Last call for the 33 Maria Luisa Memorial. Mountain, Nature, Adventure
photo and video contest

Presentation... The Maria Luisa Memorial is calling, one more time, photographers and filmmakers, both amateurs and professionals, to the thirty third edition of their contest. We start a new decade and we do it with the same initial purpose of trying to meet new, innovative and suggestive images that allow us to continue with the promotion of the artistic work of the work of the contestants, at the same time as with the diffusion of the natural environment and its necessary protection. Mountain, nature, wildlife, mountaineering, climbing, landscape, underwater world, biodiversity, flora, extreme and adventure sports, etc. will be the reference of the edition in this contest one more year, not only in the photography categories but in the section dedicated to videos, films and documentaries as well. In addition, on this occasion, a new thematic category dedicated exclusively to photographs and videos made within the African continent. Year after year photographers from all over the world take part in this contest, having done it already from more than 100 different countries. With the passing of the years the contest has become a meeting place not only for widely recognized international photographers, but also for undiscovered talent and new photographers. With the rules, instructions and advice provided you will easily be able to prepare your photographs and/or videos to compete in a contest that lacks any commercial purpose, and in which, as usual, only you and your work will be the true protagonists. One more time, good luck to everyone and good light.

R U L E S PARTICIPANTS

All photographers and filmmakers who so desire, amateur or professional, may take part. All contestants will be able to submit a free first photograph to the contest; for the rest of the photos and videos, the participation fee for this year will be €22 (VAT included) for adult photographers, a single payment will allow competing in all categories including videos and films; for the novice-under 19 photographers, participation is free.

CATEGORIES A/ Mountain Landscape: Captions showing mountains and their environment, in any of their forms. B/ Alpinism: Captions showing alpinism, climbing on ice, mountain ski and the world of heights from a sports point of view, as well as the rest of the sports typical of high mountain and winter mountain. C/ Climbing: Images related to rock climbing, bouldering, big wall, urban climbing, climbing wall, etc. and the world of verticality. D/ Adventure and extreme sports: the purpose of this thematic category will be the photographs of all types of adventure activities and extreme sports which are practiced in the area mountains and nature, other than those referred to in paragraphs B / and C /, such as kayaking, highline, mountain biking, paragliding, mountain running, canyoning, caving, cave diving, scuba diving, wing suit, surf, etc. E/ Man in the Mountain and/or Nature: the photos showing a socio-cultural content referred to the native people of the mountains and to natural environments, as well as to their customs, traditions and ways of life, also those representatives of hiking and trekking activities which can take place in these natural areas will fall within this category. Likewise, this category includes photographs of travel and people. F/ Animal World: Any animal photographed in their environment. G/ The world of birds: any bird photographed in their environment. H/ Vegetal world: Any vegetal species photographed in its environment. Fungi are included. I/ Submerged World: The theme of this category are the photographs of fauna, flora and ecosystems characteristic of the submerged areas, both freshwater and saltwater. J/

Biodiversity: captions in this category will show animals or plants in their natural habitat. Judges will take into account the link between the different Photo: Basak Pranab -32MML Photo: Leonardo Papéra-32MML Photo: Paco Farero-32MML species and their environment and, also, the image composition criteria on the environment. K/ Nature landscapes: Rest of landscapes not included in the A Category. L/ Creative photo: Captions where forms, textures, colours, etc are determining in the composition. Abstract and creative photo. M/ Macro picture: the world of the smallest ones.

Macro photography. N - Topic of the year: Africa. Its landscapes, fauna and flora. Its people and their traditional ways of life, as well as the nature sports practiced within that geographical space. O/ Videos, films or documentaries: Its conductor axis should be the mountain, nature and / or adventure, as well as sports and other activities that are practiced in those environments, referring to its theme to any of those described for the previous categories.

WORKS  Photographs Irrespective of the support employed in their execution, the works will be presented as digital archives in JPEG format, preferably with colour profile Adobe RGB 1998 and must be 1,920 pixels wide in its largest side, and a maximum weight of 2 MB (72ppp), no addings such as frames, borders or foot notes allowed. There is a limit on the number of entries per person: five photographs per entrant in each category entered (5x14).

 Videos, films or documentaries. Likewise, the works will be presented only as digital files, preferably in H.264 codec.

SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

There are two different ways to submit the photographs and/or videos, any of the two can be used but not the two of them at the same time. 1 st (Preferably) To enter, visit http://www.memorialmarialuisa.com/ and follow the instructions given in that site. 2 nd (Subsidiary) Send your photographs by ordinary mail in a CD or a DVD or similar and include a card with your full name, postal address, telephone number, email address (very important), and a numbered list of the photo captions mentioning their titles, there will be a list per each Category. To submit videos, the registration form must also be completed on the website www.memorialmarialuisa.com, indicating in the corresponding field the option used to send the files, which must be Wetransfer, Dopbox, Vimeo

PRIZES

The Overall Winner of the "XXXIII Memorial Maria Luisa" will be awarded a cash prize of €3.000 *, a Trophy, a Diploma, a book portfolio and two invitations to the awards gala. The Overall Winner will be chosen from the fourteen category winners; the Jury will give the Prize to the most memorable & shocking caption.

The overall winner will receive a cash prize €3.000, including the amount corresponding to his/her category.

Winner Prize of each Category: € 300, Trophy, Diploma, a book portfolio and two invitations to the awards gala. Photo: Klaus Fengler: -32MML Photo: Tobias Richter -32MML Photo: Stephan Fürnrohr -32MML

Young Photographers Prize: It will be awarded to the best photograph submitted by contestants not having reached the age of nineteen years on 1st December 2022. It will consist of a Samsung 4G tablet, trophy, diploma, book portfolio and two invitations to the awards gala.

Special award for the theme of the year: it will be a Citizen BN0151 Watch, trophy, diploma, a book portfolio and two invitations to the awards gala.

Award for best video, film, documentary of 33 MML. This prize will be endowed with a voucher worth €3000 *, which can be exchanged, directly and at the request of the winner, for products marketed by Foto Ruano, trophy, diploma, book portfolio and two invitations to the awards gala.

ADMISSION DATE Until 1st December 2022.