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Epoch Times
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
NTD Invites Photographers to Celebrate America's Birth
Amateurs, students, and professional photographers alike can compete for a new international photography award celebrating an independent America. The NTD International Photography Competition (NIPC) has just announced a special award titled 'Best Work Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of American Independence.' It also announced two new award categories: Best Chinese Photographer and Best Sports Photography. Each of these award's winners will receive $2,000 in cash or $2,000 worth of photography products and equipment. Now in its fifth iteration, the NIPC invites photographers around the world to enter uplifting images of 'beautiful moments.' Amateur and professional photographers who enter two competition categories, Social Relations & Humanity and Nature & Landscape, will compete for the $5,000 Gold Award or $5,000 worth of photography products and equipment. The NIPC, hosted by The Epoch Times' sister media outlet NTD, is one in a series of international art and cultural competitions that celebrate time-honored traditions. The competition's mission is to 'preserve traditional aesthetics,' so each entry must be free of digital editing. However, photographers can adjust the brightness, sharpness, and color balance of their images. The NIPC focuses on photographers' technical skills and manual dexterity, including hand-eye skills when setting up a shot. It invites entrants to submit luminous, naturalistic images that depict beauty and kindness. 'Morning Scene' by Chee-Eam Chua (Malaysia). Nature & Landscapes category Gold Award winner of the 4th NTD International Photography Competition. Courtesy of the NTD International Photography Competition 'Fall Over' by David Wong (Australia). Society & Humanity category Outstanding Technique Award winner at the 4th NTD International Photography Competition. Courtesy of the NTD International Photography Competition Photographers have until July 31, 2025, to register. Related Stories 3/8/2025 1/20/2024 Finalists' work will be featured online and in an exhibition in New York City from Jan. 25 through Jan. 31, 2026. To find out more, visit What arts and culture topics would you like us to cover? Please email ideas or feedback to
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cumbrian village celebrates VE Day 80th Anniversary with scarecrow festival
A WEST Cumbrian village has commemorated the 80th Anniversary of VE day with a heritage themed scarecrow festival. Villagers from Gilcrux near Aspatria prepared some interesting designs to mark May 8 with scarecrows based on VE and Second World War themed characters including a Freedom Dove, Firefighters, Land Girls and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. A villager said: "We have had a number of exciting heritage scarecrow festivals over the years. In 2025 we wanted to do something special and to celebrate 80VE anniversary."
The Guardian
30-04-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
Spring weather and Trump protests: Wednesday's photos of the day
Commuters cycle in central London as temperatures reach 25C. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters People sit on the riverbank as a person paddleboards past on the River Thames in Runnymede Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA People enjoy the sun along the Seine, where temperatures rose to 27C. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP Second World War RAF veteran Dennis Bishop, 99, a former leading aircraftsman who saw active service in France, Belgium, Germany and Africa, is presented with gifts by the air crew of a Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, during the preparations for the Royal Air Force flypast on May 5 to mark the 80th Anniversary of VE Day Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA The Princess of Wales, known as the Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, speaks to a child from the Ardura Acorns group during a visit to the Ardura community forest, to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment, on the last day of the royal visit to the island Photograph: Oli Scarff/PA Members of Syria's Druze community chant slogans during the funeral of seven people killed during overnight clashes with Syrian security forces. Syria state media said on 30 April that 11 people had been killed in clashes that erupted overnight between security forces and 'outlaw groups' near Damascus, as sectarian violence a day earlier spread Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Vietnamese female police officers march during a parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP British prime minister, Keir Starmer, departs 10 Downing Street for prime minister's questions at parliament Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Palestinian children staying in Unrwa shelters take part in an event to reduce the stress and tension caused by the psychological trauma due to the ongoing Israeli attacks, in the courtyard of the Tel al Hawa girls' school Photograph: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Images Shipping containers stacked at the Rhine-Neckar commercial port in Mannheim, Germany, 30 April 2025 Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA The St Peter's Basilica of the Vatican, in Rome Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images Astronaut Wang Haoze is carried out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia of China. The three astronauts of the Shenzhou-19 crewed mission were all out of the return capsule on Wednesday afternoon, and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) declared the mission a success Photograph: VCG/Getty Images A Special task force soldier stands guard as Sri Lanka's minority Tamils demonstrate outside the Pakistan high commission, denouncing alleged support to those who carried out an attack in Kashmir Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images Emergency services tackle a blaze in a building in Kharkiv after a Russian attack Photograph: Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, arrives at an early voting polling place at Midland in the electorate of Hasluck with Labor candidate for Bullwinkel, Trish Cook, on day 33 of the 2025 federal election campaign Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Thousands of protesters showed up to unwelcome US president, Donald Trump, who celebrated his first 100 days in office with a rally at Macomb community college. The protesters cited government funding cuts, which have cost jobs, health care, retirement, and more Photograph: Jim West/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock Donald Trump holds a rally to mark his 100th day in office, at Macomb community college Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Detainees form the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet detention facility, where Venezuelans at the centre of a US supreme court ruling are being held Photograph: Paul Ratje/Reuters
Fox News
29-01-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump to create task force to plan 'extraordinary celebration' for 250th anniversary of America's independence
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday establishing a White House task force focused on coordinating the plans and activities surrounding the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Fox News Digital has learned. The president's order will organize a "grand celebration of the semiquincentennial of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence." The 250th anniversary of America's founding is July 4, 2026. The task force, which will be named "Task Force 250," will "coordinate the plans and activities of federal agencies for an extraordinary celebration of the 250thh Anniversary of American Independence." Task Force 250 will build upon the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration half a century ago. The White House told Fox News Digital that the celebration "emphasized national renewal of our founding ideals after a period of national unrest and division." The order, which Trump is set to sign Wednesday, will also reinstate executive orders from his first administration that would establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park memorializing 250 historically significant Americans, and commission artists for the first 100 statues. Fox News Digital has learned that the National Garden of American Heroes will honor "American heroism" after dozens of monuments to Americans, including presidents and founding fathers, were toppled or destroyed and never restored. The order also reinstates an order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues from destruction or vandalism. The White House said America's 250th anniversary will "afford an opportunity to unite the American people around their shared history and common future as a nation." The order, according to White House officials, also continues Trump's "longstanding commitment to honor America's 250th anniversary and celebrate American history." During Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress in February 2017, he cited the upcoming semiquincentennial and noted that "in nine years the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, 250 years since the day we declared our Independence." The executive orders that Wednesday's order reinstates were signed in 2020 and 2021 and were created to protect American monuments during unrest and violence in cities during protests and the COVID-19 pandemic.
