s prize is a bag designed to hold your equipment, I want to know which piece of equipment is your favorite and why. It doesn’t have to be just a lens… it can be anything at all that makes your life as a photographer better or easier!  Leave a comment with your answer to be entered to win the Tamrac Adventure Messenger 4.

I was recently interviewed by the amazing Kevin Kubota, and one question he asked in particular really stood out for me.  If you could do one thing for your business for 15 minutes every day, what would it be?  And in honor of Mr. Kubota, the winner of this month’s contest will win a fabulous Kubota Imaging Tools Flashdrive Dashboard.  I have one, and not only does it make finding all of your actions easy breezy, but it makes it that much easier to discover new ones you may have over-looked.

If you want to play, just click on “add a comment” and give us your tip!