Honor awardClose Encounters of the Third Kind de
Ugo Mellone de Lecce (Itàlia)
Place: Sierra Nevada, Granada-Almeria
Description: It has been a long and cold day in the mountain and I am going down to come back home. Is autumn and Spanish ibexes (Capra pyrenaica) are in their rut season. I noticed a mixed group of males and females on the slope in front of me and I managed to get some shots before they disappeared. Running clouds with different thickness, together with the setting sun, created an interesting atmosphere.