Photo of the Month | 43rd Month

Prize:
This photograph will be published on Pages 2 and 3 of our magazine. We will publish a special interview with Shahnaz Parvin and Mehmet Masum the Exclusive Interview section on our website.

Based on the social media responses, awarded photographs received on the 43rd month, we set the maximum number of Facebook Like at 500, Tweet at 100, Stumble at 5000, and our subscribers Comments at 50. For this month, we had a head-to-head contest between the top scorers and the photographs that scored the highest became winners of the Photo of the Month. Our team decided to honor these top scorers as 2nd and 3rd places with a page in the next issue of our magazine, where the photographers will share their stories of these photographs. We will also publish their interviews in the Exclusive Interview section on our Web. One can see the details of the score from this file. Award Score details, Photo of the Month, 43rd Month

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2nd Place | Photo of the Month | 43rd Month

Muradiye Waterfall in Van, by Mehmet Masum
Another marvelous piece of work from photographer Mehmet Masum, Muradiye Waterfall in Van, in the Category Landscape Photography scored 68 (Value 12.5, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 12.5) from our international jury of 5, and gains a good position in the competition. The number of Tweets and Facebook shares, StumbleUpon Organic Views boosted the popularity of the photograph a notch, raising its score to 5.554 from social media (Facebook Share 3.55, Tweets 0.6, StumbleUpon Organic View 1.404, and Comments 0), and in total 73.554, the third highest score in this competition for the 43rd Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 43rd Month, 2nd Place.

Sunrise on a Hike Day, by Sandra Frimpong
Sandra Asantewaa Frimpong was born and raised in Ghana West Africa. She moved to the United States with his father at the age of 17, where she joined the United States military to pursue her dream for higher education and travel. She graduated from Florida States College with a degree in General studies and BS in Business Administration with the University of Maryland. The artist has international ties in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and America, Her passion, is to explore and appreciate a similarly varied list of fields in arts through photography. She has been taking distance learning courses in Photography and a few face to face photography seminars. Her photograph Sunrise on a Hike Day in the Category Sunrise & Sunset Photography scored 70 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 13, Skill 13) from our international jury of 5, and gains a good position in the competition. The number of Tweets and Facebook shares, StumbleUpon Organic Views boosted the popularity of the photograph a notch, raising its score to 3.381 from social media (Facebook Share 2.88, Tweets 0.45, StumbleUpon Organic View 0.051, and Comments 0), and in total 73.381, the forth highest score in this competition, for the 43rd Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 43rd Month, 2nd Place.

As these two photograph’s scores are so close, we decided to award them as Photo of the Month – 43rd Month, 2nd Place

3rd Place | Photo of the Month | 43rd Month

Along the River Tigris, by Mehmet Masum
Quite surprisingly one more photograph Along the River Tigris, by photographer Mehmet Masum, in the Category Travel Photography scored 68 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 13) from our international jury of 5, and gains a good position in the competition. The number of Tweets and Facebook shares, StumbleUpon Organic Views boosted the popularity of the photograph a notch, raising its score to 3.711 from social media (Facebook Share 2.56, Tweets 1.15, StumbleUpon Organic View 0.001, and Comments 0), and in total 72.711, the fifth highest score in this competition for the 43rd Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 43rd Month,3rd Place.