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Honorable Mention / Wildlife
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Play with light
Play with light
During some cold winter nights in February 2018, I took thousands of photographs of gray herons, white herons, cormorants and otters in Hungary. The animals were free in their natural environment. During the nights of shooting, the weather conditions varied and the weak artificial lighting and long exposure times contributed to creating interesting light effects.
Author
GIANNI MAITAN was born on April 20, 1951, since 1980 he has devoted himself mostly on wildlife photography. He has exhibited in numerous personal and collective photographic exhibitions in Italy and abroad. His photos have been published in many books, calendars, guides, postcards, Panini stickers and in the most titled Italian and foreign specialized magazines. Since 1992, his photos have served to promote the image of the company Gemata S.p.A. and since 1996, every year the “Gemata Calendar” with its photos of animals has been distributed all over the world in thousands of copies. With the Editorial Giorgio Mondadori in December 2004 he published the book "African Parks", he was co-author of the "Guide to travel: Kenya" published in October 2005 by the Polaris Publishing House, with Sassi Editore in April 2009 he published "Meravigliosi Parchi Africani ”and in 2015 with Gemata. S.p.A. the MOVING book with blank photos. He has received hundreds of admissions and numerous prizes in prestigious national and international photographic competitions and with the Italian team FIAF Natura has achieved 10 World Cups at the Biennial Nature FIAP. He has been member of jury in prestigious national and international photographic contests. He was a judge in national and international juries. In May 2008 he was awarded the AFI Honor and in May 2016 the IFI Honor