50 photographs win in Freeze Frame

Oktatabyebye.com, India’s most popular online travel community today announced the winners of the India’s first ever publicly-polled Travel Photography Contest. With 21,000 votes and ranks, 4,500 registrations from across the country and 2,200 entries across categories, Freeze Frame was India’s first and largest publicly-polled online photo contest. The winners were chosen on the basis of popular ratings received for their respective photographs, followed by ratings from a panel of expert judges including Gustasp Irani, Ashok Dilwali and Peter Graffin.

The contest created a ripple effect with partners like Fuji, Epson and PicSquare receiving a huge inflow of traffic to their sites. Winners from the five categories – Wildlife, Portraits, Bye-Bye Moments, Landscape and Videos – will receive prizes ranging from high end Fuji cameras to Epson photo printers, Holiday packages and Air Tickets.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Parthasarathi Mandal, Business Head Oktatabyebye.com said, “At Oktatabyebye.com, we are committed to providing the most relevant, detailed and user-generated travel information possible to both travel enthusiasts and travel shoppers. Freeze Frame was our effort to provide our members the opportunity to share and rank their favorite travel photographs. The credit for the success of the contest goes to the active participation by all the members, and their efforts to recognize the best photographs in each category.”

The winners of the first prize in the contest, in each category are as under:
Wildlife: Aditya Singh
Portraits: Partha Pal
Bye-Bye Moments: Sudipto Das
Landscape: Sunil Agarwal
Videos: Ashoke Singhi

Sourced From: Vox Public Relations