Capture Results are Announced!
Capturing an image that shows the relevance of the Bible in today’s society
The Bible Society in Northern Ireland is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Capture Photography Competition.
The standards were high again this year, as Key Stage Three pupils from across Northern Ireland captured images to show how the Bible remains relevant to today’s society. Allowing pupils to delve further into the stories of Abraham, Moses and Ruth, this competition gave pupils the opportunity to explore what the Bible means to them.
From images of dolls to guitars to crime scenes, the photographs showed great variety and creativity, and as ever the judging was hard. Winners and runners-up were selected from an ‘Individual Category’ and a ‘Group Category’, based on interpretation of the subject and technical composition of the photograph.
The Capture judges this year were Rev Edmund Mawhinney a past president of the Methodist Church in Ireland and member of the BSNI Board, Bob Torrens a photographer for the Newtownards Chronicle, and Leah McKibben Projects Manager of BSNI.
Here is a list of the 2011 Capture winners with their explanations of the photos they took...
Individual Category
Winner
Emily Frazer from Enniskillen Collegiate Grammar School with her photograph “To-do or not To-do” based on the Ten Commandments.
“My photo illustrates the 1st and 2nd commandments, by hopefully showing that other things are often put before God and we can sometimes forget about God in everyday life. Everything else had been completed on the to-do list except to read the Bible. Instead we should focus on God and then fill in the gaps with things like watching Eastenders or playing our new game. Reading the Bible should have been positioned on the top of the list and should have been ticked off first before everything else.”
Runner-up
Corey Gallagher from Strabane Grammar School with his photograph “No Other God” based on the Ten Commandments.
“The commandments say to worship no other god and put no other god before me. My picture is supposed to show faith and dedication to God.”
Group Category
Winner
Eimear Lavery and Hannah McIvor from Oakgrove Integrated College, Londonderry with their photograph "Trust, Faith and Hope" based on the story of Abraham.
“The image we captured shows God showing us that he is still there watching us and guiding us through our everyday life when we feel sad, lonely, angry, or stressed. Usually young people tend to turn to music when they feel sad or lonely, the girl in this picture likes music and likes to spend time alone to play, the sun in this picture shows God telling us that he’s still there with us and never leaves us when we feel lonely or wonder if there even is a god, when we feel stressed or angry we can begin to question God’s plan.
Young people can still trust that God has a plan for them. The way in which this picture is related to the Abraham story, is that when with all the work young people have including stress they have with exams and it’s hard to believe that they can achieve their goals but when we start believing our self and trust God we can achieve our goals, like God showed Abraham the stars and made him a promise – a promise that probably seemed far too big for Abraham to believe. But although he trusted God to begin with, Abraham’s faith was tested, and he started to take things into his own hands.”
Runner-up
Hannah Jones and Emma Crozier from Omagh Academy with their photograph "No hiding from God" based on the story of Moses.
“This photo captures the scene when Moses murdered anEgyptian taskmaster who had beaten a slave to death. Moses ran away from Egypt and the consequences of his actions. This teaches us that we cannot run away from God as he will always find us.”
Thank you to all schools who took part in the Capture Competition and congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
