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

1st Award
Destino final de Pere Soler Isern de Castellfollit de la Roca (Girona)
Place: Nord d’Islàndia
Description: Aerial picture of a small islet on one of the numerous deltas in the North of Iceland, playing with the fresh and seawater colour nuances to where some Geese are travelling. For me, Iceland from the air is watch the nature in its purest form.

Pere Soler Isern

1st Award

Honor award
D'ones de vent. de Borja Bouza Badenes de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Cap de Creus, Girona (Espanya)
Description: The day starts at Cap de Creus. The mighty Tramuntana wind awakes with the first lights sweeping the sea and winding through the clouds until the capricious waves of air are lost in the horizon.

Borja Bouza Badenes

Honor award

Honor award Popular voting
Juntos de Juan Luis Duran Guinot de Valencia (Valencia)
Place: Bioparc de València, Espanya
Description: Two African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) are rubbing against each other as if they were courting to declare their love. The photograph was taken at the Bioparc of Valencia (zoological park).

Juan Luis Duran Guinot

Honor award / P. V.

Honor award
Splash de José Pesquero Gómez de Pozuelo de Alarcon (Madrid)
Place: Espanya
Description: A Coal Tit (Periparus ater) surprised by the water flow. I’ve used a “water brush” (Photoshop) over a background pattern. The base of the final image is the 'special pose' of the Tit approaching a small pine from which it was hanging. This inspired me to use the figurative water flow. To take the original photograph, I used an infra-red barrier with a group of three flashes.

José Pesquero Gómez

Honor award

Honor award
Anemone de Katharina Becker de Berlin ()
Place: Parc Grunewald, Berlín (Alemanya)
Description: Wood Anemones (Anemone nemorosa) are my favorite spring plants. I love phtographing the beautiful delicate white blossoms. When I spotted out a blossom with a pink shimmer, I used the in-camera double exposure to create an image with a soft effect.

Katharina Becker

Honor award

Honor award
Sensaciones de Xavier Mata Moya de Legorreta (Guipúscoa)
Place: Navarra, Espanya
Description: The naked autumn tree trunks cause mystery in this Poplars planting (Populus sp.).

Xavier Mata Moya

Honor award

Honor award
Paradoja de Damián Borges de La Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
Place: La Laguna, Tenerife (Espanya)
Description: This Common Ivy (Hedera helix) was cut and lost its leaves in slow agony. One of them, due to the lack of sap, took the shape of a heart.

Damián Borges

Honor award

Honor award
The Lamp Shade de Ingrid Vekemans de Wakkerzeel ()
Place: Meerdaalwoud, Oud-Heverlee (Bèlgica)
Description: An in-camera hand held double exposure creation. The first photo is taken of the hair moss from very close with the macro lens. Then I turned the camera upside down to photograph a sun lit mushroom from further away, making sure there would be no overlap in the composition - hardly any post processing.

Ingrid Vekemans

Honor award

Honor award
El bosque giratorio de Mariano Belmar Torrecilla de Murcia (Murcia)
Place: Agramon, Albacete (Espanya)
Description: Allegory of the everlasting flow of life. Montage of three pictures.

Mariano Belmar Torrecilla

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2014

Inspired by nature