How About a Topaz Labs Giveaway?

by Michael Zhang on October 16, 2009
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Update: This contest is now over. The winners have been randomly selected and posted here. Thanks for participating!

It’s been a while since I’ve done a giveaway here on PetaPixel. At one time I was doing roughly a giveaway a week. The last one we had here was when we gave away SmugMug accounts.

This week, I’m giving away five (5) Photoshop Bundles by Topaz Labs, each worth $179. The software is available for both Windows and Mac.

If you haven’t heard of Topaz Labs before, check out the different products included in this bundle, or poke around on Google for reviews. They’ve gotten some pretty positive feedback from photographers recently.

All you have to do to enter this giveaway is to answer the following question:

What is your greatest fear?

Yeah… It’s a pretty open ended question.

There are two ways to respond and enter the contest, and you can use both methods to double your chances:

Leave your response as a comment on this PetaPixel.com post
Tweet your response, and include the following link to this post anywhere in the tweet: http://j.mp/pptpl
As long as the link appears somewhere in your tweet, you will automatically be entered in the contest. You don’t even need to include @petapixel.

The deadline for this giveaway is Saturday, October 24th, 2009. I’ll be randomly selecting the five winners using random.org.

Good luck!

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Neal Katz

My greatest fears revolve around things outside my control...particularly with regard to my kids. I'm deathly afraid that I might fail in some way to adequately prepare them to deal with all the corrupting outside influences waiting to trip them up. Everything else I've feared in the past just pales in comparison and that's the last thing I expected to happen when we decided to have kids.

Mabel Neys

My greatest fear is turning into my mother!

evic

Greatest fear is not trying...

Katelyn Hoffman

My greatest fear is that I'll be stuck in a job that isn't a passion.. and that money would be the driving factor behind that.

chantal81

falling off a bridge into water. yeah. i know. wierd.

Becky

My greatest fear is the same as Christian D. Ritchie's...that my loved ones may not find Christ and be with God in heaven forever.

cphoniball

My greatest fear is ignorance.

heather

if it's not too late... my greatest fear is being mediocre at everything.

Chris Culler

My greatest fear is being chased by zombies, in a mall with freshly waxed tile floors. In socks.

You'd be surprised how often this fear invades my dreams...

steve_mnt

Greatest fear - that life is really short

ingrid

My Greatest fear is fear itself.

rhondaholcomb

my greatest fear is getting amnesia and forgetting who I am

Loc Lam

My greatest fear is not leaving something worthwhile to be remembered.

danielbates

drowning

tantricslide

My greatest fear is fear it's self

Nicki

My greatest fear? Cannot fly anymore. ^^

tantricslide

If God meant for man to fly he would be born with a ticket..

(:

nicktj

My greatest fear is not providing for my family (money, food, anything) when they need it most.

Chris Clarke

My greatest fear is not winning this competition

pattyherbert

My greatest fear is Hieghts. I know alot of people fear that but I really get sick when I look at tall buildings even from the outside. I follow on twitter @lambchop1965 http://j.mp/pptpl

Jeb Dickerson

My greatest fear is regret...

TommyW

Exposing my deepest darkest fear on a public website in exchange for the possibility of some free albeit pretty nifty code...

stacy able

to never get to learn all the things there is to learn and that I want to learn

Nimit Jain

Greatest fear is the fear of fear!

Gordon Ryan

My greatest fear is the Zombie Apocalypse. Or maybe drowning. Ya, that one is worse. Zombie's are way cooler.

As for photography, becoming bored with it someday. Just bury me when that happens.

Nate

Sitting on the toilet and a spider crawling up my butt.

Keith

My greatest fear is running out of time.

Mark Rea

My biggest fear is F.E.A.R. False Expectations Appearing Real. It's all about achieving perspective and conquering perceptions..! :-)

eugeneb

My greatest fear is that I will not be understood or accepted for who I am.

Stefan Frede

My greatest fear is to loose the lust for life.

Darren Dale

My greatest fear? Photographically speaking it's losing my eye and not being able to get shots I'm happy with.

Alessandro Marvaldi

the unknown. The are so many things we could do more only if we would take 50% more risks than we do!

Douglas Riley

heights...amongst many other things...

Vyvyan (Scumbag College)

My greatest fear is "Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes"

tattedgrl

my greatest fear....

my greatest fear would be to die alone and to have never known love, fortunately i have two beautiful daughters who are the loves of my life.
so that means my biggest fear is heights.
i can be watching a movie and someone is hanging over a cliff or something like that and my stomach gets queasy.
when i have to drive over bridges i feel naseous and my hands are in a death grip on the steering wheel.

thank you and good luck to everyone..

:)

JohnB

Greatest fear? Probably going deaf, I love music and do not want to have people "shout" at me.

Pat Walsh

That we'll have another miscarriage

opinionated ant

Greatest fear hurting those I love. http://j.mp/pptpl

photographyman

My biggest fear is not being able to overcome my fears.

photographyman

My biggest fear is not being able to overcome my fears.

fathima_05

My biggest fear is marrying the wrong person and ending up unhappy with my life... it paralyzes me

Nacho

I´m brave! I have no fear at all! Well, maybe snakes, and sharks, and dark...but, anyway, i´m brave! :P

novakay

I'm afraid I'll miss out on something...anything. My attention is pulled in a million directions constantly bc I dont wanna die without knowing " what that was like"

Jillian Logee

I have Celiac Disease. I have nightmares about eating cookies. Also, zombies. *shudder*

Deejaydoubleyou

My biggest fear is that my son will grow up to hate me.

Johnson Earls

My greatest fear is probably going blind. Everything I do, from work to hobbies to relaxation, is all so totally reliant on sight that I'd probably go insane if I lost my sight.

Ethan Rosch

My greatest fear is dying without having left an impact - http://j.mp/pptpl

F.O. Kiil

My greatest fear is to win this competition, which will force me to buy Photo$hop

JoeySee

Flying Giant Squid. I had a dream about it years ago, and the notion has terrified me ever since. They're absolutely menacing. I hope neither science or evolution ever brings them about.

Colin Wright

My greatest fear? Dancing.

No one wants to see that. Trust me.

Jay McIntyre

I'm afraid of forgetting whether or not I've already entered this contest so I'll comment anyway

James Sapara

My biggest fear is that I won't know went to stop

Bjorn Hanson

Greatest fear: That I won't live a life worthy of my calling.

Jack Johnson

Greatest fear: dementia. http://j.mp/pptpl

Stacy Blackman

double post, my bad!

Stacy Blackman

My greatest fear is that I will miss out on winning the Topaz Labs Photoshop Bundle!

Clarence Chan

my greatest fear is living a life without God

electroblake

My greatest fear is having to admit defeat and get a day job.

galezucker

I'd say being up in airplanes but since I travel (with the help of magic drugs) often, I'll move on to having all my hard drives become inoperable and irretrievable. All of them, and all of the backup dvd's and cd's too.

Joe Block

My biggest fear is of losing my curiosity.

Al Gould

I used to climb masts on aircraft carriers with no fear at all. Now, even the smallest heights scare the s*** out of me. How did this happen? http://j.mp/pptpl

Burns!

My greatest fear: Seeing the perfect shot, but camera malfunctioning (ie. battery dies, memory full, etc.) Also, drowning.

Trevor Cuttrisss

My Greatest Fear, eh? Well mine is death its self. http://j.mp/pptpl

reallynotme

My greatest fear is losing my family. Losing material things, fine, they can be regained. Family, life itself, cannot be brought back. I cherish my family and love them more than anything else.

Sarah

my greatest fear is to have another friend pass away and only after realize that i never showed or told them how important they were to me

Jeremy McMahan

Greatest photography fear: Dropping camera and lens into a lake. Or perhaps having the camera conk-out during a wedding or some other once-in-a-lifetime event.

Azi Jackal

My greatest fear is not following my heart. :)

Molly Black

I have both Fibromyalgia AND Addison's Disease. I'm terrified I'm going to spend the rest of my life in constant pain, having to have a caretaker not just now, but for the rest of my life. I'm terrified that the pain and steroids that have stopped me from modeling will now also take away my ability to do photography. Since photography is my escape from the constant pain, this is a very real fear. The death aspect doesn't bother me as much as the loss of quality of life.

amandacarlson

My greatest fear is Hammer Head Sharks. I dont know where it came from but I am deathly scared of them. So much so that when im in a swimming pool and they have tiles on the bottem in the shape of T i have to keep telling myself that its just a pool and there wouldnt be sharks here.

Dustin

My biggest fear is that I will jeopardize my own relationships because of my selfishness, even though most consider me to be a relatively selfless person.

Danielle

Greatest fear is that I lose someone i love without them knowing how I feel about them.

And spiders.

Madzia Bryll

My greatest fear is that I am crazy and don't even know it. Or perhaps it is that I am perfectly normal, and therefore my outbursts are simply a sign of bad character...

jennyplain

My greatest fear is earthworms. I know. It's ridiculous.

eiffair

my greatest fear is loosing all my fears

travit

My greatest fear is that my children won't be proud of me when they become adults.

Shannon

Nothingness, paralysis, the blackness. SCAR-Y.

ScrObot

My greatest fear is being in the position where I cannot do the things that I love or provide for my family to do the things that they love.

That and 20 foot tall mutant spiders.

Roberta

My greatest fear is failure.

Janet McK

my greatest fear is having a family member die while I'm out of the country. also, snakes.

Bergur

My greatest fear would be losing my wife, after that losing someone close to me. (pretty open ended as well).

My greatest photography related fear is dropping my camera out of a moving train or car or out of a window.

Adrian

My career and hobbies rely on my eyes. My greatest fear is losing my site.

Nimish

i want one

Dave Wilson

Assuming you are interested in photographic fears and not the obvious such as death of close family members, diagnosis with a terminal disease, I would have to say that having all your cameras die at the start of a wedding shoot would be pretty horrific. Shooting weddings is scary enough but couple that with serious gear failure and you have a real nightmare.

Preeti

My greatest fear is of how deep the ocean is. I love it but I am deathly afraid of being lost somewhere in the middle (something stupid like falling off a cruise ship). Really random and weird.

Quadelle

My greatest fear is dying before my child are grown.

Seetroll

Seetroll

I fear height. Can't look down from towers.

facebook-4203563

I'd have to go with spiders, for whatever reason, like many others, they absolutely terrify me.

CincauHangus

my greatest fear is knowing that i never did my very best in the things i love

Gabriel

My greatest fear is heights - including flying. Which is pretty terrible because I have to fly a lot for my job. But you have to face your fears and tough it out.

vermicious_knid

my greatest fear is simply that i will miss something. it may seem inevitable, but i retain the irrational hope of getting a shot at everything.

one_two_west

Greatest fear?...........That there will be no photography in Heaven.

joegpp

Greatest fear? ...exposure

Christian D. Ritchie

My greatest fear is that my loved ones, especially my toddler daughter, may not find Christ and be with God in heaven forever.

Mike Abney

Greatest photo-related fear: data loss. I back up to an external hard drive and then once every month or so create DVDs that get shipped to relatives just in case something happens at home.

Chirpa

That my OCD will get even worse.

abaloo

My primary HDD that holds my pictures fail, then when I check the backup HDD of it, it does too, and then when I check the DVD that holds the most important pictures turns to be unreadable.