Help Me Pick My Entry for Travel Photo Contest
So right after I spent the last two weeks processing and uploading photos from my trip to China, Courtney alerts me to a travel photo contest. I’m going to submit something from my trip, but am trying to figure out which one of the bazillion pictures I took to send in. Help me decide! The criteria for the contest are:
- 50% creativity/originality
- 25% written expression (the caption that I will write for the photo)
- 25% relevance to theme of sharing travel experiences (whatever that means)
Here are some of my favorites (or, if you have a few hours to kill, go pick out something from my entire China trip collection):
 Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi’an |
 Tian Tan Buddha (might be the front runner right now). There’s also a lighter photo of the same shot here, though I like this one a little more because the darkness accentuates the sunlight. |
 Dried duck and sausages in the street market on Lantau Island |
 Mother and child. General Yue’s Mausoleum in Hangzhou |
 Fish being air-dried outside the Lion Forest Garden in Suzhou |
 Courtney runs afoul of one of the guardian lion statues at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. |
 How to get ahead in China. |
 A couple take a stroll on a frozen Lake Kunming at the Summer Palace in Beijing. |
Read the series: China: A Journey of 108,000 Li
- China: A Journey of 108,000 Li
- I’m Going to China!!
- The Wait Is the Hardest Part
- When a Layover Becomes a Stayover
- I Have Stared Death in the Face, and It’s Called Beijing Traffic
- “You’re Not a Hero Until You’ve Been to the Great Wall”
- Beijing: General Impressions
- History Enveloped in a Smoke of Haze
- Almost Like Home
- Sweet Water, Bizzare Rocks
- More on Driving in China
- Water Water Everywhere, So Let’s All Take a Stroll
- From Looking at Skycrapers to Looking at Mountains and Rivers
- A Cruise And a Show to Remember
- Mountains, Caves, Rivers, Lights
- A Boisterous Reunion
- A Matter of Perspective
- Is the Trip Really Almost Over?
- Back Home Again
- China Impressions: A Day of Art
- China Impressions: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- Pictures from China
- Fried the Healthy Pastoral: Dining in China
- China Impressions: Economy
- China Impressions: The Elderly
- Help Me Pick My Entry for Travel Photo Contest
- Occidentalism; or, Of Congee and Christmas Carols
- China Impressions: Funny Signs
- Travel Tips: China
John, I really like both of the photos at Wild Goose Pagoda, the candles and Courtney with her hand in mouth. I’m partial to “Courtney runs afoul” That’s a one-of-a-kind and you’d have quite a story to share about your travel experience, not to mention her relentless pursuit of Starbucks.
I interpreted "sharing travel experiences" to mean they wanted a picture that told a story. Though the Buddha picture is beautiful and the hanging fish just screams, "China!," I'd go with something that has people in it. I'm thinking of the fiddler singing his heart out at the Summer Palace. (I do like the expression on the little guy's face in the "Mother and child" one, though.)