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

1st Award Popular voting MontPhoto Honor Award
Nessy de José Pesquero Gómez de Pozuelo de Alarcon (Madrid)
Place: Madrid (Espanya)
Description: Southern Marbled Newt (Triturus pygmaeus) in its environment, captured with housing and constant light

José Pesquero Gómez

1st Award / P. V. / M. H. A.

Honor award
Tylodina perversa de Adriano Morettin de Trieste (Italia)
Place: Golf de Rijeka, Adriàtic Nord (Croàcia)
Description: The sea slug Tylodina perversa is a mediterranean opistobranch taken with the technique of double exposure. This two consecutive shots was taken directly underwater with the same lens and without turning off the camera. For the first shot I used a snoot on the flash for isolate the subject and then I pointed my camera toward the sun for capture the light under the surface.

Adriano Morettin

Honor award

Honor award
On the lace center de Adriano Morettin de Trieste (Italia)
Place: Estret de Lembeh (Indonèsia)
Description: A couple of harlequin shrimps (Hymenocera picta) on blue seastar (Linckia laevigata) taken during my underwater photo dive in Lembeh Strait (Indonesia). I long dreamed of making this photo to the harlequin shrimps and when I finally saw them on the blue star I committed myself to the maximum to resume them with the snoot in the center of the star.

Adriano Morettin

Honor award

Honor award
Triton de Davide Lopresti de La Spezia (La Spezia)
Place: Portovenere (Itàlia)
Description: Triton Alpestre (Ichthyosaura alpestris), only spends the period of coupling underwater, fertilizing the female's eggs in a sort of dance moving his tail

Davide Lopresti

Honor award

Honor award
Watchful eye de Scott Portelli de Mosman (NSW)
Place: Tonga
Description: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are very protective of their newborn calves and will stay within close proximity. using grunts and whistles to communicate to her calf, she is always aware of where the curious youngster might be and always ready to move at a moments notice. In the deep blue tropical waters of the south pacific, humpbacks frequent the waters to give birth and nurture their young, preparing them for a long journey south to Antarctica. The bond between mother and calf is always present.

Scott Portelli

Honor award

Honor award
Rape de Marc Casanovas Felix de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Tossa de Mar, Girona (Espanya)
Description: As for December and January and after the Autumn storms, water reaches its lowest temperature and that is when we have the chance to observe and take pictures of the monkfish (Lophiodes) at an accessible depth.

Marc Casanovas Felix

Honor award

Honor award
Espiral de Marc Casanovas Felix de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Tossa de Mar, Girona (Espanya)
Description: For a few days, some times weeks, we see Thaliacea (Salpidae) at the Mediterranean coast. Some times, as it happened last year, the surface end up looking like a big jelly soup as a countless number of specimens invade the area.

Marc Casanovas Felix

Honor award

Honor award
pink portrait de Massimo Giorgetta de Latina (Latina)
Place: Lembeh, Cèlebes Septentrional (Indonèsia)
Description: I started diving with the guide on a crumbling black sand bottom from 5 mt to 30 mt during diving on 18 mt we meet an alcionary about 15 cm on which lives the pink porcellain crab (Lissoporcellana sp.), moved up and down and I photographed it and he was my model

Massimo Giorgetta

Honor award

Honor award
The mask de Salvatore Ianniello de Marano di Napoli (Napoli)
Place: Illa de Procida (Itàlia)
Description: As I watched the jellyfish, the crab will stop at the beginning of this cavity to take disbelief

Salvatore Ianniello

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2017

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