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

Youth category
La merienda del camaleón de Marcos Díaz de Blascomillán (Ávila)
Place: San Pedro del Pinatar - Murcia - España
Description: The COMMON CHAMELEON (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) is a fairly endangered species in Spain and very difficult to see. I found this particular one on a hot summer morning, devouring a grasshopper in the bushes close to the beach in Murcia and it allowed me to take a few photographs at a unique time.

Young people between 15 and 17 years old

Marcos Díaz

Youth category
Dancing trees de Rick van der Kraats de Hoogland (Utrecht)
Place: Leusden
Description: This day was the first time I photographed snow since I started taking pictures. I had the feeling I was walking in a fairy tale. Everything was white, except the trees. I wanted to capture that feeling in a photograph.

Rick van der Kraats

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Black Macaco de Riccardo Marchegiani de Ancona (Italia)
Place: Tangkoko National Park, Indonesia
Description: I took this photo in Tangkoko National Park, Indonesia. The subject is a Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra), typical of theese areas, and I took the picture while it was staring at me.

Riccardo Marchegiani

Youth category
Disturbing the Butterflies de Skye Meaker de Durban North (KwaZulu Natal -South Africa)
Place: Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe
Description: During the final days of our trip to Zimbabwe we had decided to stay at Kanga Camp. The reason it has this name is the pool of water just in front of the camp, and what makes this pool so special is that it is the only source of water for as far as the eye can see in every direction. One young AFRICAN BUSH ELEPHANT (Loxodonta africana) in particular must have thought it was amusing and tried to play with them with his trunk, allowing me to take this picture.

Skye Meaker

Youth category
Mero de Arnau Fontanals Rosell de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Illes Medes (Girona)
Description: The DUSKY GROUPER (Epinephelus marginatus), a species that can be found in the Mediterranean, can reach 1.50 m and weigh more than 60 kg. In the photograph you can see the animal emerging from a small cave which it uses as shelter.

Arnau Fontanals Rosell

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Black grouse lekking de Lasse Kurkela de Kauniainen (Finlandia)
Place: Utajärvi, Finland
Description: I woke up before 5am and already at 6am I was in the middle of a large swamp, in a photohide. After waiting for some time, two black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) males arrived and started to show a lekking behavior. There was tens of birds all around us and noise was very loud - what an experience!

Lasse Kurkela

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Sin miedo de Arnau Guardia Povedano de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Cazorla, España
Description: A young red fox (Vulpes vulpes), who has lost his fear due to humanization and lack of food in the mountains, approaches a man in search of food to live another day. This behavior, atypical of wild animals now seen more frequently, can cost them their lives. And it is not their fault and it will never be.

Young people up to 14 years old

Arnau Guardia Povedano

Youth category
De pesca de Laura Albiac Vilas de Barberà del Vallès (Barcelona)
Place: León
Description: I was lucky enough to see an EURASIAN OTTER (Lutra lutra) while fishing in the lake. Step by step, I approached it staying close to the ground until I was very close and I could take a few pictures.

Laura Albiac Vilas

Youth category
Mundo mágico de Juan Caballero Santoyo de Baños de la Encina (Jaen)
Place: Baños de la Encina (Jaén, Andalucía)
Description: Mushrooms and fungus are part of a magical world that is essential for the life of the forest. Many of them are very appreciated in our kitchens, but this group of tiny BONNETS (Mycena sp.), impossible to see with the naked eye, are truly precious and magical.

Juan Caballero Santoyo

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La migración de las grullas de Carlos Pérez Naval de Calamocha (Teruel)
Place: Eugi, Navarra
Description: Common cranes (Grus grus) while migrating through the Pyrenees in Navarra in autumn, on the way to the South towards their wintering areas. In the foreground the brown leaves of the beech forests of Quinto Real show it is autumn.

Carlos Pérez Naval

Youth category
Tomando el sol de Bruno García Marín de Colmenar Viejo (Madrid)
Place: Cabo Ortegal. Galicia
Description: An EURASIAN BUZZARD (Buteo buteo) flew close to my camera. He was looking for food and I was looking for a good photo. I think we both got what we wanted.

Bruno García Marín

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Tarabilla de Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco de Ubrique (Cádiz)
Place: Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz (España).
Description: AFRICAN STONECHAT female (Saxicola torquatus) in the countryside of Cádiz. The photo was taken from the back seat of my father's car, from the window. This bird was not shy and I was able to take many pictures.

Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2018

Youth category

Young people between 15 and 17 years old

Young people up to 14 years old