from Beaker Street
Voting is now open for the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize!
The album of entries is now live, and it’s a stunner.
We received a record-breaking 99 entries this year, all showcasing local talent and scientific content.
Now it’s up to you! Simply ‘like’ your favourite images (any reaction counts as a vote), and the six most popular will join the six chosen by our resident judge Cam Blake to determine our 12 finalists.
Vote for as many entries as you like until Tuesday 20th of July. A heartfelt thank you to Full Gamut, Tasmania’s premier fine art printers and our long-time competition sponsor, and to all who entered and made this our biggest Photography Prize yet.
Happy voting!
See the album here.
Featured image above: Brett Guy Photography – Pixie’s Parasol
This image depicts the beautiful blue fungi ‘Mycena interrupta’ growing on a fallen log. The caps are only 0.8-2mm across but the brilliant colouration makes them stand out from the crowd as they go about their business of breaking down the decaying wood and returning the nutrients to the biological cycle of the temperate rainforests.
If this photograph becomes a finalist, it will be exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 6 August – 31 August, as part of Beaker Street Festival 2021. It will also be available for purchase through an online gallery hosted by Full Gamut.
Below: Ellie Shaw – Old Lady Burl
This beautiful, harrowing burl is on a Stringy Bark (Eucalyptus obliqua). These growths are formed by an abnormal development on the bud growth cells. Usually this is caused by an injury, fungus or virus.
This dear old lady has likely survived two bushfires, the most recent in 2019. She looks up over the tree canopies of the Southern forest, with her watchful eyes.
