Banff Mountain Photography Competition 2003

"This photo was taken at dawn in the mountains near Guilin, south China. In order to get it, I had to spend the night on top of the mountain, in a bamboo jungle. For my sleepless night and my patience, however, I was rewarded by a striking dawn in the clouds and the morning haze, through which I could see 21 different scenes. It was only afterwards that the old-timers of the area told me that such a meteor could be observed only two or three days per year."

Dr. Sergey Melnikoff is the founder and president of International Photo & Video News Inc. (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.). Sergey is a professional traveller and the initiator and leader of dozens of difficult mountain and underwater expeditions all over the world. Born in the U.S.S.R., he has three degrees of higher education and was a member of the board of directors of the Soviet Culture Fund. Sergey spent five years as a dissident in Soviet camps before escaping from the U.S.S.R. in 1990 and being transferred to the U.S.A. as a political refugee. He is the author of the book American Prisoners Are Always an Asset, about American prisoners of war in the Soviet Gulag.
www.ipvnews.com
info@ipvnews.com
contacts@ipvnews.com