2011 Photo Contest. PLANET Magazine is pleased to announce a unique new photo contest that celebrates and explores the natural beauty and wonder of our planet. For the last four years, PLANET has held the annual This is Earth Photo Contest with top judges, prizes, and international exposure for our entrants. This spring, we're introducing This Is Earth, a new contest with a theme we feel is sure to inspire photographers everywhere. All who are interested please send us your favorite images of the natural world – whether from your own backyard or places you've traveled to. We're interested in seeing your best shots of flowers, mountains, deserts, rivers, trees, oceans, moons, sunrises and sunsets, valleys and streams, volcanoes and skies, and a hundred other amazing aspects of our world.
Not to mention the splendor of animals and birds and fish. No humans please. Just nature and animals. For this contest we have another esteemed panel of judges and larger and better prizes than ever before! J. Travel Photographer of the Year - International Travel Photography Awards. Inside North Korea - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Earlier this year, David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for the Associated Press, along with Jean H. Lee, AP bureau chief in Seoul, were granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea. The pair made visits to famous sites accompanied by government minders. They were also allowed to travel into the countryside accompanied by North Korean journalists instead of government officials. Though much of what the AP team saw was certainly orchestrated, their access was still remarkable.
Collected here are some of Guttenfelder's images from the trip that provide a glimpse of North Korea. [37 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A view of central Pyongyang, North Korea, at dusk on April 12, 2011. A statue known as the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, which symbolizes the hope for eventual reunification of the two Koreas, arches over a highway at the edge of Pyongyang, North Korea, seen on April 18, 2011.
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Not to be rude, but your pictures are not like this. My pictures are not like this. Sometimes you or I may take a picture of a tree and go "Hey! That looks nice! " You say you love them... why? @Delilah: I like them because they're framed nicely and the exposure is great, but then again — I, and many more of my other photographer friends, can frame shots nicely and use film correctly, too. I'm going to peg this on, like most art, luck.
@kat.bee: like I said, they're very nice.