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22 August 2021 by Saverio Gatto 0 comments

3rd Prize!
I am very glad to announce I've got the 3rd prize at EuroNatur 2021. I am also glad to share this award with the great hungarian photographer Bence Máté. The jury had to select only 12 prizes among 4200 pictures entered by 862 phot...

17 September 2020 by Saverio Gatto 0 comments

1st Prize!
I am very glad to announce I've got the 1st prize in 'General' Category at Vogelwarte 2020, the competition organised by The Swiss Ornithological Institute. The competition is tough as the jury had to select only 12 prizes among 9000...

01 June 2019 by Saverio Gatto 2 comments

I am very happy to announce that I've got the 1st Prize in Man and Nature category at Asferico 2019! I am very close with this image beacuse there is a message about the link between the choices made ny humans and the protection of the Life on Earth...

21 August 2018 by Saverio Gatto 2 comments

I am very happy to announce that I've got the Gold Award in Best Portrait category at Bird Photographer of the Year! I shot the winning image in Iceland in may 2017, a solo trip that I started despite I had high fever when I left Italy. That confir...

12 March 2018 by Saverio Gatto 0 comments

Lately I didn't have enough time for photography. The reason is that I dedicated myself to the restyling of my website, with the aim of giving it a new look in order to add more value to the images. Moreover, the site is much more "selling oriented" ...

01 March 2013 by Saverio Gatto 2 comments

When you have to prepare your set and decide the distance between the perches and the camera you could face some tricky calculations. This tool is aiming to help you, you should only insert the focal length (comprehensive of eventual sensor mag...

11 January 2011 by Saverio Gatto 0 comments

I'm writing this post to answer the so many questions about the method I use to archive my pictures. The goal is to achieve the best data protection with less expense and with the possibility to find a picture in the archive in the easiest way poss...

27 October 2010 by Saverio Gatto 0 comments

As I promised you, here you can see a few picture to realise what kind of job I did. The perch I set for Golden Eagle stretches out from a holm oak located on the edge of a 300 meters deep gully.
The hide is 25 meter far away from the perch and t...

16 October 2010 by Saverio Gatto 1 comments

Frequent visitors can notice that I am getting just a few images since autumn came. Usually, in this part of the year, I use to spend my time with migrating waders that stop along the coast but this year I decided to do something different: setting a...

26 September 2008 by Saverio Gatto 8 comments

I want dedicate my first post on this blog to the memory of my friend Giovanni D'Acunto. The days we spent together in Nature are indelible. They renew every time I see birds, every time I soil; every time I track wolves' footprints on snow,...