Category:Winners Wiki Science Competition 2017 in Australia

Thanks to all the photographers who contributed to the Australian Wiki Science Competition 2017. The top 10 photographs are collected here, presented alphabetically left to right. Photographs scoring highly featured high technical competence, strong aesthetic appeal and thought-provoking subject matter which highlighted scientific topics and activity. Judging was undertaken by Wikimedia Committee Australia member Robert Whyte, who is a professional writer, scientist and photographer. Email: [email protected]

Order of judging is as follows:

1. File:An_ancient_landscape_for_modern_astronomy.tif
2. File:Toxocara_canis_Scanning_electron_micrograph.tif
3. File:The_night_shift_at_the_synchrotron.jpg
4. File:Fossil_-_The_Kimberley.jpg
5. File:EMS_Ecologists_Counting_Shorebirds_on_the_Northern_Australian_Coastline.jpg
6. File:Ducts.tif
7. File:Sandstone_and_quartz,_strange_bed_fellows.jpg
8. File:Life_on_the_rocks,_Alexandra_Headland,_Qld,_Australia,_after_recent_rains_04.jpg
9. File:Flower_Velleia_paradoxa,_(Goodeniaceae).jpg
10. File:Noisy_Miner_Branch-ScienceCompAnd.jpg