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 2023 Photo Competition announcement page.
This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays highlights a 2012 Photo Competition finalist: a stunning shot of nacreous clouds photographed with a silhouette of the Icelandic town of Husavik by Sigurjon Jonsson. This beautiful image shows the range of stunning geoscientific phenomena that can be represented in your images, which can feature any element of Earth, planetary or space sciences, across all our disciplines, including hydrology, cryospheric sciencs, ocean science and, as demonstrated here, atmospheric science.
Register today for EGU23 to take advantage of our early-bird discount (until 13.00 CET 8 March 2023) 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/.
