The winners of the photocontest The Speleo Photo of the Year 2010

31 photographer from United Kingdom, Spain, Slovakia, Iran, Moldova, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia took part in the photo contest The Speleo Photo of the Year 2010. The 270 accepted photos were evaluated by the jury and the visitors of the internet album. The members of the jury:

  1. Jordi Borras, Spain, the president of the caving club of Barcelona Espeleoclub De Gracia
  2. Stanislav Kotarba, Poland, an experienced caver and cave photographer
  3. Denis Provalov, Russia, the member of the international caving team Cavex
  4. Tomas Bauras, Lithuania, the press photographer of the newspaper “Lietuvos rytas”
  5. Robertas Dačkus, Lithuania, the leader of the news photoagency “Fotodiena”


After adding the votes of the jury and the Internet voting the winners are:

1st place (the photo gathered 122 points out of 180 possible):


The author of the photo: Roberto F. Garcia, Spain.

2nd place (99 points):


The author of the photo: Kiril Bagriy, Russia (the winner of the last year's contest).

3rd place (83 points):


The author of the photo: Aleksei Podyachev, Russia.

This year there were very few Lithuanian participants in the contest (only three participants). The ones who showed the best results will be rewarded the prizes of encouragement - the subscriptions of the Lithuanian magazines “Foto” and "Kelionės ir pramogos":

Artūras Artiušenka, who gathered 22 points form the internet voting and took the 42nd place.

Tomas Rekašius, who gathered 21 points form the jury and took the 43rd place.

 

PRIZES:

The third place winner will get a special speleo.lt brand T-shirt and a prize established by the e-shop Upėtakis.

The second place winner will get a special speleo.lt brand T-shirt and a prize established by the shop "Armijai ir civiliams" - flashlight Fenix HL20.

The first place winner will get a special speleo.lt brand T-shirt and a prize established by the shop "Armijai ir civiliams" - flashlight Fenix HP10.

The sponsors of the contest:

 
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