AZF awards winners of photography contest

Ibrahem Naim Alomari bagged the first-place of the Aspire InternationalKite Festival photography competition, receiving QR20,000 cash prizefrom the organisers, Aspire Zone Foundation has announced. Jake PauloLlamas came in second place, winning a business-class plane ticket to adestination of his choice while Mohamed Nageeb Nasr came in third placeand received two economy class plane tickets. Ali Ali Gad and Said Mohamed Firos took the fourth and fifth places respectively and each received a professional camera. Meanwhile, AZF also announced the winners of the ‘Best Poster’ competitions for children aged 5 to 13. The top six posters depicting a kite flying above Aspire Park came fromAbdel Hadi Ahmed, Shamita Adiga, Khalid Mohamed al-Obaidly, GhalyaAbdullah, Hamda Anjum, and Fatima Tahreem, all of whom received valuableawards from Virgin Megastores.The two competitions were held on the sidelines of the festival, which concluded on March 9, AZF noted.The photography competition was organised in collaboration with QatarPhotographic Society (QPS) and encouraged Qatar’s photographyenthusiasts to take part and capture the festival action throughphotography. An organising committee made up of QPS experts and led by its chairmanAhmed al-Khulaifi, vice chairman Abdulrahman Obaidan, and MohamedAbdullah, selected five winners from more than a thousand entries acrossQatar, which were submitted on Instagram under the #AspireKiteFesthashtag.