June photo Competition

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romanb

29-May-2006 18:20
Posts: 684

June photo Competition

The June photo competition has now closed

The theme of the June photo competition is Africa or Asia. Yep, it’s pretty broad - note that Asia includes the Middle East! We’re looking for photographs that say something about a country in one of those continents. Your pic can be of people, wildlife, landscapes, architecture, whatever, but if you want to be in with a chance to win it’s got to be a striking and unusual shot. Your photo must be accompanied by a brief paragraph (50-100 words) telling the story behind the image.

The prize is a copy of The Cities Book and a free guidebook of your choice for the winner and a free guidebook of your choice for the 24 runners up. Plus, for every entrant there’s the possibility of having your photograph commissioned for publication in one of the upcoming Lonely Planet titles The Africa Book and The Asia Book! (If your photo is commissioned for the books, you'll need to have a copy of it that is at least 300 dpi at print size approx 297mm x 210mm. You can post a smaller version for this competition - in fact, we prefer you do!). We will contact entrants regarding commissioning their images after the close of the competition.

Entries close 3rd July 2006.

About the books:

The Africa Book and The Asia Book are the new titles in Lonely Planet’s best-selling series featuring The Travel Book and The Cities Book. These large, hardback coffee-table books will delve into every country on the continent in depth with evocative and arresting images and imaginative text, and will also include thematic chapters about the continent as a whole.

If your photo is commissioned for the books, you'll need to have a copy of it that is at least 300 dpi at print size approx 297mm x 210mm. We will contact entrants regarding commissioning their images after the close of the competition.

Competition guidelines:
Welcome to the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree photo competition! The competition commences midday on 1st June (AEST) and closes at midday on 1st July 2006 (AEST). To enter, you must post a link to your photo entry in the photo competition thread on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Forum. Entry is free, but you can only enter one image in the competition. One winner, and 24 runners-up will be selected by a panel of judges, comprising Thorn Tree moderators and Lonely Planet staff. The winner will receive one copy of Lonely Planet's The Cities Book and a Lonely Planet guide book of their choice. Each runner-up will receive a Lonely Planet guide book of their choice. Prize winners will be notified by private message to their Thorn Tree account, and winning images will feature in an online image gallery on LonelyPlanet.com. All photos submitted must be the entrant's own work and must not infringe on any rights of third parties. Lonely Planet respects the privacy of others, and your personal information will only be used to tell you if you've won. See our privacy policy at www.lonelyplanet.com/privacy/

romanb

29-May-2006 18:26
Posts: 684

Please read: Questions & Answers

How do I markup my links?

1) You could click on the http button above the text area and follow the prompts, or (if you prefer doing things by hand, or the prompt doesn't appear):

2) you could copy'n'paste this template: **L=LonelyPlanet http://lonelyplanet.com**/L - which will appear as LonelyPlanet

Can I enter more than one photograph? No, one entry per person per competition please! If you want to share all your images with us, just post a new thread on the branch :)

Can I post a montage? No, single images only please.

What about ownership of images? Since you're posting the images on third party sites the ownership doesn't change.

What size would you like images posted at? Whatever size you like, although around 800px long edge would be easier to view. Since there are a lot of submissions, less than 1Mb would be good - otherwise judging will take us a long time!

I'm having trouble linking my images, is there a site you'd recommend to host them? Some sites are easier than others, I think pbase.com is a good choice. Whichever site you choose, please click Preview and check that your image link works before posting!

Note: Some photo sharing sites require you to login to view images - make sure that you can see the image when you're logged out before you post a link :)

huanhuan

31-May-2006 19:52
Posts: 3

Red Miao Woman

I met this Red Miao woman when I was in the Dragon Ridge Terrace in Longsheng, Guilin, China.

Red Miao is part of the Miao minority family, which is named after its women's pinkish embroidered clothes. One embroidered jacket takes from half a year to a year to finish. Every girl in this ethnic group learns to sew at very young ages, they make their own wedding dresses too.
Another tradition for Miao women is that they don't cut their hair for a long time, and the hair can grow down to their ankles. Every morning local women comb their hair at the second floor of their bamboo made houses and let the hair drop down like a beautiful fall.

She was wearing one "red" jacket that day, with her long hair crossed up on the top of her head. She was with her granddaughter, the cute little girl on her back, whose mom was outside the mountains in a far away city, making a living for the family.

My MSN online Photo Album (travels to China, United States, Canada, Germany)

TravelChampion

01-Jun-2006 00:46
Posts: 23

"Jambo...Jambo.....JAMBO" : The one thing I'll always remember from my trips to Africa is the happy welcome call from virtually everyone you meet in out of the way towns and villages - although, especially from some of the children.

This picture was taken from a trip to The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania in 2003. To be honest, difficult to remember the EXACT location : small town/village close to the Rose Lake in Senegal will have to do?!

There was some sort of 'do' in town, and most people were wearing what we would probably call their "Sunday Best" clothes.
As I wondered around, I was soon being made to feel welcome by the people I bumped into.

As for the photo, I think it's safe to assume these children were more than happy to have their photo taken! {It made their day, just as much as it made mine}

Link to Photo Here

Cheers, Andrew

PS - Not sure if this photo is "striking and unusual" ...BUT... it certainly reflects and 'says something about a country in one of those continents'. Mind you, based on some of the comments from last months infamous "out of a window" competition, a photo from Peru might well win this one! {LOL - friendly joke 'Lonely Planet' Guys - thanks for running another comp so quickly after the last one!}

Darius4522

01-Jun-2006 01:25
Posts: 582

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darius4522/157803699/

This chilling photograph, taken in the genocide museum at Phnom Penh's notorious S21 detention centre, reminds me of the resilience of the Cambodian people, who are today bright, cheery and generous towards visitors to their country.

I remain amazed at how they have overcome the horrors of the brutal Pol Pot regime that resulted in well in excess of a million innocents being exterminated.

To me, this photo demonstrates the strength of the people of Asia in overcoming hardships and horrors that we lucky westerners cannot easily comprehend.

Even when one considers America’s 9/11, the loss of life was minor compared to the dark and evil days in Pol Pot's Cambodia.

My Photos

Darius4522

01-Jun-2006 01:28
Posts: 582

whoops....

Darius's photo link...

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mrybinski

01-Jun-2006 02:07
Posts: 45

Africa TV

South Ethiopia, Omo Valley. There's hill over river bend. Every evening people from village come to seat and watch
landscape.

Traveltoo

01-Jun-2006 03:40
Posts: 195

This picture was taken on one of the morning that we woke up as early as 4.30 am to make sure that we would be ready to boat and out to wait. We waited to see hammer head shark in that morning. Very quiet and slowly...those whom we were waiting for starting to come in shadow..slowly the sun rose....the shadow was gone and soon we found he asleep in one of the cliff. Slowly trying not to wake him up and boom..got him in his half sleep half awake.

Really lovely trip to Sipadan, Malaysia in that morning. Worth to wake up so early and to make sure that we got into the water just about right. YAWN!!

Nite..nite!!Don't wake me up!!

orientalcompass.com blog

bsmart

01-Jun-2006 06:20
Posts: 451

The photo
This photo was taken in a tej bar in the town of Lalibella, Ethiopia. Tej is a honey wine and is found throughout Ethiopia.
There were three of us in the bar. The lady was the owner and obviously preferred western brand beer to tej.
I particularly like the way the light comes in through the window.

The Music

Kenya and Ethiopia

A slideshow of some of my photos

ScrambledEgg

01-Jun-2006 06:31
Posts: 34

Tibetan Buddhist and Sacred Peak

This Tibetan Buddhist is rising after paying homage to this sacred Buddhist peak, Kawa Karpo of the Meili Snow Mountains. The picture was taken outside of Deqin, Yunnan, China and just beyond the peak is Tibet itself. From here we started a trek that took us down into the valley below, crossing the Lancang (Mekong) River, and up the other side to a small, beautiful wat located at the base of the glacier on the peak passing through assorted villages along the way.

Travels, Photos, Asia, Africa, Americas, Blog

ukirsari

01-Jun-2006 07:36
Posts: 74

walking about 5 km away from the great pyramids of giza and got thunderstorm, almost rolled-down by the sands and no where to run in the heavy rain about 10 minutes, this picture became a memorable souvenir of egypt for me. completed with rainbow across the top of the pyramids, the entitled is bianglala di atas giza rainbow over the pyramids of giza. in indonesian lingo, rainbow known as bianglala or pelangi.

manungsa sing durung mangerteni kahanan sing becik biasane pancen kemeruh :)

Sukie

01-Jun-2006 08:22
Posts: 217

It was pre-dawn on Inle Lake Myanmar, we knew we would be very cold in out little boat so we had on four layers of clothing and were using the umbrellas provided for shade later in the day, to ward off the wind. No words of mine can describe our feelings when the sun began to rise and the famousIntha Fisherman Inle Lake hove into view. Pure magic and we weren't feeling the cold anymore. Sue

Travel Photos: www.wright-photo.com/

empereur

01-Jun-2006 08:44
Posts: 82

Black

"Obruni, Obruni, once you go home, you forget me."

"Dude, no man, look, let me take a picture of you so I remember you, ok?"

"ok, ok."

I met this guy in Yeji, a small town in Ghana. He works as a porter on the Shore of Volta River.

He and his buddies gave me ‘plenty’ smoked fish, while I was seating in the tro-tro for 2h just waiting the merchandises load on top of the tro-tro.

They gave me food because I was funny; I talked, joked and teased them. And I think I am one of those few Obrunis who actually appreciate talking to them and having great casual fun with them.

They didn’t ask me anything in turn, but gave me food because they appreciated my personality.

So as I promised him, his picture is now on the Internet.

For more, please visit my site on Ghana,

http://empereur.com/nations/ghana/

http://www.empereur.com/nations

NO Regret

kingdoomy

01-Jun-2006 09:25
Posts: 217

Making the most of the morning sun.

Whilst in Burkina, august 2004, we went on a Camel treck for a couple of days. After spending a night fighting off mozzies, I wake up to this post card view. This was my favourite moment with the Camels as it is the only time they didn't walk me into trees, start running when I wasn't on them, or walk in the opposite direction to which we were suppose to be going.
Lovely animals really!

Save the turtles: ANAI widecast
'I think war might be God's way of teaching us Geography' - Paul Rodriguez

KVD

01-Jun-2006 09:50
Posts: 58

While in Casablanca in Morocco, we relaxed and walked around the Hassan II Mosque for a couple of hours, admiring the architecture. Although I didn't feel like Bogart and Bergman (this city has truly become a metropolis, combing east and west), it was still an interesting city to visit.

Casablanca

"Best to see something for 1 hour, then never to see it at all...."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anetamark/sets/

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