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Jens Rosbach Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Beach Colors" Canary Islands, Spain. Taken by camera in motion. |
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Florian W. Mueller Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Mountains of Gold" Mountains of Gold. |
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Jens Rosbach Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Svalbard" Mountains, snow and fog: graphic northern landscape. Svalbard is an polar island in the Arctic Ocean, it belongs to Norway. |
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Prathamesh Dixit India Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Existence" Existence |
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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Midnight sun" In Antarctica the sun stays high in the sky during the summer months. at midnight as the sun dips close to the Horizon, the light emanates a pink glow that falls across the white icebergs at sea. |
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Alexandra Cearns Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Blue Clams" The vibrant colors of giant clams in the Cocos Keeling Islands. |
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Stone Peng USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "geometry in the pond" right place at right time |
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Egon Gade Denmark Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Trollstigen 1" |
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Warren Keelan Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Congeal" A jelly-like wave curls over a shallow reef on the New South Wales South Coast, Australia. When there's no wind on the ocean's surface, waves can can look like surreal sheets of melting glass. |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Portal" I call this one "Portal" because it feels like one might fall through space into another dimension should you chose to step into the abyss. |
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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Morning Egress" |
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Silvan Fessler Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Atlantic Ocean" Bretagne |
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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Lake Front" |
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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Jokusarlon Lagoon, Iceland " Iceberg taken in the Autumn |
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Bjornar Pedersen Norway Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Into the Woods 2" Norway |
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David Westphal USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "lake side view" Canadian Rockies |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Alley (1)" Nice curves and tones seen in South Moravian fields, taken in spring 2016 |
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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Cypress" Pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf |
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Ron Schwager USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Angry Kauai" A lava rock-laden beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is a counterpoint of the unusual dark forbidding sky. |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beyond Here Lies Eternity" Northern California |
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Adrian Barrett New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Sand Textures" |
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Alex Uchoa Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Freedom" Waterfall Brazil Foz Iguacu Birds |
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Alexander Vershinin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Rise A Night" Deadvlei - place in Namib desert on sunset. Namibia, 2017. |
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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Rock of Ages" Cathedral Rock 2 hours south of Sydney in Kiama is a mecca for Seascape Shooters. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Aspen Trees" Laying down on the ground I took this photo of the Aspen Trees during the Fall in Aspen, Colorado. |
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Bartlomiej Jurecki Poland Nominee Nature Professional "Nacreous Clouds" On the last day of the year those clouds could be seen on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. These clouds are characterized by a strong iridescence. Their height is determined at about 15-25 km, |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Soundwaves" |
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Bjornar Pedersen Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Aurora boralis" Norway |
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Bjornar Pedersen Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn" Norway |
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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Misty Lake Mapourika" |
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Catherine Bailey Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Fyans sunrise" Sunrise at Lake Fyans, Grampians, Western Victoria |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter's Fury" When I'm in a tree grove it feels as though I am standing among friends — a community of individuals and old souls. |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Arrives" Even the mighty Ponderosa Pine is dwarfed in Yosemite. |
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Chris Bekos Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Bridge to..." |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "Cenote Dos Ojos" México, Quintana Roo, Cenote Dos Ojos. Half and half image of a snail and water plants at cenote Dos Ojos. |
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Christopher Petrich USA Nominee Nature Professional "Nebraska Contrail" A fiery contrail lit by a Nebraska sunset in late winter, above the bare willows and cottonwoods along the Platte River. |
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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stargate" Mesa Arch during Sunrise |
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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Thunder Heart" Lightning Strike in West Texas |
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Cristian Zarabozo Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "42.808ºN 106.2977ºW" Casper Wyoming, Eclipse, August 21st 2017 |
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Daniel Forster USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beavertail Wave" Hurricane preview in Rhode Island |
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Daniel Bommarito USA Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn Fissure" Autumn leaves and glossy colors of water flowing through a split in the earth |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Skagit Valley, Washington" The wind was almost knocking me over as I grabbed this panorama of a line of daffodils. You can see the trees swaying. There's nothing like a coming storm to make a photo experience exciting. |
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David J. West USA Nominee Nature Professional "Zion Milky Way" Zion National Park, Utah |
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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Explosion" |
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Delilah Bolzern Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "transcendency" www.bolzerntwins.com |
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Edward Badham USA Nominee Nature Professional "Double Vision" The Glassy water of the bay seem to create an alternate reality. |
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Egon Gade Denmark Nominee Nature Professional "Trollstigen 2" |
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Eric Loh Yong Kim Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Grass In The Sky" |
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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Gorgon 1" Aerial roots in a rainforest in Malaysia. |
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G Sharad Haksar India Nominee Nature Professional "Moeraki Boulders (2)" Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand |
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G Sharad Haksar India Nominee Nature Professional "Mt Cook" Mt Cook, New Zealand |
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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee Nature Professional "BUTTERFLY @ FORNILLO POSITANO" A quite option to the busy main beach in Positano... |
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Gary Latham UK Nominee Nature Professional "Santorini" View of Caldura from Fira, Santorini |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "low tide" low tide |
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Gina Socrates UK Nominee Nature Professional "Pampas Grass" Elegantly swaying as if to respond to an invisible orchestra, exotic pampas grass majestically dances in the balmy breeze. The Jersey warm sunset dramatically reflects golden threads upon the pampas |
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Glen McClure USA Nominee Nature Professional "Clogherane Lauraugh County Kerry Ireland" Changing Light Clogherane Lauraugh County Kerry Ireland |
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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Corn Field Fall Harvest" Fall’s setting golden sun casts its most favorable light on a farmer’s corn harvest; Double Island, Burnsville, Yancey County, NC |
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Hans Reinhard Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "The last tree" "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." Prophecy of the Cree Indians As logging in the Mexican Caribbean is inc |
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Hans Reinhard Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "Lost souls" Making my way through the sea of souls, I am your guardian and am sent from Him who gives – and takes – the sap of life. |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sureal Eclipse #2" A early surealistic view of the “Great American Eclipse†through light cloud cover over Montgomery County, Maryland on 21 August 2017. The eclipse ultimately reached 83% of totality in the Washing |
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Hugo Rompa Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Chausettes Bleues et plus" France 2016 |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Nature Professional "CRICKET OJAI TRIPTYCH (RIP)" Cricket was a beloved dog who left this earth at 18.The only pet cremation nearby is in beautiful Ojai. The images that followed were Drive-by's, taken from the car, as we drove away.. |
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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee Nature Professional "GAVARNIE" GAVARNIE CIRCUS FRANCE |
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Jeff Grant Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Floater" |
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Jeff Grant Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Dawn Mist" |
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Jennifer Ribout-Hilder Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Arise" |
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Jennifer Ribout-Hilder Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Fable" |
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Jens Rosbach Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctic Blue" East Antarctica, Ross Sea, Victoria Land |
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Joanne Scherf USA Nominee Nature Professional "Jack Pine at Olmstead Point" Jack Pines grow to any shape that suits the light, suits the winds and suits itself. |
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Johan Van Cutsem Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "tso moriri" tso moriri region in ladakh near the border with tibet : painting like landscapes foto johan van cutsem |
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Johan Van Cutsem Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "red island" blue ice floating in a red sea at sunrise Scoreby sund Greenland 08/2017 foto johan van cutsem |
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John E. Kelly USA Nominee Nature Professional "Starry Starry Night" Upper Twin Lake, Sierra Nevada, California |
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Joris Dijkema Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Magic Forest" |
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Katarina Premfors United Arab Emirates Nominee Nature Professional "Sand" Sand, UAE |
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Konstantin Grebnev Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Alps #01" From the series "Alps". |
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Konstantin Grebnev Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Sahara #02" From the series "Sahara". |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dreamworld" A long exposure of Yosemite Valley as seen from the iconic Tunnel View. |
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Leo Fellner Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Iceland III" |
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Leon van der Flier Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "2Hearts" |
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Liyun Yu USA Nominee Nature Professional "My Home is By This Frozen River" |
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Louis Gaillard France Nominee Nature Professional "Pine" |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Ageing Scars" |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Decaying Tears of Time" |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Disharmonious Enchantments" |
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Lukas Maximilian Hueller Austria Nominee Nature Professional "SLDN PLANET I" full moon at Sölden Skistation Austria / light painting of a planet on earth |
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Lutz Vorderwuelbecke Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Thunder Ridge" The Appalachian vegetation is rejuvenating, cloaked in dense fog, on a brisk morning in late April 2017. |
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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Scoresby Sund, East Greenland" This remote region is scattered with stunning Icebergs |
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Madhur Shroff India Nominee Nature Professional "Solitary Tree" A solitary tree in the vast grass lands of Masai Mara, Kenya |
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Marcio Cabral Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Galactic Grass" panoramic, 5d3, iso 5000, 30 sec, 14mm |
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Marcio Cabral Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Paepalanthus at Sunset" 5dsr, 16-35, f16, 1.6 sec, Iso 100 |
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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Nominee Nature Professional "Creature" |
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Marjorie Lord Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Ancient Lands" |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Awaken" Blairgowrie, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria - Australia |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Celestial Skies" 12 Apostles, Victoria - Australia |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Eternity" Cradle Mountain, Tasmania - Australia |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Desert Rainbow" Valley of Fire, Desert Rainbow |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Light from the Heavens" Lightning from the rain storm and the humidity produced a light show that was unbelievable. Capturing the bolts of lightning from the heavens to the water was pretty remarkable. |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Arctic Magic" One can think - Arctic is black and white world. It's as far from the truth, as it could be. Aurora Borealis over mountains at Reine. Lofoten Archipelago, Norway, Arctic |
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Neal Panton Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Blue" An Iceberg at White Boar Lake in the Canadian Rockies |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Nature Professional "Giants Causeway" The Giant's Causeway seen at dusk, on the coast of Northern Ireland, Great Britain. |
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Nina Staff Norway Nominee Nature Professional "The cliff" Ula, Norway. A Clifford at the beach. Formed at the Ice age. |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Greenland" Greenland. Iceberg sized at approximately 100 meters height |
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Pallon Daruwala India Nominee Nature Professional "daruwala-pallon_coloured rock" The shadow of a wayward branch imitates prehistoric cave drawings on ancient, colored rocks |
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Pallon Daruwala India Nominee Nature Professional "daruwala-pallon_eucalyptus" The dramatic perspective of standing in a eucalyptus grove and looking up |
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Pam Walker USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eclipsed" This was taken on August 21st 2017 of the solar eclipse in Washington St. USA, I did not have the proper solar filter but I just could not resist. This was the result. |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Aqua Tree" A panoramic study of a driftwood tree and the azure seas. |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Mystic Winter" A sunrise study of frozen mountains and water relections. |
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Paul A Wright UK Nominee Nature Professional "tidal flow" |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctica Valley Cloud" |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunrise In The Lemaire" |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Mirror in the sand" Calm nght mood scenery illuminated just by the Northern lights over the Westrahorn mountain ridge, Iceland |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Silent eruption" Northern lights play over the top of mountain Kirkjufell, Iceland |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "High Tide" Taken in Slovakia. Long exposure capture of Crawling mists over the ridge at the sunrise |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Morning of the Earth" These small mounds of vegetation are formed by a plant called Sesuvium. It is one of the first plants to start colonising the sand when it is first washed up on the tide. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Unstoppable" A Sandblow is like a liquid wave of sand that moves across the island. Blown by the wind, they slowly engulf everything in their path. |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Alley (2)" Wavy fields after harvest seen in South Moravia, Czech republic. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Starship" The Maheno Shipwreck under the Milky Way. 75 Mile beach, Fraser Island |
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Richard Mack USA Nominee Nature Professional "Niagara Falls Moment" A moment in time caught at Niagara Falls in winter. |
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Richard Lotman Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "OEL Camp" Martin City Lake in Summer |
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Robert Piccoli Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Piccoli-Robert_KataTjuta" Many Heads |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Finger Painting" John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tree of Truth" Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon, USA |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Territory Beyond" Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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rodney stewart Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lara" Lara saltmines Australia |
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Rodrigo Katayama Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Grace" Katayama_Rodrigo_Grace |
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ROMEO FLORENDO USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ancient Waters" Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge in Death Valley Nevada. These waters spring form the ground are from the last ice age. An oasis in the desert! |
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Ronald Tilleman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Death Valley" Road in Death Valley |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Nerrie-Sam_Dusk_Reflections" Bournda Island in New South Wales, Australia is a colourful place at dusk. The rocks are green and burgundy colored and the sky is often filled with magical colors at sunset. |
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Scott Hoyle USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Melt #7" |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "hope" |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "The Thin Line." Getting to close to a massive wave means crossing the thin line of safety when shooting in these conditions and getting hit , i always have a safety plan wear a life jacket and access the conditions. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Wave Study" Multi exposure single frame of a wave in motion. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Bondi Sunset Australia." The end of a hot day Bondi Beach Sydney Australia October 2017. |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Light Shower" Showers of morning light warm the Del Norte Coast redwood forest. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Liquid Sky." A moment of magic Sydney Australia. |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Swept Up In Autumn" There’s so much going on in Yosemite once you get past the iconic landmarks. |
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Steve Pellerin Canada Nominee Nature Professional "the forest and the lady" |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Deserted Beach Queensland." One of my favourite locations 36c but unable to swim here due to crocodiles both in and out of the water , so a place to not be unaware of the risks and to be alert at all times. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "A WhiskOf Wind." Start of the wet season far North Queensland Australia. |
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Steven Duncan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Solitary" A solitary mangrove tree standing proud on a Darwin, Australia beachfront |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Glowing Morning Oak" Early morning light lights up this oak tree in the spring time. |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn Leaves" Leaves floating on water with the reflection of autumn maples |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Dreaming of Lilies" Lily pads in autumn with fog and interesting grass formations. |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Dogwood branch hanging over sunset water" This dogwood branch hangs over the river at sunset. The granite rocks light up at sunset and reflect in the river. |
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Steven Duncan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Akaka Falls" The Akaka falls on the Big Island of Hawaii plummeting 442-feet into a stream-eroded gorge |
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Steven Massart Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Dusk" Seaview at Presqu'Ile de Quiberon (France) |
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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Foroyar" A lake close to the cliffs in the Faroe Islands. |
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Tammy Cromer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Texas Drought" Texas Drought 1 |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Nature Professional "Iceberg" Grey skies lends a painterly effect to an iceberg in Antarctica |
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Tobi Asmoucha Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Almost Spring" While walking along the water's edge in Haliburton Ontario I caught sight of this reflection. |
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Viral Padiya India Nominee Nature Professional "The Golden Fields" The golden rolling sculpted landscape of the Palouse region. |
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Vit Madr Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "European sphinx" Pile of stones |
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Warren Keelan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Sea Horse" A multi-layered wave pitches out in various sections over a shallow reef on Australia's South East coastline. Captured with a Canon 5DMKIII + Canon 70-200mm IS II 2.8 in Aquatech Housing. |
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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee Nature Professional "Under the warm ray" On the way to WA |