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(click to enlarge) The image of Blennerville Windmill which came ninth in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition.
A PHOTO of Blennerville Windmill is among the winners in the 2016 Wiki Loves Monuments Competition.
The image taken by a person identified only as Boodle2000, is a striking one of the landmark at the gateway to the West Kerry Peninsula and comes in ninth place in the Top 10 list of winners.
The 2016 Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition took place during September 2016 where people were invited to take photos of famous landmarks and send them in.
Initiated by Wikimedia, the movement behind free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and run in Ireland by the Wikimedia Ireland Community, the competition aims to raise awareness of Ireland’s national monuments and create a crowd-sourced bank of quality photos that will be free to use for education.
The following were the winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition:
1. Custom House, Co. Dublin by Filip Scridon
2. Rock of Dunamase, Co. Laois by Celticclog65
3. Hook Head Lighthouse, Co. Wexford by Kay Caplice
4. Dromiskin Church, Co. Louth by DarranRaff
5. Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare by Aidanryan
6. Poulnabrone Portal Tomb, Co. Clare by Ronagh Keane
7. Kylemore Abbey, Co. Galway by Knocko
8. Rockfleet Castle, Co. Mayo by Mikeoem
9. Blennerville Windmill, Co. Kerry by Boodle2000
10. Skerries Windmill, Co. Dublin by Mark Broderick
The winners of the special Wiki Loves Monuments 1916 competition were:
Joint 1st place:
Clarke Station, Co. Louth by Mariamarselina
Pearse’s Cottage, Co Galway by Ray4mondo
Third place:
Kilmainham Gaol, Co. Dublin by Deborahmoynihan
Kilmainham Gaol, Co. Dublin by Colin
The winning Wiki Loves Monuments photos can be viewed here and the winning 1916 photos can be viewed here. The top ten Irish images are being entered into the international competition.
Certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest photography contest, the annual contest started in the Netherlands in 2010 which resulted in over 12,500 images uploaded. Since then it has grown significantly and in 2014 over 321,000 photographs were submitted by more than 9,000 participants from around the world.
All images are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia’s online repository that makes public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) available to everyone.
