Pjclub announces the winners of photo contest 2069 (with photos)

Pjclub (Photo Journalist club, Nepal) has announced the list of winners for the photo contest 2069 which is the biggest photo competition in the country. With the list of winners in each category from Daily life to Nature & Wild life to News to Culture & Tourism to Sports to Nepal Smiles not forgetting the Photo story, the photo of the year has been awarded to Shailendra Kharel for the photo of two women with a child, stranded at Lete VDC, Mustang due to Landslide in 2010. But it is not clear for which category, had the photographer submitted the picture.

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The caption of the photo as written for the contest is:

"Local women’s of Mustang district, Nepal looks towards the landslide intersection close to Lete V.D.C after the road block on October 08, 2010. Every year many people are killed due to landslide and road accident in the various remote hills of Nepal. In 2006 alone five road construction workers and four children died after being buried by landslide at Ghaiku in Lete VDC-4 of Mustang district".

It is told that a total of 7549 amateur photos and 938 professional photos were submitted under different categories, of which 22 winners  are announced with 18 category winner (three for each six categories), 3 photo stories winner and one for the photo of the year. Photo of the year gets Rs 1 Lakh ( Rs 100,000) whereas First, second & third winners in those categories gets Rs 30, 20 and 10 thousands respectively. Mysansar.com writes that 151 photos are already short listed for the Pj club photo exhibition to be held in various cities starting from Kathmandu and it seems like those photos will only be known in the exhibition time.

Here are some winning photos for the Pjclub photo contest 2069.

Culture and Tourism winner: Sanjog Manadhar's photo at Madhav Narayan Jatra, Sali Nadi

Daily Life Winner: Suraj Shrestha's photo at Pokhara.

News Category Second: Ashok Dulal's photo of Police taking Padam Kunwar after slapping Prachanda.

Nepal Smiles Third: Narayan Maharjan Feel good photo.

Photo story second: Very touching and alarming picture

Following some photographers and photo contests closely, I now have more insights to the content of the picture for taking awe-inspiring pictures or be short listed in the winner. And that only happens to increase my zeal in photography.