Travel Photo Contest
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

My picks…

People
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Places
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I found the places much harder to choose between. Good luck.

I like those really desolate places:

IMG_6140 Sandboarding Peru
IMG_7333 Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni

Idyllic setting:

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Horrifying and unlikely to please the photo judges, though then again, who knows?:

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Interesting, but needs the caption to be understood:

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Not sure why I like this one:

IMG_1729 Coconut Growth

Oy. Brodie's were all in my shortlist of candidates. Just to be confounding, though, I opt for three different Places:

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni

Flightpath

Cuzco After Dark

and three different People:

Tourist Abuse

Concerned Haircut

Fishy Columbian

Eh, I think you could do better. Not that these aren't good photos, I just think you have some much better ones…not that I'm going to go through them all and give you ACTUAL suggestions!! I'm a huge help, I know. OK…if I HAVE to choose from this list, I'd go with Places: Wine, Reeds People: Tracks, Farm, and maybe Ben

Good luck!!

PS. I wish I could use your page on Safari…Mac hater!

I vote for:
Child at Play, Flightplan, and Salar de Uyuni for places.

Sunset Soccer, Track and Time and Tourist Abuse for people.

BTW - The site works on Safari on my Mac…

Ms Katie — I did a lot of cross-browser compatibility testing and tweaks when I built back in 2005, are you having problems in the snapshots gallery or the travelogue part of the site? What version of Safari are you using?

…how's the computer class at uni going? (poke, poke, wink)

Jennifer — Thanks for the thumbs-up from your Mac

Craig, you can submit up to five photos per category.

Hi Craig,

Thanks for narrowing this down for us.

Here are my picks:

Brazilian Waterfalls
Mexican Cerveza
Titicaca Reeds
Flightpath
Second Thoughts
Flat Tire

oops! Thanks dad — will adjust in the text above. Any photo thoughts?

My picks for places: (1) Titicaca reeds (2) Brazilian waterfall (Second thoughts is a neat picture, though.)

My picks for people: (1) Heavy load (2) Ecuadoran wool

Best wishes! Kerri

My votes: - based on guidelines from interviews with the judges:

Sense of Place: (ranked):
1. Costa Rica Paper Lights (write in vote: http://snapshots.travelvice.co.....8.JPG.html)
2. Salar de Uyuni
3. Titicaca Reeds
4. Pizza Hut (from other category)
5. Argentine Wine

People of the World (ranked):
1. Deaf Motorist
2. Carriacou Cutie
3. Concerned Haircut
4. Ben and Mary
5. Sunset Soccer

Places: Bolivia.
People: Ben and Mary

These two strike me as particularly unique.

Thanks all for your thoughts.

I sat here in Brazil and gave a lot of thought to these images. I researched the winners and finalists for the same contest for 2004, 2005, and 2006, and framed my choices around the commonalities of those images.

My choices, in order of preference:

A Sense of Place

1. Titicaca Reeds — Floating Islands of the Uros, Lake Titicaca, Peru
2. Mexican Cerveza — Puerto Penasco, Mexico
3. Salar de Uyuni — Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
4. Argentine Wine — Maipu, Argentina
5. Bolivian Village — Village between Uyuni and Potosi, Bolivia

People of the World

1. Deaf Motorist — Piriapolis, Uruguay
2. Flat Tire — Outside Leon, Nicaragua
3. Ben and Mary — St. Vincent, St. Vincent and The Grenadines
4. Mexican Spice — Merida, Mexico
5. River Crossing — Santa Teresa, Peru

Places favourites:
Mexican Cerveza
Costa Rican Lightening
Sails of the Odessa

People:
Concerned Haircut
Pizza Hut
Sunset Soccer

Good luck!

JR - North Van

So many good pictures! Votes are in: Guatemalan Taxi, Second Thoughts, Titicaca Reeds, Tracks and time, Sandboarding Strap-in, and Flat Tire

Some interesting choices made by the judges from the 16,749 entries submitted…

http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/photos/

…Maybe next year.