BEST PHOTOGRAPH OVERALL
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Jonathan Weller – BSc Physical Geography (New Zealand, South Island) Category – Capturing the Spirit of the Place The Long White Cloud - looking from Queenstown over Lake Wakatipu. The clouds hug a mountainous ridge, emphasising the steepness and rigidity of its features, and showing off the wild and young spirit of New Zealand.
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Best Photograph of Indvidual or Group Activities |
Jonathan Weller – BSc Physical Geography (New Zealand, South Island)Time spent canoeing down the braided Dart River was very welcome. It gave us the opportunity to admire the scenery, as well as embrace adventure as we navigated our canoes downstream.
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Best Photograph that Captures Your Fieldtrip Experience
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Sarah Ellison – BSc Physical Geography (Killarney, Ireland)
A boat trip across the Lough Leane passing through all the areas of Killarney National Park that we would be studying later that week. |
Best Photograph of Geography and Earth Sciences as you see it |
Alex Finch – BSc Environmental Science (Spain)
This photograph was taken inside a church in the abandoned town of Janovas, Aragon, Spain. The town was abandoned under the Franco regime after proposals to build a dam would flood the area, redirecting water to the increasingly arid areas of Spain, west of the Pyrenees.The dam was never constructed, and so the town remains standing, abandoned; slowly consumed by nature. The site currently stands as an attractive tourist site, and a testament to the water problems that Spain holds.
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Best Photograph Capturing the Spirit of the Place |
Natalie Forrester – BSc Physical Geography (Killarney, Ireland)
Taken at the beach of Kenmare Lough, Killarney, capturing the sunset on the night of the group barbecue. Smoke drifts across the Lough from the hills of Killarney having been set alight due to the week of dry weather. The photo portrays the peaceful, beautiful landscape of Killarney. |
Highly Commended Photographs |
Samuel Pike – BSc Physical Geography (Killarney, Ireland)
Category – Geography & Earth Sciences as you see it
Throughout the fieldtrip we acted like detectives working out the geological history of the local area. At the Gap of Dunloe we were introduced to past clues of a glaciated valley and here we are describing a rouche mountonnee. Without the knowledge we gain it is just a rock, but we can now identify micro and meso scale glacial formations and identify the flow of ice. |
Damon Hammond – BSc Environmental Earth Science (Cornwall)
Category - Individual and Group Activities
This is taken in the Carnon Valley near a place called Hale Mills. It is just below a large taillings dam that services the Mount Wellington mine area, which is highly polluted. We are sat on the outfall pipe from the dam measuring the pH and conductivity of the seepage water that has run under the dam from the taillings area and is thus highly acidic. |
Alison Davies – BSc Geography (New Zealand, North Island)
Category – Individual and Group Activities
This is our group descending into the crater of Mt Tarawera. This was the steepest climb, and we managed to avoid the domino effect despite our guide's best efforts to the contrary!
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Alison Davies – BSc Geography (New Zealand, North Island)
Category – Capturing the Spirit of the Place
The group had completed the Tongariro Crossing the previous day in appalling weather, so we only managed to get a clear view of the volcanoes (Mt Ngauruhoe) that we climbed the following day.
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