Russian Chemical Society named after D.I.Mendeleev starts in the frame of XII Russian Olympiad "Nanotechnology - Breakthrough to the Future!" under the support of Faculty of Materials Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Program the International photography contest denoted to the Year of 150 Anniversary of the Periodic Table.
The Jury will accept original photographs of schoolchildren, students, PhD fellows, young scientists, teachers and tutors visualizing of unusual and rare variants of the Periodic Table of the Elements or images of chemical elements. The photos can be taken from paper carrier, from building walls or interiors, from monuments, ourdoor advertisement ets. from everywhere with no limitations. It is requested to add also a piece of descriptive text, detailed figure caption describing the place and context related to the taken picture. The photo and the text must belong to the contest partcipant solely with no violation of third person's rights.
Basic technical requirements:
- photo resolution should be above 150 - 300 dpi,
- landscape or portrait orientation,
- photo and the text should be joint in a separate PDF file to upload,
- the file size should not exceed 10 Mb,
- graphic editors are allowed to use for improving the image quality or creating art objects.
Criteria of score scale:
- originality – 5 points,
- art quality – 10 points,
- technical quality – 3 points,
- descriptive story as a figure capture – 12 points.
One participant can present several works.
The best works will be published online while first three the most rated works will be awarded with diploma and honorary prizes by the Organizing Committee and Russian Chemical Society.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2018.