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

1st Award
Fire Vortex de Philipp Egger de Prad am Stilfserjoch (BZ)
Place: southtyrol / Italian Alps
Description: As the wildfire climbs the alpine slope, it begins to breathe drawing in air, twisting into rotating columns of flame and smoke. Within minutes, fire consumes not only the surface but the hidden life beneath, igniting roots and soil. What appears as flame is deeper collapse, an ecosystem unraveling from within.

Philipp Egger

1 st Award

1st Award
Shared Ground de Kunsh Khanna de New Delhi (Delhi)
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Kunsh Khanna

1 st Award

Finalist
Help to survive de Naomi Cech de Saint Jeannet ()
Place: Roc beach, Côte d'Ivoire
Description: Sea turtles face increasing threats from poaching, habitat loss, and rising temperatures due to climate change. Less than 1 in 1,000 hatchlings survive to adulthood. Conservation efforts like night patrols to relocate eggs and helping hatchlings reach the sea are crucial. Every action counts to protect these endangered creatures and their future.

Naomi Cech

Finalist

Finalist
Never give up de Arthur Cech de Saint Jeannet ()
Place: Haute Niger NP, Guinea
Description: At the Haute Niger National Park in Guinea, the park director showed me a room full of confiscated rifles and chainsaws. I had the idea to neatly stack everything outside and photograph it from a drone. I wanted to show just how intense the rangers' battle is against poachers who hunt animals or cut down trees in the protected area. Imagine that all of this was confiscated in just two years!

Arthur Cech

Finalist

Finalist
What if you look closer? de PIETRO MUZI FALCONI de Milano (MI)
Place: Milano, Italia
Description: Tourists stops to take picture of a caper tree growing along the castle walls. what they don't realise is that, few centimetres from there subject, there is a young kestrel, who has fallen by its nest, who perfectly camouflages himself within the Milanese monument. A reminder of the abundance of urban wildlife and of our own distraction.

PIETRO MUZI FALCONI

Finalist

Finalist
Decapitated de Vidyun R Hebbar de Bangalore (Karnataka)
Place: Udupi, Karnataka, India
Description: A large Indian Rock Python lies lifeless with its head severed near the steel rail. Just below the track, lies the python's severed head. The photograph quietly reveals a stark truth: the fragile lives of wild creatures meeting the brutal force of human development.

Vidyun R Hebbar

Finalist

Finalist
Rumbo de colisión de Chenxi Che de Barañáin (Navarra)
Place: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Description: Esta es la marca que dejó una paloma al chocarse contra el cristal, una representación del peligro que nuestras infraestructuras suponen para los animales.

Chenxi Che

Finalist

Finalist
Shame de jofre Cutal Gallifa de Berga (Barcelona)
Place: Marrakesh, Morocco
Description: En Marrakech, los animales siguen siendo víctimas de la codicia humana. Aun en siglo XXI, los humanos no nos damos cuenta del alcance del maltrato y sobreexplotación animal, y no le damos la importancia que merece para mantener ecosistema. La fauna, en todas sus formas, debe ser libre, vivir sin abusos ni explotación y desarrollarse en su hábitat natural con seguridad.

jofre Cutal Gallifa

Finalist

Finalist
Invisible Killer de Panitbhand Paribatra Na Ayudhya de Khlong-Toey (Bangkok)
Place: Koh Lipe Island, Thailand
Description: From a distance under the sea, I noticed a dead fish floating unnaturally in the water. As I went closer, it became clear that the fish was trapped inside a plastic bag that wasn't visible from afar. This image shows how even a single, seemingly insignificant piece of plastic can harm marine life, how millions of pieces of ocean waste can cause devastating damage to entire marine ecosystem.

Panitbhand Paribatra Na Ayudhya

Finalist

Finalist
Pastores de la Patagonia de Anaïs Lopez Dolle de Tiana (Barcelona)
Place: Sierra Baguales, Chile
Description: En las tierras remotas de la Patagonia el tiempo se ha parado. El mundo moderno no ha invadido los recovecos de la salvaje Sierra Baguales. El folklore gaucho sigue rindiendo honor a sus costumbres transhumantes recorriendo a caballo miles de hectáreas para cuidar de sus ovejas y protegerlos de los pumas.

Anaïs Lopez Dolle

Finalist

Gallery Changing Planet 2026