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Photography contest India Biography
A picture from India has been chosen from more than 350,000 to win in what the Guinness World Records says is the world's largest online photo contest.
A picture of Safdarjang's Tomb in Delhi by Pranav Singh won the Wikimedia Loves Monuments 2012 competition.
Another Indian, Narender Kumar, won sixth place in the contest with his photograph of the Taj Mahal.
More than 15,000 people from 33 countries sent in their photographs of listed monuments.
Unfortunately Mr Singh did not "leave his contact details behind and will, therefore, not win a prize", the contest website said.
"The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasises the monument, and gives it a dramatic component," said the jury about Mr Singh's photograph of Safdarjang's Tomb.
"All in all, a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb."
The iconic Taj Mahal was one of the most photographed images sent to the contest, but Mr Kumar's entry "seems to wake up out of the mist" which the jurors thought made it stand out from the others.
Mr Kumar told The Hindu newspaper that most photos of the Taj are "touristy" but for him "luckily there was foggy weather".
The Wiki Loves Monuments contest beat its own record from last year to become the world's largest photo contest this time round.
This is the third time the photography contest has been held and the first time that Indians have participated.
Glass-clad monstrous concrete buildings topped by grotesque cell towers have come to symbolise human-centric urban development leaving very little space for equally important other forms of life.
Nature lovers who take a holistic view of conservation often lament that too much emphasis laid on ‘glamour species’ of the wildlife like the big cats has resulted in the neglect of the common species. An offshoot of this lopsided conservation policy is the rapid disappearance of the once-common house sparrows from cities, “the best bio-indicators of urban life and environment” as Mohammed Dilawar, one of the Time Heroes of Environment 2008, keeps saying.
In an attempt to shift focus and raise awareness of the rich flora and fauna found in “our backyards,” Nature Forever Society (NFS) and The Hindu have teamed up to conduct an all-India photo contest. It is a participatory approach to conservation where the citizens would not merely shoot pictures but explore and appreciate better the rich biodiversity around them.
Like conservation policy, nature photography too has wrongly come to be associated with a few wildlife species, expensive cameras and travelling to exotic locations. This has resulted in disproportionate availability of high quality images of threatened species and not many when it comes to common species.
The NFS- The Hindu BiodiverCity Photo Contest aims at encouraging common people to involve themselves in this pan-India mission of photo documenting the flora and fauna around them with whatever camera they have, including the mobile one.
The initiative is spearheaded by Mr. Dilawar, a conservationist with the NFS. Photographs can be of plants, insects, reptiles, birds, natural landscapes around human habitations. Those taken inside national parks and protected areas as well as those of domesticated and caged animals and pets are not allowed.
Photography contest India Biography
A picture from India has been chosen from more than 350,000 to win in what the Guinness World Records says is the world's largest online photo contest.
A picture of Safdarjang's Tomb in Delhi by Pranav Singh won the Wikimedia Loves Monuments 2012 competition.
Another Indian, Narender Kumar, won sixth place in the contest with his photograph of the Taj Mahal.
More than 15,000 people from 33 countries sent in their photographs of listed monuments.
Unfortunately Mr Singh did not "leave his contact details behind and will, therefore, not win a prize", the contest website said.
"The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasises the monument, and gives it a dramatic component," said the jury about Mr Singh's photograph of Safdarjang's Tomb.
"All in all, a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb."
The iconic Taj Mahal was one of the most photographed images sent to the contest, but Mr Kumar's entry "seems to wake up out of the mist" which the jurors thought made it stand out from the others.
Mr Kumar told The Hindu newspaper that most photos of the Taj are "touristy" but for him "luckily there was foggy weather".
The Wiki Loves Monuments contest beat its own record from last year to become the world's largest photo contest this time round.
This is the third time the photography contest has been held and the first time that Indians have participated.
Glass-clad monstrous concrete buildings topped by grotesque cell towers have come to symbolise human-centric urban development leaving very little space for equally important other forms of life.
Nature lovers who take a holistic view of conservation often lament that too much emphasis laid on ‘glamour species’ of the wildlife like the big cats has resulted in the neglect of the common species. An offshoot of this lopsided conservation policy is the rapid disappearance of the once-common house sparrows from cities, “the best bio-indicators of urban life and environment” as Mohammed Dilawar, one of the Time Heroes of Environment 2008, keeps saying.
In an attempt to shift focus and raise awareness of the rich flora and fauna found in “our backyards,” Nature Forever Society (NFS) and The Hindu have teamed up to conduct an all-India photo contest. It is a participatory approach to conservation where the citizens would not merely shoot pictures but explore and appreciate better the rich biodiversity around them.
Like conservation policy, nature photography too has wrongly come to be associated with a few wildlife species, expensive cameras and travelling to exotic locations. This has resulted in disproportionate availability of high quality images of threatened species and not many when it comes to common species.
The NFS- The Hindu BiodiverCity Photo Contest aims at encouraging common people to involve themselves in this pan-India mission of photo documenting the flora and fauna around them with whatever camera they have, including the mobile one.
The initiative is spearheaded by Mr. Dilawar, a conservationist with the NFS. Photographs can be of plants, insects, reptiles, birds, natural landscapes around human habitations. Those taken inside national parks and protected areas as well as those of domesticated and caged animals and pets are not allowed.
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
Photography contest India
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