I began taking nature pictures 7 years ago, before that I just took pictures when I was traveling, without any ambitions. In the last 7 years photography took all my spare time as a hobby. At the beginning I started with landscapes and patterns, but quickly I fell in love with wild animals and birds. I improved my photography with every new thing I discovered. Especially in hiding techniques and birds behavior. Today, a big part of my photography is about birds, but I prefer a more creative approximation, showing their relationship with environment and looking for diffuse pictures and non-traditional images, where pixel peeping or definition are not important. About 95 percent of my work as a photographer is done near the place where I live, and I consider this essential to grow as a photographer. In fact, in the last two years I have travelled for the first time in a nature photography trip out of Spain, my homeland. I consider myself versatile and I am more and more interested in every category of Nature Photography: birds, mammals, invertebrates, macro, flowers, landscape, patterns, etc, trying to do something creative in every category, where composition is more important to me that the subject itself.

In the last 5 years, I was honored with several awards in nature photography contests, as Montphoto, Memorial María Luisa, Oasis Photocontest, Narava, Cadiz Photonature, Montier en Der, Festival de l’oiseau, Glanzlichter (Over All Winner 2018), Golden Turtle (Over All Winner 2018), Sony World Photography Awards (National Winner Spain 2019), Festival de la Camargue (Over All Winner 2019), GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Bird Photographer of the Year, etc.

Website: www.manuelgonzalezfoto.com