8 YEAR OLD RADOSTINA WHO WON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO CONTEST: I WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE PICTURES

The 8 year old Bulgarian girl, Radostina Todorova, won first place in National Geographic's 2015 international photo contest for kids in the Bold Explorers category. The photograph is entitled “Even the Longest Tunnel has an End and Light”.

In an interview for BNT, Radostina explained that the photograph was captured in Erma River gorge during a picnic with her family. Her mother said that the picture was not planned, it was taken by “accident”, with a mobile phone as Radostina likes taking pictures of interesting sights. Later, Radostina’s mother liked the photograph and looked on the internet for a contest in which it could participate. That’s how she came upon the National Geographic contest and decided to enter.

Radostina said she would continue to take photographs.

Her dream is to open a shop for clothes design in Paris.

The winners in the competition were announced at the National Geographic magazine's international headquarters in Washington on 28th of January.

They were selected from among 17,500 entrants in the respective national contest in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey and the UK.