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

1st Award
Paisaje invernal de escaramujos de Uge Fuertes Sanz de Monreal del Campo (Teruel)
Place: Valle de Hecho, Osca (Espanya)
Description: Durin an excursion with snow shoes, we explored the entire alpine grassland. I have always asked myself what a Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata) sees through a Dewberry (Rubus sp.). I got inside the bush to create this defocusing.

Uge Fuertes Sanz

1st Award

Honor award
Lioness in the Swamp de Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti de Rome (Italia)
Place: Ndutu, Zona de Conservació del NgoroNgoro (Tanzània)
Description: As a passionate photographer of African wildlife, I wait for my prey also for a long time, because sooner or later something special may happen. I was on the top of a hill, when a solitary Lioness (Panthera leo) appeared in the camera frame, the so expected shot became reality. Her fur shining in the greenish field and curved tail also added a unique, artistic quality to the shot.

Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti

Honor award

Honor award
Autumn leaves de Gerd Kirchner de Mainz ()
Place: Bosc Pfälzer, Vall de Moosbach (Alemanya)
Description: On a cloudy day of September, I found these leaves of European White Waterlily (Nymphaea alba) floating on a pond, nicely arranged and in various autumn colors. Reflections on the water have been eliminated by a polarizing filter.

Gerd Kirchner

Honor award

Honor award
Stone face de Enrico Montanari de Maranello ()
Place: Riu Secchiello, Apení (Itàlia)
Description: When nature starts sculpting...a human face. I was walking with my friend Davide on the banks of a creek and suddenly I saw something on the ground that caught my interest: a rock with a peculiar shape. While Davide was about to walk over it, I cried: "Stop! There’s a face!". First, he didn't understand, but when he finally saw the preview of the shot he laughed: "You're crazy man!".

Enrico Montanari

Honor award

Honor award
Exhalación de Javier Herranz Casellas de Madrid (Madrid)
Place: Parc Nacional Everglades, Flamingo (Florida, EUA)
Description: A careful exposure in which I combined the flash and a fast movement of the camera in the direction of the leaf's peaks, resulted in this attractive and subtle image of a Red Maple (Acer rubrum) leaf.

Javier Herranz Casellas

Honor award

Honor award
Aleta de Kristhian Castro de Cali (Valle del Cauca)
Place: San Cristóbal, Illes Galápagos (Equador)
Description: The Galapagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebacki) only lives in this archipielago. At the La Loberia beach on San Cristobal Island, hundreds of lava rocks are one of their breeding grounds. This specimen was peacefully resting on the sand, so I took the advantage to get close enough to catch a detail of its flipper.

Kristhian Castro

Honor award

Honor award
Nine thousand legs de Jonathan Lhoir de Saint Martin de Londres (Hérault)
Place: Hérault, França
Description: This is a close macro of a curled up Millipede (Diplopoda). I was attracted by the strong aesthetics of the Myriapod. I chose to focus on the legs in an area to emphasize the circular form, thus drawing the eye into the centre of the image.

Jonathan Lhoir

Honor award

Honor award Popular voting
Evocación rupestre de Ricardo Perez Fernandez de Santa Cruz de Tenerife ()
Place: Parc Nacional del Serengeti, Tanzània
Description: Visiting the Serengeti NP, while a large group of Blue Wildebeests (Connochaetes taurinus) were crossing our path, I thought it would be a good idea to pan their run "at slow speed" so for them to stand out over the background and give them a sense of speed. This effect obtained and its conversion to black and white resulted in this image that in a way evokes the rock paintings.

Ricardo Perez Fernandez

Honor award / P. V.

Honor award
Otoño de Uge Fuertes Sanz de Monreal del Campo (Teruel)
Place: Vall del Jiloca, Monreal del Campo (Terol, Espanya)
Description: I used multiple exposure on the camera to achieve the effect of the Poplars (Populus sp.) closing the circle. I was seeking a surrealist image of autumn.

Uge Fuertes Sanz

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2014

Art in nature