DBT-inStem along with other members of Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC) hosted a photography competition ‘Environment in Focus’, to commemorate World Earth Day, which is celebrated every year on June 05.
The event drew a large crowd of students and faculty from the Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC) campus. The theme of the photography competition was ‘Con(serving) Environment’ and ‘Shades of Life’. For this contest, we received around 100 entries.
The winning entries from the competition:
Judges choice:
• 'The umbrella of hope - Fungi, with well over 1.4 million species, are the major decomposers in most terrestrial ecosystems, and therefore play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles.' - By Zeeshan Mirza
• 'There is beauty in harmony - This picture of the setting sun provides a wonderful backdrop to the oil rig, the large commercial ship, and the seagull going about their business.'- By Jigme Wangchuk
People choice:
• ‘Ray of Hope’ - By Gopishankar Thiroomurthy
• 'Gleaming for tomorrow - Illumination for the darkness at dusk or is it a gloom for the future in the brightness of today?' - By Baraiya Harishchandra