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Barbara Fleming USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Amateur "Cape Buffalo with Oxpecker" I had been wanting to capture this image for at least two years and on a recent safari in November 2015, I was able to succeed. Many elements came together successfully to create this image. Light w |
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Lisa Marie Wilson USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Amateur "Smiling Baby Elephant and Mom" Smile and the whole world smiles with you |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Amateur "Jump into the river" Kenya, July 2017, Massai Mara |
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Fiona Carter Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Nap Time" The stunning colours of a gannet's face as in naps. Muriwai, NZ |
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Barbara Fleming USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Silent and Stealthy" It was my first time in an overnight hide and I was incredibly nervous, having never shot in the dark before. I wait what seemed like hours before, a whisper of movement caught my eye. It was a leopar |
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Barbara Fleming USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Snowy Dance" Watching a snowy owl from the road, I saw her suddenly lifted her wings in a most graceful way and flew into the wind. It looked like she was performing a lovely ballet in the middle of the frozen fie |
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Min Tan Malaysia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Hungry Tigers" Some Siberian tigers preying for food in a natural park in the Northeast China |
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Amr El-shafei USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Hidden" Don't wake up a silverback from deep sleep. |
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Serge Melesan France Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Bullsharks" Fiji Island diving in a place call the Cathedral with Bull sharks and Tiger Sharks |
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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Attempted Theft" Gull trying to grab an easy meal away from a California Sea Lion |
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Stefano Ravera Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Cricket" |
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Giancarlo Majocchi Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Ara parrots at Lagoa das Araras sunset Argentina" Lagoa das Araras in Cerrado Brasil is a magic place where the Ara Parrots create their nests in palm trunks. At the sunset light, in silent atmosphere couples of parrots fly to find food for their children. I am very proud about this shot because I took many risks to get it. It was August 2010 and I was at the Cerrado taking photos of the wildlife. I knew about the Lagoa and wanted to get there at sunset, but my local driver was unable to find it. I was very upset about it and we were running out of time. The sun was falling down quickly and I was desperate, when finally we found the place, but I only had a few minutes of good light to take photos. Immediately, I saw the parrots on this tree as in a painting and I shot some pictures. |
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Amr El-shafei USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Cheetah" Drama in progress. |
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Mieke Douglas UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Pegasus" Equine as Still Life |
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Lynne Wilde USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "The Bee-Eater and the Bee" White-fronted Bee-eater tossing its lunch, to position it perfectly before swallowing |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Fishing" Kenya, July 2017, Lake Naivasha |
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Sabine Peters Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "amber" |
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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Harmony" Reserva natural de Cabárceno, Spain |
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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The smug owl" Photograph taken in the Cabárceno Natural Reserve, Spain, on October 20, 2018 |
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Andreas Camenisch Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hey Chicas" |
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Anne Neiwand Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Giraffe Pretzels" I was amzed to see these two male Giraffe's fighting it out. The graceful head swoops just kept on going. |
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Annemarie Jacques USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "saw-whet study #2" |
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Benjamin Freeman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Waiting" |
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Carol Zulman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Afternoon Delight" |
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Catherine Clifford Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Green Tree Frog" There was so much knowing in the face of this little green tree frog, who was fossicking for bugs in the pot plants late one summer night after a shower of rain. He fixed his gaze on the camera and appeared so at ease and I knew at once I was witnessing something rare. |
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Christian Drexler Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Meleagris gallopavo" Color-blocking with a turkey |
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Daniel Turbert USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Stanley and the butterfly" Stanley, just a baby boy calf, gets to live out his life in sanctuary at Cows Come Home in TN |
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Daniel Danilov Israel Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Good-bye" A chameleon whipped out its tongue to capture a dragonfly, while I was hiding behind a bush in order not to disturb the scene. Its tongue is longer than its body, and its tip is sticky and thick |
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Danny Valk Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Composition of Sheep" Picture taken last year in Iceland. Hiking through the landscape I saw this 'composition' of sheep amidst a sea of flowers. |
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Dmitry Saltykov Russia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Saturday morning. Let the whole world will wait..." Beef berry buster, bug (Dolycoris baccarum) |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Rhesus Macaques in Varanasi" A family of four. |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Camels at Sunset" |
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Emma Rosenthal USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Caribou Fields" A mother caribou and her calf graze in a field of fireweed. |
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Emma Fraser USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Anything But Snake Eyes" This opportunity literally came to my doorstep. It stayed in the same position for forty minutes as I took hundreds of photos. It was the luckiest wildlife encounter I've ever had. |
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Fallon Yates USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Western Meadowlark " I did not plan to take this photo when I went out of the day it was taken. I was out with my aunt and dad and we were actually looking for Bald Eagles. We were on the side of the road and I looked out in the corn field. About 10-15 feet away I saw this little bird. I was actually the only one of the three of us that saw him because he was small and blended into the field. Since then I have always been drawn to the picture. I only had the chance to take to photos of him before we pulled away. I was just lucking to get the shot and to be there at the right time. |
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Fiona Carter Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Green Envy" The beautiful green shades of a Kea's feathers come to life in the sunlight. Wanaka, NZ |
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Gautam Kamat Bambolkar India Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In The Woods" A horse couple standing against a beautiful fall-colored tree. The horse's look straight in the frame gives a nice charm to the overall composition. |
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Gayle Pepper USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Carnival Gull" He came in for a landing and posed on the Santa Monica Pier. |
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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Wanaka Sheeps" |
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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Yellow weaver" Photo taken in "Ndutu National Park" - Tanzania |
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Harry Donenfeld USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cup Runneth Over" A variety of Cup Corals (Tubastraea coccinea) overflow in a spray of colors under a submerged ledge in Komodo, Indonesia |
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Isik Sonenshtain Israel Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Highland" Taken on a magical rainy day. |
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Jan Gyllensten Sweden Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Arctic bear 1" Powerful arctic bear on driftice between Svalbard and North pole just having had his evening meal-seal and now just owning the area... |
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Jay Roe Tan UK Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jealousy" Male peacocks showing off their iridescent feathers to impress the ladies |
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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Chillness" Camoufage provides calm |
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Jim Sterne USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Summer at Our Lake" |
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Jon Trombetto USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mount Rainier Fox" Taken at Mt Rainier |
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Jongsun Lee USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "snowy owl flying" Dec 30th. 2017. Snowy Owl is Rare bird in New Jersey. I have been tracking this Snowy Owl for 2 days. 4- 5 hours walking around the beach for each days. FINALLY, I found it. |
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Jongsun Lee USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "flying practice" August 26th 2018. Cape May NJ. I was able to get close to take a picture of Osprey. Osprey trying to learn how to flying. |
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Kim-Pheng Sim Singapore Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hold On" |
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Kim-Pheng Sim Singapore Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cicada Dry Wings" NATURE |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Deadly touch" Tanzania, March 2018, Serengeti |
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Lea Foster USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Pretty Preener" A Cattle Egret preening its breeding plumage |
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sheltered " sheltered. A colourful mandarin duck laying besides a female mallard duck. It is a sunny and windy day in city Enkoping, Enkoeping Sweden this spring day 2018. They are resting on land just beside the |
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Brown Butterfly" Brown butterfly. A butterfly with brown wings sitting on a leaf of a plant. The background is digitally painted to an abstract in green shades. It was captured, south of city Enkoepng (Enkoping) Swede |
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Les Bentley USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Gecko Of Paradise " A Gecko clings to an Orange Bird of Paradise on the island of Kauai. |
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Linda Treleaven Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A Pod of Pelicans" Captured this pod on Lake Chapala in Mexico |
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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The family" kamchatka |
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Marina Komolova Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "King Penguins" Among the tussock grass of Salisbury Plain in South Georgia, four regal King Penguins were travelling as a pack minding their own business and battling it out for dominance. |
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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "bull elk" |
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Michal Greenboim USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "White Butterfly" from the series The day of the night |
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Natalino Fenech Malta Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Holy Ghost" Arctic Tern tries to shoo away an intruder from its breeding area. Farne Islands UK |
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Peter Mcfarlane Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "st andrews spider 1" welcome to my web |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Faithful companion" In the field in nothern Ethiopia |
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Robert Ugi USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Yellowneck Caterpillars" Yellowneck (moth) Caterpillars attack a blue berry bush |
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Roberto Alessandrini Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "standing proud" Puffin and gull |
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Robson Rogan Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Monkey Business" Family "nap time" in the jungle! Costa Rica |
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Robson Rogan Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hanging out" "The three toed sloth hanging out in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica" |
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Sabine Peters Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Snowflake" Just a snowflake on horses eyelash |
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Sabine Peters Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "beware of the man with the mask" |
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Sabrina Lee Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Primaries" Butterfly on backpack while walking around Angkor Wat, Cambodia |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Face to face with the Tiger" Tiger Sharks meet during a Fiji Dive |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dolphin and the baby" Rangiroa Tiputa diving with a family of six dolphins this mum came to present its baby to me |
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Susan Beever USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "On A Mission" This Reddish Egret was on a mission to get to a better fishing spot at East Beach, Galveston, Texas. |
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Susan Beever USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Neotropic Cormorant Portrait" This Neotropic Cormorant was resting on a signpost by Shoveler Pond at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. |
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Susan Beever USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Roseate Spoonbill Glamour Shot" Taken At Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island Texas. These birds have a lot of personality and curiosity about others, including humans who take their photograph. |
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Susan Beever USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Stealth" Nature imitates nature as this Great White Egret waits patiently using stealth technique to blend in with the reeds at East Beach, Galveston, Texas. |
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Susan Hillyard USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Two Stallions" |
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Takuya Maeda Japan Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A user of vending machines" This species was originally introduced to Japan from America. This individual kept still on the red wall of a Coca-Cola vending machine. She might reflect about ancestors which lived in America. |
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Takuya Maeda Japan Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Emblem" The design of small insects is sometimes very cool. |
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Thomas A LeClair USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pride (1)" Bald Eagle hunts for fish over river, Norhteastern USA. |
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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "wave" |
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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pelican" Pelican |
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TL Khong Malaysia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Green Fly" |