Entries about photography

1. Kashgar to Turphan. By LuisDafos.
A venerable uygur old man awaits for the long, icy December night to come in a hard seat wagon crossing the Takla Makan desert.


2. Off to school. By dinah1.


3. Dusty Road. By Nurse1.

4. View of Table mountains. By namfon.

5. Mikrolet Maddness. By joffre.

6. Varanasi Sunrise. By hayden111.


7. Ship with mountains Lake Baikal. By adamandmeg.


8. Donna che trasporta rami secchi. By paperix72.


9. Chilled bicycle. By srenangman.


10. Dogsbox on bicycle. By srenangman.

11. Old Style Transport. By kiwilara.

12. Sailing under Öresundsbron - the bridge between Sweden and Denmark. By snatterand.

13. Indian 2nd class sleeper. By LuisDafos.

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Every month, Travellerspoint throws a travel photo competition with a unique theme. LuisDafos, the winner of our Transport Photo Competition, will receive a $50 Amazon voucher. He'll also have his monthly photo upload limit raised to 200MB. So will dinah1, this month's runner up.

Inspired by the UEFA Euro 2008, we've given our June competition a fresh theme: Sport. If you have beautiful, interesting or funny photos with a sporty theme, you can enter into the new competition. Find out how here.

Check out the results of past competitions:

• 13 of the Best Watery Travel Photos
  
• 10 Photos to Whet Your Appetite for Food and Travel
  
• Red: 11 Evocative Photos by Travellers
  

Last month we challenged you to nominate your best travel photos on the theme of "water". The results are in and the winner is this beautiful shot taken in Canada by paperix72.

Paperix72 will receive a $50 Amazon voucher from Travellerspoint, a copy of One People: Many Journeys from Lonely Planet and an upgraded photo bandwidth allowance of 200MB/month.

The runner-up was a shot of two canal boats in Venice, Italy, taken by sweneyb

Sweneyb will receive an upgraded monthly bandwidth allowance of 200MB and a mini version of One People: Many Journeys from Lonely Planet.

Other serious contenders for the top spots were the following.

Upturned Iceberg (by dinah1). Taken in Antarctica

Moeraki boulders sunrise (by Breezy13). Taken in New Zealand

First Morning sunrise Abel Tasman (also by Breezy13). Taken in New Zealand

Venice (by kiwilara). Taken in Italy

Tranquility (by Mavr8k). Taken in Scotland

Autumn Leaves (also by Mavr8k). Taken in Canada

Silence (by marlis). Taken in Antarctica

A Bird Shower (by shoggix).

In the heart of the Iceberg.. (by miromar). Taken in Antarctica

Bathing in the Great Mother (by Daver141).

Saint Louis (by LuisDafos).

Thanks to everyone who entered their shots into this competition. The rest of the shortlisted entries can be seen here

Our new competition, on the theme of transport, is now open for entries as well. Why not give it a go? Transport Photo Competition

Food is a source of great intrigue for many travellers. It is a way into foreign cultures - a way to appreciate other people's traditions.

Last month, we invited members to submit their best travel photos with a food theme. The favourites, as voted by Travellerspoint members, are shown below.

1. Grinding at the side of the road - driving north in Ethiopia, Ethiopia by kiwilara.

2. Can I have....., Vietnam by 0000.

3. Marrakech food stalls, Morocco by niklasb.

4. Still together, Indonesia by jascho1.

5. Green Tea, South Korea by joffre.

6. An apple a day keeps the dentist away!!, Papua New Guinea by daveh.

7. Banana Bunches, Laos by robjwood.

8. Smells from above, Mexico by edgarklng.

9. Mouth watering Chickenparts, Ecuador by marlis.

10. Tarantulas anyone?, Cambodia by dal28dal.

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Congratulations to kiwilara, whose photo of the Ethiopian women grinding seed won the first prize. She wins a $50 Amazon voucher and will have her monthly photo upload increased to 200MB. As runner-up, 0000 will also have his monthly upload limit increased to 200MB.

If you didn't win this time around, you can always enter our next photo competition. This month's theme is water. Click here to find out how to enter.

There is something very beautiful about browsing through photos from around the world and seeing a common thread woven through them all. The photos here are from India, the Netherlands, Madagascar and many other places, but they all share one central theme: the colour red.

Last month, we asked our members to submit their best photos with the theme of red. The favourites, as voted by Travellerspoint members, are included below.

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Red dream, India by 0000.

Flare at the fair, USA by Ardy.

Volcano at Laguna Colorada, Bolivia by monkyhands.

Flowerfields in bloom, Netherlands by Sander.

The Modern Angkor, Cambodia by g0503245.

Tulips of Keukenhof, Netherlands by anak.

Lady in Red, Cuba by marlis.

Serenity, Cuba by Mavr8k.

Sunset, Madagascar by paperix72.

Malaysian mall, Malaysia by jslome.

Red Octopus, Japan by persefoni.

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Congratulations to Ardy and 0000, who were tied in first place. They both receive a $50 Amazon voucher and will have their monthly photo upload increased to 200MB.

If you didn't win this time around, you can always enter our next photo competition. This month's theme is food. Click here to find out how to enter.

If you're one of those users of Travellerspoint that just likes spending countless hours looking through the magnificent travel photography that's been uploaded and featured by the brilliant photography moderator team (superlatives anyone?!), and you have one of those spiffy customized Google homepages, then this post is for you.

Did you know we have a featured travel photography google gadget that you can add to your personalized Google homepage? Well, we do and now you know It's conveniently located in Google's gadget directory, and if you want to go ahead and add it to your iGoogle page, then the direct link is http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=http%3A//www.travellerspoint.com/googlegadgets/featuredphotos.xml

So now you can even get your featured travel photos fix if your boss has blocked off Travellerspoint because of your over usage (honestly, why else wouldn't you visit Travellerspoint every day?!)