• Macro-shooting - photographs should reflect the world in a way we cannot see it with the naked eye. They should be made with the use of macro lenses or special equipment (e.g. microscope).
• Action - photographs should reflect a scientific process or natural phenomenon (for example, volcano eruption, fight of insects, etc.). Standard or special photography techniques could be used.
• Art and science - photographs should illustrate beauty of scientific processes, phenomena or demonstrate scientific objects in an abstract or artistic form. They could be made with the use of standard photography technique or with the use of any special photography or scientific technologies.

Any object of science from macro- and micro-world could become an object of a photograph: crystals, particles, cells, plants, animals, natural phenomena, etc.

non-trivial, pictorial, artistic and be made on a good technical level.

Final term of submission of photographs for the competition is September 30, 2009.

Each author may send only one scientific photograph made during the past two years, both published or unpublished and also made specifically for the competition. A series of photographs that illustrate a phenomenon in dynamics is considered to be one competition work.

Photographs are submitted in electronic format with 300 dpi resolution. Quality of the digital image should allow printing the photograph in the A3 format at least for exhibiting with the exception of microphotographs, where image size is limited due to physical capabilities of a device.

Author that wishes to become a participant should register at our site.

Photographs should be sent in the "tif" or "jpg" formats. Size of one file should not exceed 5 megabytes.

A photograph should be accompanied with a caption and brief (not more than 2000 symbols with intervals) description: what is depicted, what is the scale, what type of photography technique applied and what phenomenon is demonstrated.

Photographs, submitted for the competition, and summaries (names of authors will not be mentioned) will be placed at site on a weekly basis.

Photographs, submitted for the competition, are not reviewed. Competition Committee qualifies for using the submitted photographs for formation of photo-exhibitions with mandatory indication of authors’ names.