ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Once again, I find myself in one of the hides to photograph cranes in the Gallocanta lakes. They are eight in the morning of the third day and the thermometer reaches 13 degrees below zero. The heavy snowfall these days has made the cranes move to lower ground where they can feed. The mood is very low, took two days below zero gotten into the hideout, 12 hours a day and not a single crane showed up. The snow has come down a lot and I'm afraid that a year will leave me without the picture. All these thoughts are going through the mind of a photographer half frozen nature also has traveled a thousand miles to photograph the affairs of cranes. Finally, with the loss of all hope, a pair of beautiful and elegant cranes perch in front of my stash. The cold is gone, the thrill is home to the photographer while the cranes are delivered in a dance of love.

AUTHOR
Award winning Photographer of Spain in international competitions. Francisco Mingorance was devoted to nature photography professionally for three decades. For over twenty five years he has worked as a photojournalist for the vast majority of magazines, newspapers and issues most important in the world, also has published over a hundred articles on the Spanish nature in specialized areas such as Natura, National Geographic, International Widelife, Terre Sauvage, BBC, Oasis, Geo, Very Interesting, the Weekly País, El Mundo, ABC, week and so on. Many of these works have been recognized with several awards, not only in Spain but in the rest of the world, only in the last four years Mingorance Francisco has earned more than one hundred international awards including four Windland Smith Rice on International Awards 2010 and four in the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 being the most awarded photographer in both competitions. Also the photos were used to illustrate the pages of more than twenty books and source of learning have inspired many generations of nature photographers. Currently working on the development of various reports for the international edition of National Geographic.

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