See Pic: Indian shutterbug wins global Wikimedia monument photo contest

A picture of Khandoba temple in Pune captured during the Bhandra festival has won Indian photographer Prashant Khatore the first prize of the annual Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 contest.

With his picture, Khatore has won a Canon DSLR EOS 5D Mark IV plus Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens and and a printed copy of his winning photo signed by legendary composer Plácido Domingo.

Colors calls for celebration as we celebrate the winning photo of #WikiLovesMonuments 2017.

…and the winner is, Prashant Khatore for his photo of Khandoba Temple captured during the locally celebrated #Bhandara festival in #Pune, #India. https://t.co/zBC7liGS2g CC BY-SA 4.0 pic.twitter.com/gR4PdQYoze

— Wiki Loves Monuments (@wikimonuments) December 14, 2017

Wikimedia India also shared the image taggin The Ministry of Culture.

Indiaaaaaaa! Here we go. We made it again. Thanks to all participants and volunteers for efforts. #WikiLovesMonuments

Special congratulations to Prashant Kharote (User: PKharote) for this colourful photo. @MinOfCultureGoI https://t.co/F7VFWqohXh

— Wikimedia India (@wikimediaindia) December 14, 2017

Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest annual photo contest for monuments. The event began in 2010 in the Netherlands, and was organised on a European level a year later. In 2012, the contest became global.

In 2017, India participates with over 45 other countries.

"The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pilot in the Netherlands, which resulted in 12,500 freely licensed images of monuments that can now be used in Wikipedia and by anybody for any purpose. Since then, the project helped to collect information on 1,5 million monuments from 76 national competitions − with more than 1,7 million pictures submitted by over 60,000 participants, adding to the sum of all human knowledge gathered on Wikipedia," the contest says it its homepage.

See the other winning photographs here