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2007 Costco International Photo Contest winners

COSTCO ASKED members to “Give us your best shot” for the 2007 Costco International Photo Contest, and they did, capturing images of family, friends, pets and scenery everywhere from their backyards to places thousands of miles from home. A record-breaking 43,000 people sent in photos from every country where Costco has warehouses.

We’d like to thank all of the photographers and all those who found themselves the subject of a photograph. We’d also like to thank the judges and the sponsors—especially Fuji—who made the contest possible.

Shot to a “tea”

Shu-Yu Liu, of Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, was visiting Tibet in May 2007, with her husband, when they spotted this young lama hurrying across the courtyard.

“He was running into the temple to prepare the hot buttered tea for the elder lama, who was doing his morning lesson,” says Liu, an amateur photographer who works for Chang Gung Memorial Hospital as a radiation technician.

“It was a very meaningful and special moment,” says Liu. “It’s a scene that can’t be seen in Taiwan.”

For winning the International Grand Prize, Mrs. Liu will receive a $2,500 Costco Cash card.

—T. Foster Jones

 

International Grand Prize

Shu-Yu Liu

Kaohsiung County, Taiwan

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