In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members.
These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautiful landscape images, but you can also upload laboratory images, fieldwork images, hand samples or microscope images; even videos! The winners are awarded a free registration to the EGU General Assembly the following year and you can share an image taken at any time – they don’t have to be just from the last year – we even accept historical images, as long as you have the rights to share them! For more information visit the 2022 Photo Competition announcement page.
As we have said above, your photos can be of anything – one of our finalists in 2014 was this fabulously colourful photomicrograph of symplectite in granulite, taken through a microscope under crossed polarised light by Bernardo Cesare! Do you have a photo like this you want to share with the geosciences community?! Submit it online to the 2022 Photo Competition today!
The subject is an intricate “symplectic” intergrowth of pyroxene (pink and blue) and plagioclase (light gray) in a mafic granulite from N. Manitoba, Canada. The coherent distribution of colors, indicating optical continuity, shows that this pattern is actually provided by a few crystal of pyroxene and one of plagioclase intimately compenetrated. These minerals formed by replacement of a preexisting crystal of garnet. (Sample courtesy of Martha Growdon, Indiana University.)
Description by Bernardo Cesare
Register today for EGU22 to take advantage of our early-bird discount (until 31 March 2022) and any image you submit to the imaggeo will automatically be entered for the competition! We can’t wait to see what great images you submit!
Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this repository and, since it is open access, these images can be used for free by scientists for their presentations or publications, by educators and the general public, and some images can even be used freely for commercial purposes. Photographers also retain full rights of use, as Imaggeo images are licensed and distributed by the EGU under a Creative Commons licence. Submit your photos at http://imaggeo.egu.eu/upload/.
