The Fall 2023 Photo Contest was a success! You voted for your favorite photos, and we are thrilled to announce this year's contest winners! To recap, there is a $50 award each to the vote-favorite undergraduate and graduate submissions! Runners-up in each category will receive cool swag! In the undergraduate category... 1st Place: Piper Duncan A Portal to the Coast-Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK 2nd Place: Savanna Davis Tirta Empul Temple water purification ceremony in Tempaksiring, Bali. In the graduate student category... 1st Place: Gabrielle Langhorn Rogerio, a Beekeeper in Ceará, Northeast Brazil 2nd Place: Katie Foster Mama Qocha, Tayta Urqu: a snow-capped mountain is reflected in an alpine lagoon in the southern Andes of Peru at sunset. Glacial meltwater is the primary source of drinking water in the Andes, especially during the dry season. Lakes and mountains are respected and revered across the region. Congratulations to you all! Thank you to all of the participants in this year's contest. Your photos and creativity have a valuable impact, and we truly enjoy seeing your work! The entire 2023 Photo Contest Gallery can be viewed below. Undergraduate Student Photos Savanna Davis: Tirta Empul Temple water purification ceremony in Tempaksiring, Bali. Henry Decker: High Altitude Archaeological Survey in Range Creek Canyon, Utah Piper Duncan: O’Brien’s Tower, Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Republic of Ireland Piper Duncan: A Portal to the Coast - Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK Bill Evans III: This picture was taken on a beautiful day from our ferry ride to the island of Visovac. The island features a still-functioning monastery and is owned by the Catholic Church. The island is situated between waterfalls in Krka National Park, Croatia. Bill Evans III: My friend Julien and I posing for a goofy picture depicting Zagorje customs from the late 19th to early 20th century at the Staro Selo Muzej (Old Village Museum) in Kumrovec, Croatia. Maggie Glancy: Marking the Contexts of Paleolithic Artifacts, Catalonia Maggie Glancy: Identifying Mesolithic Microfauna and Flakes in Catalonia Josephine Green: Sunday in Portugal Matt Lawman: This is an image of a rare golden lion tamarin. This species is highly endangered and hard to find in the wild. Photo was taken in captivity. Bronwyn Matlick: Inside of Trim Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland. Anglo Norman structure dating to the 12th-13th century. Bronwyn Matlick: A landscape of Bective Abbey, County Meath, Ireland on a cloudy Irish summer morning. Eric Newman: Intact Clam shell located in Neolithic Site Shell Midden, Muge, Portugal Eric Newman: Unidentified Calcaneus excavated in Neolithic Site Shell middle in Muge, Portugal Liz Rymarev: For my Introduction to Photojournalism class, I shadowed Nicole Ponzter, the collections manager for the ichthyology and coral department at the Georgia Natural Museum of History and I learned what she does on a day-to-day basis. Part of her job is to accession items into the museum's collection, like the whale skull she is holding in the photo on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (Photo/Liz Rymarev) Liz Rymarev: For my Introduction to Photojournalism class, I shadowed Nicole Pontzer, Georgia Museum of Natural History’s ichthyology and coral departments collection manager, while she was working on digging up beached whale and dolphin bones. In this photo, she is brushing away dirt from a dug-up dolphin skull at the dig site in Athens, Georgia on Thursday, April 13, 2023. (Photo/Liz Rymarev) Graduate Student Photos Justice Britton: Cherokee Plants on the Tennessee River - Guntersville, Alabama My uncle and I are conducting a Cherokee Plants (ꮳꮃꭹ ꭴꮒᏸꭼ) survey on the Tennessee River and up Short Creek, where there were known Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Muscogee Creek settlements. There are wild potatoes (ꭺꮧꭸꮻ) growing all along the stretch of riverbank to the right of the frame. These were a major staple of Cherokee communities; they can be boiled or ground into flour. The Cherokee affinity for and relationship to this particular plant is illustrated by the fact that one of our seven clans is named for the Wild Potato. The fact that these plant communities persist on a landscape that Indigenous peoples were largely removed from leaves a living impression on the relationships developed between these lands, waters, and the people who continue to call them home. Justice Britton: Newly Minted "NATIVE" Research Vessel This is a before picture of what I have minted as the new freshwater research vessel for UGA's Cultural Anthropology and Integrative Conservation research. It has since been outfitted with a Helix 7 Sonar, so that we can now employ side-scan sonar, MegaChirp down-imaging, GPS, and mapping capabilities while exploring waters much more shallow and with more navigation hazards than what is generally investigated with larger research vessels. Our 5-year mission: to explore stangely familiar worlds; to seek out new ways to view traditional livelihoods and Indigenous civilizations; to boldly go where no research vessel has gone before! Katie Foster: Mama Qocha, Tayta Urqu: a snow-capped mountain is reflected in an alpine lagoon in the southern Andes of Peru at sunset. Glacial meltwater is the primary source of drinking water in the Andes, especially during the dry season. Lakes and mountains are respected and revered across the region. Katie Foster: Galloping alpaca: one of the two domesticated camelids of South America, alpacas are raised for their soft wool and meat in the high alpine zones of the Andes. Emma Gibbons: Human touch amidst nature's embrace: a man-made walkway winds through the rejuvenated heart of the mangrove, illustrating ways mankind and the environment can both benefit. Emma Gibbons: 'Mamboly Hazo' Masikoro cattle herders come together to plant trees - Tsianisiha, Southwest Madagascar Alina Karapandzich: Excavation pee breaks in the woods are made immensely more enjoyable when you have beautiful wooded areas nearby with cute snails to take pictures of! Location: the Great Hungarian Plain Alina Karapandzich: Lola, the real director of PIPP, driving the field van at the end of hard day's work excavating a Neolithic tell as her owner, Dr. Riebe (the so-called PIPP director) judges Lola's driving abilities. Gabrielle Langhorn: Rogerio, a Beekeeper in Ceará, Northeast Brazil Gabrielle Langhorn: Human-nature connections in Brazil Faith Macdonald: Shovel Test Screening at 2023 Brown's Mount (9BI5) Archaeological Field School Nicole Rowley: View of the savanna from the school house in Ankatepoke, Madagascar Bruno Ubiali: Fishing with highly skilled fishermen at Quilombo Tiningu, a traditional territory of descendants of enslaved people (Maroon Community) in Santarém, Pará, Brazilian Amazon. Bruno Ubiali: Fishing with highly skilled fishermen at Quilombo Tiningu, a traditional territory of descendants of enslaved people (Maroon Community) in Santarém, Pará, Brazilian Amazon. Tugce Yalcin: Man against Nature, Mosaic from Great Palace Mosaic Museum, 2022, Istanbul, Turkey Ansley McCraw (Alumni): Attila and Cheesy Biscuits in Hungary. 35mm. June 2023.
