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The Wiki Loves Earth contest, organised by the
Wikimedia Foundation, has chosen Zaeem Siddiq's photo from Lower Kachura
Lake, a popular tourist destination in Central Karakoram National Park,
Skardu, Pakistan as the best international picture for the year 2015.
The global 2015 edition has seen more than 8,500 contestants
participating from 26 countries, with over 100,000 photo submissions
throughout the month of May.
From Pakistan alone, over 1500 contestants chipped in from across the
country to submit more than 11,000 photographs; making it the country
with the fourth largest number of submissions and second largest in the
number of participants.
Read: Wiki Loves Earth: Top 10 pictures from Pakistan
The prize for the winner includes a trip to attend the Wikimania 2016
conference in Esino Lario, Italy, with paid travel and accommodation
expenses.
The top 15 pictures as decided by the jury are given below:
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First place:2015 winner comes from Lower Kachura Lake, a popular tourist
destination in Central Karakoram National Park, Skardu, Pakistan. —
Image by Zaeem Siddiq
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Second place: a view of the Laurisilva
(laurel forest) of Madeira, Portugal. — Photo by Jnvalves
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Third place: the Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), or Steinbock, in an Austrian
national park in the Hohe Tauern mountain range. —Photo by Bernd Thaller
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Fourth place: a spider (Misumena vatia) with a freshly killed bee in the
Bratental nature reserve, near Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. — Photo
by Suhaknoke |
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Fifth place: a European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) in Ichkeul National
Park, Tunisia. — Photo by Elgollimoh
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Sixth place: Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
— Photo by Vian and retouched by Iifar
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Seventh place: Wolayer See and surrounding area, Carinthia, Austria. —
Photo by Gerald Köstl
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Eight place: cormorants at dusk on the pond of Vaccarès, France. — Photo
by Ddeveze,
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Ninth place: limestone stalagmites inside the Anhumas
Abyss, Brasil. — Photo by Caio Vilela
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Tenth place: High Tatras as seen from the Polish Spisz,
Tatry Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation, Lesser Poland
Voivodeship, Poland. — Photo by Łukasz Śmigasiewicz
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