Weekly photo competition runner up, 01 November 2012: “Bumper wheat harvest in Kenya!"

Weekly photo competition runner up, 01 November 2012: “Bumper wheat harvest in Kenya!"

Image by CIMMYT
This week’s runner up in our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends is Bhoja Basnet, post-doc in the Global Wheat Program. He took this photo during a visit to Njoro, Kenya in September 2012. CIMMYT works together with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in a crucial partnership on rust resistance at KARI’s Njoro Research Station.

Says Bhoja: “Kenya's farmers are benefitting from new rust-resistant, high-yielding wheat varieties. In the picture, we see the harvest of newly-released wheat variety Robin, grown in a farmer’s field for seed multiplication. According to the grower, in the 2012 season he harvested more than 4 metric tons per hectare (or 20 bags per acre in the local system) without herbicide application. This yield is way above the previous year's record of about 2 to 2.5 tons per hectare (10-12 bags per acre). This depicts one of the most recent impacts of CIMMYT’s wheat breeding program, which often aims to breed durably resistant, high-yielding wheat lines and them make available to national breeding programs (especially those of developing countries) for testing and release as varieties.”

Photo credit: B. Basnet/CIMMYT.

Weekly photo competition winner, 23 November 2012: "Curiosity"

Image by CIMMYT
This week's winner in our photo competition is Vadim Ganeyev, one of our friends and partners in Kazakhstan, who shared several fantastic photos with us. This image shows a curious grasshopper.

“He is a talented breeder and very enthusiastic person,” says Yuriy Zelenskiy, CIMMYT wheat breeder in Kazakhstan, who sent us the photos on Vadim’s behalf. “He is the only private breeder in Kazakhstan, and works together with his wife Tatyana, without relying on support from the state or anyone else. His breeding company is named Fiton, and his variety of spring wheat, Lyubava, grows on an area of about one million hectares in Kazakhstan and Russia. Vadim is one of the active members of the KASIB (Kazakhstan-Siberia) Network on wheat improvement and, and a participant in the shuttle breeding programs between Mexico and Kazakhstan. He loves the field, he loves wheat. Despite his busy schedule, he finds time to take photos.”

Photo credit: V. Ganeyev/CIMMYT.

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Photo Competition

Image by uonottingham
To whom it may concern,

Please find attached my entry for the University Life Photo Competition.

Teamwork. jpg:

ISO 400
300mm
f/5.6
1/2000 sec

Photo of a Nottingham University Boat Club Men's VIII at Notts City Regatta at the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont. Having spent the winter training six days a week, the NUBC VIII arrive at the start for there first major regatta.

Trent by Night. jpg:

ISO 200
43mm
f/5
4.0secs

The Trent Building taken on a serenely clear night in the Summer term.

One Life - Photo Competition

Image by Raymond Larose
Friday - July 29, 2011 - last day to vote!

I don't usually "spam" myself out here, but this is a cool chance to win some dough for more equipment (RE: Zeiss Lenses). So, I am asking if you could please vote for this photo at lenscrack.see.me/onelife2011 and if you have entered the competition as well, I will return your vote! :)

PS - you can vote daily!

Thanks!

Also, sorry I have been quiet on your photo streams - been side-tracked, but do promise to hit all of you this week!! I miss you all.