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

Youth category
Mero coral de Arnau Fontanals Rosell de Barcelona (Barcelona)
Place: Mar Roig (Egipte)
Description: Roving Coral grouper (Plectropomus pessuliferus). This animal can be up to 120 cm long. Its red colour is splashed by numerous blue dots and stains that increase and turn smaller the bigger the animal gets. It normally hides in the little caves and holes of the reef.

Young people between 15 and 17 years old

Arnau Fontanals Rosell

Youth category
Frozen forest at midnight de Lasse Kurkela de Kauniainen ()
Place: Kuusamo (Finlàndia)
Description: Frozen forest at midnight. On Christmas day we learned that Northern lights overnight with a clear sky were expected for that night, so after a bit of planning we decided to get to the summit of the Konttainen hill of approximate 400m high. It was -23°C, but from above we were able to enjoy this amazing view over a beautiful forest in the middle of the night.

Lasse Kurkela

Youth category
Head down de Tommaso Redaelli de Monza (Choose...)
Place: Monza, Monza i Brianza (Itàlia)
Description: I feel some movement coming from a tree and as I get closer, I see a grey squirrel looking at me from above. While looking up I realise how beautiful the foliage of the tree is when hit by a soft light. In order to include these details in my picture, I get hold of a wide angle lens and the curious Eastern Gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) starts coming down from the tree. And that is what made the shot I wanted possible.

Tommaso Redaelli

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Waiting for mum de Giacomo Redaelli de Monza ()
Place: Monza, Llombardia (Itàlia)
Description: On a morning in May, I had just returned from training when I saw some rapid movements on a maple tree in my garden. I got home to get my camera and tried to get a little closer when I realise that a group of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus) is waiting for their mum on a branch. They were all very hungry!

Giacomo Redaelli

Youth category
Recibiendo el alba de Alejandro Corral de Rubí (Barcelona)
Place: PN Delta de l'Ebre (Tarragona)
Description: I visited the Delta de l’Ebre National Park on World Wetlands Day in order to photograph some beautiful bird species living in this area. The species I took pictures of that day was the Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio) after laying down for several hours and wearing a camouflage net trying to mimetize with the environment. The picture was taken with a permit by the Environment Ministry and by attracting the bird with ecologic seeds.

Alejandro Corral

Youth category
Unexpected Light de Federico Sciascia de Bologna (Bologna)
Place: Sass Pordoi, Dolomites (Itàlia)
Description: There was so much fog that day that we could hardly see the mountains. We were trekking and as I stopped to take pictures of a kestrel, I saw a beautiful warm light hitting the mountainside in front of us. I immediately changed the lens and photographed that scene which lasted a few minutes. With this shot I tried to show the contrast between the huge amount of fog and the spot of light.

Federico Sciascia

Youth category
El nido de los jabirús de Carlos Pérez Naval de Calamocha (Teruel)
Place: Pantanal (Brasil)
Description: Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) nest on a Pink ipê (Handroanthus impetiginosus) in Pantanal Sur. At the end of the dry season, tabebuia trees are flowering and jabirus busy mating. The huge nest allows for other species like monk parakeets to live on it. Summer of 2019.

Young people up to 14 years old

Carlos Pérez Naval

Youth category
Giant's Oasis de Branson Meaker de Durban North (KwaZulu-Natal)
Place: Mashatu Game Reserve (Botswana)
Description: With one photo, I can stop the time and look carefully at every detail that my eyes might miss, like these droplets this African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) was splashing in the water in front of me. While sitting very patiently and quietly in a hide in Botswana, I was rewarded with a herd of elephants approaching the water to drink. They were very relaxed, and that gave me enough time to take interesting pictures.

Branson Meaker

Youth category
Leaping de Füssi-Nagy Csongor de Sárospatak ()
Place: Sárospatak (Hongria)
Description: Westen Roe deers (Capreolus capreolus) usually roam around our farm. You normally see them grazing and walking by looking for new fields. I was walking around with my camera when we noticed each other. Of course it began to run away with big jumps, but I was lucky to take a picture the moment its four legs were in the air.

Füssi-Nagy Csongor

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Cap Martinet de Adrià Mas Escandell de Sa Carroca (Illes Balears)
Place: Cap Martinet, Eivissa (Espanya)
Description: I went to Cap Martinet in order to take pictures of the storm. The sky was covered by clouds and the waves were punching the edge on both sides. I was able to extend the exposure with a filter and that is how I managed to get this effect on the waves.

Adrià Mas Escandell

Youth category
Buscando la luz de Miguel Sánchez García de Alpedrete (Madrid)
Place: Bosc de Finlàndia, Vall del Lozoya (Serra de Guadarrama, Madrid)
Description: Poplars (Populus sp.) in a circle. The Finnish Forest at the Lozoya valley. Walking through the Finnish Forest in the Lozoya valley in autumn, i realised how big these poplars were. I took this picture almost from the ground with an 8mm fish-eye lens.

Miguel Sánchez García

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

GALLERY MONTPHOTO 2020

Youth category

Young people between 15 and 17 years old

Young people up to 14 years old