Department of Engineering

Carl Zeiss Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering 2013

This year's photography competition, open to all staff and students in the Department, is sponsored by Carl Zeiss (electron microscopy division) who have kindly donated the following prizes:

• 1st prize: ZEISS Planar Camera Lens T* 1,4/50 to fit either a Canon (ZE) or Nikon (ZF.2) camera
• 2nd prize: Nokia Lumia 820 Sim-free Windows Smartphone with ZEISS Lens
• 3rd prize: ZEISS Mini Quick Monocular 5 x 10 T*
• Electron Microscopy prize for micrographs captured using an electron microscope: ZEISS Cinemizer OLED 3D Multimedia Video Glasses
• Head of Department prize for the photo or video with the most innovative engineering story behind it: A cash prize of £300

The winning photographs will feature on the Department's website, newsletter, plasma screen, posters and more.

Previous years' winners have received national and international press coverage for their winning photographs.

We are searching for an image that relates to research or teaching in the Department or engineers out in the field, which may be beautiful, fascinating, intriguing, amusing, or possibly all of these things.

We will use a very high proportion of the entries in a web gallery and throughout the website giving acknowledgements wherever they are used.

The panel of judges include Roberto Cipolla Professor of Information Engineering, Dr Allan McRobie, Dame Professor Ann Dowling - Head of Department, and Philip Guildford - Director of Research.

Here are some links that might inspire:
The previous Department of Engineering photography competition entries on Flickr
Science photo library
BBC In Pictures
National Geographic photography library
Getty images
Search 'science photography' on Flickr.com

The rules are as follows:

1. The photograph must be submitted by email to photo-competition@eng.cam.ac.uk or sent to Jacqueline Saggers and Ann Lynn, Room BE0-23, Baker Building, Trumpington Street, by 14th June 2013
2. The entrant must include the following statement in the text of the email:

   I have checked with my manager/supervisor/DoS __________________ that I have permission to enter the attached photograph(s) in the competition and give the Department of Engineering the right to publish the photograph(s) on its website and elsewhere

3. The entrant must also provide:
   1. title
   2. description of the photograph, noting whether the photograph is a composite of several images or has been enhanced in any way
   3. any due acknowledgements

   The following guidelines should be followed:

   1. Ideally the photograph should be of good print quality, but if it is available only as a web quality image then please still enter
   2. Make no assumptions about the photograph we are seeking, because the winning photograph could be of a: microscopic feature, laboratory, project team, computer simulation, production line, robot, lecture theatre, engineers out in the field etc.
   3. There is no limit to the number of photographs that you may enter. If you are not certain whether your photograph will win or you are trying to choose between several possible entries, then please just enter them all and let the judges decide.
   4. It is better to send one photo attachment per email as the message size limit for Hermes is 35MB.

   Take a look at some of the previous year's competition entries.

   

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