Results 2023

Czech Photo announces the nominated images of the seventh edition of the photography competition for nature photographers Czech Nature Photo. The nominated images were selected by an expert jury with the participation of Spanish photographer Roberto García-Roy from more than 2400 photographs. 254 photographers from the Czech and Slovak Republics submitted their work to the competition. Students and schoolchildren were not left behind either, with 157 entries in the Czech Photo Junior; they submitted almost 1500 images.

CZECH NATURE PHOTO 2023 RESULTS

Photo of the year
Photographer of the Year: Miroslav Ondruš

When the bear defends the cubs


The Mammals
1st place - Miroslav Ondruš

When the bear defends the cubs

2nd place - Jaromír Daněk

Musk Ox - measuring of forces

3rd place - Matěj Šmucr

This is my lunch


Birds (wild)
1st place - Tomáš Grim

"Why a bullfighter?!"

2nd place - Pavel Vítek

Ducks in ice circles

3rd place - Ondřej Prosický

On guard


Reptiles, amphibians and underwater life (wild)
1st place - Vít Lukáš

Desperate females

2nd place - Petr Bambousek

Marine iguanas

3rd place - Rostislav Štefánek

Vegetarians


Invertebrates (insects, crustaceans, molluscs and other wildlife)
1st place - Vít Lukáš

Snail in the rain

2nd place - Lukáš Vít

The Circle of Life

3rd place - Radim Hlaváč

Up to the Moon


Plants and fungi (wild)
1st place - Václav Sojka

Pteridium aquilinum

2nd place - Petr Bambousek

Windy Night

3rd place - Svitlana Mehela

Velvet-legged warbler


Landscape
1st place - Jiří Soural

Matterhorn

2nd place - Daniel Franc

Ice galaxy

3rd place - Václav Sojka

Landscape of Burnt Forest


Animals in human care
1st place - Michal Turek

Education of birds at the Jinonice Rescue Station

2nd place - Vít Lukáš

Scarecrow

3rd place - Jan Molinský

Rest


AWARD FOR THE BEST PHOTOGRAPH OF CZECH NATURE:
1st place - Vít Lukáš

Reversed role

2nd place - Jan Pokluda

King of the Oak

3rd place - Patricie Robenková

Lord of the Forest


Animals in their environment
1st place - Tomáš Grim

Dynamic World of Townspeople

2nd place - Pavel Fiala

Mt. Cook and kea in symbiosis

3rd place - Ondřej Prosický

Comfort in the lee


Series
1st place - Radek Karko

Back to freedom!


2nd place - Tomáš Grim

Life of Feathered Townsmen


3rd place - Vojtěch Herout

The oldest


Nature in Prague
1st place - Jaromír Daněk

Pheasant and cranes

2nd place - Jiří Hřebíček

Under the Bridge

3rd place - Tomáš Grim

Emotions


Junior / younger pupils

czech nature photo nominace Junior / mladší žáci - Jakub Jelínek

1st place - Jakub Jelínek

Duel



2nd place - Anežka Veselá

Fur from Africa


czech nature photo nominace Junior / mladší žáci - Tereza Hospodářová

3rd place - Tereza Hospodářová

Toadstool


Junior / older pupils
1st place - Matyáš Mutina

Lampion

2nd place - Michal Bogár

Bee

3rd place - Šimon Martínek

Jellyfish


Junior / high school students
1st place - Eliška Panáčková

Blue Flash

2. místo - Kristýna Velnerová

Polar Bear

3. místo - Vojtěch Gregor

Courtship


Lidé a Země magazine Readers' Prize
Ondřej Prosický

On guard