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

1st Award
Eat! de Balint Vincze de Paks (Tolna)
Place: Hard, Hungary
Description: Photographing EUROPEAN GROUND SQUIRREL (Spermophilus citellus) younglings is one of the most rewarding times spent in nature. I was fortunate to witness truly touching and almost human-like behaviour during the times that I have spent among them.

Balint Vincze

1st Award

Honor award
An Astonishing Chase de Thomas Vijayan de Oakville (Ontario)
Place: Masai Mara, Kenya
Description: A cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) targeted a small gazelle. Luckily the cheetah started running towards the gazelle exactly the way i wanted and I was able to capture it running in between the black grass with dust forming behind its legs creating a magical frame. But the end was more astonishing. The cheetah started playing with the gazelle fawn as it was her own cub and then after some time she set it free so it could run to its mother. Even the animals value the life of other animals.

Thomas Vijayan

Honor award

Honor award
Steal The Limelight de Dalal Almazyad de kuwait (kuwait)
Place: Kuwait
Description: When I was on a photography trip looking for mammals, I found an Arabian red fox (Vulpes vulpes arabica) female with her three cubs close to the beach. I took the picture of one of the foxes while the city lights behind him shine reflected on the water.

Dalal Almazyad

Honor award

Honor award
Playground de Bence Máté de Pusztaszer (---------)
Place: Mkuze, South Africa
Description: While adult AFRICAN WILD DOG (Lycaon pictus) are merciless killers, their pups are extremely cute and play all day long. These brothers all wanted to play with the leg of an impala and were trying to drag it in three different directions!

Bence Máté

Honor award

Honor award
Breathing de Bence Máté de Pusztaszer (---------)
Place: Harghita, Romania
Description: "A EURASIAN BROWN BEAR's (Ursus arctos arctos) breathing can be seen while it warns his conspecific of his presence. These animals often walk into the city of Baile Tusnad, Romania, which is a constant source of conflicts between bears and humans."

Bence Máté

Honor award

Honor award
Orix escape de Pere Soler Isern de Castellfollit de la Roca (Girona)
Place: Namib desert - Namibia
Description: That morning in the Namib I had the privilege to see a group of GEMSBOK (Oryx gazella) moving along the edge of the dunes. The warm colors of the sunrise and the game between the light and the shade created a special atmosphere combined with race of the animal.

Pere Soler Isern

Honor award

Honor award
Flight from the underworld (hell) de Fabrizio Zanzi de Saltrio (Varese)
Place: Italy- Varese
Description: This photograph was taken on a mountain near my home where I had been photographing the entrance of a cave hosting a bat colony. In October, a strong fire broke out on this mountain, right next to the bat cave, and I immediately rushed with all my equipment to the site in order to document what was happening and I had very little time to take pictures after the fire devoured the wood. This is the only picture that came out correctly, an ALPINE LONG-EARED BAT (Plecotus macrobullaris) flying away from the place with flames seen in the background.

Fabrizio Zanzi

Honor award

Honor award
Puma portrait de Darío Podestá de Puerto Madryn (Chubut)
Place: Torres del Paine, Patagonia. Chile.
Description: A MOUNTAIN LION (Puma concolor) enjoys the last rays of sunlight sitting on a large rock from where it watches over its territory.

Darío Podestá

Honor award

Honor award
Manul de Staffan Widstrand de Jarfalla ()
Place: Qinghai, China
Description: Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, Tibetan Plateau 5000 m asl, Qinghai, China. This is one of the final pictures of a long series that took me over 6 hours to shoot, where I and a couple of other wildlife lovers slowly moved forward to these almost fully grown kittens near their burrow in the ground.

Staffan Widstrand

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2018

Mammals