Announcing the Winners of Our 9th Annual Photo Contest

Our editors pored over more than 67,000 photographs, each one a postcard from a unique time and place

  • By Jesse Rhodes
  • Smithsonian magazine, July-August 2012,
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Travel

(David Lazar)


Travel Winner

David Lazar, Age 29
Brisbane, Australia • Photographed January 2011
At Inle Lake in Burma, Lazar was up at sunrise to capture fishermen who use their legs to wield oars. “I found a high vantage point,” he recalls, “and wanted to photograph this iconic and unique Burmese fishing style.”

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Comments (3)

Nice photo but out of 67,000 this is the best you could come up with??? Isn't this a Rock Scallop?

This is a worthy photograph!

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