"The Bird Boy", the winning picture. Inset: Ansar ul Hasan Akmal
Doha
The “Bird Boy” is the winner of the first tranche of the Gulf Times Instagram contest.
Instagram followers of Gulf Times have selected the amazing capture of a fluttering pigeon frozen in midair against a boy on a stroll at the Souq Wakif as the best among the lot.
In likes and comments, the picture taken by Indian expatriate Ansar ulHasan Akmal was far ahead of the 23 others throughout the seven days of evaluation by the virtual audience.
All the 24 pictures were unique in themselves and almost all of them were pictorial representations of Qatar.
Akmal is a photography enthusiast and an aspiring wildlife photographer. He works as human resource manager in a construction company and moved to Qatar three years ago from Al Ain, UAE.
Contest II
The second competition in the series starts today. Send in your photos shot in Qatar to [email protected]
Selected pictures will be posted on the Gulf Times Instagram account, with the name of the photographer mentioned.
The picture that gets the maximum number of likes and comments during a seven day period will be declared the winner.
A like will get the picture one mark and a comment will fetch 2 marks.
The winning picture will be published in the Gulf Times print edition as well as on the web edition of Gulf Times, along with a short bio of the photographer.
A winner will be announced every fortnight. So shutterbugs shoot and send now!
