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Wolf Ademeit Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "baboon" Baboon Portrait |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Taijitu" A red crane cleaning its own feathers looks like a taijitu. A taijitu is a symbol representing Taiji which contains one circle with an inner pattern of symmetry representing yin and yang. |
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Brad Allen Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Facing Courage" A young male lion looks straight down the lens; courage looks right at you, fearless and strong. |
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Jose Fragozo Portugal Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Flying flamingos" Kenya 2017. Flying flamingoes on an overcast day cut the photo in two: in the foreground there is the water of the lake and in the background one can guess the colors of the forest. |
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Allen Walker South Africa Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Bark" Cape Fur Seals are pretty territorial and will not hesitate to swim directly at you barking bubbles in a show of aggression to ward off would be predators or intruders to their domain. |
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Dana Hursey USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Azzurro" |
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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Endangered UK Red Squirrel" An endangered Red Squirrel in the snow in Scotland. The Grey Squirrel, brought over from the US, carries a disease that the Red Squirrel cannot tolerate. |
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Craig Blacklock USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Trumpeter Swans" Trumpeter swans at sunset, St. Croix River, Wisconsin |
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Alexandra Cearns Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Winged" A stunning blue and gold macaw in flight. |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hope is a Light in the Night" A wild black rhino enters a waterhole in during the night. There are only about 1.750 black rhinos left in Namibia. |
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Michelle Broadhurst Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Reflection#1" |
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Tommaso Rada Brazil Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Pride To Be Pigeon" A portrait of a racing pigeon |
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Peter Samuels USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Lusitano Stallion Portrait" Portrait of Cartola, the Lusitano Stallion |
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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Chaos" Who is eating? Who lives? The labyrinth in chaos. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hover" A White Cheeked Honey Eater hovers beside the flower spike of a Xanthorrhoea. These flower spikes are made up of hundreds of individual flowers which each give a drop of nectar as a reward. |
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Lance Carter USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Seriously" Rhino in Nepal Bardia National Park |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rainforest Rana" Red-Eyed Tree Frog in the rainforest in Costa Rica |
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Steven Duncan Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hunter" A funky little Gecko hunting a bug under the leaf of a large red flower. Shot in Hawaii. |
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G Sharad Haksar India Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Sheep" Sheep, New Zealand |
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Ruud Peters France Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A fox trail" |
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Beau Pilgrim Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Whale Trail" Vava'u, Tonga. This male Humpback Whale spent over an hour playing in the water and interacting around us, putting on an incredible show for the camera. It was an incredible interaction in the wild wh |
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Jose Fragozo Portugal Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Cheetah catches squirrel" South Africa 2016. Cheetah hunting and catching a ground squirrel... in the end the squirrel was able to escape from the cheetah's mouth into its burrow... and survived. |
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Mat Beetson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Bait fish swirl" The huge tides in the Kimberley region of Western Australia engulf the mangroves along the shoreline, bait fish swirl around the leaves and branches as they find relief from predators lurking nearby. |
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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Duskies at Dusk" Very fortunate to capture this amazing image of these shy and amazing mammals!! It is even more special to capture this image in the Cap[ waters where finding them is not so easy! |
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Ana Adams USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Quiet" Bird waiting to find fish on a cloudy beach |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hippo Mating Fight" A mating fight between two hippos....one of them had wandered into the other's pool and was hoping to mate with a female.....this did not go over well and a 45 minute battle ensued ! The imposter lost |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Water Rings" A backlit Seagull taking off in a dark fiord in Flatanger, Norway....creating "water rings" all around him. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Resplendent Quetzal" A Resplendent Quetzal sits in an Avocado Tree in Costa Rica displaying his 4 foot gorgeous tail |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Polar Bear" A Polar Bear walks straight toward me on a beach in Svalbard, Norway. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hummingbird" Hummingbird with wings perfectly stretched out perpendicular to his body. |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mating lions" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Topis in the sunset" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Swimming jaguar" Pantanal, Brazil |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sleeping kings" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Beau Pilgrim Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Jumping For Joy" A Bottlenose dolphin jumps high above the water, after riding the bow wave of a boat moments before. I saw the dolphin take off away from the boat with speed towards an approaching wave. I focussed on |
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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Shades of Light" It was my most frightening shooting in Africa, when after getting off the vehicle I took some photos of wild dogs from the base of a bush. In the beginning there were some cute puppies playing with ea |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Intertwined" Wild elephants playing at a waterhole in Namibia. |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Strength lies in peace" Wild horses in Bosnia. |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Barn Owl " Various Birds of prey photographed for a personal project. |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bald Eagle 1" Various Birds of prey photographed for a personal project. |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Golden Eagle 2" Various Birds of prey photographed for a personal project. |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Wildlife Professional "American Crocodile" México, Quintana Roo, Chinchorro. Portrait of an american crocodile that lives in the island of Chinchorro. |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Wildlife Professional "Shark at Roca Partida" México, Revillagigedo Islands, Roca Partida. A silkie shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) swimming around the surface near the rocky wall. |
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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bald eagles" From upcoming book: St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers — The Enduring Gift |
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Darcy Brown UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Squirrel Airlines" A wild red squirrel makes a dramatic leap, caught at 1/2000th second. |
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David Blow USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "My Lucky Rock" “What is this earth?†And He said, It is my lucky rock. |
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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional "Happy Feet." Bird i South Africa |
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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional "Enjoy the Silence" Birds in South Africa |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Long-legged buzzard" |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Playing air harp" An Oriental shorthair kitten, named Spriet, who is jumping like she is playing air harp. |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee Wildlife Professional "carp and heron" carp and heron |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee Wildlife Professional "sheep in the snow" sheep in the snow |
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George Apostolidis Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "RED TAILED BLACK COCKATOO 01A" RED TAILED BLACK COCKATOO 01A |
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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bond" |
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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Yawning Cheetah" Yawning Cheetah, Serengeti, Tanzania |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mallards - Lake Churchill" Male and female Mallard Ducks near shoreline of Lake Churchill in Germantown, Maryland. |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Morning Stretch" Inch Worm stretching out from branch of small bush near mill pond at Wayside Inn, near Sudbury, MA. |
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Jackson Carvalho Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ladies on Sunset" |
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Jan Wieczorek Poland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Travels." |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "CONDOR DOLLY INQUISITIVE" So inquisitive is she. She turns her head around. And upside down. The better to see. --JT CONDOR DOLLY, ambassadress for the endangered California Condor, gentle, young w/broken wing, cannot fly. |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "WONDER IS MY NAME" WONDER, very rare albino Turkey Vulture, now at the Ojai Raptor Center. Poor eyesight means he would be unsafe in the wild. Not technically raptors, they feed on carrion, live in "communities". |
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John Atchley USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Great Blue" |
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Jose Fragozo Portugal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Serval" South Africa 2016. A serval cat is trying to catch a frog. |
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Jose Fragozo Portugal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephants at sundown" Kenya 2017. An elephant is drinking at sundown. In the background there are wildebeest and zebras. |
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Jose Fragozo Portugal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Boomslangs on chameleon" Kenya 2016. Two boomslangs attacking a chameleon. |
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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Night Birds" |
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Julien Vonier Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snails In Love" Snails In Love ('deep throat') |
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Karsten Thormaehlen Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Donkeys" 5-day-old donkey foal with mare, Burgos, Sardinia, Italy |
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Lance Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sunset Walk " Polar bear walking along a frozen pond at sunset. |
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Landry Major USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild " Wild Horses at dawn |
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Landry Major USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dawn Horses" Wild Horses in Montana coming in at dawn |
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Lawrence Cirocco Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Unity" "Unity" aims to capture the relationship humans share with all other animals. The photograph captures two apes holding hands in unity. |
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Lionel Hug France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rainette" This image is part of a work that I call : In my Garden. |
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Lucia Griggi UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Kill" Captured through the frame of the tree branch, a Sri Lankan Leopard stares into the camera as she guards her fresh Kill. |
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Marc Stapelberg Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hungry (2)" A lion feeds on a giraffe carcass at a game park in South Africa |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Purple flamingo sky" |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Golden Chase" Black Coots chasing each other in the first morning light |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Love Is" This Black Bear & cubs walked into the woods. An hour later they hadn't come back so I went to the edge of the trees to have a look. She walked to a fallen tree & sat down hanging her legs over it. I |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Selfie Master" Curious Burrowing Owlet who looks like he's trying to take a selfie. |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rain Down On Me" Yellow-Throated Toucan in the rainforest in Costa Rica |
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Megan Lorenz Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fighting Fox" Pair of Red Foxes interacting during mating season in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. |
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Melissa Woodward Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "la grenouille" |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional "Turtlebutterflies" TurtleButterflies, Lake Soledad - Las Piedras River, Madre de Dios - Amazon Rainforest, PERÚ |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Generation" Common Blue Butterflies making the next generation |
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Pedro Jarque Spain Nominee Wildlife Professional "Surprise!" Angry and hungry crocodile |
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Rainer F. Steussloff Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lonely Horse" A rainy afternoon, Brandenburg near Berlin, Germany |
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Richard Mack USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Dance" An evening dance by two Great Egrets landing on the island trees shared by dozens of Great Egrets and others. |
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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "SCORPION MOTHER" |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Nerrie-Sam_A_Good_Catch" The Hanging Fly can grab its prey with a prehensile foot and this prey looks like it might be a challenge. The Hanging Fly can't walk on these feet, it can only hang off grasses. |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Battlefield" Large Male elephant seals joust for position on the beach in the Falkland Islands. fighting can be aggressive during the mating season. |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kings at sunset" King Penguins line the landscape in the Falkland Islands, as the sun dips below the horizon the vivid colours ensue upon the penguins |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mating dispute" King penguins will hinder their rivals from attempting mate with a female and will become quite aggressive with each other while vying for position. multiple males will fight each other for females |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ice Flow" Crabeater seals haul out on the ice flow detached from the impressive glaciers surrounding the bay, to rest and avoid predators. |
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Shairon Paterson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "In The Wilds Of Mongolia" Wild horses of Mongolia are set free to roam in the Winter but are brought in to work for the Summer. Galloping across the Steppes with these wonderful, beautiful, powerful animals is exhilarating |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dolphin Race" Spinner dolphins playing, and racing beneath and around my boat off the Na Pali Coast of Kauai. |
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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Nominee Wildlife Professional "Trickster" It's cute, but it's the brutal king of the night. It is a world-class rare bird.Blakiston's fish owl |
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Tom Maximilian Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Heron" The Heron is a bird living close to the beaches in Australia. I believe that this bird needs to be pictured with the environment it is living in. Everything has to be sharp with details. |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Roaring" |