Photo Contest Gewinner 2025
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It is with great pleasure and pride that we present the winners of the Photo Contest 2025, 16th Edition - Playa Esterillos - Hotel La Dolce Vita.
Thanks to all participants and supporters of the contest!As in the past years, also in 2023 we have received many beautiful photos that would have deserved a reward. The winners of the contest have been chosen on the base of the subject originality, ideas, quality and overall beauty of the picture.We are aware that many more participant pictures would deserve a prize and therefore, thanking again all the participants for sending their photos, we recommend everybody to attend next year contest.
The “Playa Esterillos Hotel La Dolce Vita” Photo Contest photos show the beauty of Esterillos beach and of Costa Rica. These photos clearly demonstrate how beauty is everywhere in Playa Esterillos (sometime hidden to our eyes)an how it’s easy, for an open, artistic and curious person equipped with a photo camera and with much will for beauty, to discover the appeal of our beach and village. See you in 2026 for the 17° edition of the contest.
First place: Starry Dawn, by Jonathan Torres Mathiew. A magical view of the Esterillos Oeste beach sky at “Starry Dawn.” Love is everywhere — look up and dream.
Second place: The red treasure of the Pacific, by Luis Jiménez. Esterillos fisherman faces the sea with one of the fruits of his daily labor. The ocean is our source of life and wealth. Let's protect and respect it.
Third place: True love, by Johanna Garcia Zumbado. The most beautiful place in the world.


