Geography Photo Competition

 At the beginning of each school year, the Perse School Geography Department holds the annual Geography Photo Competition. Students submit as many as three geography related photos they have captured in the previous year. The winners are then selected by public vote at the schools open day.

Extreme Tourism: Such a Good Thing?

 Embedded in this post are my entries to this year’s competition.

 The first is controversial picture intended to make people think about the impacts of tourism on the destination location and in this image specifically, the impacts of extreme tourism. It depicts a via ferrata in the Italian Dolomites with people queuing on the way up to make the most of the good weather. I was not surprised to see so many people as routes in the summer season are very popular; however, the environmental impacts of such activities quickly became apparent. In order to reduce such impacts, the areas used for these activities must be kept to a minimum and a percentage of income from tourism should be spent on preventing footpath erosion.

Kings Cross

 My second entry was taken last November at Kings Cross station just after the refurbishments there were completed. Each year, the station erects a poppy on the central structure of the building (seen in the centre of the image) to commemorate those who have fought and lost their lives in combat.

Dolomites

My final entry is a rather boring holiday shot (I didn’t have anything else good to enter) again taken while on holiday in the Dolomites. We walked up to a little church and found this little cross behind it. It was nothing special but the ridge behind looked pretty spectacular.

 If you want to vote for the winners, or just see the talented array of photos taken by students this year, please go to the second floor of the new building on Saturday 27^th September  during the Perse School Open Day.