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

1st Award
Petit Trou de Diego Caballero de Valencia (Valencia)
Place: Isla Reunion, Francia
Description: One of the legendary mountain slumps on the island of Reunion. There are three sections, and it is forbidden to climb down the second part. This is the third waterfall of the Takamata 1, called the Petit Trou de Fer. This is a very technical slump, with a high flow. It is normally dry at the entry, but you should never move on if there is water flowing when you are about to start.

Diego Caballero

1st Award

Honor award
ice cream de Daniele Passoni de Carugate (Milano)
Place: Mt. Presolana, Lombardy, Italy
Description: This is the Shadow Valley, on the southern side of Mt. Presolana. I took this picture at 2200m, under the vertical wall of the peak. In the snow season this place becomes a paradise for hikers and ski mountaineers. It is fantastic to watch the hikers from the top, they look lost on a huge ice cream.

Daniele Passoni

Honor award

Honor award
Training for Everest Marathon de Kasia Biernacka de Warszawa (Warszawa)
Place: Himalayas, Nepal
Description: Polish ultra runner Piotr Hercog trains for the Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon on the day before the race starts at the end of May 2017. Piotr is at the altitude of 5300 meters, next to the Everest Base Camp, where the running competition starts every year on the 29th of May.

Kasia Biernacka

Honor award

Honor award
Chape al sol de Javier Urbón de colmenar Viejo (Madrid)
Place: Puente de los Pollos. Pedriza del Manzanares. Parque Nacional de la sierra de Guadarrama
Description: Have you ever hooked a carabiner in the sun? Well, it is not that hard. This picture was taken in a very uncomfortable position in which I was constantly blinded by the sun, making it hard to frame, to check parametres or examine the result on the monitor. It is taken in one of those magic places at La Pedriza, central Spain.

Javier Urbón

Honor award

Honor award
Nigth riding de Juan Aizpuru Yohn de Zermatt (Zermatt)
Place: Niseko, hokkaido Japón
Description: On cold Japanese nights, we get the most out of winter nights. I was looking for untouched snow and worked with two flashes. My goal wasn't easier as I moved through one meter powder snow surrounding it all . At -20 the snow kept falling and just added up to the final result.

Juan Aizpuru Yohn

Honor award

Honor award
Hot Afrika de Rainer Eder de LUZERN (Switzerland)
Place: Namibia Spitzkoppe
Description: As a Photographer, you should always be able to find the connection between the sportsperson and the environment. In order to take this picture, we had to go to the same place twice. I had already taken some very nice pictures the day before at the same time, but as we were passing by with the all road vehicle I stopped again and brought this picture to life.

Rainer Eder

Honor award

Honor award
El viento de Javier Camacho Gimeno de Pamplona (Navarra)
Place: Pirineos
Description: Mountaineers close to the Tuca Blanca peak on a tough winter day in which the wind and the cold are the main protagonists. Olympus omd em1 MK-II, Zuiko 14-150 II, 1/2000, f/7.1 ISO 200

Javier Camacho Gimeno

Honor award

Honor award
Unicycle rider on top of a Karwendel peak de Sebastian Frölich de Mittenwald (bavaria)
Place: Breitgrieskarscharte - Karwendel - Austria
Description: The unicycle rider Michael Rung jumps from rock to rock at an altitude of 2400m in the Austrian Alps. He is one of the best alpine unicycle riders in this area. We planned a short shooting up there and carried all necessary gear with us in our backpacks. To get the perfect sun star and a good exposure, I had to use an f/20 and a reflector combined with a flash.

Sebastian Frölich

Honor award

Honor award
Photographer and pulka de David Allemand de Puget sur Durance (França)
Place: 1
Description: I was at the Baikal lake this winter to take graphic pictures of this incredible frozen lake. I had a pulka with me to move on top of the lake with all my gear. I then thought that the viewing from the sky with my drone, would make the graphism even more impressive and this picture, showing me on this landscape, gives an idea of the size of the area.

David Allemand

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2019

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