MontPhoto, international photography contest (Mountain and Nature Photography Awards)

1st Award MontPhoto Honor Award
Wake-up call de Bence Máté de Pusztaszer (Hungria)
Place: Parc Nacional Kiskunság, Hongria
Description: Great White Egrets (Ardea alba) are so afraid of White-tailed Sea-eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) that they leave the place as fast as the predator appears. In this case, the Great White Egret was sleeping in front of my hide and I could capture the two species together, just before it woke up and took off hastily.

Bence Máté

1st Award / M. H. A.

Honor award Popular voting
Triumph of mind de Bence Máté de Pusztaszer (Hungria)
Place: Parc Nacional Kiskunság, Hongria
Description: The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) has a stronger physique than Great White Egret (Ardea alba), but the latter learned over time, that the Grey Herons are so defenceless while having a fish in their beak. With their fast movements, the Great White Egrets prey the food from them, and the Grey Herons have absolutely no chance in this struggle.

Bence Máté

Honor award / P. V.

Honor award
The Colony de Cristobal Serrano de Alicante (Alicante)
Place: Parc Nacional de Kasanka, Zàmbia
Description: One of the greatest animal migrations anywhere on the planet arrives during November and December in a lush, marshy remote corner of Northern Zambia. Each year, five million Straw-coloured Fruit Bats (Eidolon helvum) take up residence in one hectare of mushitu swamp forest. In the fading twilight at dawn and dusk, the noisy chatter and activity from the colony increases thus filling the sky in all directions for twenty precious minutes as they leave and arrive at their roost site.

Cristobal Serrano

Honor award

Honor award
Cold winter de Cristiana Damiano de Monfalcone (Itàlia)
Place: Llac Fusine, Tarvisio (Itàlia)
Description: During a walk around a half-frozen lake in the mountains of Carnia on a winter day, I was simply struck by this pair of ducks . They were swimming quietly in a fine line between ice and I wanted to take a picture of them.

Cristiana Damiano

Honor award

Honor award
Help de Katharina Becker de Berlin ()
Place: Brandenburg, Alemanya
Description: During the breeding season in early spring, males of the Moor Frog (Rana arvalis) changes color from brown to bright blue for a few days. This is an amazing event for photographers. At a small spawning water near Berlin I could observe some Moor Frogs with females of Common Toad (Bufo bufo).

Katharina Becker

Honor award

Honor award
Resting de Kerekes István de Mosonmagyarovar ()
Place: Llac Darscho, Burgenland (Àustria)
Description: Resting couple of flies at dusk.

Kerekes István

Honor award

Honor award
David contra Goliat de Christian Navarrete Aravena de Villa Santa María (La Florida. Santiago)
Place: Riu Maule, Xile
Description: A small Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) takes a few minutes to jump into the powerful torrent of the Maule River. It is incredible how this small duck, thanks to its remarkable adaptation, can survive in such a complicated environment.

Christian Navarrete Aravena

Honor award

Honor award
Alados de Damián Borges de La Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
Place: La Verdellada, Tenerife (Espanya)
Description: The combination of the sea and sky in the horizon, the shape of the flying birds which stands out with the light softened through the clouds of a winter day… gives the impression they are flying suspended within a heavenly aureole.

Damián Borges

Honor award

Honor award
La Gran Migración de Pere Soler Isern de Castellfollit de la Roca (Girona)
Place: Nord d’Islàndia
Description: Aerial image of a large flock of Geese leaving the island in search of warmer climates. Seeing the flying birds at bird's-eye view in the incomparable setting of the North Island coast is a visual pleasure for a nature photographer.

Pere Soler Isern

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2014

Nature: Animal world