by famous astronomy education projects group "night of the world (TWAN)" and "global astronomy month" hosted the second annual "Earth and sky photo contest" winners was announced on May 9, a total of 10 works respectively "beauty of the stars" and "forgotten light" two of the top 5 photography subjects. It is understood that this competition, mainly around two evaluation standards--one to be able to demonstrate to people the stars and the colorful beauty, one is to be able to tell people how serious light pollution has on the Earth.
in order to achieve the objective of the competition, organizers require entries to meet "astronomical landscape" – at the request of the world's landmark building in the background to shoot. "World of night" founder, and this times competition of judges babake·tafulaishi (Babak Tafreshi) describes said, this style requirements photographer to Earth and sky placed to a viewfinder among, and middle connection they of is people most should concern of--environment, he said: "if we to night and star are as is natural of part, so I wanted to people will like treasure other world heritage as to treasure they".
"Figure 1" and "beauty of the stars" theme 1th Prize winning photographer: sitafeien·feiteer (Stephane Vetter) date taken: March 10, 2011 location: Iceland works about: Iceland's largest glacier lake j ? kuls, said that on the RL ? n, dazzling green lights in the sky formed a beautiful arc, to show people the infinite charm of nature.
"Figure 2" "forgotten light" theme 1th Prize winning photographer: tuomasi·kulate (ThomasKurat) date taken: February 17, 2010 location: Austria Alps works introduction: in the vicinity of Dr enhu, on top of a layer of mist is covered by the city, in a photograph, starry sky and lights on the ground reached a near-perfect balance. "Forgotten light" photography series emphasize "under the influence of human activities, beautiful stars are gradually being forgotten by the people" on the subject.
"Figure 3" and "beauty of the night sky" theme 2nd place winning photographers: yalikesi·qieerni (Alex Cherney) date taken: June 2010 location: Australia works introduction: it looks like being a tree on the Prairie wind to bent from the milky way. Our solar system located on the arm of the milky way, about the radius of the Milky Way Center location. And according to the latest studies show that center of the milky way may be a large black hole.
"Figure 4" "forgotten light" theme 2nd place winning photographers: maihedi·momenzhade (MehdiMomenzadeh) date taken: April 2010 location: Iran Esfahan works about: bright city lights at the bottom and top of the Milky Way "Rainbow" in stark contrast to the photo shows from light pollution to the great influence of stars on the ground.
"Figure 5" "forgotten light" theme 3rd place winning photographers: migeer·kelaluo (MiguelClaro) date taken: February 2010 locations: Portugal Lisbon works about: the dotted line is obtained by long exposure of stars in the sky traces at the Lisbon Airport and landing of aircraft track. You can see from the pictures, star trails is very natural and coordination, and the track is slightly stiff, reflected people impatient mood.
the "6" "beauty of the stars" theme 3rd place winning photographers: lvke·boluote (Luc Perrot) date taken: July 2010 location: brief introduction to the works of French Reunion Island: this is a panoramic photo, in the beautiful under the milky way, you can clearly see the volcano "Lo Fung" outlines of Reunion Island is located in the southern hemisphere India Ocean near Madagascar.
"Figure 7" "forget lighting" theme 4th name award works photographer: lvke·boluote (Luc Perrot) shooting date: September 2010 shooting locations: method is Réunion works introduction: this is a Zhang panoramic photos, left above is bright of Venus, from photos in the does not difficult see, from ground town of lighting through Valley in the of concentrated fog, became colorful of soft light, and sky of stars contrast, but also is because these lighting of exists, makes people only see those brightness strong of stars.
the "Figure 8" and "beauty of the stars" theme 4th place winning photographer: Xiao hua (Xiaohua) date taken: April 2011 location: introduction to the works of the great wall of China: in the photograph, great wall towers and the Milky Way Galaxy in the sky seems to both to people telling of their long history. The great wall was built in the 5th century BC, it is extremely important milestone in human history, has a history of more than 2000 years ago, but it is only the blink time for the universe.
"9" "forgotten light" theme 5th winning photographers: Ben·kanalaisi (BenCanales) date taken: December 2010 location: United States introduction to the works of Portland, Oregon: Starlight has been obscured by thick clouds, but we can see through clouds of yellow lights reflected from the ground, this phenomenon of light pollution on the Earth's major cities is common.
"Figure 10" and "beauty of the stars" theme 5th winning photographers: gelante·kaiyi (Grant Kaye,) date taken: December 2010 location: United States Mono Lake in California works about: Arctic star appears to be in the direction of rotation. Mono L. limestone towers by countless around the water with extremely rich in minerals, very suitable for the growth of bacteria, so the Lake is perceived by the scientific community to study alien life living laboratory.
