• 1st prize - an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 top of the range professional photo printer that prints up to A3 size.
• 2nd prize - an Epson Stylus Photo R800 desktop photo printing solution that produces supreme archival quality matte or gloss prints.
• 3rd prize - an Epson Stylus Photo R240 printer to print photo-lab quality photos quickly, easily, and economically.

The winning photographs will feature on the Department's website, newsletter, plasma screen, posters and more.

Previous years' winners have received national and international press coverage for their winning photographs.

We are searching for an image that relates to research or teaching in the Department or engineers out in the field, which may be beautiful, fascinating, intriguing, amusing, or possibly all of these things.

We will use a very high proportion of the entries in a web gallery and throughout the website, and an exhibition in the Baker building foyer, giving acknowledgements wherever they are used.

The panel of judges include Phillip King RA Sculptor and President of the Royal Academy 1999, Roberto Cipolla Professor of Information Engineering, Dr Allan McRobie, Professor Keith Glover - Head of Department, and Philip Guildford - Director of Research.

Here are some links that might inspire:
Science photo library
BBC photographer of the year
National Geographic photography library
Getty images

The rules are as follows:

1. The photograph must be submitted by email or sent to Jacqueline Saggers, Room 27, Baker Building, Trumpington Street, by 2nd June 2006
2. The entrant must include the following statement in the text of the email:
   

   I have checked with my manager/supervisor/DoS __________________ that I have permission to enter the attached photograph(s) in the competition and give the Department of Engineering the right to publish the photograph(s) on its website and elsewhere

3. The entrant must also provide:
   
   1. title
   2. description of the photograph, noting whether the photograph is a composite of several images or has been enhanced in any way
   3. any due acknowledgements
4. The panel will shortlist the entries and announce the winner and runners up by 15th June 2006.

The following guidelines should be followed:

1. Ideally the photograph should be of good print quality, but if it is available only as a web quality image then please still enter
2. Make no assumptions about the photograph we are seeking, because the winning photograph could be of a: microscopic feature, laboratory, project team, computer simulation, production line, robot, lecture theatre, engineers out in the field etc.
3. There is no limit to the number of photographs that you may enter. If you are not certain whether your photograph will win or you are trying to choose between several possible entries, then please just enter them all and let the judges decide.

Take a look at some of the 2005 and 2004 competition entries.