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Writing and Photography Contest Roundup—2/2/2012
We just posted the winners of our Winter Parks and Weekly Worldwide writing and photography contests. Thanks so much to everyone who entered, we really enjoyed seeing and reading about your cold-weather explorations (even the hardcore snow kiting and ice climbing—brr). If our furry oracle is correct, we’ll be looking forward to at least six more weeks of the underappreciated, ethereal quiet beauty of parks in the winter.
- Winter Parks: 1st Prize Photography: Alex Eriksen
- Winter Parks: 1st Prize Writing: René Jasper
- Weekly Worldwide: 1st Prize Photography: Rachel Chang
- Weekly Worldwide: 1st Prize Writing: Stephen Drum
This week we’re running another Weekly Worldwide Contest with many new places added. You can see what’s close to you and enter here:
- Writing 1st Place: $50 Contract
- Photography 1st Place: $50 Contract
- Deadline: February 8, 2012
In the meantime, we’re busily judging the California Wine Contest and last week’s Weekly Worldwide and will make an announcement by 2/8/12. Thanks so much for the great turnout!
This Week’s Writing and Photography Contests
California Wine Writing and Photography Contest
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- Writing prize: 2-day hotel stay at the Tradewinds Carmel, 2 passports to the Carmel Wine Walk-by-the-Sea, and a $100 writing contract to cover Monterey County’s wine scene.
- Photography prize: $150 at Restaurant 1833 in Monterey, CA
Weekly Worldwide Writing and Photography Contest
- Photography Prize: $50 contract
- Writing Prize: $50 contract
Tipsy Travel: Wine Trails
Photographer: European Citizen»>Go to Slideshow: Wine Trails
While the prospect of travel may inspire your inner Apollonian to fantasize, scheme, and dream, once on the ground, there is immense pleasure in letting a well-laid plan play itself out in a hedonistic, Dionysian fashion. A bit ahead of the now-trendy agritourism curve, wine trails developed as rural outposts of flavor and culture, providing travelers with stimulating opportunities for inebriation.
Even if you know little about grapes or abhor the fussy dissection of flavors and terroir—you can learn so much just by exploring the leafy landscape of wine—digging into the dirt, smelling the vines under the beating sun, going underground to contemplate the almost holy ritual of controlled fermentation, and pondering the effects of a cold night, southern exposure, altitude, or soil composition on acidity and flavor.
—Megan Cytron, Trazzler Editor
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