Shortlisted for the RSB Photography Competition 2020

We are thrilled for Year 9 student, Rosie T. who was shortlisted (out of over 2000 entries) for the RSB Photography Competition 2020! The theme was to capture our changing world. 

She explains her entry below: 

This photo is of a newly hatched dragonfly on a lily pad. The dragonfly has its wings open and ready to fly. I named the photograph silent noon after the poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the poem it says: “Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly: Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky”. The dragonfly is on a lily pad in a natural swimming pond that my family built. It’s a natural pool with no chemicals and is cleaned by the plants. The competition is about our changing world. The pool is pumped using solar energy and the plants extract CO2 from the air so the pool is helping our changing climate. This is important because we need to reduce our CO2 emissions to prevent climate change. The dragonflies are part of the ecosystem and there are lots of dragonfly larvae in the pool. I am able to watch the dragonflies go through metamorphosis and see the monstrous larvae turn into beautiful dragons.