Barum Czech Rally Zlín 

The photo competition wining prizes go to abroad

24. 8. 2014 - Roman Ordelt, press relations officer BCRZ

Shortly after the 43rd Barum Czech Rally Zlín 2013 finished the traditional photo competition was announced. Prizes for awarded competitors came from companies RALLY MODELS – Antonín Babík, JNK Studio Zlín – rally video production, PARAMO a. s., MOGUL motor oils and company ALITRON CZ, s. r. o. Donated the competition with one-year subscription of its magazine RALLY. All main prizes for the previous year go to abroad, the overall winner is Gergély Makai from Hungary.

1st prize Gergély Makai, Hungary

Autoclub Barum Zlín in cooperation with ZLIN PRESS production agency announced the photo competition in one common group for both professional and amateur photographers in category of digital images. The international jury with Miloslav Regner (Clerk of the course Barum Czech Rally Zlín), Roman Ordelt (ZLIN PRESS production) and Ing. Jan Regner (Deputy of CoC Barum Czech Rally Zlín) in its head decided to give three financial awards and another five prizes for the most se interesting images. „We have been again delighted with high level of received images. It’s clear that nowadays the digital photography has been dominating. The photo competition is very popular not only among the Czech photographers, but like in previous years plenty of pictures came from abroad. Therefore we can talk about an international competition. The 1st prize goes to Hungary where in the group of five awarded are all photographers from foreign countries. Reviewing the overall number of participants we can say that the automobile sport has interested more and more photographers. The high level of their work has been assessed by all members of the international jury,” said Clerk of the course Miloslav Regner, the chairman of the jury.

In the jury took part also these persons: Timo Anis (Finland, photographer), Robert Balcar (Czech Republic, photographer), Andrea Camilloni (France, JERC editor, Eurosport), Daniel Fessl (Austria, photographer), Martin Kangur (Estonia, driver), Ricardo Nascimento (Portugal, photographer), Nikolaos Petrounos (Greece, rally official), Gábor Viczena (Hungary, co-driver), Marcin Wyrzykowski (Poland, Autoklub.pl chief editor) and Kathi Wüstenhagen (Germany, logistician at Hyundai Motorsport).

It’s pleasing that the photo competition has a positive feedback among the rally enthusiasts. The level of entered images is still rising up. In category of digital photography the organisers received overall 726 images from 169 authors!

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
1^st prize Gergély Makai, Maďarsko
Budapešť – 500 Kč

2^nd prize Christian Salzmann, Rakousko
Aschach/Steyer – 300 Kč

3^rd prize Tomasz Macherzyński, Polsko
Bielawa – 200 Kč

Authors of awarded images in digital photography:

Marek Talaš, Napajedla, Czech Republic

Jakub Marcoň, Vizovice, Czech Republic

Ivan Čech, Slavičín, Czech Republic

René Bláha, Hlučín, Czech Republic

Robert Taperek, Piaseczno, Polsko

We congratulate the winners and awarded photographers and look forward to their contribution to the photo competition of 44^th Barum Czech Rally Zlín 2014!