As in previous years, the Birds of Prey Protection Foundation organized the Best Photography Competition: “The Birds in Action” under the auspices of the “Photo Association of Serbia”.

The best photographs from the previous competitions are on the posters and calendar of the Foundation, showing all the beauty of diversity and at the same time calling for the protection of endangered species in Serbia. Our goal is also to popularize the author’s photo inspired by birds, but also to point out the bad status of endangered species and natural habitats in Serbia.

Everybody can participate in it, regardless of residence and whether they are dealing with photography professionally or amateurly. According to the competition rules, one participant can send up to four (4) photographs. Only wild bird photos – recorded exclusively in nature, come into consideration. Photos from ZOOs or birds from captivity will be excluded. The photos can be black and white or in color or in digital form. The photo format is “JPG”, at least 1920 pixels in length on a longer page format, at a resolution of 300 dpi.

Each group of photos should also follow the information and “Application Form” about the author (name, surname, address, contact telephone and e-mail) and the work (name, where and when the photo was taken). The name of the photo and the serial number must be in accordance with the “Application form”, and by signing the Application, the author declares that all the photos are his. Application-Form 2020

With strict compliance with copyright law photos participating in the Competition, the Birds of Prey Protection Foundation will use to achieve their goals – the protection of endangered species, unless the author requires otherwise. The submission of photographs to third parties is possible only with the agreement with the author!

The deadline for the reception of this year’s works is November 2, 2020. After that the expert jury will review the works and choose the best photographs. It will notify interested parties about their final decision no later than November 10, 2020, through the Foundation website and Facebook page. The winners will be notified by e-mail about that, as well as awards.

The Birds of Prey Protection Foundation will also organize an Exhibition of the best photographs from 10th to 17nd of December 2020, (Cultural Center “Vlado DIvljan”, st. Mitropolita Petra br. 8, Belgrade)and we will let you know about the place and time later. The Exhibition will be accompanied by a Catalog of selected works on the 18th calendar of the Foundation for 2021, which will include catalog data and will be delivered to photo authors either at the exhibition itself or by the end of 2020. The exhibition will also include the promotion of posters with award-winning photography from the competition.

The Birds of Prey Protection Foundation
Address: Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
or on E-mail: grifon@ibiss.bg.ac.rs

Vuk Popić, Secretary
The Birds of Prey Protection Foundation
Bulevar Despota Stefana 142
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Phone. +381.11.207.83.52 and mob. +381.66.413.574

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The XV Contest for Best Photography in 2019 – “Birds in Action” has received 105 works by 28 authors. Jury consisting of: Zoran Milutinović, Aleksandar Milosavljević, Saša Preradović and Jozef Gergelj met on 11.11.2019. It was not an easy task to choose from the great number of excellent works the three best ones, as well as 35 photographs that will be displayed at the exhibition from 7th to 13th of December 2019, at the Cultural Center “Vlada Divljan”, Metropolitan Petra Street no. 8 in Belgrade.
As always, the award-winning photo will be on the Foundation’s new poster, and the top 12 will also be on the 2020 calendar.

Promotion of the Foundation’s works, new calendar and posters will be at 7PM on the December 7th, 2019 at the “Vlada Divljan” Culture Center. The trailer about the Griffon Vultures movie will also be shown on the occasion.

THANK YOU for participation and congratulations to the authors of the award-winning works.

The first award went to author Vladan Vuckovicć for a photo of Falco pelegrinoides, taken in Gran Canaria, Spain:

The second prize is feeding the hoopoe, Upupa epos, recorded at the site of Mali pesak, by Levente Szekeres:

The third prize is European roller, Coracias garrulus, by Predrag Kostin Pike:

On the January 11th and 12th of 2019, an exhibition of photographs XIV contest of the Birds of Prey Protection Foundation under the auspices of the Photo Association of Serbia was held.
On the January 11 at 7 pm, in the presence of many of our dear guests,the exhibition was opened by the director of the Foundation Irena Hribšek.

The ambience at the Cultural Center “Vlada Divljan” was complemented by the classical music of the piano maestro.

… as well as showing beautiful pictures taken by the drone over the Rastoke feeding station in our Uvac.

Numerous guests had the opportunity to enjoy in the works of thirteen authors competition, and part of the ambience can be seen in the next gallery.

There were also educational posters of the Foundation, as well a calendar for 2019. year… »

The audience’s award at the exhibition was given to the photo of “Kukumavka (Athene noctua)” by the author Mr. Predrag Kostin. Congratulations to Predrag, and we would like to thank everyone who came on our exhibition.

Especially thanks to the Cultural Center “Vlado Divljan” for the provided space and help with the organization of the exhibition. We hope that we will continue to cooperate in the future.

PUBLIC AWARD:

At the end of last year, of all the submitted works on the competition, the jury consisting of: Zoran Milutinović, Luka Ristanović, Aleksandar Milosavljević, Saša Preradović and Jozef Gergelj chose the photographs that received the award.

I AWARD is the little owl, Glaucidium passerinum, author Vladan Vučković:

II AWARD is a photography of a Spotted Eagle, Clanga clanga by Levente Sekereš:

Calendar for 2019. with the most beautiful photographs from this year’s XIV Competition of the Birds of Prey Protection FOundation under the auspices of the “Photo Association of Serbia” can be purchased at the office of the Foundation at a price of 400,00 RSD. The funds obtained from the calendar are used for activities to protect the birds of prey. (Contact… »)