Winning photo and runners-up

Winner

Turkana by Hezbourne Ouma Ong’elleh
Turkana North girls searching for the precious gold called "water".

Runner-up

Desert Ship by Abdikadir Ismail
The camel is the "desert ship". We learned in history that it was used in the trans-Sahara trade –crossing the mighty Sahara desert, but here in Samburu, during the recent drought in 2009, the "desert ship" succumbed!

Second runner-up

Dry Rubbish by Marlene C Francia
This sandy dry river bed or lugga, has not seen any water for months evidenced by the trash that has accumulated by the roadside in the border town of Mandera in north eastern Kenya near Somolia and Ethiopia. Successive years of crippling drought brought about by climate change has greatly affected the already meagre water sources of the pastoralist Somalis.

Third runner-up

Not So Snowy by Bart Starman

Mount Kenya. There is snow to be seen at the top, which is impressive for a mountain on the Equator. Despite that, people who have lived with the mountain longer than I have say that all of the rocky parts in the picture should be white. It is estimated that in 15-20 years from now there will be no snow at all.