PiMP 2014

PiMP 2014 Winners

The winners of the 2014 Photography in Medical Physics (PiMP) competition were announced at the Combined Scientific Meeting (CSM) in Melbourne on Sunday, 7 September 2014. The winners in the three thematic categories, as selected by our esteemed panel of judges, are:


 

Category: Professionals at work

1st place – Duncan Butler “Alignment”

028 P - Alignment

 

2nd place – Ben Keir “Phantom Physicists”

031 P - Phantom Physicists

Equal 3rd place – Jacqueline Foo “Let’s get to the point”

045e P - Let s get to the point

Equal 3rd place – Duncan Butler “Synchrotron beam pipe”

029 P - Syncrotron beam pipe

 


 

Category: Marco – Get up close and personal with Medical Physics

1st place – Katrina Biggerstaff “Electron gun”

018e M - Electron gun

 

Equal 2nd place – Anita Adhitya “Ferrofluid”

010 M - Ferrofluid

Equal 2nd place – Anita Adhitya “Ferrofluid 3”

012 M - Ferrofluid3

Equal 2nd place – Duncan Butler “Aperture”

025 M - Aperture

Equal 2nd place – Duncan Butler “Graphite Chamber”

026 M - Graphite chamber

 


 

Category: Other exciting aspects of Medical Physics

1st place – Duncan Butler “Working late”

027 O - Working late

 

2nd place – Chris Lee “Daily Laser QA”

034e O - Daily laser QA

 Equal 3rd place – Frank Gagliardi “3D microbeams colour”

038 O - 3D Microbeams colour

Equal 3rd place – Frank Gagliardi “Interlaced microbeams”

040 O - Interlaced microbeams

Equal 3rd place – Paul White “Jelly baby 2014”

023e O - Jelly baby 2014

 


 

The People’s Choice aka “Public PiMP” Award, as selected by the members of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) in an online vote, goes to

Ben Keir “Phantom Physicists”

031 P - Phantom Physicists

 

Second in the People’s Choice voting came

David Jolly  “Through the ages 2”

017 P - Through the ages 2

Followed in third place by

Peta Lonski  “Teaching”

003e P - Teaching

 


 

Thanks to everybody for entering; it was a great effort and many people enjoyed viewing the images at the CSM in Melbourne.

Thank you to the ACPSEM leadership, namely ACPSEM President Dr. Sean Geoghegan, General Manager Geoff Barbaro and Education Officer Yuri Chernenko for their support!

We would also like to thank Radiation Oncology Support Australia (ROSA) again for supporting PiMP 2014 and enabling us to provide nice trophies to the winners.

Cheers

Joerg Lehmann (PiMP Master) and May Whitaker (PiMP Mistress)

PiMP 2014 Judges

The judges for the three thematic categories of our inaugural PiMP competition were:

  • Mercury Megaloudis, Melbourne (Australian Photographer of the Year)
  • Kimberly Sayre, San Francisco (Professional Photographer)
  • Tilly Boleyn, Sydney (Manager, Powerhouse Museum)
  • Dave Rogers, Ottawa (Medical Physicist)
  • Marcel van Herk, Amsterdam (Medical Physicist)

Thank you very much for your time and expertise!!

The People’s Choice Award winner was selected by members of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM).

People’s Choice Award 2014 voting

All members of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) are invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award (aka the Public PiMP award).

Here are the images of the finalists.

PiMP2014-Finalists-1 PiMP2014-Finalists-2

Pick your top three images and then vote using this online survey website  (which is also linked from the finalists’ image gallery). You will need your ACPSEM member number.

Everybody else: sorry, you can’t vote this time, but you can still look at the images of the finalists.

Enjoy!

Thanks to ROSA

We would like to thank Radiation Oncology Support Australia (ROSA) for kindly supporting the 2014 PiMP competition! The funds will be used for the PiMP trophies and for printing of images.

rosa

 

 

2014 Submissions

We received many great submissions for the inaugural PiMP competition. A big thank you to everybody who participated!!

The judging by our professional judges around the world is well underway.

We will start the judging for the People’s Choice award soon (which is why we’re not including any images with this post). Stay tuned!

Welcome to PiMP, Photography in Medical Physics!

Let’s celebrate our exciting profession and show off visually stimulating aspects of the work of a Medical Physicist.

 


We have just closed the submissions to first the Photography in Medical Physics (PIMP) competition. The competition is run in three categories:


P – Professionals at work
O – Other exciting aspects of Medical Physics
M – Macro: Get up close and personal with Medical Physics


Stay tuned for the results and the images!