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2010 Winners2010 Winners
»Landscape + Highly Commended
»Feature or Structure + Highly Commended
»Industrial + Highly Commended
»Popular Vote + Highly Commended
 
 
2009 Winners2009 Winners
»Feature or Structure + Highly Commended
»Landscape + Highly Commended
»Industrial + Highly Commended
»Popular vote
 
 
2008 Winners2008 Winners
»Feature or Structure + Commended
»Industrial Geology + Commended
»Landscape + Commended
»Popular vote + Runner-up
 
 
2007 Winners2007 Winners
»Feature or Structure + Commended
»Industrial Geology + Commended
»Landscape + Commended
»Popular vote
 
 
2006 Winners2006 Winners
»Feature or Structure
»Joke or Humour
»Landscape
 
 
2005 Moyra Eldridge Photograpic Competition Winners2005 Moyra Eldridge Photograpic Competition Winners
»Feature or Structure
»Joke or Humour
»Landscape
 
 
2004 Moyra Eldridge Photograpic Competition Winners2004 Moyra Eldridge Photograpic Competition Winners
»Feature or Structure
»Joke or Humour
»Landscape
 
 

About the Competition

An annual event for members held at the AGM.  Founded in memory of Moyra Eldridge, keen photographer and one time Organiser of the Walton Hall Branch.
 
The competition rewards the keen eyed as well as the skilled photographer.  Visual evidence of geological features is very important for illustrating geological research and educational texts - so photography is an important part of field work - particularly for ephemeral features and in situ structures that cannot be taken back to the laboratory.  Our photographs also allow us to share our extensive field observations with all of our members, and visitors to our web site.
 
There was a good selection of photographs for this years competition presented at the 2010 AGM in April, such that the judges had a difficult job selecting three winners from the entries. No doubt AGM attendees had a similar problem selecting just one for the popular vote. Due to time restrictions after the AGM there are no Highly Commended entries for 2010.
 
Categories

Judged by panel:
  • "Industrial Geology"
    - any commercial use of rock or mineral resource from quarrying to the finished product (replaced "Humour" category in 2007)
  • "Geologically Inspired Landscape"
    - any landscape containing or shaped by a geological feature or process
  • "Geological Feature or Structure"
    - detail of any geological feature or process
Judged by the AGM Attendees:
  • "Popular Vote" (instituted in 2006)