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Photo competition ‘Your Turn Next’


Your Turn Next photo competition 2012

Every year we run 2 photo competitions for our volunteers. One entitled ‘Your Turn Next’ aimed at seeing our volunteers in action and the other entitled ‘Spirit of the Country’ where volunteers submit entries aimed at summing up the essence if their host countries in a photo. This year we have had some fantastic entries and choosing between them has been really difficult.

However the top 12 entries from each category have been selected by our panel of judges and the winner in each category will be put to the vote.

Each category will be live throughout November for users to vote on their favorite. To cast your vote, simply view the entries below by clicking on the ‘next’ button. Then select your favorite from the list below to cast your vote. And don’t forget to vote in the ‘Spirit of the Country‘ category too.

Lucy Kinnell. India

Luis von Klipstein. Australia

Luis von Klipstein. Australia

jenny Freemantle. Vanuatu

jenny Freemantle. Vanuatu

Helping my host Mum collect taro, pumpkin leaves and grapefruit for dinner.

Fiona Buckmaster. Ghana

Fiona Buckmaster. Ghana

During my time in Ghana I realised that eyecare in the country is pretty much non-existent. I went to four different schools across the country and did vision screenings with around 700 Ghanaian children.

El Watkins. ghana

El Watkins. ghana

David Lewes. Malawi

David Lewes. Malawi

Blake sims. India

Blake sims. India

Adam Errington, China

Adam Errington, China

When some of the children asked for a photo with me on my last day, this wasn't quite what i expected...

Ruben Jacobson. Ecuador

Ruben Jacobson. Ecuador

This picture, gives a clear image of my experience teaching at the Escuela Ciudad de Bergen. It shows that there is much more to a teaching placement than just the teaching, and that it really gives you an opportunity to get close with the children that you're educating. Although I did greatly enjoy teaching them English, some of my favorite and most memorable moments came from my time spent in between classes, roaming the schoolyard and spending time with the kids: playing, joking, talking, chasing them around... Or just joining them in skipping rope, like in the image. It's those kind of memories that make me miss that school the most.

Rob Pickford. Vaunuatu

Rob Pickford. Vaunuatu

There is no better place in the world to teach, just look at the smiles!!

Rebecca Elliot. Ghana

Rebecca Elliot. Ghana

Lycarian Beaumont. Malawi,

Lycarian Beaumont. Malawi,

Voting will be open until the end of November

Photo competition 'Your Turn Next'

  • Blake Sims (30%, 321 Votes)
  • Adam Errington (30%, 313 Votes)
  • Ruben Jacobson (12%, 129 Votes)
  • Lucy Kinnell (11%, 114 Votes)
  • David Lewes (5%, 48 Votes)
  • Jenny Freemantle (4%, 39 Votes)
  • El Watkins (3%, 28 Votes)
  • Fiona Buckmaster (2%, 21 Votes)
  • Rebecca Elliot (2%, 18 Votes)
  • Rob Pickford (1%, 13 Votes)
  • Lycarian Beaumont (1%, 8 Votes)
  • Luis von Klipstein (0%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,056

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  • David Lewis

    Great photo!

  • ajit

    nice photo is this

  • ajit

    nice

  • Nicole Rigato

    Awesome photo!!!

    • Colin v Pember

      A great interaction with these children .

  • Vanessa Wilson

    awesome!

  • Eveline Wiarda

    Very dynamic, Ruby!

  • Eveline

    Helemaal Ruben!

  • Luc Verdegem

    Nice picture - shows that volunteering is more than teaching

    • Jon Murray

      Blake Sim seems to be acquiring a stratospheric number of votes suddenly - How?

      • https://www.lattitude.org.uk/members/nick/ Lattitude Nick

        Hi Jon, yesterday was the last day of voting (voting closed about 9am on 1st Dec) and an email was sent out to all our alumni asking them to vote for their favourite. As you can see there was a lot of votes yesterday as a whole, particularly on the two leading photos. We cannot control what people vote for, Or when they vote. Hope that helps.

  • Jon

    I looked at the voting at midnight when I went to bed and Adam Errington was about 18 votes in the lead. At that point it would have been assumed that entries wound be closed - it said end of November - not end of November plus 9 hours. If Adam was campaigning (as not doubt he and Blake both were), he would have reasonably assumed that he could stop at that point. It’s really unfair to let anyone’s votes after midnight to be allowed after that,
    Yes there were a lot of votes and they were almost all voting for just those two persons, rather than more randomly as you would have expected in a general request to the alumni. It must have been mainly self-promotion. So, Blake has been deemed to have won by votes placed after the deadline.

    I think it’s unfair if Adam is not given at least a joint share of first place in the circumstances

    Hope something comes of this Nick
    bw Jon

  • Adam Errington

    Aw are you joking? I emailed my folks and everything last night to tell them that id won… :(

  • https://www.lattitude.org.uk/members/nick/ Lattitude Nick

    Hi Adam & Jon, I apologise that the results did not go in your favour, but as I stated in my earlier comment, we have no control over a public vote. The reason we added 9 hours to the midnight deadline was to take into account the time differences around the globe, we are after all a global organisation with supporters and volunteers all over the world. I apologise again that this was perhaps not made clear, but the votes have been open for a month - if it were the case that some entrants were in fact ‘campaigning’, there is little we could do about that. We used a polling platform that did not allow multiple votes from the same ip address to prevent the same person or household voting more than once…Our whole office only got one vote (and we voted for Lucy!)

    I very sorry Adam, it was out of our control. As it was such a close race I will see if we can get a second prize for you