The 1st Annual Geography Awareness Photo Contest

Winners 2003




          Village
The Best Image across all categories
1st place, People/Culture

Noel Ludwig, Girl in Village    (Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal 1988) 
Villages in this valley occupy the few relatively flat terraces left behind when the Kali Gandaki River cut down through its floodplain.  Unfortunately, this valley -- the deepest in the world -- is subject to a cocktail of floods, earthquakes and landslides.  This requires neighboring villages to continuously cooperate to maintain and rebuild the valley's fragile trail, visible in the foreground and as a faint sliver rising up the sheer cliff in the center background.



          Glacier
1st place, Physical Landscape
Janet Troeger, Receding Glacier (Alps, France 2003)



          Mmm
1st place, Flora and Fauna
Jennifer Carter, Mmm… Tasty    (2003) Hyles lineata - larvae of white-lined sphinx moth.



         Aquaduct
1st place, Urban Landscape
Janet Troeger,  Roman Aquaduct    (Pont du Gard, Provence 2003)
     

          GPS
1st place, Geography in Action
Zoe Schumacher, GPS'n    (Carson, CA 2003) 
Doreen Jeffery, using GPS to map the city features of Carson, CA.