Dear Friends of Sajha.com,
Since 60 years Bhagwan Das Manandhar (80 Years) cleaning Bagmati River more than 8 Hours per Day. As a PhotoJournalist I have capture his working movement in the bank of Bagmati River and submitted in Germany for "Facing Sustainability Award" 2005.
Among 200 participent people Bhagwan Das Manandhar has been selected for "Best 24 candidate" This site has upload his and other candidate photographs for public voting. During his 60 years of contribution, he did not get any honour from Nepal and abord. This is one of the great chances to honour for him. If his contribution will honour by our voting number He will be honour in Berlin in "Facing Sustainability Award" 2005. Our Valuable vote will provoke in the 80 years of Bhagwan Das Manandhar.

Photographer: Mukunda Bogati (mukunda@kantipur.com.np)

Please give your Valuable vote through following links:
http://facing-sustainability.org/cgi-bin/voting_contribution.pl?lang=en&id=174

The Last Date Line of the voting will be 15th August 2005 only.
Muks

Browsing through the site, i learnt that its a photography contest. By voting it won't be Bhagwaan das who will get any benefit rather... the photographer will win. In which case... this is not about bhagwaan das at all. Its about the photographer... and the photograph is mediocre. To be honest. Now don't sell Bhagwan das's name to get votes for your picture. Correct me if I am wrong.

But sorry.

B.

Thanks for your comment B.

It is my duty to clear your confusion.
I have just cut and past some of the paragraph of that organization. If you don't belived please check this links:
http://facing-sustainability.org/en/competition.html

Notice of that Organization:
We?ve managed to gain the services of the ?National Geographic? science magazine. The winning photos will be featured in the magazine after the award ceremony.

The winners, and those portrayed by them, will be invited to Berlin where they will take part in an exciting programme and award ceremony as part of the annual congress organised by the German Council for Sustainable Development. The winner of the competition will be awarded 1000 euros-worth of ecological capital investment products from Versiko AG. Other prizes include a solar package, an outdoor jacket and a gift hamper full of fair trade products.

I have already won different international Photo contest if you don't belive go to google and check my Name : Mukunda Bogati .So it is my try to honour Mr. Bhagwandas Shrestha. Because When I was in Berlin before 3 monts ago This organization has send email for Participating in this contest.
Muks

MUKS/Photographer

How is Bhagwan Das Manandhar going to benefit from this voting? This voting is going to put your (photographer's) name in the winners list, you 're the one who is going to win the prize. Who the hell is going the care about the person in the picture? It's about photography, and not the person in the photograph.

Please don't use Bhagwan Das Manandhar's good cause and samaritanship when you beg for votes from unsuspecting public who vote for Bhagwan Das Manandhar and NOT your photograph.

A photographer tries to sell his photographic idea. The picture, the content the placement, the lighting. You are trying to sell the goodwill of the person in the photograph as the reason to vote for your photograph which I would think is unethical.

Apologies if my posting sounds harsh but it's reality 101.

at best, you will win and both you + bdm get to go to germany. i think bdm deserves the recognition. more importantly, the publicity might inspire others to initiate ventures to help care for nepal's environment. at any rate, i like what you are doing. i personally don't think that you are taking undue advantage of bdm. in business parlance, this is what's called a win-win situation.

it seems that the system only allows one vote per hour per IP address, so i could only give you one vote. i also liked the concept behind the facing sustainability award. the other competitors look good, but unfortunately for me, their stories are in german. anyway, good luck with this and other similar ventures.

It will be great if Bhagwaan Das gets to experience life away from Bagmti for once (just an assumption? he may have had opportunities before...which we don?t know about). So, it?s ok if the photographer wins prizes and the subject gets to travel and be appreciated, in many cases that doesn?t even happen. Thanks for the clarification.

Your list of awards is impressive. Some of the pictures in PJ Club are real good. But I still think the picture of Bhagwaan Dass is mediocre.

If I had to vote for the photographer? I wouldn?t have for this particular one. Sorry. But for Bhagwaan Das and his work I just did.

B.

Dear cryptonite,

This is Public Prize and I am sending the link of that webpage call for Voting.
Further clearification links:
http://facing-sustainability.org/en/index.html
News
Vote now!
We want to know your favourite entry! In addition to the official winners of the competition we will assign a public prize, ascertained by a public vote on our website. 24 entries carefully selected by our high-profile jury will face up to the viewers? decision.

From 3 August up to 15 August 2005 you can take part and vote for your favourite entry.

Take up time to contemplate the entries and decide which entry you like best! But be careful: You can just vote once!

You can cast your vote here
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About Photography Prize. With your Voting I didn't get prize from this contest. The High Lavel jury of National Geography Photographer will decided which Photographs was best.
For more information:
Links: http://facing-sustainability.org/en/competition.html

The photos will be assessed by a high-profile jury at the beginning of August. This includes Tobi Schlegl ? TV presenter, musician and member of the German Council for Sustainable Development ? and two highly acclaimed photographers. Bettina Flitner is known for work that lies ?between documentary journalism and staged fiction?. Frank Ossenbrink has made a name for himself for his portraits of political personalities. The jury will be boosted by the photo editor of National Geographic, Kathrin M?ller, and by a school student and teacher from the Transfer-21 programme of the BLK, the Bund-L?nder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion.

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The winners, and those portrayed by them, will be invited to Berlin where they will take part in an exciting programme and award ceremony as part of the annual congress organised by the German Council for Sustainable Development. The winner of the competition will be awarded 1000 euros-worth of ecological capital investment products from Versiko AG. Other prizes include a solar package, an outdoor jacket and a gift hamper full of fair trade products.
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Does this mean BDM and MUKS will be invited if the potrait is considered as winner??

I think both will be awarded. So I cast a vote..if you friends think the same, caste the vote for this pic.