| The organizers of the First Half of 2021 Smile World photography contest have just announced the prizes in this year’s contest. The contest consists of 4 main categories: Happy Time, Beauty of Nature, Documentary and Travel, and Open. Photographer Bui Viet Duc was awarded the silver prize in the category of Natural Beauty. He received a prize of $1,000. The photo captures the early morning scene at Long Coc tea hill (Phu Tho), one of the most beautiful tea hills in Vietnam. During the late autumn and early winter, the tea hill is covered with white dew, creating the feeling of a fairyland. |
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| Photographer Khanh Phan won bronze in the Documentary and Tourism categories with a prize of 500 USD. The photo captures the scene of a farmer catching fish in the middle of the nipa palm forest in Quang Ngai. This forest is up to 10 hectares wide with rich fauna. This is considered the green lung of Quang Ngai. |
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| Khanh Phan, Nguyen Tan Tuan and Nguyen Phuoc Hoai were also awarded excellent prizes for the Open category at this competition. This is a photo by photographer Nguyen Phuoc Hoai, capturing the scene of casting nets on the waters of Phu Yen, one of the places with the most exciting fishing activities and the most beautiful sea in Vietnam. |
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| Photographer Khanh Phan won the prize in the Open category, capturing the scene of harvesting grass in the South Central region. |
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| Author Nguyen Tan Tuan was honored with the work Picking water lilies taken in Moc Hoa, Long An. This year is considered a bumper year for Vietnam at this award. Last year only 1 author was honored. |
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| Previously, All About Photo (AAP) magazine announced the list of 26 talented photographers who won the contest AAP Magazine #20: Travels . ). Photographer Ly Hoang Long was awarded consolation prize. However, the work made a strong impression and received many compliments for its beautiful colors, simple but impressive scenery. The photo captures the scene of the man carrying it to sell in Tat Vien village, Hung Yen province, where there is a tradition of knitting for about 200 years. This is also the only Vietnamese author honored at the award gathering thousands of works from many parts of the world. |
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| Photographer Pham Huy Trung’s work Fishing in the Mangrove has just won the first prize in the People category at the Drone Photo Awards 2021. This is a photo contest within the framework of the prestigious Siena Awards . This photo award has been held since 2015. In 2021, it attracts about 14,000 entries from more than 100 countries around the world. The photo is strongly impressed by the colors and composition. |
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| At the wide-angle landscape photo contest 2021 EPSON 2021 , the photo of terraced fields in Northern Vietnam is one of the honored works, recorded by Spanish photographer Felipe Souto. The award is chosen by the editor of the prestigious Daily Mail newspaper. |
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| National Geographic Traveler magazine announced the results of the 2021 photo contest at the end of October, looking for the best photos on the subject of travel. The contest is divided into 6 categories: Wildlife, Urban, Food and Travel, People, Landscape, Profile. For each entry, the jury selected one first prize and two second prizes. The photo of a Vietnamese woman wearing a red ao dai inside the Hue citadel by author Walter Monticelli was awarded the second prize in the People category. “While sightseeing in the imperial city of Hue, I heard a tune from afar. Following the sound I approached a room where a group of women wore ao dai and played traditional musical instruments. I stood there for a long time, enjoy the music and pay attention to the person sitting at the door who is also listening to his friends playing music”, the British photographer shared the memory of taking the photo in 2020. |
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| Photographer Khanh Phan’s photo of the harvest scene of water lilies in Long An by photographer Khanh Phan is one of the 20 most impressive travel photos of the year selected by the organizers of the Life Framer contest . The photo received a rain of compliments, because the judges said that without reading the caption, viewers wanted to come here immediately. |
