Sense of Place—Week 14 Gallery
Browse our editors' favorite submissions to the photo contest.
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- China 01
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- Women in traditional chinese dress.
Photo and caption by Thomas Kalak
Location: China
Category: Sense of Place
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- Kibera Class
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- This picture is taken in a "classroom" in Kibera, the second largest urban slum in Africa, while working for "Sarakasi Trust". This non-profit performing arts development organization believes in the use of Culture for Development and the positive role that culture can play to eradicate poverty. Since 2001 the Trust has run a training and outreach program that continues to touch lives of thousands of children growing up in the slums of Nairobi. Very touching and confronting. The sun did shine through a small hole in the metal roof,revealing the dust and "spreading" some of it's magic.
Photo and caption by Luc Vekemans
Location: Nairobi, Kibera. Kenya
Category: Sense of Place
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- Who said the world is round!
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- Who said the world is round!
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- This photo was taken whilst on a liveaboard diving trip in Tubbataha April 2012. When surfacing from a dive Soren was taken some photos and I captured this moment of calm and beautiful surroundings in the middle of the Sulu sea.
Photo and caption by Chris Hewett
Location: Tubbataha Reef, Philippines
Category: Sense of Place
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- The Aged in Tibet
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- The Aged in Tibet
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- When prosperity fades away, the serenity moves us a lot. As a photographer, there are touching sceneries everywhere on the way and all scenery has its own touching story. Just like these elders, even we do not know their experiences, we can see their precipitated serene.——July 2, 2011
Photo and caption by yang hai
Location: Qingpu, Tibet, China
Category: Sense of Place
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- Cinque Terre, Italy
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- Cinque Terre, Italy
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- There are places on earth where nature and its human inhabitants, along with all their excessive props, fit together just fine.
Photo and caption by Sara Coen
Location: Cinque Terre, Italy
Category: Sense of Place
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- I need a vacation
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- I need a vacation
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- Spotted this little shack on the roof of a building under construction in Hong Kong. It's almost like a secluded little temple on top of the Himalaya. The only difference is the the music of constant hammering and drilling, the aromatic scent of latex paint and occasionally shrouded in concrete mist. One thing they do share though, is the prayer you surely would be singing, wishing you could end up at a better place.
Photo and caption by Brian Yen
Location: Hong Kong
Category: Sense of Place
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- Merit Winner: Underwater Surf
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- Merit Winner: Underwater Surf
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- Taken at Cloud Break at an outer reef in Fiji, a surfer duck dives his board to clear the rolling waves of the raw ocean.
Photo and caption by Lucia Griggi
Location: Cloudbreak, Fiji, Pacific Ocean.
Category: Sense of Place
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- Magic view
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- It was already late evening on the way home. It was dark and silent almost everywhere on the turkish peninsula Bodrum. Suddenly we came to the small village Dereköy and saw this miraculous shop for lamps made from calabash. What a magic view.
Photo and caption by Thomas Richler
Location: Dereköy, Bodrum, Westanatolia, Turkey
Category: Sense of Place
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- Burj Khalifa
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- Burj Khalifa
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- At 829.84m (2,723 ft), the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. However, plans are underway to construct an even higher building in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. If completed, that structure will be the first in the world to surpass the 1km (3,280ft) mark.
Photo and caption by Sandra Leduc
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Category: Sense of Place
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- First Place Winner: Butterfly
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- First Place Winner: Butterfly
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- This image was shot in the Kyrgyz lands of the Wakhan Corridor. The intimacy of this everyday life moment, shot inside of a family yurt, is in total contrast with the harsh environment these nomadic tribes live in. On the right we notice a television and a sound console. These tribes live weeks away from any village by foot. In spite of being located at an altitude of 4,300 meters in one of the most remote areas of Afghanistan they are equipped with solar panels, satellite dishes and cellphones. Ancestral ways of living, with touches of modernity. National Geographic contributing photographer Alexandra Avakian, one of this year's judges, shares her thoughts on the first place winner: The light and texture captured in this portrait are painterly, and the predominance of red is rich. The content of the photo is striking because the photographer captured both the nomads’ traditional way of life and some of their modern accouterments—the viewer gets the visual satisfaction of something that goes against cliché. Triangle shapes tend to add dynamism to photos. In this picture they appear in several places, including the main subject’s knee, elbow, and white scarf. I’ve slept in the guest yurt of Kyrgyz nomads in remote mountains while on assignment for Elle magazine; the location is hard to reach and off the beaten path for most travelers, and therefore of educational as well as aesthetic value.
Photo and caption by Cedric Houin
Location: Wakhan Corridor Afghanistan
Category: Sense of Place
