Can you name the city and country where these two photos were taken? If so, send your response to Christine with "July Photo Contest" as the subject of your email. The first person to send in the correct response will have a choice of the prizes listed below.   
  
Many thanks to Elizabeth Rehlinger for these beautiful photos.

If you have a photo that you would like to submit for a future contest, please send it to Christine.

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Deborah on a ferry on the Elbe near the port in Hamburg

I was flooded with correct (and incorrect) responses to the June Where in the World? Mystery Photo Contest. I would like to thank everyone for participating.

Winner: Deborah McGee Mifflin was the first person to identify the city as Lucerne, Switzerland, and the river as the Reuss. She said that, when she clicked on the photo, she immediately recognized it. She had gone on a trip to Switzerland, sponsored by the Swiss Embassy and Präsenz Schweiz, and their first stop was Lucerne. She considers Lucerne one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, “so serenely set on the water.” She admits naming the river was quite tricky because normally one thinks of the lake.

Deborah is the Director of the German Language Program at John Hopkins University and has been teaching German there for 10 years. She is also the past president of the Maryland chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German.

Many thanks to Margarete Froelicher-Grundmann, Professor of German at Armstrong Atlantic State University, for this beautiful photo.

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Winner: John (Jack) Donaldson correctly identified this building as the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Jack is Associate Professor Emeritus of English as a Foreign Language at George Washington University, where he continues to teach courses in both Linguistics and Native American cultures in the capacity of Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology.  His most recent research has been in Native American dance in the Southwest of the United States and Taino Indian cave paintings in the Dominican Republic. 

He was the only person to submit the correct answer. When asked how he was able to identify the Center, he gave this intriguing explanation:

I've actually been there and seen it in person, but I also remember when it was being constructed in the late 60's and early 70's because it is a modernistic, large scale reproduction of a type of dwelling built by one of the tribes of Kenya, and it received a lot of press coverage at the time.  When I was in Kenya four years ago, during an in-country flight we happened to fly at quite a low altitude over a village of that particular tribe, and there, indeed, were clusters of huts with just the same shape, but on a much smaller scale, of course.

Congratulations, Jack! And again many thanks to Roberta Njoroge for this challenging photo.

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Can you identify the village where these two photos were taken? If so, send your response to Christine with "April Photo Contest" as the subject of your email. The first person to send in the correct response will have a choice of the prizes listed below.   
  
Many thanks to Jennifer Weir for this month’s photos. Jennifer teaches French at Hattiesburg High School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Merci beaucoup! 

If you have a photo that you would like to submit for a future contest, please send it to Christine.

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Winner: Shannon Townsend was the first person to correctly identify the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Shannon is an elementary Spanish teacher for Asheville City Schools in North Carolina. She started teaching in 1988 and hasn’t tired of teaching the little ones yet.

We had a very large number of correct responses for this contest. Many thanks to all of you who participated. Take a good look at our April photos and try again!

Many thanks to the NCLRC's own Michael Greer for his beautiful photo.

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