The photo contest "I love my county" in 2022 is over, and the expert jury selected the best photos that amateur and professional photographers sent for the seventh year in a row to help tell the story of the beauties of Croatia.

The president of the expert jury this year was the celebrated photographer Mare Milin. Along with Mare, the best photographs were decided by Franc Moscard from Istria, Petra Vadlja from Međimurje and Davor Pavić from the Split-Dalmatia County.

"The projects we are launching within the Croatian Union of Counties as the umbrella organization of all counties are primarily aimed at cooperation and promoting the interests of all units of regional self-government, regardless of their differences. Apart from geographical ones, the diversity in old customs, way of life, traditional values makes a unique whole that we can see through these photographs. That is why every year we choose colleagues from different counties as members of the jury - we get new views and learn from each other," said the president of the Croatian Association of Counties, also the prefect of Brod-Posavina County, Danijel Marusic.

The jury selected 21 photos - one from each county, and in addition to that category, participants could compete in two more, the photo with the highest number of votes collected via Facebook within the volimzup.hr application and the best photo taken by drone.

The most votes, almost 2,000, were won by the photograph Imaginary Tent, by Dorijan Delost from the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The best drone photo was also taken in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, and it is the Marina Punat by Vladimir Bogovčić.

The first three places, according to the expert jury, were taken by the following photos -

1. Blurred, Mary Crnković Pilaš - City of Zagreb

2. Herd keeper, Antonio Oršulić - Dubrovnik-Neretva County

3. Snow Chapel, Goran Lončar - Vukovar-Srijem County

Blurred, Mary Crnković Pilaš

Herd keeper, Antonio Oršulić

Snow Chapel, Goran Lončar