Refreshing rain drop.After a summer rain, the Hungarian András Mészáros went to the forest with his camera and found itantdrinking placidly on the petal of a flower. “The beauty of themacrophotographyit is the world that reveals, all that miniature activity that we would not see otherwise “, explains the author of the winning photo in the category“Animal behavior”.
The plunged diver.It isalcatraz took a good dip to catch some sardines. Russian Alexander Safonov witnessed the moment, and the photo earned him a finalist in the “Underwater World” category.
Opportunistic kidnapping.An American eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), who normally eats fish, hunts a small bird that has been put “within range”.
The tale of the wolf.The photographer from Avila José Luis Rodríguez has obtained the first prize of this edition with this nocturnal image of an Iberian wolf jumping a fence. His intention was to capture a photo in which a wolf could be seen in the act of hunting but without blood. And he has succeeded.
The Ethiopian mountain king.Portrait of a gelada (Icy Theropithecus) male, with alook flawless, captured by American Joe McDonald.
Salsifis awning.The Spanish Ana Retamero obutvo with her camera this image of the delicate “umbrellas” of the meadow salsifis. It has obtained the first position of the category “Praise to the plants”.
Royal hat.British youngster Sam Rowley took first place in the category of young photographers aged 11-14 for this backlighting of a deer wearing a real wreath made of branches and leaves that fell during the fall on his head.
