Golden Bridge in Da Nang city (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – Tran Tuan Viet of Vietnam picked up the top prize ofUS$1,000 for his image of Cau Vang (Golden Bridge) in an online photo contest.
The contest is held by Agora, receiving more than 10,000 photos from all overthe world. Viet's picture attracted the most votes from users of the world’sbiggest free-to use photo app Agora.
The contest was launched on March 10 with photos selected as finalistsincluding shots of the vast Buddist temple, Borobudur, in Java, Indonesia, andthe Clifton Suspension Bridge near Bristol and Floating Restaurant in Huong Riverin central city of Hue.
"Architecture 2020 is a spectacle about the beauty that results from theinteraction between light and volumes. The contrast between chaos and order,nature and the artificial, matter and emptiness," said Octavi Royo,Agora's CEO and co-founder on mymodernmet.com.
The Golden Bridge was built at around 1,400m above sea level with a totallength of 148.6m.
"This architecture work impresses as it is held by two massive stone handswhich represent the Mountain God's hands," said Viet.
"It has eight spans with the longest equal to 20m."
Cau Vang was launched in 2018 and has quickly become a major tourist draw atthe Ba Na Hills resort in the central city of Da Nang. The bridge serves as atransit between a replica of a French village and Le Jardin D'Amour flowergarden.
From the bridge, visitors have a paroramic view of Nui Chua, regarded as themost beautiful mountain in Da Nang.
The bridge was designed by TA Landscape Architecture and is reportedly part ofa US$2 billion development project to bring tourists to Vietnam.
Earlier, Viet also took the top prize at the Agora's Fun 2020 contest for photoentitled Simple Game. He took a photo of children playing with old motorbiketyres in the Mui Ne sand dunes.
Tran Tuan Viet's top prize-winning photo at Agora's Fun 2020 contest.
"Many children follow their parents to the sand dunes of Mui Ne every day.They rent sand slides, sell coconuts, snacks, and fruits for tourists,"said Viet.
"Even though children here don’t have much access to modern technology andhave to help their parents to earn livelihoods, they still find happiness andjoy in the simplest things," he said of his winning photo.
He donated the cash prize worth 2,000 USD to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam.
Viet has been making headlines in Vietnam as the photographer with the mostphotos getting recognised by international magazine National Geographic’sonline photo community.
He is not a photographer by default. He earned a degree in architecture andworked for years in the IT industry./.
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