Geological Photography Challenge!

- GSI’s Annual Du Noyer Photo Competition

Calling all photographers, particularly amateur! Why not head out into the outdoors this autumn and snap some gorgeous landscapes in your area, draped in spectacular seasonal colours?! Then enter the annual landscape/geological photo competition run by GSI – the Du Noyer Photographic Competition.

The competition, organised in conjunction with the Irish Geological Association, is named after George Victor Du Noyer (1817 - 1869), a skilled artist who worked for many years with a youthful GSI and had a tendency to add illustrations to the geological maps on which he worked. His artistic sketches were the “field photographs” of their day and in 1995 the National Gallery of Ireland exhibited a collection of his paintings under the title “Hidden Landscapes.”

This year the competition has a prize fund of €800 and it accepts photographs of geological interest taken either in Ireland or overseas. The competition’s closing date is Friday 9th October and entry details are available from
www.gsi.ie/Education/Du+Noyer+Photography+Competition

so get snapping...! The lucky winners will also be invited to attend an awards ceremony and exhibition in the Dublin offices of GSI on December 11th.


Tian-chi Lake in the Changbai Mountains, Jilin Province, China. Photo by Hai Yang, one of the overseas entries in 2008