Urban Endeavors Photo Contest Winners

Thanks for all the fantastic entries to the TravelMuse Urban Endeavors Photo Contest, sponsored by Eye-Fi that ran from March to the middle of April! We received submissions that covered destinations from Australia to India to England to San Francisco, with subjects ranging from skylines to graffiti to crowded marketplaces.

During the contest we posted a few shots that stood out, but now that we have fully reviewed all the submissions, the TravelMuse Team came to a fairly unanimous decision.

First Place: Motorbike Repairman

Photographer: Timothy Forbes

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Entry text: “Urban environments are exemplified by the coming together of people and the steel and stone they’ve fashioned to create and live in those environments. Here the contrast between skin and steel in an urban setting is shown in the form of a repairman and the motorbike he is working on just feet from a busy street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.”

Second Place: Sharing a Limb

Photographer: Liz Tunnell

Tel Aviv, Israel

Entry text: “A graffiti on the streets of Tel Aviv in the old city of Jaffa shows two characters carefully sharing a piece of wood, as if it came from the tree above. Each of the characters is missing one limb and is holding the wood with their arm wrapped around the other to the piece of wood. Their hearts have been removed and carefully sewn on their sleeve.”

Third Place: Reflejos en Benidorm (“Reflections in Benidorm”)

Photographer: Emilio Jose Mariel

Benidorm, Spain