Twin Island Resort In Maldives

Hotel Description:

Located in Alifu Atoll, sixty five km away kind the airport, the dual Island accommodation contains of bungalows and water bungalows, that are equipped with trendy amenities. The crystal clear water of this resort makes it ideal for water sports like Scuba diving, wind surfing, Canoeing and catamaran Sailing. For the energetic, aerobics and beach volley are on provide. The resort is good for journey seeking travellers.

Accommodation at Twin Island Resort, Maldives:

Twin Island accommodation contains of bungalows and water bungalows, that are equipped with trendy amenities. ten Water bungalows and customary A/C rooms thirty. All the rooms are equipped with mini bars, individual safe, hair dryer, umbrellas. Hot & Cold water and phonephone with international direct dialing facilities. One main restaurant and a Bar.

All rooms feature air-conditioned, ceiling fan, satellite TV, mini-bar, internet, DVD player, safe, tea/coffee creating facilities, hair-drier, personal balcony with ocean views.  

Amenities & Services at Twin Island Resort, Maldives:

Fitness Centre, Spa,Sauna, Water SportsCentre, Aerobics Studio,Speed boat rent,Tennis courts(outdoor/flood-lit),Large recent water swimming pool, Squash court (air-conditioned), Karaoke Lounge, Table Tennis, Games Room, Library, Courtesy Lounge, Doctor on decision, Beauty Parlour,Travel Desk, Barber look, Courier service, Front Desk, Free Newspaper.

Recreation:

Daily entertainment program, booking of sightseeing tour and excursion to alternative island too. Discotheque. Volley ball, foot ball, table tennis, baby sitting, memento look, glass bottom boat rides, business centre.

The Big Picture: Lathmar Holi

Photo © Adnan Abidi/Reuters-All Rights Reserved

I know....I've featured photographs of Lathmar Holi and of the main Holi festival a little too enthusiastically over the past few weeks, but the color is overpowering...and I'm in grey London on my way to India in a couple of days. I'm giving Holi a miss...landing in Delhi a day later, so I'm making up by posting really phenomenal photographs by Adnan Abidi, Manan Vatsyayana, and Kevin Frayer who've done a really great job of documenting this "pre-Holi Holi".

The Big Picture photo blog featured 22 of these photographs....each one better than the other.

Photo © Kevin Frayer-All Rights Reserved

Mary Calvert: Bhutan: The Art of Archery

Photo © Mary Calvert-All Rights Reserved

Bhutan's national sport is archery, and Mary Calvert documents the sport in her Bhutan: The Art of Archery photo gallery.

In Paro, I witnessed a couple of these archery contests, some impromptu and others more elaborate, in the valley where one could see the famous Tiger's Nest monastery. Apart from these contests being raucous, and during which I was told that opponents were fond of distracting each other by insulting each other, they are taken very seriously by participants and spectators.

There are two targets placed over 100 meters apart and teams shoot from one end of the field to the other. Each member of the team shoots two arrows per round. Traditional Bhutanese archery is a social event and competitions are organized between villages, towns, and amateur teams. 

Mary F. Calvert is an award winner photographer who worked as a staff photographer for eleven years on the award-winning staff of The Washington Times. She will be teaching Intermediate photojournalism at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington D.C. In addition to being a guest faculty member of Momenta Workshops, the Western Kentucky University Mountain Workshops, the NPPA’s Flying Short Course, and the Eddie Adams Workshop, she has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last fourteen years.

She was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India” in 2008,  and was awarded the White House News Photographers Association Project Grant to document sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Some of her clients include The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, AOL, The New York Post, Inside Counsel Magazine, McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service, The International Herald Tribune,  Le Monde, Mother Jones, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Smithsonian 9th Annual Photography Contest

Photo © Kyaw Kyaw Winn-All Rights Reserved

I never participate in photography contests, but I know many of my readers do, or would like to. So here's one of the more popular contests featured by The Smithsonian magazine. 

Its editors have announced the 50 finalists in its 9th annual photo contest, which has five categories: Americana, The Natural World, People, Altered Images, and Travel.

In Focus, the photo blog of The Atlantic is featuring 25 large sized photographs from the final 50 finalists, which include some stunners from David Lazar, Nicholas Wiesnet, and Budi Prakasa. However, the one I liked the most was the photograph of soccer-playing Buddhist novices in Myanmar by Kyaw Kyaw Winn.

I ought to also highlight that The Smithsonian magazine’s 10th Annual Photo Contest begins March 1, 2012 and ends November 30, 2012.

Some may wonder why I am so empathetic about not participating in such contests. Here's why:

"By entering the contest, entrants grant the Smithsonian Institution a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any educational, promotional, publicity, exhibition, archival, scholarly and all other standard Smithsonian purposes."