(No, I’m not kidding!) Check out The Motion Photography Prize, sponsored by Google+ (purveyors of fine automatic GIF creation):

Saatchi Art, the Saatchi Gallery and Google+ will award the inaugural Motion Photography Prize, inviting photographers all over the world to celebrate this new creative art form. Six finalists (one per category) will be chosen by a jury of forward-thinkers, including artists Tracey Emin, Shezad Dawood and Cindy Sherman, as well as filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.

6 finalists receive:

• A special feature on Saatchi Art, the world’s leading online art gallery
• Inclusion in a group exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London
• A trip for 2 to London to attend the private viewing at the Saatchi Gallery

1 overall winner receives all of the above, plus:

• The trip of a life with the photographer/filmmaker of his/her choice

To create your motion photo, you can upload a series of at least 5 frames to Google+, or you can create it on your own. You can then upload one motion photo (in GIF format) for as many of the six prize categories as you’d like, found on the Saatchi Gallery’s Google+ page.

Now get out there and animate some pixels!