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

1st Award
Padre invisible de Jaime Culebras de Cáceres (Cáceres)
Place: Sarapiquí (Costa Rica)
Description: La Palma glass frogs (Hyalinobatrachium valerioi) have a very much deserved name. This male was taking care of its eggs under a leave. A flash behind it made it possible to see this species’ level of translucency. A new study reveals that this translucency is meant to “break” the shape of the body, helping the frogs go unnoticed.

Jaime Culebras

1st Award

2st Award
Vuelos en la noche de Pedro Javier Pascual Hernández de Teruel (Terol)
Place: Tudela Navarra
Description: At the end of the summer, thousands of insects emerge from the Ebro river. With a fragile but constant flight, their lives are brief. In very little time, their mission is to mate and die. Mayflies represent the order of insects that have the capacity to fly, and in this image pictures the Mayfly or Shadfly's (Ephroron virgo) acrobatic flights by showing their motion trail. The photo was taken while working at low speed.

Pedro Javier Pascual Hernández

2st Award

Honor award
Dramatic morning de Perdita Petzl de Wien (Österreich)
Place: Vienna, Baixa Àustria (Àustria)
Description: A Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) in a beautiful blooming summer meadow. I always try to integrate insects into nature, and I therefore consciously photograph butterfies in the meadows – including its thriving environment and natural structures. The bokeh is not created with Photoshop. Only minor post processing in LR. Shot in a National Park near Vienna, Austria.

Perdita Petzl

Honor award

Honor award
White home de Imre Potyó de Göd (Pest)
Place: Massís de Börzsöny (Hongria)
Description: A hidden explosion crater cradles the rare, frogs (Rana cf. temporaria) and their eggs. With no selective modification on the image, this is exactly how the sky and the tree branches look on the water surface around the emerging colorful heads. Multiexposure provided the silky effect of the light-colored sky reflected in the milky monochrome water painted with tree branches.

Imre Potyó

Honor award

Honor award
Tres generaciones de Javier Aznar de Madrid (Madrid)
Place: El Jardín de los Sueños (Equador)
Description: Sun's glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum) male with golden dots watching his eggs, which are developing at two different speeds , under a leave hanging from a creek at Ecuador’s Chocó National Park. When tadpoles are ready to hatch, they fall into the water, where they can start the next phase of their life.

Javier Aznar

Honor award

Honor award
Lágrimas saladas de Javier Aznar de Madrid (Madrid)
Place: Napo (Equador)
Description: The butterfly Godart's numberwing (Callicore pygas) sucks the mineral-rich tears of a Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis). Mineral salts are scarce in tropical forests and that is why animals have to get hold of them in unusual ways.

Javier Aznar

Honor award

Honor award
Lo que el instinto dicta de Juan Manuel Gonzalez Villa de Gabriel Zamora (Michoacán)
Place: Colola, Michoacán (Mèxic)
Description: Picture of a Black Turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii), taken at the Colola beach under the guidance of a group specialised in black turtles and the staff of a turtle camp at Colola and with a flash in the second curtain, low power and a carefully used difusor. The picture was taken at the exact moment in which the turtle is in transit after having laid its eggs in order not to disturb the animal.

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Villa

Honor award

Honor award
From the cloud de Franco Banfi de Cadro (Lugano) (TI)
Place: Mato Grosso (Brasil)
Description: I’ll never forget my encounter with this big and shy Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus). It is a non-venomous boa species native to South America. There are many species when it comes to this reptile, but the most common one is the green anaconda. Besides living in quite remote places full of mosquitoes and other unpleasant creatures, the green anaconda is the heaviest and one of the longest known extant snake species.

Franco Banfi

Honor award

Honor award
Red drop de Filippo Carugati de Legnano (Milano)
Place: Aiguamolls de Torotorofotsy, Moramanga (Madagascar)
Description: A Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), an endemic species of Eastern Madagascar, moving on the leaf litter in a swamp near the Andasibe-Manradia National Park. This eye-catching frog has become a flag species for the conservation of amphibians, being classified as “Critically endangered” by the IUCN.

Filippo Carugati

Honor award

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2020

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