Bestard Award FINALE 2024
‘BESTARD Award 2024’ within the Luca Memorial Photo Contest FINALE 2024
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BESTARD Award 2024 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest FINALE 2024’.
In February 2025, the @bestardboots team will select the BEST PHOTOS from the Luca Memorial Contest 2024 finalists, based on their internal criteria.
One winner photo will be awarded the ‘BESTARD Award 2024’ consisting of the best sellers:
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🔹CANYON GUIDE high-cut (218EUR)
🔹WILDWATER PRO mid-cut (209EUR)
💵 pack valued at 450USD
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The CANYON GUIDE – a classic model for swift water activities,and a favourite within the international canyonering community and for tough&demanding activities such as complex expeditions,jungle treks etc.
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The WILDWATER PRO - a new very exciting mid-cut boot.Its special construction with one fix & one removable footbed allows for use with normal socks for the approach,and with neoprene socks after removing the footbed.
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Founded in 1940, BESTARD (https://bestard.com) is a small,specialized family company that has grown & evolved to an internationally recognized manufacturer of technical,high quality mountain footwear.Selling in more than 30 countries,is one of the few companies in this field manufacturing most of their boots in their own factory in Mallorca,Spain
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🗓️The winner to be announced 18 February 2025.
(duties for delivery outside the EU to be covered by winner)
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🔥 ENTER THE CONTEST! You too can submit your photos!
Open worldwide, free participation. Closing SOON on 31 December 2024.
ℹ️‘ at ’FINALE 🏆 2024’’ or visit 🔗https://lucamemorial.org/ff24upload
⚠️Only photos taken in 2024 can enter the FINALE 2024
One winner photo will be awarded the ‘BESTARD Award 2024’ consisting of the best sellers:
.
🔹CANYON GUIDE high-cut (218EUR)
🔹WILDWATER PRO mid-cut (209EUR)
💵 pack valued at 450USD
.
The CANYON GUIDE – a classic model for swift water activities,and a favourite within the international canyonering community and for tough&demanding activities such as complex expeditions,jungle treks etc.
.
The WILDWATER PRO - a new very exciting mid-cut boot.Its special construction with one fix & one removable footbed allows for use with normal socks for the approach,and with neoprene socks after removing the footbed.
.
Founded in 1940, BESTARD (https://bestard.com) is a small,specialized family company that has grown & evolved to an internationally recognized manufacturer of technical,high quality mountain footwear.Selling in more than 30 countries,is one of the few companies in this field manufacturing most of their boots in their own factory in Mallorca,Spain
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🗓️The winner to be announced 18 February 2025.
(duties for delivery outside the EU to be covered by winner)
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🔥 ENTER THE CONTEST! You too can submit your photos!
Open worldwide, free participation. Closing SOON on 31 December 2024.
ℹ️‘ at ’FINALE 🏆 2024’’ or visit 🔗https://lucamemorial.org/ff24upload
⚠️Only photos taken in 2024 can enter the FINALE 2024
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Feb. 2025
Feb. 2025
BESTARD MOUNTAIN BOOTS
Announcements 20 FEB 2023:
in Paris Time:
10:00 Products & Company
12:00 Nominations
16:00 Winner
Announcements in progress TODAY:
Updates Central European Time:
12:00 Products & Company
15:00 Nominations
18:00 Winner
12:00 Products & Company
15:00 Nominations
18:00 Winner
NOMINATIONS:
TO BE ANNOUNCED 11 February 2025
BESTARD Award 2023 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest 2023’.
It has been very,very difficult to select only 5 from these incredible 110 photos.
👉🏻We considered:
- the visual impact they produce,making us feel inside them&able to convey the beauty of the place&the strength of extreme sports.
- photographic aspects,such as framing&good exposure,as they are difficult photos to take: complex,busy,and risky situations,as well as darkness,taken in low-light,which makes them very special.
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Regarding the values represented by Bestard,any of these photos would represent us as manufacturers of outdoor footwear&a company made up of mountain activity lovers; any natural space reflected in these photos is related to our core values.
Therefore,we have also wanted to select a photo from each activity in which our products are used,such as canyoning,winter canyoning,caving,and underwater caving.
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Furthermore,our philosophy of personal improvement,continuous improvement,research,imagination,courage,and vision for the future are reflected in the selected images,as we share a desire for discovery,effort to improve,and the ability to face new challenges.
Most importantly,canyoning&caving are sports that are practiced through teamwork in cohesive groups of friends&family who want to achieve their goals,one of the fundamental pillars of our company.
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🏅NOMINATED opting to be the one @bestardboots winner (in ascending photo Nº):
Nº00167 Ana Pedrón Martínez (SPAIN)
Nº01026 Álvaro Herrero López-Beltrán (SPAIN)
Nº02801 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
Nº03390 Ken-Ya Taira (JAPAN)
Nº04115 Diego Caballero (SPAIN
👉🏻We considered:
- the visual impact they produce,making us feel inside them&able to convey the beauty of the place&the strength of extreme sports.
- photographic aspects,such as framing&good exposure,as they are difficult photos to take: complex,busy,and risky situations,as well as darkness,taken in low-light,which makes them very special.
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Regarding the values represented by Bestard,any of these photos would represent us as manufacturers of outdoor footwear&a company made up of mountain activity lovers; any natural space reflected in these photos is related to our core values.
Therefore,we have also wanted to select a photo from each activity in which our products are used,such as canyoning,winter canyoning,caving,and underwater caving.
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Furthermore,our philosophy of personal improvement,continuous improvement,research,imagination,courage,and vision for the future are reflected in the selected images,as we share a desire for discovery,effort to improve,and the ability to face new challenges.
Most importantly,canyoning&caving are sports that are practiced through teamwork in cohesive groups of friends&family who want to achieve their goals,one of the fundamental pillars of our company.
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🏅NOMINATED opting to be the one @bestardboots winner (in ascending photo Nº):
Nº00167 Ana Pedrón Martínez (SPAIN)
Nº01026 Álvaro Herrero López-Beltrán (SPAIN)
Nº02801 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
Nº03390 Ken-Ya Taira (JAPAN)
Nº04115 Diego Caballero (SPAIN
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20 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024
WINNER:
TO BE ANNOUNCED 18 February 2025
ANNOUNCEMENT IN PROGRESS
until 20th September
BESTARD Award 2023 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest 2023’.
💥The Bestard Boots AWARD goes to:
Nº00167 🏆 Ana Pedrón Martínez (SPAIN)
👏🏻👏🏻Congratulations!
This image conveys resilience, both in life and in sport. The drive for self-improvement moves mountains, and in the world of canyoning, it leads us to seek optimal conditions to overcome ourselves and descend icy canyons, the ultimate challenge in this sport. Overcoming obstacles is part of our DNA. Additionally, we feel a special affection and nostalgia for winter canyoning since, at the beginning of the development of our Hidroline footwear, we made efforts to adapt it to the maximum for this modality as well.
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🏅 VERY HONORABLE MENTIONS!!:
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Nº01026 Álvaro Herrero López-Beltrán (SPAIN)
This image has been chosen for its technical difficulty, risk, and location, as well as for showing the path to the unknown, which we often need to discover and understand in our daily activities. It expresses the challenging journey towards exploring new horizons.
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Nº02801 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
This image conveys freedom, jumping into the void and trusting our decision and intuition that everything will turn out fine. Our journey is full of gaps that we must jump and enjoy.
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Nº04115 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
This image conveys creativity and innovation, breaking with the established norms. What would humanity be without attempting to progress? Innovating in sports, photography, and life, we are who we are in part due to the desire to innovate and reinvent ourselves.
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Nº03390 Ken-Ya Taira (JAPAN)
This image conveys the strength of wild nature, feeling something as supernatural as the force of water sculpting rock, and for a few minutes, being able to be part of this process, following the course of the water.
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👏🏻From Bestard we want to offer our most sincere congratulations and thanks to all the participants in this contest for their contributions,effort and impressive activities, and in particular to the nominated photos!
Nº00167 🏆 Ana Pedrón Martínez (SPAIN)
👏🏻👏🏻Congratulations!
This image conveys resilience, both in life and in sport. The drive for self-improvement moves mountains, and in the world of canyoning, it leads us to seek optimal conditions to overcome ourselves and descend icy canyons, the ultimate challenge in this sport. Overcoming obstacles is part of our DNA. Additionally, we feel a special affection and nostalgia for winter canyoning since, at the beginning of the development of our Hidroline footwear, we made efforts to adapt it to the maximum for this modality as well.
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🏅 VERY HONORABLE MENTIONS!!:
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Nº01026 Álvaro Herrero López-Beltrán (SPAIN)
This image has been chosen for its technical difficulty, risk, and location, as well as for showing the path to the unknown, which we often need to discover and understand in our daily activities. It expresses the challenging journey towards exploring new horizons.
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Nº02801 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
This image conveys freedom, jumping into the void and trusting our decision and intuition that everything will turn out fine. Our journey is full of gaps that we must jump and enjoy.
.
Nº04115 Diego Caballero (SPAIN)
This image conveys creativity and innovation, breaking with the established norms. What would humanity be without attempting to progress? Innovating in sports, photography, and life, we are who we are in part due to the desire to innovate and reinvent ourselves.
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Nº03390 Ken-Ya Taira (JAPAN)
This image conveys the strength of wild nature, feeling something as supernatural as the force of water sculpting rock, and for a few minutes, being able to be part of this process, following the course of the water.
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👏🏻From Bestard we want to offer our most sincere congratulations and thanks to all the participants in this contest for their contributions,effort and impressive activities, and in particular to the nominated photos!
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20 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024
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BESTARD Award 2022 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest 2022’.
In January 2023 an internal Bestard Mountain Boots team will pick by their own criteria which are the BEST PHOTOS among the resulting finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2022.
The winner photo will be awarded the ‘BESTARD Award 2022’ consisting of the best sellers of the brand:
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CANYON GUIDE high-cut WILDWATER PRO mid-cut 
pack valued at aprox. 430USD (407EUR)
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The CANYON GUIDE – already a classic model designed for swift water activities. Its stability, ruggedness, low weight, confort, durability, built in gravel-gater etc. has made it a favourite within the international canyonering community, not the least for tough and demanding activities such as expeditions to remote and complicated canyons including long approach marches and jungle treks; for sea- and mountain rescue teams; subacuatic caving etc.
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The WILDWATER PRO is a new very exciting mid-cut boot for activities such as canyoneering, backrafting, swift water kayaking, caving etc. Its special construction with one fix and one removable footbed allows for use with normal socks for the approach, and with neoprene socks after removing the footbed.
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Founded in 1940, BESTARD (https://bestard.com) is a small, specialized family company that has grown and evolved to an internationally recognized manufacturer of technical, high quality mountain footwear. It is now selling in more than 30 countries around the world, and is one of the few companies in this field still manufacturing most of their boots in their own factory in Mallorca, Spain.
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The winner will be announced at the beginning of February 2023. (duties for delivery outside the EU to be covered by winners)
ENTER THE CONTEST! You too can submit your photos!
Open worldwide, free participation. Closing on 31 December 2022.
Visit https://CONTEST.LucaMemorial.Org
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30 Jan 2023
30 Jan 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT
OUTEX AWARD 2021
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'How to Submit Photos'
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OUTEX brand has been invited to pick by their own criteria which are the BEST PHOTOS among the resulting finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2022..
OUTEX (https://outex.com) makes professional outdoor and waterproof housings for cameras & lenses. With a unique patented product design to universally fit all brands & models, maintains all functional control, optical glass ports, in a compact & lightweight size.
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OUTEX Award announcement (link in bio)
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The prize consists of one of the best sellers of the brand: the Pro Kit!
valued at 435USDAn underwater camera housing for professional photographers
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<<OUTEX
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We congratulates all participants!
The quality and scope of the photos is tremendous!, and it was very difficult to narrow it down….let alone select a preference.
OUTEX teams in Europe and USA are impressed and torn!
Given the pandemic and our geographical locations, team members were able after some iterations to narrow down the selection to a consensual choice:
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We now proceed to announce the images that the OUTEX jury has chosen as the three best:
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#1 OUTEX WINNER, Photo of the Year 2021Xabier Garcia (SPAIN)Congratulations!
“Between a Rock & a Hard Place”: An image that elicited much emotional reactions from our staff!
this image seemed to capture so many attributes of canyoning: adventure, skill, knowledge, perseverance, teamwork, humanity, & beauty.
While there are elements of photographic integrity that depict framing, composition, depth of field, shutter speed, and focus, the image ultimately illustrates humanity against the beauty, thrills, and challenges of nature at a particular point in time that’s metaphorical to what photography means in all of our lives.
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Number 2!, Honorable Mention!!Matthias Holzinger (SWITZERLAND)Congratulations!
Amazing juxtaposition of elements coming together; water, rock, gravity, seemed like a great metaphor for the sport of canyoning.
The framing and composition help create the magical illusion of walking on the rainbow, while capturing the backdrop against which the feat seems even more amazing.
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Number 3!, Honorable Mention!!Guillermo Sánchez (SPAIN)Congratulations!
The photo captures much of the essence of canyoning, not to mention the complexities of photographing it in the process.
Masterfully negotiating the elements, while maintaining depth of field, the backlight, and giving an unique perspective on the thrills & challenges of the sport.
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Want more photos?View FINALIST 2021 GALLEY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):.
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️ The Luca Memorial photo contest is the only annual international contest focused exclusively on photos of Caves & Canyons.2022 Edition is OPEN for photo submission from Instagram / Facebook / Twitter, or file.
Luca Chiarabini
MEMORIAL
Photo Contest
2024
Worldwide Edition
(Free participation)
THANK YOU BESTARD!
THANK YOU BESTARD!For your great support and cooperation with Luca Memorial Contest.
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