Tam Giang Lagoon shines at International Drone Photo Awards
The photo “Fishing in mangrove forest” taken by Pham Huy Trung in the central province of Thua Thien Hue’s Tam Giang Lagoon has won the highest prize for the “People” category at the 2021 Drone Photo Awards.
Hanoi (VNA) – The photo “Fishing in mangroveforest” taken by Pham Huy Trung in the central province of Thua Thien Hue’s TamGiang Lagoon has won the highest prize for the “People” category at the 2021Drone Photo Awards.
Captured in November 2018, the photo impresses audienceswith a mesmerising bird-eye view of a single fisherman paddling through the RuCha mangrove forest, which surrounds the lagoon – the largest freshwater lagoonin Southeast Asia. In the shot, the mangroves lose all their leaves in winter, revealingtheir whitish trunks.
First launched in 2015 within the international Siena PhotoAwards, the Drone Photo Awards received around 14,000 photos from over 100countries this year. In addition to drones, entries were captured fromcommercial airplanes, helicopters, balloons, parachutes, airships, kites andeven rockets.
In addition to the winning shot of Trung, seven other worksby Vietnamese photographers entered the final round of the “People” category,introducing the charm of Vietnamese in labour and cultural activities.
Trung, who was trained as an engineer, learned about photography in 2016 and won his first international prize at the 2017 SkyPixel aerial photography contest. He then won several awards including those at the 2018 Siena International Photography Awards, and the Sony World Photography Awards in 2018 and 2019. /.
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“Fishing in mangrove forest” by Pham Huy Trung 
