Nature Photographer of the Year 2018 Winners
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Category C1 BIRDS
Winner: Bence-Maté (HUN) with “Meeting-point”
Runner-up: Jayesh Joshi (IND) with “Freedom”
Highly commended: Dimas Serneguet Belda (ESP) with “Fly”
Highly commended: Jonathan Lhoir (FRA) with “Crow
Highly commended: Pere Soler Isern (ESP) with “The meeting”
Highly commended: Piet Haaksma (NED) with “I see you”
Category C2 MAMMALS
Winner: Pere Soler Isern (ESP) with “Orix escape”
Runner-up: Kevin Morgans (GBR) with “The kingdom of stone”
Runner-up: Marc Costermans (BEL) with “Catching fruits”
Highly commended: Andreas Hemb (SWE) with “Old Buffalo and the moon”
Highly commended: Marc Mol (BEL) with “Leopard scout”
Highly commended: Marco Gaiotti (ITA) with “Storm”
Highly commended: Rupert Kogler (AUT) with “His holiness”
Category C3 OTHER ANIMALS
Winner: Bastien Riu (FRA) with “Flight”
Runner-up: Radomir Jakubowski (GER) with “Gomero wall gekko”
Runner-up: Giuseppe Bonali (ITA) with “Parachute”
Highly commended: Rubén Pérez Novo (ESP) with “Novo Sinous Roadrunner”
Highly commended: Young Miao (CHN) with “Hide”
Category C4 PLANTS & FUNGI
Winner: Bart Siebelink (NED) with “Protea”
Runner-up: Andrés Miguel Dominguez (ESP) “Thaw”
Highly commended: Salavador Colvee Nebot (ESP) with “Magic forest”
Highly commended: Uge Fuertes Sanz (ESP) with “Foam in the river”
Highly commended: Csaba Daróczi (HUN) with “Twins”
Category C5 Landscape
Winner: Pere Soler Isern (ESP) with “Frozen world”
Runner-up: Daisy Gilardini (CAN) “Arctic reflectionss”
Highly commended: Uge Fuertes Sanz (ESP) with “Autumn river”
Highly Commended: Leonardo Papèra (ITA) with “The last breath of light”
Highly commended: Audun Rikardsen (NOR) with “Colours after a storm”
Highly commended: Fabrizio Moglia (ITA) with “Colostral salt pond”
Highly commended: Jorge Ruiz del Olmo (ESP) with “Mountain Structures”
Category C6 Underwater
Winner: Marchione Giacomo (ITA) with “The balcony”
Runner-up: Songda Cai (CHN) with “Get out of my house”
Highly commended: Songda Cai (CHN) with “Bubbles”
Highly commended: Adriano Morettin (ITA) with “Unde the stars”
Highly commended: Audun Rikardsen (NOR) with “Killer whale in polar night”
Category C7 Nature art
Winner: Uge Fuertes Sanz (ESP) with “Sisimbrium from above”
Runner-up: Hernan Bua (ESP) with “The green river”
Highly commended: Csaba Daróczi (HUN) with “Two forests”
Highly commended: Henri Koskinen (FIN) with “Crystals of citric acid”
Highly commended: Jayesh Joshi (IND) with “Gemometry in nature”
Category C8 Man and nature
Winner: Aaron Gekoski(GBR) with “Urang utang in bikini”
Runner-up: Murcia Requena Francisco Javier (ESP) “Life among garbage”
Highly commended: Paolo Meroni (ITA) with “Kestrels window”
Highly commended: Terry Whittaker (GBR) with “The fox and the commuter train”
Highly commended: Tom Shandy (NOR) with “The tiger cub and the paparazzi”
Category C9 black & White
Winner: Divir Barkay (USA) with “Shoebill”
Runner-up: Shane Kalyn (CAN) with “Painted cormorans”
Category C10 Youth
Winner: Carla Rivas (ESP) with “Polar fox in evening light”
Runner-up: Sitara Karthikeyan (IND) with “Sweet dreams
Highly commended: Agasthya Karthikeyan (IND) with “Walking on cloud”
Highly commended: Carlos Perez (ESP) with “Naval jump in the canopy”
Highly commended: Grzegor Dlugosz (POL) with “Ballet dancer”
OVERALL WINNER NPOTY 2018
Bastien Riu (FRA) with “FLY”
Category C11 Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award 2018
Neil Aldridge (GBR)
Stay tuned for the 2019 edition of
“Nature Photographer of the Year” contest
…and of course the Fred Hazelhoff Portfolio Award
They will start March 2019