Celebrating 10 years of GeoExPro we launched a Photography Competition. See the winning entries
Will Thornton
Finally, the results are in! Votes have been counted, prize winners have been notified and we can now reveal the successful entrants in our 10th Anniversary Photo Competition.
The judges tell me that the entries were of a particularly high standard throughout so congratulations and thank you to everyone that took part. We hope you enjoy these winning entries as much as we have.
Landscape Category
1st: Miguel Ángel
1st: Miguel Ángel – Fissure type craters of Lakagigar, Iceland. The 1783-4 eruption of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide had catastrophic affects of global proportions.
2nd: Piyaphong Chenrai
2nd: Piyaphong Chenrai – The Mount Tongariro crater complex, Mount Tongariro National Park, North Island, New Zealand: looking from the rim of Blue Crater across Central Crater towards the very active, eponymous Red Crater, with the secondary cone of Mount Ngaurahoe behind.
3rd: Miguel Ángel
3rd: Miguel Ángel – Bathers at Itzurun Beach, Zumaia, Spain seemingly unaware of the geological drama that surrounds them!
Industry Category
1st: Dr. John K. Hall
1st: Dr. John K. Hall – An eerie light illuminates the lone figure of a marine geophysicist researcher and hovercraft, Gakkel Ridge, Arctic.
2nd: Nikolay Zhukov
2nd: Nikolay Zhukov – Sleeping giants guarding the gateway to the underworld? Photo taken at the Bear Creek Nickel Quarry, Norilsk, Russia.
3rd: Roderick Perez
3rd: Roderick Perez – Rig derrick viewed from unusual angle.
