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Wiki Loves Bangla 2024 (WLB) or Banglar Preme Wiki 2024 is an annual international photography competition around the Bangla culture and heritage, organized by Bangla WikiMoitree. This competition will be held yearly on a different theme as part of WikiMoitree's Bangla Culture and Heritage Conservation Program. It is being organized for the first time in 2024. The subject of the first edition is Bengali Food, which aims to highlight the diversity of Bengali cuisine by improving the quality and quantity of images of Bengali food available around the world. Bengali cuisine is the traditional way of cooking in the Bengali nation. Originating in Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, this cuisine is now spread across the world, in different forms, with different flavors. https://lnkd.in/gDqpC8Fn #wikilovesbangla #photocontest2024 #banglawikimoitree #wikimediacommons #wikipedia #wikimediabd

To present Bengali culture and heritage to the world through photographs, this year, 'Banglar Preme Wiki 2024' was organized for the first time. Bangla WikiMoitree is organising the month-long competition as a part of the "Bangla Culture and Heritage Collation Program", a joint initiative of Wikimedia Bangladesh and West Bengal Wikimedia User Group. Every year, this photography competition will be organised on different topics focusing on Bengali culture and heritage. The subject of this chapter was 'Bengali Cuisine'. According to Wikimedia Bangladesh, Indian photographer Biswarup Ganguly, food blogger Sumit Surai and Bangladeshi photographer Abdul Momin were the judges for the photo selection. A total of 2,118 photos were submitted by 212 participants in the competition. The judges selected the top 10 photographs after a three-step review. Sohel won the first place in this international competition. On the other hand, Munni Akter Mim's three photos are at the second, seventh and eighth positions respectively, Dolon Prova's two photos are at the third and ninth positions, and Tapas Kumer Halder's two photos are at the fourth and sixth positions. See the winning photographs of the competition: https://w.wiki/9XAb

Château de Pierreclos with its church (12th century), in the département Saône-et-Loire, region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France #pictureoftheday #WikimediaCommons

Winter on Vihorlat (1,076 m), the highest mountain of Vihorlat Mountains, Slovakia #pictureoftheday #WikimediaCommons https://lnkd.in/gVn93ndM

A pony of the Zaniskari breed from Ladakh, northern India #pictureoftheday #WikimediaCommons https://lnkd.in/gTvz4BBa

Landscape near Koryčany in the Czech Republic #pictureoftheday #WikimediaCommons

Freiherr-vom-Stein-Haus (district government) in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. #pictureoftheday #WikimediaCommons