For the jubilee Czech Nature Photo contest international jury chose following pictures. Number of 267 contestants submitted 2300 pictures. Children could send pictures to special catgery Czech Photo Junior. 227 students sent almost one thousand pictures. We also started new cooperation with Prague Zoo and created category Animals in their environment. All winners where announced during on-line ceremony on 10th oh May. The exhibition of winning and chosen pictures was open following day.
Donator of Grant Czech Nature Photo is Praha municipality.
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Photographer of the Year: Igor Mikula
Common blackbird (Turdus merula) / Male / Czech Republic
Mammals (in the wild)
1. Michal Stoklasa
Brothers
2. Jan Pavlíček
Yellow-necked mouse
3. Jan Pokluda
Whiteout
Birds (in the wild)
1. Ondřej Nágl
Insatiable
2. Michal Stoklasa
Pavarotti
3. Ondřej Nágl
Kestrel vs. vole
Reptiles, amphibians, and underwater life (in the wild)
1. Petr Bambousek
Plumed basilisk
2. Martin Ertner
The colors of autumn and the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
3. Radim Hlaváč
The frog and the mosquito
Invertebrates (insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and others – in the wild)
1. Petr Bambousek
Atta ant
2. Stanislav Macík
Eyes that are watching you
3. Vít Lukáš
The endangered king of the oak forests
Plants and fungi (in the wild)
1. Zdeněk Jakl
The lady’s slipper
2. Luboš Prchal
A loner amid the peaks of Krušné Hory
3. Vojtěch Herout
A relocated unit
Landscape
1. Jiří Benda
An iceberg cavern
2. Tomáš Frolec
Passo Giau #2
3. Daniel Franc
Path to heaven
Animals in human care
1. Vít Lukáš
Egg checkup
2. Roman Jaroš
The Observer
3. Matyáš Slavík
Lupine love
Prize for the best photo of Czech nature
1. Igor Mikula
Common blackbird (Turdus merula) / Male / Czech Republic
2. Vít Lukáš
UNDER THE WATER, OVER THE LEAF
3. Igor Mikula
Rhinolophus
Series
1. Martin Veselý, MAFRA a.s.
Closed zoo
2. Zuzana and Matej Dolinayovi
Viper scales
3. Lukáš Veselý
Trees of significance under a nighttime sky
Nature in Prague - special category announced by Prague municipality
1. Martin Divíšek, EPA
Feeding gulls by Charles Bridge
2. Michaela Pupíková
Window...
3. Viktorie Dobrobabenko
Winter walk
Animals in their environment
1. Matej Ferenčík
Accompanied
2. Jan Stria
The vacuum cleaner of the sea
3. Jiří Hřebíček
An inquiet sea
Junior (5 to 10 years)
1. Michal Vaicenbacher (7 years)
Eurasian nuthatch
2. Kryštof Červinka (10 years)
Charles bridge
3. Jana Andresová (10 years)
Organ
Junior (11 to 15 years)
1. Adam Kőszegi (14 years)
The hunt
2. Kristýna Coufalová (15 years)
A glance from a frog
3. Eva Svrčková (14 years)
Wasp spider
Junior (15 to 18 years)
1. Michal Vais (18 years)
The time bomb
2. Ondřej Labaš (17 years)
In the shadow of the forest
3. Jana Chalupníková (18 years)
There are paths we cannot see
Magazine Lidé a Země readers' award
Vít Lukáš
The endangered king of the oak forests
