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Pedro Jarque Spain 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Black Friday" Flamingo fight |
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Gorazd Golob Slovenia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Bear" Bear in Finnland, in evening sun low on horizont. |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Goat" Out take from an assignment |
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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Flamingo" States of Grace: Fauna - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Monica Gumm Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Get Together" Around 1200 mares live most of the year semi-wild in the marshland of the spanish National Park Doñana. Once a year, they are rounded up by horsemen and driven to the village Almonte. |
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Bence Mate Hungary Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Care" Young Burrowing Owls are preparing their first taking-off from the nest. |
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Stefanos Kouratzis Cyprus Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Pink in the Making" Migrating flamingoes take their annual respite from northern climes in Larnaca’s salt lake, feasting on brine shrimp, their pink blaze broken only by their grey-feathered young |
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Scott Hoyle USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Pup Luv" |
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Gary Latham UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Reindeer Migration" Reindeer Migration in a snowstorm, Northern Sweden. |
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Shairon Paterson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Deer (2)" inquisitive and brave deer exploring life |
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Mike Reyfman USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Fights Without Rules" Of course there is no fights between penguins and elephant seals. Those guys just leave in parallel worlds. In our extremely successful photo expedition to Antarctic South Georgia Island we often land |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "European Shag in Snow" European shag photographed on Hornøya in Norway in April 2016. Nikon D5, Nikkor 600/4E, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec. ISO 11,400. |
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Matthew Smith Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Shock of Blue" Every summer bluebottles sting around 40,000 Australian Beach goers. But their design and colour is truly art in nature. |
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Philip Lee Harvey UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Lioness Escapes Crocodiles" In a desperate attempt to rejoin her pride,a young lioness swims for her life in crocodile infested waters,Zambia. |
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Pedro Jarque Spain Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Big Mouth" Lion big mouth |
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Glyn Davies UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Clinging To A Buoy at the Beach" A colony of Goose Barnacles has grown attached to a disconnected buoy, now washed up on Llanddwyn Beach, West Anglesey. |
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Debby Thomas USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rainbow Run" |
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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Male Snowy Owl" It was a very cold snowy day and I was looking for a very white fast owl...in a blizzard. I heard him before I actually saw him; I feel under the circumstances, I was lucky to get this photo ! |
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Kerri-Jo Stewart Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Braided" |
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Caroline Tanghe Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Endless Love" Endless Love - Belgium |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Amazon Pinks" Amazon pink dolphins, Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru. |
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Andre Doyon Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Jelly Fish Plate #9" Sea jellyfish - From a graphic and chromatic study on aquatic animals |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mooch" Colorful fly |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Water Dragon" Australian Water Dragon, just came to say Hi, while I was resting during my trek. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fly the Magnificent" So common, so disliked, yet so magnificent from up close. |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fatting Up" 3 year old female polar bear feeding on fresh ring seal killed by mother. Shot in Svalbery, north of Norway |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Catch" King Fisher catching large fish in Brazel |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bear Face" 3 year old female polar bear on profile. Shot in Svalberg, north of Norway |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Brother and Sister" 2-3 year old brother and sister play fightingin Svalbery, north of Norway |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Play Time" 3 year old female polar bears at play. This action had never been seen before from un-related bears at this age. Shot in Svalverg, north of Norway |
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Al Bruton USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Beach Master" Large walrus is the king of the beach ay a walrus haul out. Shot north of Norway |
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Alan Skyrme Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Swallow-tailed Hummingbird" Silhouette of a Swallow-tailed Hummingbird in stages of flight against a black background |
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Alan Skyrme Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Jellyfish (2)" Translucent coloured jellyfish suspended in water against a black background |
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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "In the Mix" "In the Mix" was taken of the wild coast of the Transkei during the annual "Sardine Run†- the action is frantic and most probably one of the moist amazing predation spectacles to witness under wate |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Icy Stare" This Colorado Red Fox was running across a snowbank one freezing cold January morning when he stopped for a split second to stare into my camera. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Stealth" This Snowy Owl flew directly in line with my camera while skirting the snow for rodents during a cold January morning in Canada. |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rebel Punk from the Mid 1970s... " European shag photographed on Hornøya in Norway in April 2016. Nikon D5, Nikkor 400/2.8E, 1/1000 sec at f/4. ISO 3600. |
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Beate Walden USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Love (2)" Unconditional. Nurturing. Love. Our Nature. |
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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Night Star" A very shy species, Wild Boar captured under the Milky Way. |
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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Imagine" Imaginary flight of two White-fronted Bee-eaters sitting. |
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Berni Wood Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Family Baby Protection" The whole family is protecting the baby blue monkey in Barbados. |
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Brian Cassey Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Manus Island Turtles" Manus Islanders land a large turtle - captured whilst mating - onto the foreshore of the Papua New Guinea island in the Bismarck Sea near the Equator. Marine life is the main stay of the islanders |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tenderness in Wilderness" I visited a herd of wild horses in Bosnia. Showing the raw beauty and emotions of these creatures means the world to me. |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Horses" Personal Trip to Alaska |
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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tiger Swallowtail on Kinni" Tiger swallowtail butterfly getting minerals on sand bar on Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin. |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ducks in a Row" |
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Edward Badham USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sheep 13" Not exactly wild. I hope she isn't superstitious. |
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Edward Badham USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Puffin Sup" Gotta feed the fam! Mykines, Faroe Islands. I realized after several minutes that I was stationed very near this guys nest. No wonder he was so interested in me. |
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Einar Sira Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bird" |
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Ellie Young Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Little Green Bug" Hand made four colour carbon Print - Photomacrography |
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Geoffrey McKillop Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Black R" |
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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rains Cats..." Ngorongoro crater, rainy season, great for wildlife |
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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sleeping Beauty" Serengeti magic |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Anybody Home" Two female House Finches getting ready to enter Blue Spruce in backyard to get to their nests. |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Common Buckeye" Common Buckeye photographed at butterfly garden located in the Eastern Neck NWF on the eastern shore of Maryland. |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ready For My Close-up" Closeup of an Barn Owl at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, Arizona. |
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Heather Swan Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Beautiful Horse" There is nothing more beautiful than a Horse. |
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Henk Pasman Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dutch Cows (1)" |
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Henk Pasman Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dutch Cows (2)" |
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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pterois Antennata" Lion Fish from the Philippines Reefs |
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Jack Kenner USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Frog in Rose Garden" A colorful find one fine morning in my rose garden after a night rain. |
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Jack Kenner USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Learning to Feed" Leopard mom teaching baby how to feed in the wild, Botswana, Africa 2015. |
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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Sad Elephant Seal" It was wonderful to visit a beach in California where there were Elephant Seals, and to be able to photograph them. This lady touched something in me as her eyes were so sad, I spoke to her and she responded with this expression, I will always wonder what in her life made her so unhappy, she didn’t seem to mind my presence and the conversation we had. I always thank an animal, bird, or insect for allowing me to photograph them. |
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Jan Wieczorek Poland Nominee Wildlife Professional "At Dawn" |
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Jano Stovka Slovak Republic Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pteropus Vampyrus" |
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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Other Side" … if diving into the water was reaching into the air. We can only love what we know and protect what we love. Our underwater world needs our knowing. |
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Jin Akino Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lost in Thoughts" His profile from the side looked quiet but philosophic. |
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John Tozer Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Humpback Whale Breaching Australia" |
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John Magas Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Horse" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Caterpillar" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Contemplating Frog" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Frog " Just one more step |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Grasshopper" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Red Faced Caterpillar" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mantis" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Yellow Caterpillar" |
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Kare Breivik Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Last Grass" The last days in the autumn fields for these healthy sheep before ending their happy days as dinner |
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Karen Lunney Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Virunga Silverback" In projects partially funded by visiting fees, the surviving Rwandan gorilla groups have been better protected from poachers and received ongoing medical assistance, one of the few successful examples |
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Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram India Nominee Wildlife Professional "Morning Prayer" During a beautiful morning, sun just started shining, a praying mantis started its early walk on the grass, its like it's granting all the wishes of the dewdrops during this walk. |
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KC Montgomery USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Legacy of a Champion" |
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KC Montgomery USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Race" The Race of the Stallions |
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Lance Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Hunt" Brown bear mother hunts for Salmon in Katmai NP. |
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Laurie Frankel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Birds" An image made near Bodega Bay, reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s, “The Birds.†|
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Black Leopard" |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Peacock" |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Friesian Horse" Portrait of friesian horse in fog. |
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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kea at 4000 Feet" New Zealand native parrots high in the mountains. |
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Marcella Mirande-Ketcham USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Three Amigos" "Three gray wolves who are great friends, taken at the preserve in Allentown, Pa.." |
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Mark Coote New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tui Feathers" Close up of feathers on a dead Tui, an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand |
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Mark Coote New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ruru Wing" Close up of the wing of a dead Ruru. The Ruru or Morepork is New Zealand’s only surviving native owl. It is known for its haunting, melancholic call. |
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matt stock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Man-O-War" portugese man-o-war photographed in a salt water tank in the studio and then released |
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matt stock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mrs. Turtle and Mr. Lightning" A loggerhead sea turtle lays her eggs in Palm Beach as a storm rages behind her |
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Matthew Smith Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Celestial Terrestrial #1" A juvenile southern calamari squid peers into my macro lens during a night dive at Bushrangers Bay, Australia. |
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Matthew Smith Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Glaucus Atlanticus" Two Blue Dragon pelagic nudibranchs (sea slugs) approach each other to fight in shallow waters at Port Kembla, Australia. |
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Matthew Smith Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Smiling Assassin" A American Saltwater Crocodile in mangrove swamp off the coast of Cuba. |
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Matthew Smith Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Velvet Sheets" 2 Peach Anemonefish settle downn for the night in the folds of a balled up velvet purple anemone, Kimbe Bay Papua New Guinea |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bad Hair Day" Some days you just can't win! Wet Burrowing Owl in Florida. Wild Bird. |
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Michael Pliskin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Unicorn" I ordered a real live Unicorn online, and this is what showed up! |
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Michael Pliskin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pelicans Play" These two pelicans were really laughing it up on a fishing pier in Redondo Beach, CA. |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional "Free Dolphins" Dolphins and cetaceans are watched for recreation, estimated to be worth up to $ millions per annum worldwide as ecotourism operations for local communities. |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional " Peaceful Coexistence" Responsible whalewatching is the most sustainable, environmentally-friendly and economically-beneficial use of whales in the 21st century. Whales are worth much more alive than dead. |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Love Birds" I love the bright and vibrant colors of these birds and was amazed by the courting and affection between them |
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Pam Walker USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Piggy Backing Baby" Coastal Brown bear gives her cub a much needed rest. Foraging through all of that tall grass is a lot of hard work after all. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Reflections Of Power" |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "No Vacancy" |
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Pedro Jarque Spain Nominee Wildlife Professional "Conspiracy" When the eyes say one thing... |
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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Quilted" |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mother" After laying a clutch of eggs, a Green Turtle mother returns to the Pacific Ocean by moonlight. |
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Philip Lee Harvey UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Galapagos Green Sea Turtle" Keeping our distance from each other,we repeatedly both swam against the current,then drifted back in perfect time |
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Philip Lee Harvey UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tigress, India" Part of a photo essay celebrating Rudyard Kiplings' Jungle Book Stories. This image to show the the Tiger know as "Shere Knan" |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Jungle Bird" Jungle bird born from egg. New Generation |
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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Safe to Drink" Giraffe and zebra drinking side by side at one of the Etosha National Park waterholes in Namibia. |
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Rob Badger USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Big Sur Wildfire Light and Egret on Kelp" Egret fishing on kelp, and copper colored light reflections created by sunlight filtering through Soberanes wildfire smoke, Big Sur Coast, Monterey County, California, USA. |
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Rob Badger USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Three Sandhill Cranes Feeding Bosque Del Apache NWR" Three Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) feeding in their winter feeding grounds in late December. The birds have flown from the north to the Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near the town |
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Rory Doyle USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Let the Levee Lead You" Driving on the Mississippi River levee, I saw horses running in my direction from about a mile away. I jumped out to prep for the shot. At the very last minute, they dodged me in this formation. |
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Sabine Peters Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Faramir" Arabian Gelding |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Togetherness" |
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Scott Hoyle USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Monterey Seagull" |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Entourage" fish in the open ocean often seek shelter and refuge below the flotsam and jetsam but often loggerhead turtles serve the same purpose and trigger fish and pilot fish congregate around them. |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Feasting" Green Turtle off the NSW coast feasts on a jellyfish tentacles slowly devouring the jellyfish one piece at a time |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spy Hop" Large Humpback whale spy hops from beneath the surface revealing ventricle pleats of this gentle giant of the ocean |
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Seth Benson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Untitled" |
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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Nominee Wildlife Professional "Soft Homing" Foggy morning. The Swans have landed softly. Scene met in five years. |
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Tom Maximilian Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Peace" A Canada Goose family swimming into the fog towards the sunrise. The picture is taken in Norway, early in the morning. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Await" States of Grace: Fauna - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hover (Snowy Owl)" States of Grace: Fauna - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Wendy Hoevenaars Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Water Explosion Fish" |
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Wilma Roesch Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Alpbird" |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Löwenzahn" An old, roaring lion showing its teeth. |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Band Of Three" |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Perfect Curve" |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Earring" |