© Oskar Enander / Red Bull Illume

You’ve got incredible images just waiting to be seen – the window is now open to submit Red Bull Illume Image Quest. Photographers all around the world are getting ready – Red Bull Illume is back, with some exciting new changes! The world’s greatest imagery contest for adventure and action sports returns with new categories, new opportunities, and of course, new challenges. Submit your best images to Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019 now – the submission phase is finally open and will stay open until July 31st!

With multiple new categories including Innovation by Sony, Moving Image, Emerging by Red Bull Photography, and Best of Instagram by SanDisk; there are now more reasons than ever to enter the brand-new Red Bull Illume – including of course, the grand prizes! The prize packages will include some serious camera equipment and accessories with a total value of € 100.000,- for the category winners and the overall winner.

Category Winners
The 11 category winners will pick up this incredible set of prizes; from consumer electronics giant Sony the phenomenal Alpha A7 III camera kitted out with the 24-105 mm F4 G Master lens.

Storage specialist SanDisk will offer a bundle made up of three of their Extreme Pro Memory Card’s, with a suitable card reader, plus an Extreme Pro Portable SSD hard drive that offers photographers the best mobile mobile memory solutions available.

The award-winning company, Skylum, will provide photo-editing software including Luminar 3 and their Signature Presets. Skylum will also present a special prize to the winner of the ‘Creative by Skylum’ category – with the winner becoming a part of the Global Skylum Ambassador Team.

Likewise, Red Bull Photography will grant the winner of the ‘Emerging by Red Bull Photography’ category a spot at the Red Bull Rising Talent photography workshop including travel, accommodation and board expenses.

In addition, high quality photography apparel and accessories will come from photography and accessory brand, COOPH, to keep them equipped and protected at their upcoming shoots.

Overall Winner
The overall winner will also be guaranteed to receive all of the above prizes by winning a category. Furthermore, the overall winner will receive the Sony Alpha A9 camera with a 24-70mm f2.8 lens from their G-Master range. The Sony A9 is perfect for capturing the kind of high-speed, faster-than-the-eye-can-see action that Red Bull Illume photographers are capturing every day; making it the ideal prize for the overall winner of the Image Quest 2019.

In addition to the storage package mentioned above, SanDisk will provide the overall winner a once in a lifetime experience; taking them on a shoot with a SanDisk Extreme Team Member. The Extreme Team is a group of sports photographers known for their uncompromising vision, so this experience is sure to get your adrenaline flowing and push your photography skills to the next level!

Sounds appealing? We have some more good news! Submitting your images is easier than ever – using your existing social media accounts or your e-mail account. To broaden your chances, we suggest entering in as many categories as possible. Just follow these steps:

1. Shoot awesome stuff – what that is, you decide!
2. Register and sign in at www.redbullillume.com – it’s just a couple clicks
3. Choose your categories for submission – you can submit every image to two categories and in total 10
images per category
4. Upload your images. For the initial entry, only JPGs and MP4s are required
5. Submit your image – once an image is submitted, it is final and can’t be changed

Think carefully about which photos should go where; categories influence the judge’s selection, so choose wisely! Red Bull Illume judges are carefully chosen from a global selection of the world’s most international judging panel of photo editors and digital experts from renowned magazines. Choosing or commissioning great images is literally their life’s work – and there’s no one better to judge this epic global photo contest. Judges will base their decisions on a mix of technical superiority, composition, creativity, impact, artistic flair and overall qualities of photographic excellence.

The 55 finalist images of Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019 will be expanded by the addition of 9 more images from the category: ‘The Great Outdoors by Red Bull Illume’ of the EyeEm Photo Awards. In saying this, we are proud to announce a new partnership with EyeEm, who will also be the naming partner for the Red Bull Illume Category ‘Masterpiece by EyeEm’. Learn more about this great collaboration on www.redbullillume.com soon!

All Finalists earn a place at the Winner Award Ceremony in November of this year, where the most influential people of the photography scene come together. The 3-day event is made up of workshops and a celebration that’s sure to enrich the life of everyone lucky enough to attend. They will also gain immense exposure as their image will embark on the Global Exhibit Tour, with a new format- meaning that they will be on display in major cities in three different continents at any one time. In this digital age, don’t underestimate the importance of print, as their image will also be part of the limited-edition Coffee Table Book that is sure to reach thousands of homes around the world.

© Daniel Roos / Red Bull Illume and  © Simon Bischoff / Red Bull Illume

Don’t forget – running in parallel is the Best of Instagram by SanDisk category, where you can submit your most gram-worthy moments on Instagram. All you need to do is tag @redbullillume and #rbi19submission when you post on your own account – it’s that simple. There’s already been three winners – and there will be two more.

Submissions from the main contest are open on www.redbullillume.com from now until July 31 – but as always, we suggest getting ahead of the game. Got your adventure and action sports shots? Submit as soon as possible – we can´t wait to see your best work!

INFO: Red Bull Illume