Photo Awards .. Can We Beat Facebook?

Hi folks, I’ve recently submitted one of my photos from Myanmar to the Photo Awards 2011 held by 1x.com photo website. I almost forgot about it but they sent me a reminder about the submission deadline. To my surprise, there will also be 11 People’s Choice Awards, decided by a public vote…

They directly suggest that “it’s a good idea to share your photos on Facebook or in other social media”. Since I’m not very active on Facebook and photography is still just my hobby I cannot compete with some photographers who have thousands of followers on Facebook. So I thought… why not share it with my friends here on the LJ “social media” :)

If you’d like to help me, all you have to do is to click on this link and if you like my photo click on the VOTE button on that page.

To make it even more interesting, I decided to reward one of the voters (random draw) with the medium size print (Dimensions: 34×51cm, Price: 99.00€) of this photo. To be eligible for the random draw you have to vote and then post a short comment on this thread. I will pick the winner after the end of the Photo Awards.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT

Here’s photo description from my flickr page as requested in some comments:

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Spectacular Bagan was one of our next stops in Myanmar. Bagan was the ancient capital of several ancient kingdoms in Burma and is located on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy River. The ruins of Bagan cover an area of 42 square km. The majority of its buildings were built in the 11th century to 13th century. It is estimated that as many as 13,000 temples and stupas once stood on this 42 square km plain in central Myanmar, and Marco Polo once described Bagan as a “gilded city alive with tinkling bells and the swishing sounds of monks’ robes”. Approximately 2,200 remain today, in various states of disrepair.

Hot air balloons are flying over Bagan every morning. We’ve seen five balloons total that day. The flight is relatively short (around 1 hour) because the air is not cold enough when sun rises above the horizon in Myanmar. Watching them flying slowly in the silent morning was a nice experience too.
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