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

1st Award
Un mundo por descubrir de Andrés Miguel Domínguez Romero de Ubrique (Cadis)
Place: Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema - Cádiz - España
Description: Baby red spider mites (Tetranychus urticae) on their web, which covered two GORSE (Ulex parviflorus funkii (= baeticus)) with more than 4 square meters of surface. Millions of these little mites restlessly moved on it. The light, filtered between cork trees and thebig spider web, made me choose this perspective.

Andrés Miguel Domínguez Romero

1st Award

Honor award
ice River de Zsila Sándor de Budapest ()
Place: Budapest
Description: Sometimes, in Budapest, the temperature remains at -8 or -9 °C for a longer period of time. The last time it happened was January 2011 and it has not happened again since then. We have a small building in our garden, and due to the cold, ice flowers grew on its windows. I illuminated both of them and the background with lamps to obtain the expected result.

Zsila Sándor

Honor award

Honor award
Steel Hunting de Zsila Sándor de Budapest ()
Place: Bükki National Park, Hungary
Description: I was hiking in a forest with my friends. The spring rain filled up the cavities of the forest. In one of them, a lot of water striders (Gerris sp.) were hunting. We lay down in the mud to take pictures of them. A lot of patience was needed because they were mooving fast and constantly getting out of focus.

Zsila Sándor

Honor award

Honor award
el espejo de Pedro Javier Pascual Hernández de Teruel (Terol)
Place: Teruel-España
Description: In some small springs with high concentration of iron ore, you can sometimes see a very interesting flaking on the surface with all sorts of metallic colors. The COMMON POND SKATER (Gerris lacustris) survives in these ferruginous waters by feeding from the small insects that it finds in the water.

Pedro Javier Pascual Hernández

Honor award

Honor award
Control de plagas de Jaime Culebras de Cáceres (Cáceres)
Place: Reserva Itapoa, Ecuador
Description: One of the wonders of the Ecuadorian Chocó are glass frogs. Always near the water, they jump among the leaves of the trees on shore looking for something to eat, and makes them, like most of the amphibians, important regulators of the insect population. This WHITE-SPOTTED GLASS FROG (Sachatamia albomaculata) was feasting with flying ants prowling around my flashlight.

Jaime Culebras

Honor award

Honor award
Look at me in the eyes de Jonathan Lhoir de Saint Martin de Londres (Hérault)
Place: Hérault - France
Description: Macrophotography of springtails (Sminthurides aquaticus) walking on a NATTERJACK TOAD (Bufo calamita).

Jonathan Lhoir

Honor award

Honor award
El Santo encuentro de Rubén Pérez Novo de Narón (La Coruña)
Place: Ares-Coruña-España
Description: EUROPEAN MANTIS (Mantis religiosa) also celebrate the Holy Encounter. The photo was taken in a dark area with a closed diaphragm and illuminated only with two flashes with backlight diffusers. The photo has been turned around 180º.

Rubén Pérez Novo

Honor award

Honor award
Entre helechos de Rubén Pérez Novo de Narón (La Coruña)
Place: Ares-coruña-España
Description: EUROPEAN MANTIS (Mantis religiosa) are experts in the art of camouflage. Here is one of them among FERNS (Pteridophyta) trying to go unnoticed in front of my lense. After taking several photos in different positions, she stared at me long enough to take this picture. The photo has been turned around 180º.

Rubén Pérez Novo

Honor award

Honor award
En tensión de Rubén Pérez Novo de Narón (La Coruña)
Place: Valdoviño-Coruña-España
Description: When I found this little EUROPEAN TREE FROG (Hyla arborea) it looked quite relaxed. As I started to assemble the equipment I felt the tension increase as if it was saying: "One more step and I'm leaving."

Rubén Pérez Novo

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2018

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