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

1st Award
Winter wonders de Anne Maenurm de Bagnaria Arsa (Udine)
Place: PN Monts Sibil·lins (Itàlia)
Description: Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria. This is an area famous for its wildflower fields in summer, when highland meadows are covered by poppies and cornflowers. But for me, winter here can be even more extraordinary when snowfalls and windy days create magic shapes like the one in the foreground of this picture, while Monte Vettore rests in the background.

Anne Maenurm

1st Award

2st Award
Another planet de Fran Rubia de Roquetas de Mar (Almeria)
Place: Islàndia
Description: - Iceland’s Highlands are located between the centre and the Southern part of the island. These are very young areas - evolutionarily speaking - with contrasts that cannot be appreciated from the ground. I was not trying to take a picture from a high point of view as that would have erased a big part of the landscape, especially the intense red inside the craters caused by iron oxide.

Fran Rubia

2st Award

Honor award
Kluchevskaya Sopka and Kamen de Maksim Balakhovskii de Moscow (Moscow)
Place: Kamtxatka (Rússia)
Description: A couple of years ago our company Helipro organised unique helicopter expeditions in Kamchatka. We started our journey from the north of the peninsula and checked all the main sites from there to the south in 10 days. This evening the weather was perfect and we decided to fly out and film the biggest volcanos at sunset. Kluchevskaya Sopka (4750m) is one of the most active volcanos in Kamchatka.

Maksim Balakhovskii

Honor award

Honor award
Beyond the Clouds de Geza Attila Szabo de Budapest (Hungary)
Place: PN Torres del Paine (Xile)
Description: The mountain had been covered by clouds for four days in a row and they didn’t seem to be willing to leave. But after a while, the lens-shaped clouds surrounding the mountain allowed us to look through and see the mysterious world behind them. The picture was taken at Lake Pehoé in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.

Geza Attila Szabo

Honor award

Honor award
Nieve en el viento de Carlos Guevara Vivanco de Santiago (Región Metropolitana)
Place: PN Villarrica, La Araucanía (Xile)
Description: We were walking down from the summit of the Nevados de Sollipulli volcano, a 5km-crater containing a huge glacier. It was a beautiful and sunny winter day, but it was very, very cold. As we were walking down this slope, the wind was strong and blowing up the snow fallen the previous day. We took a break there and I had to take my camera because the view of the landscape combined with that hillside was making me feel very excited and calm at the same time.

Carlos Guevara Vivanco

Honor award

Honor award
Finger of God de Anne Maenurm de Bagnaria Arsa (Udine)
Place: Cortina d'Ampezzo (Itàlia)
Description: Italy, Dolomites, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dito di Dio (God’s Finger). This picture was taken on the first days of November. When I started walking from the valley, the weather was sunny, but when I got to the top after 3 hours the weather had changed completely and I found myself under a wonderful snowfall.

Anne Maenurm

Honor award

Honor award
The Cloud de Juan José Teijeira Lobelos de Molins de Rei (Barcelona)
Place: El Chaltén, PN Los Glaciares (Argentina)
Description: Sunrise at the Cerro Chaltén mountain range, and oddly enough, it is not windy. It is a pleasant and nice sunrise in which this lens-shaped cloud coloured by the soft light of the morning almost touches the summits.

Juan José Teijeira Lobelos

Honor award

Honor award
Laguna de los Tres de Ramiro Torrents de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: El Chaltén, Santa Cruz (Argentina)
Description: I left the camp at 6am and it was still dark. I arrived just before sunrise. While I waited, I made myself a coffee to get warm. Quite suddenly, the mountain range turned pink and it was so fast that it made me realise how fast the planet actually rotates.

Ramiro Torrents

Honor award

Honor award
Aiguille du plan de Thomas Crauwels de Torgon (Suiza)
Place: Chamonix (França)
Description: The Aiguille du Plan, in the centre of the Chamonix Aguilles, comes out of the clouds after a snow storm with the last light of day. The mountains are located in Chamonix, France.

Thomas Crauwels

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2020

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