Global Month Photo Contest: Asia
The FIUTS Global Month Photo Contest - a part of UW Global Month - is a weekly opportunity for members of the FIUTS global community to share images from different regions around the world. The third week of the contest features Asia, and we received many beautiful photos taken by photographers from around the world.
There were many great submissions, and it was difficult for the FIUTS staff to choose just three winners! Thank you to everyone for sharing your pictures – continue on to see photo entries and contest winners…
1st Place
“This is a photo of the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, taken during my study abroad in Nepal last summer. This ancient stupa was having a religious celebration when we went there. Local people were walking around the stupa, buying flowers and incense, praying and singing. Hiking up to this hill just outside of Kathmandu, we were able to view the whole Kathmandu Valley up there, foggy, busy but beautiful!”
Lucy Liu // Hometown: Beijing, China
2nd Place
“First Bend of the Yangtze at Lijiang, China. This is where the southward flowing Yangtze River makes its first sharp 90 degree turn to the east within a distance of 1 km.”
Zhihua Zheng // Hometown: Ji’an, China
3rd Place
“On my solo trip to Hong Kong: after taking the tram up to the top, Victoria Peak gave me this beautiful view of Hong Kong and the harbor.”
Alvin Duong // Hometown: Santa Clara, California, USA
HERE ARE ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE SUBMISSIONS WE RECEIVED - ORDERED RANDOMLY. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIUTS PHOTO CONTEST!
- We are excited to reveal next week’s theme at the end of this blog -
“This is a photo of Bay Bridge in Yokohama.”
Kana Takagi // Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
“It is the world's highest monastery connected with the roads. This place has an altitude of 14,830 ft and the oxygen level is below normal. And this is present in Himachal Pradesh state of India.”
Sai Sarath Chandra & Pavuluri Venkata // Hometown: Guntur, India
“Hong Kong is known for skyscrapers, but it also has a lot of forests and vegetation. This photo was taken in Dragon's Back, one of the best hiking trails in Asia. It is a popular hiking site for locals and tourists. I was there 2 years ago with my mother and we had a fun time hiking while appreciating the view.”
Jocelyn Mah // Hometown: Hong Kong SAR, China
“The picture was taken when I was having road trip in Taitung county, Taiwan. I was driving to an orange daylily scenery, however I turned at the wrong interception hence accidently found this amazing viewpoint. This viewpoint could clearly see the Huadong Valley in between two mountain ranges and it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
Kayden Tsai // Hometown: Taitung, Taiwan
“This photo was taken on a trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand when I visited an elephant sanctuary where they rescued elephants from horrible situations around Thailand and brought them to this land to spend the rest of their days by eating, sleeping, and bathing in mud. Some of the gentle giants were older and more cautious and kept their distance, while other, younger ones came to play with us by spraying us with water and mud. It was an incredible experience!”
Unmesha Roy Paladhi // Hometown: Kolkata, India
“The Lake Twin Pavilions which located at the Taichung Park is the iconic historic site of Taichung. It was built in 1908 as a celebration of west Taiwan railway opening. This photo was taken after the Chinese New Year, and before Lantern Festival. The Park was decorated with lanterns to wish good luck for the coming new year.”
Zih-Hua Chen // Hometown: Taichung, Taiwan
“I was on a road trip in Inner Mongolia with my parents. We were in the Arxan National Forest Park. As we were driving, we spotted a lot of horses casually chilling in thigh-deep grass not far from the road. We found somewhere we could park and got off the car to watch the horses.
The sound of the horses chewing grass was so serene and therapeutic. There were a lot more horses around but they were quite scattered so I could only photography these ones. No one was watching them and it seems like they could just wander around freely and go home when they want to.
Later that night we planned to drive to a lake we saw in the day for stargazing. Within five minutes of driving from our cabin there was already no other light source than our own car headlight. We eventually got too intimidated to drive further, as the road was way too narrow, the lake was quite far, and we couldn't see where we were going. We drove off to a side branch of the road and stopped the car. We got off and looked up. I teared up immediately. The sky was so breathtaking. It was new moon and the air was so pure and dry that I got to see the best night sky of my life, and the milky way. It got quite cold, and we had one blanket in the car, so the three of us wrapped ourselves together in the one blanket, and continued looking up while keeping each other warm with our own body temperature. There were also a lot of shooting stars, so much so that we started a competition to see who spotted the most shooting starts. I was in a lasting state of anxiety about graduate school application at that time, but standing under the stars with my loving parents wrapped in the same blanket was a transcendent experience and lifted me out of all my worries at that time.”
Zhiyao Li // Hometown: Shengyang, China
Next Week’s Theme: Africa
Photo of Cape Town, South Africa by Annie Lewis, FIUTS Staff.
Next week’s photo contest theme is “Scenery of Africa.” To enter, please submit scenery photos you took anywhere in this region!
Who: Anyone can participate!
Prize: FIUTS merchandise (can only be delivered locally)
Timeline: November 25th - December 2nd
Deadline: December 2 @ 11:59 pm PST