Competitions
Courtesy of those nice people at Kraken Rum we have two competitions you can enter where the prize is (you guessed it) a bottle of Kraken Rum.
The first competition is open to anyone and the second only to people attending the symposium.
The first competition is open to anyone and the prize is a bottle of Kraken Rum. All you have to do is create a fake photograph of Nessie. It can be a model or image manipulation or anything you want as long as the sumbitted result is a photograph.
Here’s an example
Once you have your photograph email it to us.
The second competition (for symposium attendees only) is to show off the best piece of Nessie tat! Bring it along or a printed out photograph and the one judged the best on the day will win the rum.
I hesitate to put a Nessie souvenir here in case someone is offended because they own it!
Both competitions will be judged by a panel made up of the speakers at the symposium and their decision is final. Winners and commended entries will be displayed on this site and entries may be used as publicity for the conference.
GOOD LUCK
As part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival we are proud to announce a one day conference celebrating 80 years of contemporaneous eyewitness reports of the Loch Ness Monster sponsored by kraken rum.
Tickets are £20 which includes a buffet lunch.
Numbers are strictly limited for this unique event to be held on Saturday the 6th of April at The Counting House in Edinburgh (11.30am to 6.30pm) .
The speakers represent a variety of opinions on the Loch Ness Monster.
Adrian Shine (naturalist, Loch Ness Project): biology of Loch Ness/overview of geography
Roland Watson (author Waterhorses of Loch Ness): the pre-1933 history of Loch Ness monster/folklore
Tony Harmsworth (author Loch Ness, Nessie and Me): Loch Ness 1972 to present.
David Martin-Jones (Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow) : Nessie on film.
Charles Paxton (organiser) (ecologist University of St Andrews): statistical analysis of eyewitness reports
Gordon Rutter (organiser) (author Ghosts Caught on Film 3): photographic evidence of the Loch Ness monster
There will a panel discussion on different explanations for the Loch Ness monster as both a non-monstrous and monstrous phenomena with
Adrian Shine / Gordon Rutter / Steuart Campbell (author The Loch Ness Monster: the Evidence) / Roland Watson
Books will be on sale during the event and there are a couple of competitions which you can enter online – watch this space!
There will also be an appearance of the kraken hunter.
To buy tickets send a paypal transfer to Charles Paxton (cgp2@st-andrews.ac.uk) for £20 – we will not issue physical tickets but if you could bring your Paypal receipt on the day we will match that to our list.
