Chemistry Week Photo Competition Results
Chemistry Week 2005 was all about knowing how chemistry enhances our daily lives, encouraging us to realise what life would be like with no chemistry in it. You could barely make a move at home, at work or in your leisure hours without using materials developed using chemistry.
Consider this for a moment: without chemical science you would have no colours in your clothing, no paint on your car and in your home, no medicine when you are ill, no cosmetics, no deodorant, no tooth paste, no mobile telephone, no plasma television screen, no liquid crystal display, no fridge, and no replica football shirts.
In conjunction with ICI Imagedata, who sponsored the competition, we held a photography competition to show what impact that chemistry has had on our lives since the word chemistry first came into existence 400 years ago.
See below for the winners in each of the categories:
Schools and Colleges (5-18 years old)
FIRST PRIZE: Kieran Baxter - Grantown School, Inverness
The school will be presented with a Photo Factory printer and media set worth £2000. Kieran will receive an individual prize of a digital camera or photography vouchers.
RUNNERS UP: Lawrence Hui - Loretto School, Edinburgh
Flo Benn - The Downs School, Newbury
Ella Smith and Kate Marcus-Jenkins - Worden Sports College, Lancs
Each runner up will receive inkjet photo paper and a RSC Chemistry of Art oack. The school will receive inkjet photo paper
General Public
19 and over
FIRST PRIZE: Nils Arne Jentoft - Norway
Nils will receive a prize of a digital camera or photography vouchers
RUNNERS UP: Irlan Latif - Ealing
Andrew Moralee - Lincoln
Each runner up will receive Olmec inkjet photo paper and a Visual Elements Tungsten Tshirt
18 and under
FIRST PRIZE: Catherine Jeanes - Raynes Park, London
Catherine will receive a prize of a digital camera or photography vouchers.
RUNNER UP: Edward Mole - Danehill, Sussex (2 entries)
Each runner up will receive Olmec inkjet photo paper and a copy of the RSC's Chemistry of Art.
Competition now closed. The judges decision is final. Winners agree to have their images printed in RSC publications, web sites and associated publicity material. RSC reserves the right to use any images submitted at their discretion without prior notice to entrant. Entrants must have full rights to the images submitted. By submitting an entry the entrant certifies the work as his/her own and permits the RSC to reproduce all or part of the entry free of charge. A list of winners will be published on the RSC web site. RSC decision is final.
Winners and runners up in the Schools and Colleges category
A snapshot into the fantastic array of entries in the Schools and Colleges category
Winner and runners up in the Adults Category
A chance to see some of the stunning entries in our Over 19 category
Winners and runners up in the Younger Person Category
Winners and runners up in the 18 and under category
The role chemistry plays in digital photography
Chemistry has always been essential in making photography work, from the very first light sensitive papers giving black and white photos through to the more sophisticated multi-lay...
Downloadable Files
Competition form - Schools and Colleges category
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Competition form - General Public category
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Chemistry Week Photo Competition Leaflet
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Contact and Further Information
Pauline Meakins
External Promotion Manager
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WF
Tel: +44 (0)1223 432266
Email: Pauline Meakins
