The Result of the Environmental Photo Contest for Employees in All Over the World We had held the environmental photo contest as the theme of "Blessings of Nature would like to be kept for our future" that is the view of the 'Forest, River, and Sea' and/or 'Land' and/or the animals/plants that cultivate in blessings of nature.

During the environmental awareness month, Olympus group held global photo contest in each 4 global regions as Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, and Japan to enhance employees' environmental initiatives.
994 photos in total attended this contest and we announced 4 best photos and 16 untried prize photos in this fiscal 2015.

Overview of the Contest

Attendants :

Employee of Olympus group and the family

Application period :

June 1 through July 1, 2015

Number of Entries (in Total) :

994

How to Judge in the Contest :

Four regions select five photographs respectively.

Works that win the prize Works that win the best prize in each region

Hanover Canal Park (US)
Jason Lee, Olympus Corporation of the Americas.

Comment:Taken in early June at Hanover Canal Park. After tinkering around I was able to convert an E-PM1 into a dedicated infrared camera (w/ 12-42mm lens). This was my first day out with it. So everything seen here is infrared light.

Lungs of the earth 2.0 (EUR)
Alex Angel-Benscher, Olympus KeyMed Ltd.

Comment:This picture is a variation on a previous picture I took called 'Lungs of the earth 2.0' it was taken using a Olympus EP-L5. I feel this picture earns its title due to the unique shape of the leaf. It forms a similar shape to a human lung, as well as the inside texture. It reminds us that we are the same as every living thing on earth, and we are all connected. For us to survive, we need these lungs of the earth.

A red dragonfly (ASIA)
Ke Zhifang, Olympus (China) Co., Ltd.

Comment:In early summer, I participated in the birthday party of my friend's daughter on an excursion boat of Shanghai Qingpu. Before getting on the boat, I happened to find dragonflies joyfully flying over weeds on the shore.
After a while, a red dragonfly was flying and coming to stop on the near weed slowly.
The scenery in front of me was just thing I expected.
I swiftly set a diaphragm of the lens F13, held the camera firmly, pressed the shutter button and took a photo of this red dragonfly.

Big Japanese westria tree (JPN)
Atsushi Toda, Olympus

Comment:This is a big fuji-tree, or Japanese wisteria and 150 years old. This tree has an extraordinary size in the world, so the wisteria flowers spread in sight.
A lot of people are taking care of this tree. I hope this scene will be kept.

Works that win the prize
Red Tail Hawk with Lady Bug (US)
Ann Campbell 		Great Blue Heron (US)
Michael Pyle 		Columbia Gorge (US)
Laura Drabik 		Rainbow picture (US)
Wayne Hardcastle
Macro shot of a nectar collecting bumblebee (EUR)
Julia Santoso 		The ascension of the turtle (EUR)
Julio Palazon 		Beauty Sunset (EUR)
Artem Klimakov 		Camouflaged Hunter (EUR)
Ilya Makovetskiy
Falling love with a lotus flower (ASIA)
Guo Zhongwen 		Safe and sound (ASIA)
Ha Dinh Nguyen Anh 		Joey (ASIA)
Nagaraj Bugudi-Adenna 		Huangshan (ASIA)
Tetsu Takimoto
M's Family (JPN)
Eiji Otsuka 		The earth as the planet of water (JPN)
Kazuya Oguchi 		The island where debris of corals is gathering (JPN)
Hidenori Yasuoka 		Snuggle (JPN)
Masaru Hayakawa


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