Now You See Me
Nature, third prize stories
February 29, 2016
Fallow deer in Gyulaj Forest, Duna-Dráva National Park, Hungary.
Animals pictured at night in their natural habitats.
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Background story
"I had been going to this place for 3 years when I finally managed to shoot a few deer which took me lots of energy. The efficiency of shooting was incredibly low. The animals would not appear, or the sky was cloudy, the airplanes striped the skies, the batteries ran out, or the moon overlit the stars. Those few shots I managed to take compensated me for so many failures."
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Bence Máté
Hungary
Bence Máté is a wildlife photographer, born in Hungary, in 1985.
About the photographer
Bence Máté
Bence Máté is a wildlife photographer, born in Hungary, in 1985.
Bence Máté is a wildlife photographer, born in Hungary, in 1985.
In 2010 he won the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photography of the Year award in London. He is the most effective photographer in the 53-year-old history of the competition, being the only contestant winning the first prize in both the young and adult categories.
In 2005, he experimented with the one-way glass photography technique, making fundamental changes in hide photography practice. This technique has been widely used all over the world, and most hides are equipped with such glasses. Since 2008, he has been designing wildlife photography hides in different parts of the world (Hungary, Costa Rica, Brazil, Norway, South-Africa and Transylvania, Romania). His enterprise operating in Hungary welcomes photographers with the most exclusive hides in the world.
His most significant awards include the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year (international) in 2010; the BBC Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year (international) in 2002; the Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Hungary) in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015; and the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Hungary) in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; among others.
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