Twitter Landscapes competition: the winner picture

Last month we asked you to send us great pictures for our Landscapes competition on Twitter and the response was overwhelming, with over 300 pictures submitted in the space of two weeks. The winner and runner up pictures will be featured as background images in our Twitter page, so the judging panel have looked at all the pictures in this context and are now ready to announce their verdict.

First let’s look at the runner ups, in no particular order:

1. @boriquena20: “Taken this year at Miami Beach, Florida, United States on a Thursday morning”.

2. @SignosisRed: “View from Metropolitan Government Office which is located in the Shunjuku district of Tokyo”.

3. @eweiss41: “Taken in early January, this photo reflects a colorful winter sunset behind St. Peter’s basilica, taken along the Tiber River in Rome, Italy”.

4. @sophie_webb1: “Dead vlei, in Sossusvlei, Namibia. I took a picture of a single tree to put into perspective how vast the sand dunes are”.

5. @stefanotermanin: “San Quirico d’Orcia, near Siena, in the Tuscany countryside. I woke up at 4.30 a.m. and I sat down in a Chianti vineyard (with my tripod and my camera) in front of the hill that you see in my picture. Then the sun comes out from the fog and the Podere Belvedere appeared”.

All runner ups get a Lonely Planet guide of their choice. Congratulations!

But there was one picture our panel fell in love with, and that is the winner of the competition. Check it out:

The picture was submitted by @michaelperron and credit goes to Michael Perron and Linda Rayner. As well as having the honour of becoming the next background image of our Twitter page, they win a Lonely Planet guide of their choice and the Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who took part and remember to keep an eye on our Twitter page for any further news, tips and competitions.

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Twitter Landscapes competition: the winner picture

Last month we asked you to send us great pictures for our Landscapes competition on Twitter and the response was overwhelming, with over 300 pictures submitted in the space of two weeks. The winner and runner up pictures will be featured as background images in our Twitter page, so the judging panel have looked at all the pictures in this context and are now ready to announce their verdict.

First let’s look at the runner ups, in no particular order:

1. @boriquena20: “Taken this year at Miami Beach, Florida, United States on a Thursday morning”.

2. @SignosisRed: “View from Metropolitan Government Office which is located in the Shunjuku district of Tokyo”.

3. @eweiss41: “Taken in early January, this photo reflects a colorful winter sunset behind St. Peter’s basilica, taken along the Tiber River in Rome, Italy”.

4. @sophie_webb1: “Dead vlei, in Sossusvlei, Namibia. I took a picture of a single tree to put into perspective how vast the sand dunes are”.

5. @stefanotermanin: “San Quirico d’Orcia, near Siena, in the Tuscany countryside. I woke up at 4.30 a.m. and I sat down in a Chianti vineyard (with my tripod and my camera) in front of the hill that you see in my picture. Then the sun comes out from the fog and the Podere Belvedere appeared”.

All runner ups get a Lonely Planet guide of their choice. Congratulations!

But there was one picture our panel fell in love with, and that is the winner of the competition. Check it out:

The picture was submitted by @michaelperron and credit goes to Michael Perron and Linda Rayner. As well as having the honour of becoming the next background image of our Twitter page, they win a Lonely Planet guide of their choice and the Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who took part and remember to keep an eye on our Twitter page for any further news, tips and competitions.

View the original article here

Twitter Landscapes competition: the winner picture

Last month we asked you to send us great pictures for our Landscapes competition on Twitter and the response was overwhelming, with over 300 pictures submitted in the space of two weeks. The winner and runner up pictures will be featured as background images in our Twitter page, so the judging panel have looked at all the pictures in this context and are now ready to announce their verdict.

First let’s look at the runner ups, in no particular order:

1. @boriquena20: “Taken this year at Miami Beach, Florida, United States on a Thursday morning”.

2. @SignosisRed: “View from Metropolitan Government Office which is located in the Shunjuku district of Tokyo”.

3. @eweiss41: “Taken in early January, this photo reflects a colorful winter sunset behind St. Peter’s basilica, taken along the Tiber River in Rome, Italy”.

4. @sophie_webb1: “Dead vlei, in Sossusvlei, Namibia. I took a picture of a single tree to put into perspective how vast the sand dunes are”.

5. @stefanotermanin: “San Quirico d’Orcia, near Siena, in the Tuscany countryside. I woke up at 4.30 a.m. and I sat down in a Chianti vineyard (with my tripod and my camera) in front of the hill that you see in my picture. Then the sun comes out from the fog and the Podere Belvedere appeared”.

All runner ups get a Lonely Planet guide of their choice. Congratulations!

But there was one picture our panel fell in love with, and that is the winner of the competition. Check it out:

The picture was submitted by @michaelperron and credit goes to Michael Perron and Linda Rayner. As well as having the honour of becoming the next background image of our Twitter page, they win a Lonely Planet guide of their choice and the Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography. Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who took part and remember to keep an eye on our Twitter page for any further news, tips and competitions.

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Capture the City Photo Competition: the winner

When we launched the Capture the City photo competition, we weren’t sure how travellers would respond. After sorting through over 2500 beautiful entries we now know the answer: everyone who entered aimed to make our job of picking a winner as difficult as possible.

There just were too many great photos to get our heads around from cities big and small all over the globe, many that we could easily imagine as covers of Lonely Planet city guidebooks. Some were classic images of famous landmarks, while a surprising number showed sides to cities you rarely if ever see. Other photos came from cities we don’t publish standalone guidebook for, but were so gorgeous it made us wish we did.

We chipped and whittled and hacked away at the list until we had the best of the best, and now – at long last – we’re ready to announce the winner. But let’s start with the short list of our favourites. Posted in no particular order below, each of these had a real shot at winning (and one of them is the winner):

And among these, who won? Each judge had their favourite, but they finally settled on the winner. The winning entry (below) by photographer Brice Chevaux, taken on a peach-skied morning in Venice, with the line of the canal bending intriguingly behind the buildings, captures the look, feel and movement of Venice with the perfect blend of reality and playful fantasy. As a photo it feels like it’s telling a story; as a book cover it makes you want to open the book just to see if the scene continues.

Congratulations to Brice, and many thanks to everyone who entered the competition for sharing your best city photos with us all!

Keep an eye out for more competitions on our Facebook page, and join our weekly photo challenges on Flickr.

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