Science Snap Winners Unveiled

'Love is Sweet' Anna McCarthy

The winners of the Science Snaps competition were announced today as part of Science Week 2011.

The competition is now an annual event run by the Tyndall National Institute and Discover Science and Engineering and aims to challenge people to think about the prevalence of science in their everyday lives.

In keeping with the Science Week theme, the theme for entries to this year's Science Snaps competition was 'The Chemistry of Life'.

First prize in the junior cycle category went to Paul McKay from Wesley College Dublin for his photo entitled 'Water Drop'. First prize in the senior cycle schools category went to Anna McCarthy from Coláiste An Phiarsaigh Glanmire, Cork for her creative and clever shot 'Love is Sweet'.

'Pollen Fest' Christina Ni Dheaghaidh

The competition was open to the general public also and first prize in that category went to Christina Ní Dheaghaidh from Dublin for her image 'Pollen Fest'.

Exhibitions of highly commended entries from the annual Science Snaps photography competition take place at the Discovery Exhibition in Cork City Hall on Nov 12th-15th, in the Gallery of Photography in Temple Bar and in Dublin City Libraries and Cork City Libraries during Science Week Nov 13th-20th and beyond.

To view a gallery of the entries, visit www.pix.ie/go/sciencesnaps

'Water Drop' Paul McKay

And the winner is....

Congratulations to Emma Falconer who is the winner of the Communicate Science Photo Competition 2010. Emma wins for her photograph entitled "Butterflies" which was taken at the Oxford University Natural History Museum.

A copy of Reading the Irish Landscape by Frank Mitchell and Michael Ryan is winging its way to the winner.

Honorable mention goes to Greg Harris for his surface tension image and Janet Edwards for her image of Belmullet. Both of these photos really caught the judges' attention.
A special thank you to all those who submitted photographs and the judges who had the difficult task of choosing a winner. The full shortlist can be viewed here.

Well done everyone!!

Photo Competition - Shortlist Complete

All of the shortlisted entries for the Communicate Science Photo Competition 2010 are now available to view at the online exhibition and the accompanying slide show.
The winner will be announced on Friday next, 28th May.

Photo Competition - Results

Yet more photos have been added to our online exhibition of entries to the Communicate Science Photo Competition 2010.

You can visit the exhibition here, comment on the photos and learn who will become the overall winner.

Photos Galore!

If you haven't checked out our Science Photo Competition Page, then what are you waiting for? To celebrate the weekend approaching, we've uploaded a bumper number of entries today. We'll keep trawling through the huge pile of photos to bring you the best of the best and will be announcing the overall winner next week.

Results of Photo Competition

Over the next two weeks, we'll be publishing the best of the entries received for the Communicate Science Photo Competition 2010. At the end of that process, the overall winner will be announced. The entries can be viewed on the special competition page. The page will be updated on an almost daily basis, so watch out for your entry. If you haven't entered, then you'll certainly enjoy the breath of photos submitted.

Photo Competition -Update

**Update 16/05/2010: The competition is now closed. Results will be announced shortly**

There is just a few days left to return your entries for the Communicate Science Photo Competition, as the deadline is Saturday 15th May. To date, the quality and number of entries has been beyond expectations and I look forward to posting a number of the entries on this blog during next week (i.e. from Monday 17th May).
After that, all of the photos submitted will be examined by the judges and the winner will be announced during the week beginning the 24th May.
Stay tuned to see if your photo made the blog and could be the overall winner.

REMINDER: Science Photo Competition

**Update 16/05/2010: The competition is now closed. Results will be announced shortly**
You've got just over a week to get your entry in for the Communicate Science Photo Competition 2010. The deadline for entries is Saturday 15th May. We've already received a huge response to this competition and the standard is very high, but you can still be in with a chance if you get your entry in by the 15th. Get snapping!


Anyone can enter and there are no categories other than SCIENCE - once you think the photo has something to do with science, that's good enough for me.


Email you entry to this address and include your contact details along with a title and brief description of the photo. I'll feature some of the photos on the blog and the best (as judged by an elite panel of experts) will receive a copy of the brilliant Reading the Irish Landscape by Frank Mitchell and Michael Ryan.

Of Frank Mitchell and the book in question: "Perhaps the last of the great Irish Scientists of the natural world for whom the term 'natural historian' is genuinely appropriate...Reading the Irish Landscape, has been extensively remodeled, expanded, updated and lavishly illustrated."

Terms & conditions (no nasty ones):

1. The photo must be your own work.
2. The photo remains yours. I may use it occasionally on this blog as part of the competition, but you retain ownership and copyright.
3. Judges decision is final; it's just a bit of fun!

Science Photo Competition

**Update 16/05/2010: The competition is now closed. Results will be announced shortly**

To celebrate the re-design of the Communicate Science blog, I've decided to launch a science photo competition.

Anyone can enter and there are no categories other than SCIENCE - once you think the photo has something to do with science, that's good enough for me. 

Email you entry to this address and include your contact details along with a title and brief description of the photo. I'll feature some of the photos on the blog and the best (as judged by an elite panel of experts, I think) will receive a copy of the brilliant Reading the Irish Landscape by Frank Mitchell and Michael Ryan.
Of Frank Mitchell and the book in question: "Perhaps the last of the great Irish Scientists of the natural world for whom the term 'natural historian' is genuinely appropriate...Reading the Irish Landscape, has been extensively remodelled, expanded, updated and lavishly illustrated."

Terms & conditions (no nasty ones):

1. The photo must be your own work.

2. The photo remains yours. I may use it occasionally on this blog as part of the competition, but you retain ownership and copyright.

3. Judges decision is final; it's just a bit of fun!









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