Pupils attending Mr D Jackson's 'photographic club' - have entered the following images into an all Island competition
(Northern and Southern Ireland) ..... The 'One Good Idea' photo competition is organised by Sustainable Energy Ireland and
the Northern Irland Energy Agency .... our entries will be addressing the topic of 'Renewable Energy' !
We will keep you all posted on our progress !!!
Explanation and Title of Photo(s): ‘The future is in our hands !’
I have tried to represent how our school has become an environmentally friendly school and how we now have a wind generator next our playing fields and solar panels on the roof of school. Both these clean energy sources are saving our school lots of money and of course are contributing to the ‘wellbeing’ of our world (the earth) by providing us with electricity made through clean, green processes. My pictures (all three) attempt to convey how the young people of today can make a real difference in our lives now, so that we have a clean earth to look forward to as we grow older and for the children of tomorrow. This problem is in ‘our hands’ and we can make a difference …. I have tried showing this in two ways, firstly by showing the silhouette of a young person holding our wind generator as if by studying it and perhaps blowing it, in contrast to a fossil fuelled power station (at Kilroot, Carrickfergus) in the background. Secondly by a similar image only with an electricity pylon and street lights as a background contrast conveying the usage of the power created by the wind generator.
Thank you
Katie
Explanation and Title of Photo(s): ‘Clean Rotten’
I have merged some photos taken around our school and in our local community through the use of Photoshop and layered them along with altering colours to give more impact. In all these photos that I have provided, I have tried to show how there is a stark contrast between the conventional use of fossil fuels and more recently the cleaner, greener use of wind generators. The wind generator is in motion and it appears to be blowing the clouds, smoke and smog away into the direction of the chimney stacks of the fossil fuelled power station - almost conveying a sense of conquering our legacies and cleaning of the air within the environment (a sense of cleaning away the bad and replacing with the good). One image is separated down the centre very intentionally with a jagged line and on one side shows a rainbow of colours in a fresh and healthy skyline with a wind generator in motion in contrast with a dark and smokey fossil fuelled power station on the opposite side of that jagged line. The jagged line represents the uncertainty of change for whatever reason.
Thank you
Daniel
Explanation and Title of Photo(s): ‘Harnessing Nature’
I have taken these pictures around our school during the early part and later part of the day and when the sun was setting in the wintry skyline and I focussed on the simplicity of the wind generator as a focal point as it sits alongside our school playing fields and amidst the surrounding natural environment with its greenery and trees, etc. The colours and cloud formations are generally as I could see it with my eyes when the photographs were taken. I like the shape of the wind generator and I do feel that it fits in to our environment very well, just like the structure of the trees and bushes and other man made structures such as basketball and football nets and pylons and lamp posts that we have all become accustomed to. I have purposefully not changed (digitally re-mastered) much about each of these three images however have used a little enhancement in colour through Photoshop/HDR software to create a more unique colouration/ enhancement in each image (to help create a more appropriate mood).
Thank you
Luke
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