16. 10. 2024

G&P Photo Contest 2024

Giese & Partner has announced a photo contest among its team members this year focusing on "Gardens and Parks".

This year's winner is photo no. 18, which was created by Radek Werich with the help of artificial intelligence, which no one knew. As the photo is beautiful and received top ranking from the team, we decided to award it a place of honor on the front of the G&P photo calendar for 2025.

Further best twelve photographs will be placed inside the calendar.

1. Markéta Havrlantová, G&P Prague (photo no. 53) / 2. Ondřej Rathouský, G&P Prague (photo no. 8) / 3. Marie Nálepová, G&P Prague (photo no. 10) / 4. Petra Blažková, G&P Prague (photo no. 14) / 5. Jana Kostěncová, G&P Prague (photo no. 6) / 6. Martin Holler, G&P Prague(photo no. 1) / 7. Jana Kněžínková, G&P Prague (photo no. 65) / 8. Martina Novotná, G&P Prague (photo no. 55) / 9. Andrea Machciniková, G&P Prague (photo no. 2) / 10. Radek Werich, G&P Prague (photo no. 37) / 11. Karolína Szturc, G&P Prague (photo no. 17) / 12. Markéta Mrázová, G&P Prague (photo no. 13)

Twenty team members participated in this year's photo contest, submitting a total of more than 300 photos. 66 photos made it to the second round.

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