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

1st Award
The greatness of the mountain de Cosmin Stan de Hunedoara (Hunedoara)
Place: NP Retezat (Rumania)
Description: The virgin forests, national parks, natural monuments and scientific and natural reserves are the most valuable of all to ensure the continuity of life and biological diversity. These forests have formed since the last ice age and have preserved their naturalness until today. It is the link between the past and the future. At this moment, national parks in Romania do not correspond to international union for conservation of nature (IUCN).

Cosmin Stan

1st Award

Honor award
Sunset in Alaska Range de Alessandro Carboni de Cagliari (Sardinia)
Place: Alaska (Estados Unidos)
Description: An unforgettable sunset in the Denali National Park. In the footsteps of the great of the past in front of one of the most impressive mountain range in the world. I was there, in front of Denali Mountain when an atmosphere of light and emotion showed itself in front of me. I was part of nature, part of the whole.

Alessandro Carboni

Honor award

Honor award
Into the mirror de Alessandro Carboni de Cagliari (Sardinia)
Place: Islandia
Description: A different view of an iconic place that I took during my last trip in Iceland. It was a cold day and I was waiting for the light, standing by my tripod when a ray of light illuminated the top of the mountain in front of me.

Alessandro Carboni

Honor award

Honor award
La isla de David Munilla Fauro de JEREZ (Cádiz)
Place: Vallée Blanche (Francia)
Description: One of the white crests of the Valley Blanche in the French Alps emerges among the clouds at dawn on a cold summer day after a snow storm.

David Munilla Fauro

Honor award

Honor award
Geometry de Cristiana Damiano de Monfalcone (Gorizia)
Place: Noroeste de Islandia
Description: Nature is always amazing and there is always a balance. I have been fascinated by how nature made this perfectly balanced geometry: these elements were naturally arranged, a sphere of a pyroclastic rock of lava in front of a pyramid of a volcano. Geometry in perfect balance.

Cristiana Damiano

Honor award

Honor award
Castor & Pollux de Thomas Crauwels de Torgon (Suiza)
Place: Zermatt (Suiza)
Description: Alpinists are reaching the summits of Castor & Pollux (4000 peaks of the alps) after a stormy day that brought a lot of fresh snow.

Thomas Crauwels

Honor award

Honor award
Ligth Tree de Luís Manuel Vilariño López de Bergondo (La Coruña)
Place: Montañas Latemar, Dolomitas (Italia)
Description: The skyline of the Latemar mountains is one of the most beautiful ones belonging to the Dolomites. A strong electrical storm was on its way, so I placed my camera on the tripod. Then, protected it with an umbrella, I got ready to wait in complete darkness for the storm to make its way over the mountains. After many attempts, the miracle occurred. The most spectacular lightning I have ever seen in my life had been captured in the center of the image.

Luís Manuel Vilariño López

Honor award

Honor award
Jugando con las nubes de Gabriel Funes Pol de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
Place: Tenerife, Islas Canarias (España)
Description: A very unstable meteorological condition produces a great orographic cloud of more than 1000 meters of height around the Teide composite volcano. The force of the wind drags a shred of cloud over the summit of the volcano. The rest of the scene contains various types of clouds.

Gabriel Funes Pol

Honor award

Honor award
Twilight Opera de Leonardo Papèra de Calavorno (Lucca)
Place: Sass de Putia, Dolomitas (Italia)
Description: When I saw these roots while I was hiking in this area I immediately though that they would fit nice into a shot as a foreground, so when I was coming back to the car I stopped and tried a few shots; turned out that these were the photos I've liked the most from that session!

Leonardo Papèra

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2018

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