Photography, a very powerful way to show and tell science. To confirm this, the Royal Society Publishing has released the finalist photos of its photo competition, which aims to enhance the ability of photography to make science accessible to a wide audience.
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Photography, a very powerful way to show and tell science. To confirm this, the Royal Society Publishing has released the finalist photos of its photo competition, which aims to enhance the ability of photography to make science accessible to a wide audience.
The 2017 edition of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition recorded record numbers, with over 1100 images competing. The judges therefore had the arduous task of selecting the most significant ones.
From cube-shaped Antarctic glaciers to sleepy polar bears, the Royal Society's photo contest showcases the wonders of science like never before.
Participants submitted their images belonging to five different categories: astronomy, behavior, earth science and climatology, ecology and environmental science, and microimaging.
“Icy sugar cubes” by Peter Convey was selected as the overall winning photo but also took first place in the earth sciences and climatology category.
How has explained one of the judges, Ulrike Muller,
“The winning image embodies the objectives of this competition: to celebrate the power of photography to communicate science. The image shows the extraordinary beauty of a rare geological phenomenon in an ice cap, and invites the viewer to wonder what the scale and the mechanisms that create such patterns are "
Here are the winning images for each category:
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Category: behavior
This photograph was taken by Antonia Doncila while crossing the Fram Strait, near the east coast of Greenland.
Category: Earth sciences and climatology
The photo, shown on the cover, was taken by Convey on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula.
Categoria: Astronomia
Lunar Spotlight, was shot at the South Pole in Antarctica by Daniel Michalik. Ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere create a rare optical phenomenon: a pillar under the moon.
Category: Ecology and environmental sciences
Waiting in the Shallows was shot by Nico de Bruyn. Killer whales suddenly enter a small bay on Marant Island, surprising a small group of king penguins cleaning themselves up in the water.
Category: Microimaging
Drop of olive oil was taken by Herve Elettro and shows the world of the infinitely small.
Here are the photos that received an honorable mention:
The splendid total eclipse of the sun, immortalized last summer in Georgia, in the USA, by Wei-feng Xue.
David Costantini immortalized this curious Arctic tern in the Svalbard Islands.
Thomas Endlein photographed pitcher plants which are carnivorous. The species shown here (Nepenthes bicalcarata) secretes sweet nectar. Its fang-like structures are very slippery for most insects except for a specialized ant (Camponotus schmitzii) that manages to steal some nectar.
The striking image of the Milky Way “Within Reach” was taken by Pet3r Horalek above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. A place free of light pollution where the sky can truly be observed in all its glory.
Water bear embryo by Vladimir Gross shows a 50-hour embryo of the species Hypsibius dujardini, taken with a scanning electron microscope. The embryo in the image is approximately 1/15 of a millimeter in length.
Bow forsy by Giuseppe Suaria. Russian research ship Akademik Tryoshnikov leans its bow against the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica. The photo was taken moments before launching Ropos, a remotely operated underwater vehicle to study the melting of the ice sheet.
Toss the scorpion was taken during a morning safari at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India.
The photo shows the mating between two frogs
Mites trapped in a spider's web, photo by Bernardo Segura.
Sabrina Koehler immortalized the lava flow at the Pu'u O'o eruption site of the active Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
READ also:
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Science told by images is certainly more interesting, don't you think?
Francesca Mancuso
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