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

1st Award MontPhoto Honor Award
The herd de Lorenzo Shoubridge de settimo vittone (torino)
Place: Geoparc Apuan Alps, Lucca (Itàlia)
Description: A group of wolves (Canis lupus lupus) move in the night in search of their prey by exploiting a hunting path in front of Monte Corchia in the Apuan Alps chain. In spite of being a territory under the auspices and tutelage of the UNESCO, Global Geopark Network (GGN), the park and its surrounding areas are attacked every day by the marble industry, making the mountains crumble and polluting the water by continually changing the landscape irreversibly.

Lorenzo Shoubridge

1st Award / M. H. A.

2st Award
Mara Crossing with a Centerpiece de Artur Stankiewicz de Zgorzelec ()
Place: Serengeti (Tanzània)
Description: One of the most memorable wildebeest crossing I witnessed in August 2019 in northern Serengeti: a Masai Giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi) in the middle of the Mara river with gnus moving in orderly fashion around it through the water. A very special sighting that was witnessed only by three of us in one of the vehicles. The absence of other cars allowed us to admire this amazing scene in complete peace and harmony.

Artur Stankiewicz

2st Award

Honor award
Hide and Seek de Henrik Spranz de Vienna (Vienna)
Place: Baixa Àustria
Description: A European Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) seems to hide behind a Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). It's always a pleasure to watch the European ground squirrels. They are a threatened species and usually you can find them in public places like golf fields or camping sites as their natural habitats are getting smaller and smaller.

Henrik Spranz

Honor award

Honor award
Fox and mosquito de Matt Maran de London ()
Place: Londres (Regne Unit)
Description: A Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is distracted by a mosquito as it tries to drink water. I was very lucky when I took this picture because the mosquito happened to be in the same focal frame as the fox when the shutter fired. One of those unique moments in nature photography when you capture something completely unexpected!

Matt Maran

Honor award

Honor award
The World Is Going Upside Down de Thomas Vijayan de Oakville (Ontario)
Place: Borneo
Description: Orangutan means "man of the forest" in the Malay language. There are 3 species of Orangutan, the one in this picture is Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Adult male orangutans can weigh up to 200 pounds. Flanged males have prominent cheek pads called flanges and a throat sac used to make loud verbalizations called long calls. They mainly feast on wild fruits. Habitat loss is affecting them.

Thomas Vijayan

Honor award

Honor award
Fox City de Peter Mather de Whitehorse (Yukon)
Place: Whitehorse, Yukon (Canadà)
Description: A Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) surveys its' domain during a Christmas snowstorm. Whitehorse is home to a healthy urban fox population with over two dozen dens within the small Canadian town. The red fox is an 'edge species', which means they naturally occur at the borders between two habitats. They thrive in communities with abundant green spaces, where they can hunt birds, mice, voles and ground squirrels.

Peter Mather

Honor award

Honor award
Wolf pack de Mateusz Piesiak de Wroclaw ()
Place: PN Bialowieza (Polònia)
Description: A group of wolves (Canis lupus lupus) in the heart of the Poland's Bialowieza National Park. In wildlife photography there are days when you come back home without a single photo in your card, but sometimes you get lucky. While exploring the forest, I saw this group of wolves. I quickly laid down and slowly took out my camera. My heart was beating like crazy. For such moments you live!

Mateusz Piesiak

Honor award

Youth category

Honor award
Lince ibérico de Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco de Ubrique (Cádiz)
Place: Serra d'Andújar (Espanya)
Description: Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) with backlight at sunset at the "Sierra de Andújar" Natural Park. During their mating season, lynxes roam around their territory and are easier to spot. After a few days I was lucky enough to be able to take this photo in backlight.

Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco

Honor award

Honor award
Halo of Dust de Hannes Lochner de Hoedspruit (Limpopo)
Place: PN Chobe (Botswana)
Description: In the summer months and towards the end of the dry season in the Chobe National Park in Botswana, African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana) meet around the waterholes and can walk up to 50 miles to get there. Dust fills the air and big bulls fight through the evening for the best spots around the waterhole. That evening I used a flash for my wide angle lens to give it a halo and the dust formed small circles within it.

Hannes Lochner

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2020

Mammals