VietNamNet Bridge – Surpassing 230,100 entries, the photo featuring
lanterns in the Huong (Perfume) River in the ancient capital city of
Hue, Vietnam reached the final of the Sony international photo contest
2016. The organizing board on March 15 announced the list of 60 winners
based on national category, including one from Vietnam.
The best photo from Vietnam was from to Ngo Thanh Minh. The photo captures two young girls dropping lanterns on a river of Hue.
The second prize for the best picture of Vietnam went to Ngo Thanh Binh with the picture of two smiling children in the rain. The Organizing Committee said the list of winners will be announced on April 21. The winning works will be put on exhibition at Somerset House in London from 22/4 to 8/5.
Coming third in Vietnam's category is the work by Le Trung Hung, featuring a bird family.
The image of Vietnam also appears in many photos by foreign photographers. One of them is a lantern store in the ancient town of Hoi An by Swee Oh, from Malaysia.
The best photo of Malaysian photographers features child dancers in the Melasti Festival, Bali, Indonesia by Khairel Anuar Che Ani.
The spectacular photo of kingfishers by a photographer from Croatia taken in the town of Palovec. Photo: Petar Sabol.
The best of the Philippines is the work featuring a boy in the Ati-Atihan festival in Kalibo Aklan. Photo: Manex Sungahid.
Burak Senbak, a Turkish photographer came first in the national category with a photo capturing two Indonesian men wearing costumes preparing for the cockfighting rite. In this country, cockfighting is illegal, but Burak confirmed this scene was staged, served the purpose of art. Photo: Burak Senbak.
The monks are begging for food in the Monlam mid-winter festival of Tibet. Photo: Christopher Roche.
Fireflies in a Japanese forest in the rainy season. Photo: Kei Nomiyama.
Spectacular views of the pit of death Darwaza (Turkmenistan) recorded by a British photographer. Photo: Tino Solomon.
The bumpy hills of the Alpe di Siusi (Italy) in the morning dew by photographer Martin Rak frin the Czechs Republic.
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T. Van