MIT Around the World Photo Contest

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Congrats to the winners!
Click through to view the first- and second-place winners of the Alumni Travel Program's MIT Around the World photo contest, which concluded summer 2010, and the honorable mentions. Learn more about the MIT Alumni Travel Program.

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FIRST PLACE: Brass rat around the world in 90 minutes
Taken aboard the International Space Station—nice view! Photo: Daniel Tani '84, SM '88.

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SECOND PLACE: Defying gravity outside the lab
Taken in the mountains of Norway. Photo: Nathaniel Sharpe '09.

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Honorable Mention: Blue sky through a spiral aperture
Pipes overlapping in a spiral. Hopefully this image conveys hope plus exponential growth potential. Photo: Jason Birnholz SM '75.

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Honorable Mention: Double Moonbow over Hawaii
Moonbows, or lunar rainbows, are a seldom-seen phenomenon. The conditions required are determined by both physics and the whim of nature. A full double one is especially rare. According to Wikipedia, the moon must be less than 42 degrees above the horizon and fairly bright (e.g. full or near full), and there must be a mist in the area of a dark sky opposite the moon. The human eye is not very color sensitive at low-light levels, and many people see only a white bow. The camera sensor has no such limitations and with sufficient exposure can capture the full color of the bow. Except for the stars in the sky, the photo looks like it was snapped in daylight. Photo taken March 1, 2010, on the Kohala Coast of the island of Hawaii. The camera was a Canon 5D Mark 2, 20 sec. at f 2.8, ISO 400.

Photo: Bert Forbes '66

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Honorable Mention: Engineering at its finest...from 1100 AD
These stones are part of a six-meter-tall wall at Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco, Peru. This wall was built either by the indigenous people of the Killke culture about 1100 AD, or by the Inca people who followed them and expanded the site. Despite major earthquakes, 500 to 1000 years of weather and wear, and complete lack of mortar, the walls stand strong. Not even a piece of paper could slip between the stones, many of which weigh over 100 tonnes. Today's MIT engineers would be proud to design and build such structures. Photo taken March 2010 by Linda Bonder SM '87.

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Honorable Mention: Fishing by cast net near Hoi An, Vietnam
While traveling in Vietnam and Cambodia with the MIT Alumni Travel program in January 2009, I was mesmerized by the skill of a net-casting fisherman. Balanced on his little skiff he whirled the net over his head, releasing it at just the proper moment to take advantage of the centrifugal force exerted on the net by the weights attached to its periphery. The result—a perfect cast, the net stretched to its limit, caught by my lens just before the net entered the water. Photo: Frederick Hauck SM '66.

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Honorable Mention: It's not safe anywhere
Even a stroll through the Queenstown, NZ, gardens has its perils. Photo: Charles Rinehart '64, PhD '70.

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Honorable Mention: A reminder of the past
These whale bones at Jougla Point, Antarctica, are a reminder of the devastation of the whale population when technology overtook nature's ability to replenish. Photo: Charles Rinehart '64, PhD '70.

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Honorable Mention: Interior of the Tokyo International Forum
This picture was taken during some free time in February 2007. We were walking between two sites just after sunset and things were getting cold. Passing by the exterior of this convention center, I was struck by the openness of the structure. The lighting, contrasted with the still visible twilight, made for a special combination. Photo: David Schneider '72, SM '73.

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Honorable Mention: Mind and hands and a foot
This photo was taken on my travels to Marrakech, Morocco in April 2010. The man photographed had a homemade lathe that he's used to carve wooden dowels into chess pieces, kabob skewers, and handles for toys. It's an ingenious and very entrepreneurial rig. He wraps the string of a bow around the wood to be carved and then uses a back-and-forth motion with the bow to spin the piece, carving the wood with a chisel held at various angles and steadied with his foot. Like our friend the beaver, he can chew through the wood very quickly, finishing a dowel in just a minute or two. Photo: Ryan Smith '93.

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Off-Campus Programs > Travel > MIT Around the World Photo Contest

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