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Antonio Mesquita Portugal 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement People Amateur "Lake Bosumtwi Fisherman" This sacred lake was created when a giant meteorite crashed in what was a rainforest. Lake Bosumtwi is revered by locals as sacred. Souls are said to say goodbye to God at Lake Bosumtwi. |
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Lois Pierris USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence People Amateur "Bibi hot springs hotel" Mother and daughter at the hot springs hotel in Tajikistan 2018 |
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Sanjoy Sengupta India 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction People Amateur "Novice in Stupa" Novice in Stupa - Two young monks offering their prayers to Lord Budhha in a stupa of Bagan,Myanmaar |
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Kos Karathanasis Netherlands Honorable Mention People Amateur "Cormorant fishermen" On an autumn evening in Guilin, China, two fishermen and their trained cormorants rest on their rafts. Cormorant fishing is a Chinese tradition that goes back more than 1,000 years. |
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Leba Marquez USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "California Dreaming" Santa Monica Beach, California |
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Leonid Goldin Israel Honorable Mention People Amateur "Ideal Figure" 2017 |
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Stanislav Sitnikov Russia Honorable Mention People Amateur "Reflections" Reflections, color, people, windows, arhitecture |
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Andre Pinto Portugal Honorable Mention People Amateur "Cormoran Fisherman" One of the last remain fishermen in the world who still use this ancient technique. They train the cormorant birds to catch the fish under their nets and bring the fish back to them. They only can be |
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Meena Julien UK Honorable Mention People Amateur "Getting ready" |
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Kajan Madrasmail Singapore Honorable Mention People Amateur "Sewing Fishnet" Sewing Fishnet |
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Marc Hodel Switzerland Honorable Mention People Amateur "Anouk" |
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Viet Van Tran Vietnam Honorable Mention People Amateur "Flutter" A momen made me flutter. Taken at Yangon (Myanmar). |
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Alexandra Erber Austria Honorable Mention People Amateur "From Ella to Kandy" A journey by train. |
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Belle Verdiglione Australia Honorable Mention People Amateur "The first feed" It is rare to see the baby uncovered after the placenta is birthed. The baby was covered with a towel but asked the midwife if she could "see" her baby. I quickly took this image as she uncovered her |
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Joshua Sarinana USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Between Stations" |
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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Honorable Mention People Amateur "A woman in Jodhpur" Jodhpur is a colorful city in India ，we called it "Blue City". The women's sit infront her store which is full of colorful Indian "Sari",very attractive! |
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Jed Best USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Vienna" |
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Rommel Lugada Philippines Honorable Mention People Amateur "The Painter" A construction painter on a sunny afternoon while walking away with his paint. Leaving the wall like an art canvass, with abstract forms of different lines and cast shadow from the scaffold. |
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Margo Ryan UK Honorable Mention People Amateur "Come On In" The colourful sarongs of these Indian pilgrims reflect in estuary water with temple in the background. India Very slippery nearly fell in myself! |
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Nikola Pecigos Germany Honorable Mention People Amateur "Sadhu in ecstasy" Taken on a Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival on the world, this photo captures the ecstatic emotions of a holy sadhu |
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Jean-Marc Felix Switzerland Honorable Mention People Amateur "Question of point of view 2" Detail of a mural in Paris created by artist INTI from Chile |
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Brian Hunt Canada Honorable Mention People Amateur "soldier" living history at the Citadel. an historical fort in Halifax Canada |
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Nguyen Ngoc Thach Vietnam Honorable Mention People Amateur "Red Insense" |
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Alex Politis France Nominee People Amateur "Pause" |
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Andrew Sole Australia Nominee People Amateur "Dressed to Impress" Women colourful dressed celebrating Papua New Guinea National Day. |
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Anna Kaminska Poland Nominee People Amateur "The Piano " Model: Silverrr |
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Anne Goedert Luxembourg Nominee People Amateur "3 Ladies" 3 ladies on their break; India |
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Antonio Mesquita Portugal Nominee People Amateur "Gateway to the desert - Niger" Agadez has a rich history of trade and commerce. It was key in the caravan trade back in the 15th century. The mosque's 27 meters tall minaret has served for centuries to watch out for enemies. |
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Antonio Zarli Italy Nominee People Amateur "The Photographer" Reggia di Caserta |
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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee People Amateur "Great Expectations" Aleppo - Syria 2010, when peace and serenity were still alive. |
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Belle Verdiglione Australia Nominee People Amateur "Mother and Child " |
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Bernard Ng Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Balloon Rider" Many balloon rider around the city during the Tet Holiday |
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Bianca Alsberg USA Nominee People Amateur "The Solitude of Dawn" Nine time zones away from home with insomnia. |
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Brian Vatcher USA Nominee People Amateur "Tending to Infinity" A maintenance worker cleans the infinity pool at the entrance to the Trident Hotel. Gurgaon-Delhi, India 2018. |
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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee People Amateur "La sera della festa" |
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Claudio Beffa Italy Nominee People Amateur "Whispering to a friend" A moment of relaxation and closeness between a horsewoman and her horse, during the annual Jidai Matsuri festival in Kyoto, Japan. |
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Colmar Wocke Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "Leaving" A colourful couple leaving the local shop in Camaguey, Cuba. The shop itself is colourful.. |
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Craig Lefebvre USA Nominee People Amateur "Native swirling colors" An indigeneous dance group performing in Sedona, AZ. |
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David Qiu China (PRC) Nominee People Amateur "Chaos in order" I think the world is running in its order. We could see a lot of iron shelves around them but they was working in order. |
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Debiprasad Mukherjee India Nominee People Amateur "Colors of Kumbh" Colors of Kumbh - where millions of hindu pilgrims gather for holy bath every 4 years. (Ujjain, India) |
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Douglas Meade USA Nominee People Amateur "Secret Meeting" Brothers planning their day of adventure |
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Federico Odello Italy Nominee People Amateur "Spy stories" Moscow 2018 |
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Federico Odello Italy Nominee People Amateur "Anonymous" Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 |
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Gayle Pepper USA Nominee People Amateur "Umbrellas in Tulips" Sometimes rain is a good thing. |
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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy Nominee People Amateur "The devil does not wear Prada only" An unusual streetlife capture taken in Rome. |
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Gillian Marshall USA Nominee People Amateur "Praying Hands, Thimphu, Bhutan" A woman holds her mala, reciting her mantra as she counts each bead; her hands indicative of a lifetime of work and faith. |
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Gillian Marshall USA Nominee People Amateur "Keeping up with the news" A gentleman sits quietly, reading his paper, amid the busy streets of Hanoi, Vietnam |
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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee People Amateur "Zanzibar Taxi" Zanzibar Taxi |
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Himanshu Singhal Germany Nominee People Amateur "Waterfall" Skogafoss Waterfall, Iceland. |
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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee People Amateur "Peer in Hellerau" one bed for four |
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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "Leisure time" |
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Irina Spagnolo Russia Nominee People Amateur "Blue dream" Everybody has a dream |
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James Black USA Nominee People Amateur "Camel Wrangler" Morning roundup in Pushkar |
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Jay Hsu Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "Escape" The stratospheric world creates false warmth and beauty and needs to escape at the right time. |
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Jhinku Banerjee India Nominee People Amateur "The Mask" A woman with her child from the community that makes this masks and performs Gomira, a folk dance of West Bengal, wearing them. |
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Jonathan Chua Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Sedan Carrier" Taken this shot on the 8th October 2018 during a Taoist celebration of the Nine emperors birthday, at Tuas seaside far west of Singapore. |
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Juan Rodriguez Morales Spain Nominee People Amateur "Usera Madrid 2017" This picture is part of my last series "Colors of Little China" about life in the Chinese neighborhood of Madrid (Spain). |
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Juan Fernando Franco Colombia Nominee People Amateur "Lonelyness" |
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Judy Nussenblatt USA Nominee People Amateur "Taxi!" |
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Lara Lobo Portugal Nominee People Amateur "Colours of Life" The gorgeous Masai women, whose lives are burdened by hardship and struggle.Colours of Life is a tribute to these amazing women, to their undying spirit, to their grace and to their lives. |
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Larisa Korzhenevskaya Russia Nominee People Amateur "To meet the sun..." Among the crowd of tourists in the square of Venice, a man in a bright yellow jacket stood out brightly, confidently walking about his business. |
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Maggie O'Connell USA Nominee People Amateur "Fiona" Southern California Super Bloom |
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Margrieta Jeltema Italy Nominee People Amateur "kittens" |
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Mark Heitner USA Nominee People Amateur "Marching tigers" Annual harvest parade in Kottayam, India |
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Marvin Basil USA Nominee People Amateur "Rainy Day" |
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Michael Greig USA Nominee People Amateur "Waiting For A Date" |
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Mieke Douglas UK Nominee People Amateur "Blade Runner " Lone night clear-up on the docks |
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Morna McNulty USA Nominee People Amateur "The Surfing Bubble" Life in motion. Squibnocket Beach, MA, August 2018. These images were captured spontaneously as one man blew large bubbles across the beach at the same moment another man (with the surf board), walking several feet behind him along the shoreline, crossed into my line of sight of the bubbles. True wonder cannot be photoshopped. It must be captured. It must be lived. |
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Nicolas Desport France Nominee People Amateur "the fruit vendor /Phuket/Thailand" |
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Nora O'Prey USA Nominee People Amateur "Waiting" |
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Paula Goldfader USA Nominee People Amateur "Holding Hands" A married couple facing the end of their time together, |
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Pelin Guven Turkey Nominee People Amateur "Sous Chef" |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Morning Breakfast" Nothern Ethiopia |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Old lady in the wind" At the border to Eritrea , Ethiopia |
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Poul Helt Denmark Nominee People Amateur "Jazz concert - 2" |
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Quynh Nguyen Vietnam Nominee People Amateur "Trams" Late night tram moment at Prague |
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Rachel Choong M H Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Balloon Sellers" They're all woman balloon sellers and to put food on the table for their family, the weight of the balloons become nothing to them. |
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Ron Cooper USA Nominee People Amateur "Mother and Son" Mandawa, Rajasthan, India |
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Sabrina Walden USA Nominee People Amateur "Cherry Girls" Between tradition and sneakers, cherry blossoms and cell phones, the temple and the city, this is the young generation in Seoul, South Korea. |
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Sally Stevens USA Nominee People Amateur "Paris Life" And so she waited... |
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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Nominee People Amateur "Yellow turmeric bath" |
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Sara Schmidt Mexico Nominee People Amateur "In his world" Le Marais. Paris |
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Sheila P Morrison Canada Nominee People Amateur "Watching Traffic" On the Streets of Morocco |
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Sheila P Morrison Canada Nominee People Amateur "Walking Home" On the Streets of Morocco |
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Sudip Roychoudhury India Nominee People Amateur "Holi Festival" Holi Festival celebrated in India |
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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee People Amateur "Life on the Street" |
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Swee Hoe Lim Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Family Hour" The precious moment is when you are with your family. |
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Tal Lassman Canada Nominee People Amateur "A visit to the Temple" Fushiminari Visit |
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Tarun Chhabra India Nominee People Amateur "Sacred India" My goal was to show the devotees- praying,singing and dancing, their faith & devotion. I climbed on the rooftop of a nearby building to show the vastness of area and the people at large. As soon as guru ji(deity of devotees) arrived, cheerful devotees from all around started chanting, praying, dancing and throwing turmeric powder(which is called as bhandara and is considered holy) towards him. The whole area was covered under thick clouds of turmeric powder. For some time, nothing was visible under the yellow clouds. All of a sudden, a strong wind blown away the yellow clouds in front of me and scene which appeared from underside was completely mystical and heavenly. I quickly clicked few images before this disappeared again, under the thick clouds of turmeric powder. I didn't get second chance to shoot this again. This image is meaningful for me because this shows intense faith & devotion of devotees in religion and their deity. Presence of yellow clouds of turmeric powder gives this a heavenly look and shows the true feelings of sacred India and its people. And this is what, i wanted to show. I used a tripod to compose my image precisely and to prevent hand shake, a small aperture to get good depth of field, fast shutter speed to freeze the action and motion of fast blowing wind heavily loaded with turmeric powder and also an umbrella to save myself from scorching heat because i took my position around 12 noon. |
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TL Khong Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Pink Satin Shoes, Ascending" |
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Viet Van Tran Vietnam Nominee People Amateur "Sunny Day" A woman is drying incense sticks. Taken at Quang Phu Cau (Hanoi, Vietnam), a craft village has a tradition of making incense for hundreds years. |
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Viola Michaelis Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "fireworks" the show from Varieté Pavè, Switzerland |
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Viola Michaelis Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "the burning man" a show from Varietè Pavè, Switzerland |