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

1st Award
Yellow & Blue de Fortunato Gatto de Largs ()
Place: Escòcia
Description: I took this picture during the blue hour. I was impressed by the strenght of the colors combination, I tried to put together the dominant blue with the vibrant yellow of the gorse bushes. Using the multiple exposure technique on camera I enhanced the spectral mood that was around me.

Fortunato Gatto

1st Award

Honor award
Mundos del revés de Cristian M Fontán de San Antonio de Portmany (Ibiza)
Place: Santa Inés, Eivissa (Espanya)
Description: Early in the morning, the dew dicloses the drops on wired fences in which an infinity of tiny little worlds can be seen as if the drops were crystal balls. This scene inspired me to turn the photo upside down so that I could show the almond tree (Prunus dulcis) inside the drop. The tree was standing around 20 metres away in Pla de Corona, Ibiza.

Cristian M Fontán

Honor award

Honor award
Two forest de Daróczi Csaba de Soltvadkert (Ungarn)
Place: Hongria
Description: In an autumn day I flew close to the Tisza river. I spotted this interesting composition in the morning, but the light conditions were not good enough therefore I decided to come back at the end of the day. I was lucky having a nice sunset that resulted in a nicer picture, than in the morning

Daróczi Csaba

Honor award

Honor award
Viaje a lo desconocido de Javier Aznar de MADRID (Madrid)
Place: Puyo (Equador)
Description: Fungus of the genus Cordyceps are parasites to insects, they infect them and change their behavior. They make them jump on a branch or leaf, attach and die. Once they are dead, the fungus grows and spreads spores effectively contaminating more insects. In this photo a snout beetle (Curculionidae) appears dead, as a zombie, attached to a twig as the fructiferous part of the fungus grows like a christmas tree.

Javier Aznar

Honor award

Honor award Popular voting
Fireworks de Marcio Cabral de Brasilia (Brasil)
Place: Alto Paraiso, Goiás (Brasil)
Description: The sun rises over a field with Paepalanthus flowers. These flowers are very uncommon in the wild, they grow in some places at Chapada dos Veadeiros in Brasil.

Marcio Cabral

Honor award / P. V.

Honor award
Fern Light de Niklas Virsén de Mantorp ()
Place: Tinnerö Eklandskap (Suècia)
Description: In a nature reserve, here in Tinnerö Eklandskap, Sweden you can find eagle ferns (Pteridium aquilinum) in the oak landscape scenery. This time the sun beams created a line of glittering light from corner to corner of the picture. The fern got all the attention from the light. I have visited this place many times but the light has never been the same like this evenening.

Niklas Virsén

Honor award

Honor award
In the forest de Salvo Orlando de Tremestieri Etneo (Italia)
Place: Parc Natural de l'Etna, Sicília (Itàlia)
Description: Forest of endemic birches during autumn season. These trees are one of the most peculiar and representative endemism of the Etna area and is known as Betula aetnensis or simply Birch of Etna.

Salvo Orlando

Honor award

Honor award
Dipsacus sea de Uge Fuertes Sanz de Monreal del Campo (Teruel)
Place: Serra de Albarrassí, Terol (Espanya)
Description: A sea of common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) extends ahead of me. At end, a group of common aspens (Populus tremula) brings the redish color of autumn. I think I see the picture, there is a moment when I do not even know what I am doing; this is the time when the best results happen.

Uge Fuertes Sanz

Honor award

Honor award
La Gorgona de David Moya Nuñez de Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz)
Place: Serra de Alcaraz, Albacete (Espanya)
Description: This Humantoglossum hircinum, also called male orchid due its strong smell -similar to that of a male goat-, was about one metre tall, hence the photo possibilities were a bit difficult. It was growing in the shade casted by an holm oak, and using the surrounding vegetation I finally managed to get a beautiful composition for this stinky individual.

David Moya Nuñez

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2017

Plant life