Winners FINALE 2021

Luca Chiarabini Memorial Contest 2021, FINALE 2021. Info & updates. Stay tuned!

Luca Chiarabini
MEMORIAL

Photo Contest
2021

Worldwide Edition
(Free participation)

🏆2022
IS OPEN🔥
(click here to submit)

FINALE 2021
WINNERS

FINALE 2021

GALLERY
FINALE 🏆 2021
👉🏻 click here

    ‘Photo of the Year’ Winners & Honorable Mentions  announced Friday  28 January 2022.

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    🏆 Luca Memorial Award ‘Photo of the Year’

    Announcement of the 2021 winner/s  elected by the FINALE⚖️JURY ( an extended Jury composed by 14 relevant people). Winner/s opt to win up to $5000USD:

    🙌🏻‘ PHOTO of YEAR’, awarded with $3’000 USD for #1 ranked Photo

    🙌🏻‘AMATEUR PHOTO of YEAR’ awarded with $2’000 USD for #1 ranked Amateur Photo.

    Prizes can add up to $5’000 USD, if both match!

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    🏆 Korda’s Award ‘Photo of the Year’

    Announcement of the 2021 winner/s  elected by the worldwide known brand KORDA’S with their own judging team and criteria:

    🙌🏻‘KORDA’s Award ‘Photo of the year 2021’ valued at $ 650 USD (575 Eur).

    The prize consists of a pack of 3 best selling ropes: DANA 10 Canyoning 60m, IRIS 9 Canyoning 60m and IRIS 9 Caving 120m.

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    🏆OUTEX  Award ‘Photo of the year 2021’

    Announcement of the 2021 winner/s  elected by the worldwide known brand Outex  with their own judging team and criteria:

    🙌🏻‘OUTEX Award ‘Photo of the year 2021’ valued at $ 435 USD

    The prize consists of the best seller of the brand: the Pro Kit, Underwater camera housing for professional photographers.

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      LUCA MEMORIAL

        🏆GRAND FINALE 2021 of the Luca Memorial International Photo Contest.
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        The FINALE ⚖️ Jury, composed by 14 amazing members, has picked & ranked their preferred photos from among the over 90 FINALIST photos.
        The photo that managed to impress the most of the Jury members has resulted ‘Photo of the Year’.
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        ℹ️FINALE 2021 Award announcement (Link in bio)
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        🥇#1 BEST PHOTO
        Giovanni Mattiello (🇮🇹ITALY)
        [Not Amateur]
        Awarded with up to 3’000USD
        Congratulations!
        💬more about 👥AUTHOR, 📍LOCATION & 📷PHOTO in photo caption.
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        🥇#1 BEST AMATEUR PHOTO
        Juan Ignacio Montero (🇪🇸SPAIN)
        Awarded with up to 2’000USD
        Congratulations!
        💬more about 👥AUTHOR, 📍LOCATION & 📷PHOTO in photo caption.
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        🥈#2 HONORABLE MENTION
        Eugene Yeo (🇳🇿NEW ZEALAND)
        Congratulations!
        💬more about 👥AUTHOR, 📍LOCATION & 📷PHOTO in photo caption.
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        🥉#3 HONORABLE MENTION
        Bartek Biela (🇬🇧UNITED KINGDOM)
        Congratulations!
        💬more about 👥AUTHOR, 📍LOCATION & 📷PHOTO in photo caption.
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        🏆 The Luca Memorial Photo Contest was born in 2018 to remember Luca Chiarabini, an immeasurable fan of caving and canyoning.
        It’s the one and only annual International Photo Contest dedicated exclusively to Luca’s greatest passions: Caving and Canyoning.
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        🔥The 2022 Edition is OPEN to submit from Instagram / Facebook / Twitter, or file.
            🥇#1 BEST PHOTO FINALE 2021, Luca Memorial🏆Contest
            Giovanni Mattiello (🇮🇹ITALY)
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            👥AUTHOR
            Giovanni is 24 years old. He lives in Belluno where he is known as photographer and for his adventures in the Italian Dolomites.
            In 2021 he discovered Canyoning as a sport and he has fallen in love with it.
            He believes that the flow of the water is pure natural energy!
            He is convinced there’re no funnier and better things to do in hot summer days than a canyoning outing!
            He always brings his camera with him to take pictures of places that few people can see!
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            📍📷LOCATION & PHOTO
            Giovanni entitles his photo as “ A work of water and time” and the location is Maor canyon, near Belluno, in the Italian Dolomites.
            Maor is a unique canyon to say the least, as easy as it is, it is spectacular!
            Always ready to leave everyone speechless, from beginners to veterans, from locals to outsiders of all over the world! The geology of this place is amazing: There are parts where the walls are so high and it’s so dark inside that taking good picture here it’s not so easy!
            They say that those who start practicing canyoning in Maor Canyon fall in love with this sport, and for Giovanni it was just like that!
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            Want more photos?
            🏅View FINALIST 2021 GALLERY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):
            https://lucamemorial.org/contest2021/finale2021#GALLERY 
                🥇#1 BEST AMATEUR PHOTO FINALE 2021, Luca Memorial🏆Contest
                Juan Ignacio Montero (🇪🇸SPAIN)
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                👥AUTHOR
                Juan Ignacio was born in Madrid,He is 55 years old and lives in Asturias (Spain).
                He has been linked to the underground world since he was a teenager, caving within the national territory.
                At the moment he is not involved anymore with great vertical explorations & caving expeditions. He is however still involved with the underground and in the last 5 years, he has tried to show through photography the wonders that are hidden under our feet, placing special emphasis on the need to conserve and care these fragile & delicate ecosystems.
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                📍📷LOCATION & PHOTO
                Juan Ignacio entitles his photo “under the storm”, as the Image was taken when the cave was under a strong external storm. Its the Alda cave in the Council of Cabrales (Asturias), very close to the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain.
                The image was taken in a simple way: it was decided to light one of the stalagmites with a LED flashlight, the other with the own frontal. Then, let the camera capture the water trajectory with one second exposure.
                The photograph it is part of the current editorial work that he is preparing, which will be already his second book dedicated exclusively to underground photography.
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                Want more photos?
                🏅View FINALIST 2021 GALLERY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):
                https://lucamemorial.org/contest2021/finale2021#GALLERY 
                    🥈#2 HONORABLE MENTION FINALE 2021, Luca Memorial🏆Contest
                    Eugene Yeo (🇳🇿NEW ZEALAND)
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                    👥AUTHOR
                    Eugene was born in Malaysia, he is 24 years old and lives in New Zealand.
                    He began climbing at university, and then gradually expanded into the wonderful world of canyoning and caving.
                    He feels lucky that New Zeeland has so many world top class caves and canyons in such a small isolated country!
                    he relies on photography & videography, to fully appreciate the beautiful intricacies of caves and canyons in greater detail than his mind could have captured at the moment.
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                    📍📷LOCATION & PHOTO
                    Eugene entitled his photo as “The Doppler Effect” and this cave is located in Abel, Tasman National Park, in South Island New Zealand.
                    With 50 meters wide and nearly 180 meters deep, the cave was carved out by an acidic waterfall eroding into limestone. The trail to it follows a distinct dried-up riverbed.
                    The 11-minute descent reminded Eugene of the “Doppler effect”, as the beautiful cave seems to pass slowly around you as you descend, but the contrast of watching the rope running quickly through the rack is a stark indicator of the vastness you are descending into.
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                    Want more photos?
                    🏅View FINALIST 2021 GALLERY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):
                    https://lucamemorial.org/contest2021/finale2021#GALLERY 
                        🥉#3 HONORABLE MENTION FINALE 2021, Luca Memorial🏆Contest
                        Bartek Biela (🇬🇧UNITED KINGDOM)
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                        👥AUTHOR
                        Bartek started caving in Poland in the late ’90s, exploring caves in the Polish Jura.
                        And he is currently member of Dudley Caving Club and a volunteer for Midlands Cave Rescue Organisation in the UK.
                        He has visited many cave systems: in UK, Europe, North Africa and Thailand.
                        Photography started as a big hobby in his youth and he took it underground with him.
                        Only in recent years he started sharing the pictures with a wider community of cavers and making the darkness of caves visible for non-cavers has now developed into a real passion for him.
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                        📍📷LOCATION & PHOTO
                        Bartek entitles his photo as “The bell” and the location of the photo is precisily “The Bell pitch” in Ireby Fell Cavern, in Yorkshire (UK).
                        The Ireby Fell Cavern is the longest cave in UK, a system going underground across three Counties: Yorkshire, Lancashire & Cumbria.
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                        Want more photos?
                        🏅View FINALIST 2021 GALLERY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):
                        https://lucamemorial.org/contest2021/finale2021#GALLERY 

                          KORDAS 

                            🏆KORDA’S brand has been invited to elected a photo to be awarded ‘KORDA’S, photo of the year’, from among Finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2021.

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                            KORDAS’S  (https://www.sacidkordas.com) is a manufacturer of high-performance ropes for the sports and professional sectors, specialized in semi-static ropes with a high level of standard finishes.
                            With an experience of more than 70 years, they apply cutting edge technology to the production of ropes to guarantee maximum safety and quality to the user.
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                            ℹ️ KORDA’S Award announcement (link in bio)
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                            The prize consists of a pack of 3 ropes:
                            🔹DANA 10 Canyoning 60m. Semi-static Type A (EU)
                            🔹IRIS 9 Canyoning 60m. Semi-static Type B (EU)
                            🔹IRIS 9 Caving 120m. Semi-static Type B (EU)
                            Pack 💵valued at $650USD (575 Eur).
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                            <<KORDA’S💬>>
                            Korda’s would like to congratulate all the participants for the impressive images they have contributed. It has been a pleasure to have the honor of choosing among all the photographs.
                            A very difficult choice, each and every one of the images had something special that stood out and made them unique.
                            We now proceed to announce the images that the KORDAS jury has chosen as the three best:
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                            🥇#1 KORDA’S WINNER, Photo of the Year 2021
                            🥇 Bartek Biela (UK)
                            Congratulations!
                            The winner image is a vertical caving photography, with a good composition, detailed lighting, framing and very nice color tone that reinforces the atmosphere of this vertical and the geological structure of the place.
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                            🥈 Number 2!, Honorable Mention!!
                            🥈 Giovanni Mattiello (ITALY)
                            Congratulations!
                            The mentioned image has photographed a sector of a canyon with calm waters. It transmits silence and calm. Technically well worked, with a composition where the lights and the geological forms of the horizontal strata highlight the beauty of nature.
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                            🥉Number 3!, Honorable Mention!!
                            🥉 Victor de Felipe (SPAIN)
                            Congratulations!
                            The mentioned image, has good framing of the place, balanced lighting where the color contrast between the water and the rock is intensified. And highlight the greatness and beauty of the underground world.
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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.
                              KORDA'S AWARD
                              (click here to learn more)

                              OUTEX

                                🏆OUTEX brand has been invited to elected a photo to be awarded ‘OUTEX, photo of the year’, from among Finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2021.
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                                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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                                ℹ️ 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 435USD
                                An underwater camera housing for professional photographers
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                                <<OUTEX💬>>
                                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 2021
                                🥇Xabier 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.
                                  OUTEX AWARD
                                  (click here to learn more)

                                  We will periodically update this page with information about the FINALE 2021.
                                  Stay tuned! 

                                  Hurry to submit your last photos:
                                  ⚠️2021 photos can not participate in 2022. ️
                                   CLOSING 2021 Contest:
                                  31/12/2021 23:59 CET!

                                  More info and details about the BRAND AWARDS 2021 clicking on the image above.

                                  JURY MEMBERS

                                  More info and details about the JURY MEMBERS FINALE 2021 clicking on the image above.

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                                  🙏Thank you to all participants in Luca Memorial Contest 2021!


                                  Below the list of Honorable FINALISTS:

                                  👉🏻Johan AGUILAR VARGAS
                                  (COSTA RICA)

                                  👉🏻Iker AGUIRRE
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Neil ALDRED
                                  (AUSTRALIA)

                                  👉🏻Adam ANDERSON
                                  (UNITED STATES)

                                  👉🏻Alexander ARNOLD
                                  (SWITZERLAND)

                                  👉🏻Thierry AUBÉ
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Nicolas BAUDIÈR
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Barket BIELA
                                  (UNITED KINGDOM)

                                  👉🏻Diego CABALLERO
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Luca CASTELLANI
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Marco CASTELLANI
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Diego CASTRO
                                  (COSTA RICA)

                                  👉🏻Kevin CARPIN
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Baptiste CHASSEIGNE
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Van COFFEY
                                  (UNITED STATES)

                                  👉🏻José DAMIÁN
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Alberto DI FABIO
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Vittoria FIORI
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Tristan FRICKER
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Xabier GARCÍA
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Lucas GIL NEVES
                                  (BRAZIL)

                                  👉🏻Mohammad GOUDARZI
                                  (IRAN)

                                  👉🏻Sakulina GULNAZ
                                  (RUSSIA)

                                  👉🏻Juan Diego GUZMÁN
                                  (COLOMBIA)

                                  👉🏻Matthias HOLZINGER
                                  (SWITZERLAND)

                                  👉🏻Taira KENYA
                                  (JAPAN)

                                  👉🏻Weigner LUAN
                                  (BRAZIL)

                                  👉🏻Michaela LUTZ
                                  (GERMANY)

                                  👉🏻Kylie MALONE
                                  (AUSTRALIA)

                                  👉🏻Claudia MAGNANI
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Nicko MARTÍN
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Giovanni MATTIELLO
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Alejandro MENÉNDEZ
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Daniel MENIN
                                  (BRAZIL)

                                  👉🏻Valeria MIELE
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Diomedes MOJICA
                                  (PANAMA)

                                  👉🏻Juan MONTERO MARTÍN
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Dane MULLINAX
                                  (UNITED STATES)

                                  👉🏻Yoshiki NIIRO
                                  (JAPAN)

                                  👉🏻Cathy O’Dowd
                                  (ANDORRA)

                                  👉🏻Marco PEREA
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Bonczi PÉTER
                                  (Hungary)

                                  👉🏻Dijana RAĐO & Predrag VUCKOVIC
                                  (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) & (SERBIA)

                                  👉🏻Pablo RAMÍREZ
                                  (COSTA RICA)

                                  👉🏻José RODRÍGUEZ ARENAS
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Ángel RODRÍGUEZ CASCALLANA
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Lorenzo ROSSATO
                                  (ITALY)

                                  👉🏻Christian ROUSTAN
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Enrique SALAZAR
                                  (COSTA RICA)

                                  👉🏻Guillermo SÁNCHEZ
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Gabriel SCHERK
                                  (FRANCE)

                                  👉🏻Mike Angelina SIMON
                                  (GERMANY)

                                  👉🏻Victor TRAMUNTOP
                                  (SPAIN)

                                  👉🏻Eugene YEO
                                  (NEW ZEALAND)

                                  👉🏻Matej ZALOKAR
                                  (SLOVENIA)

                                  YOUTUBE video with subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian &  Spanish. 
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                                  More info and details about the BRAND AWARDS 2021 clicking on the image above.

                                  2021 Participation: 40 Countries, 1200 Photos

                                  Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA

                                  More info and details about the BRAND AWARDS 2021 clickingon the icon above:

                                  GALLERY FINALE 2021

                                  All photos being judged by the JURY and the BRANDS.

                                  All photos being judged by the JURY and the BRANDS.
                                  YOU can VOTE TOO: your preferred 15  photos
                                  (you will see only the votes casted from your IP)

                                  This PUBLIC VOTING feature is in testing phase to be used for HONORABLE MENTIONS during 2022.