#1 Yi Zhai: Harmony between man and nature

#2 Daniel Hitch: Juxta"ski"sition

Short description: Illustrating the troublesome Copenhill project. A huge flume of CO2 pumped into the atmospher as skiers utilise an artificial slope, attempting to detract from the fact that this power plant will NOT be CO2 neutral by 2025. 

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, on top of the Copenhill/Amager Bakke waste incinerator

#3 Michael O'Callagan: Cold morning to measure step-pools

Short description: This photo was taken during the scientific research trip to the lake district, where my group was looking at step-pool formation. In this photo, one member of my group is taking a measurement depth of a step-pool. 

Location: Glenderaterra Beck, Lake District

#4 Imogen Chastell: Teaching amidst natural beauty

Short description: This photograph encapsulates how Durham’s field trips are more than just the breathtaking landscapes we visit and explore. The unwavering support and guidance of the lecturers shapes the experience.

Location: Val d’Arolla, Switzerland.

#5 Sophie Jones: Green turtle coming up to breathe above the seagrass meadows of Abu Dabbab, Egypt

Short description: Whilst surveying the seagrass of Abu Dabbab for my dissertation data collection, I encountered a few Green Turtles curious about what I was doing placing transects and quadrats on their feeding ground.

Location: Marsa Abu Dabbab, Egypt

#6 Lily Thompson: Clouds in the Skye

Short description: 'Peaking' through low-lying cloud in the Cuillin Mountains.  A photograph taken hiking into the clouds on a fieldtrip morning at Coire Lagan, surrounded by the heather and hills of the largest island in the Inner Hebrides Archipelago.

Location: Coire Lagan, Isle of Skye

#7 Jingyun Ma: Mountains, rivers and woods

Short description: A small stream meanders through the jungle of the valley.

Location: Keswick

#8 Stan Bradley: The volcanic crown of Skye

Short description: A view down the interior of the Isle of Skye, looking south towards the Black Cuillin Ridge. The Gabbro pokes sharp holes through the sky illuminating itself as the thorny crown of Scottish Hebrides. 

Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland

#9 Jess Harker: Kathmandudes!

Short description: At the summit of Daguna Gadi! Nepal 2023 Fieldtrip 

Location: Daguna Gadi, Nepal

#10 Maeve Sutterby: Rooftop view of Kathmandu, Nepal

Short description: View over Kathmandu, Nepal from a rooftop terrace, taken on fieldwork in March 2023.

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

#11 Cheuk Wing Kung: Skálafellsjökull glacier outlet and the crevasses in southeast Iceland

Short description: This photo was taken by a film camera during my level 3 field-trip last September. The view of the cloudy sky perfectly merging with the glaciers and the how sunshine splendid on the crevasses are absolutely stunning.

Location: Skálafellsjökull, Iceland

#12 Sorrel Penman: Skye under a rainbow

Short description: This photograph was taken at The Braes, Skye, during our second year fieldtrip. After a few days of rain the sun finally came out in the perfect location. Under the rainbow Ben Tianavaig and Tianavaig Bay can be seen.

Location: The Braes, Skye

#13 Dante di Nardo: Hiding in the clouds

Short description: Pigne d’Arolla, emerging from behind a low wall of wispy cloud, towers over a valley abundant in pine. A view from within Pennine Alps, Switzerland.

Location: Arolla, Evolene, Switzerland. Coordinates: 46.025548, 7.476413

#14 Kitty Shepherd-Cross: Dating cards: the new romantic revolution?

Short description: Students are spotted at a bar handing out personalised ''Dating Cards'', bought from a newly formed company, Offline Dating. They symbolise a societal shift away from online dating, popularising the meeting of new romantic matches in person.

Location: The Boat Club, Durham

#15 Aru Wiecek: The Quarry mountain range

Short description: An eye-catching feature found in a quarry in Portugal where we were investigating paleolithic archaeology. It is shaped like a particularly extreme mountain range.

Location: Vale de Atela Quarry Complex, near Alpiarça, Portugal

#16 Hannah Matthews: The Dome of the Rock

Short description: Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra), which is located within Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. This photo was taken during the Jerusalem field trip.

Location: Jerusalem

#17 Rosie Haffenden: Trapping light

Short description: James Street at twilight, just as the night life is beginning to emerge and people are clustering together.

Location: James Street, Liverpool

#18 Amy Jiang: Evening lights across Victoria harbour

Short description: Significant gentrification in southern Kowloon (九龍) includes the construction of the K11 shopping centre as part of efforts to create a new tourism and leisure hub. This evening cityscape was taken from its balcony overlooking the harbour.

Location: Balcony of K11 Musea, Kowloon, Hong Kong

#19 Thomas Spens: Tiny Changes

Short description: This is one of many murals that my group found throughout fieldwork in Glasgow. The title, a local youth charity, encapsulates the progressive efforts of the city’s countless charities. Painted within parks and gardens, these artworks brighten areas with positivity. 

Location: Pollokshieds, Glasgow

#20 Sammy Lion-Cachet: The river that goes east

Short description: On a research trip to NYC for my dissertation the sky was illuminated as the sun set behind the city. Taken from the air in Williamsburg, BK. It reminds me of the magic that this city holds.

Location: New York, New York

#21 Harriet Parker: A stream bank failure in the Lake District

Short description: Photo depicting an impressive ~10 metre high stream bank failure located on a meander of Coledale Beck. This was taken from a fieldwork project investigating coupling between stream bank failures and the river channel in Coledale Valley.

Location: Coledale Valley, The Lake District, NY 21597 BNG 22537

#22 Ophelia Vesely: Sublimity

Short description: Different ecological spheres (hydro-, litho- and bio-) create this breathtaking view though a complex network of interactions that physical geography aims to understand. A finely tuned and effective, yet fragile, balance.

Location: Hope Cove, Devon, UK

#23 Amy Baxter: Forget Wally! Where's the levelling staff?!

Short description: I photographed the work of 1st year geographers surveying the marshland at Pancas to better understand the topography of this accreting salt marsh.

Location: Pancas Salt Marsh,Tagus Estuary, west coast of Portugal

#24 Alice Graham: Gullfoss under the rainbow, skies are blue

Short description: This awe-inspiring moment at Gullfoss captures nature as the sublime; thundering gushes of water plunging below make way for the vibrant double rainbow that sits peacefully amidst the dancing water droplets. An Icelandic treasure – a real pot of gold. 

Location: Gullfoss Falls, Southwest Iceland 

25 Matthew Fair: Peaks and prayer flags

Short description: The 6,637m summit of Phurbi Chyachu peaking through the prayer flags of Thantali during the 2023 Nepal Mountain Hazards field trip.

Location: Sindhupalchok, Nepal

#26 Henry Gwilliam: Abandoned

Short description: Obscured by the flash in the reflection of the rain, is the Mill House at Force Crag Mine. After mineral extraction ceased, the Mill House remains the most vivid indicator of industry in an already scarred landscape.

Location: Force Crag Mine, Cumbria

#27 Molly Hill: Freshwater diatom viewed down a light microscope

Short description: Surirella diatom viewed at 400 times magnification under a light microscope as part of undergraduate dissertation research. The samples were extracted from lake sediments cored at Coire Fhionn Lochan, a mountain lake on the Isle of Arran, Scotland.

Location: Durham University Undergraduate Geography Microscope Laboratory

#28 Elena Pourghadiri: The calm before the storm

Short description: The Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the days leading up to the coinciding of Ramadan, Passover and Easter.

Location: The Old City of Jerusalem

#29 Rachel Fry: A beautiful Skye

Short description: With the wild heather of the Cuillins yet to bloom, it is the flurry of cumulus clouds pierced by some unexpected Easter sunlight that provides the backdrop for these three curious red deer of Skye. 

Location: Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye