Snow-covered Calar Alto at sunset: the winning photo in the 4th Almanzora Valley tourism photography contest
José Venegas wins the 4th Almanzora Valley Tourism Photography Competition with a snow-covered Calar Alto; the contest received 172 photos from some 40 photographers.
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Calar Alto covered in snow under the light of sunset. That is the image with which José Venegas Muñoz has won the 4th Concurso de Fotografía Turística del Valle del Almanzora (Almanzora Valley Tourism Photography Competition), whose prizes were presented last Thursday, 9 July, at the Centro Pérez Siquier in Olula del Río. The ceremony brought to a close the fourth edition of a competition that is organised by Turismo Almanzora and that proves once again that, in our land, there is no shortage of reasons to get the camera out.
172 photographs from four provinces
This year’s edition centred on the “30 maravillas del Almanzora” (30 wonders of the Almanzora) and on the municipalities that form part of the Turismo Almanzora project: Albox, Armuña de Almanzora, Bacares, Cantoria, Chercos, Laroya, Líjar, Lúcar, Macael, Olula del Río, Oria, Partaloa, Purchena, Serón, Sierro, Suflí, Taberno, Tíjola, Urrácal and Zurgena. And the appeal worked beyond the province: according to the organisers, close to forty photographers from Almería, Murcia, Granada and Barcelona took part, submitting 172 images.
Albox and Cantoria, also on the podium
The jury, made up of Pablo García Ibáñez, from the Centro Pérez Siquier; Raquel Caparrós, from Fotografía Raquel Caparrós; and Álvaro Pérez, from Fenilu Academy, awarded the prizes as follows:
- First prize, €250 and a diploma: José Venegas Muñoz, for his snow-covered Calar Alto.
- Second prize, €150: Oliver Freixas Mateo, for an image of the church in Albox.
- Third prize, €100: Daniel Alcazar Álvarez, for an astrophotograph that brings together the bridge at Cantoria and the Almanzora river.
Diplomas of recognition were also presented to other participants.
A very photographic setting
During the event, the president of the Almanzora Valley Tourism Business Association, Luis Aurelio Pérez, thanked the photographers for their work and the jury for its judgement. And the venue could not have been more fitting: the prize-giving took place in the space that Olula del Río dedicates to the photographer Carlos Pérez Siquier, known for his black-and-white series on the Almería neighbourhood of La Chanca.
For the organisers, the competition is a tool for showcasing the landscapes, heritage and culture of the Almanzora. The winning photographs, from the snow of the Filabres to the night skies over the river, show the variety of spots with which the district wants to keep gaining prominence as an inland tourism destination.
From elValle Actualidad, we can only congratulate the winners and everyone who has gone out to photograph our land. Every one of those photos is an invitation to discover it.
