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Nathalie Anctil Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Abstract Amateur "AGO's stairs" The stairs of the AGO in Toronto |
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Lorenzo Di Candia Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Abstract Amateur "The umbrella on the chessboard" With drone on the plaza with chessboard |
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Stanislav Sitnikov Russia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Abstract Amateur "Color forms" Colors, lines, forms |
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Niklaus Fringeli Switzerland Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Projection" |
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Conor Ryan Ireland Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Breath and Depth" Part of a series of air bubble photos created using my breath and a bespoke rig and lighting arrangement. This one took the shape of a skull. The colors are not computer generated. 2019. |
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Danny Valk Netherlands Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Bunker Day, wall 2" In Holland, once a year it's 'Bunker Day'. For one day, bricked up German WW2 bunkers are opened for display. Inside the bunkers it's moist, eerie and untouched for 75 years. (picture taken 25-5-'19) |
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Margo Ryan UK Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Fleeting" A Shimmering beach in Madagascar, as the tide recedes these fleeting reflections quickly disappear. |
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Elizabeth Kazda USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Anti-Gravity" An in-camera multiple exposure of seven photos of prisms in spectral light. |
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Mirka van Renswoude Netherlands Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Play" Oil on water - Meditating on the element of water, and emulating its qualities, can allow us peace, growth, inspiration, and harmony with our surroundings. |
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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Digitization Error No. 1" |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Burning Love" |
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C E Morse USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Farrago 6" A fusion of several distressed surfaces |
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Anne Neiwand Australia Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Artisan Spring" An Artisan Spring sitting in the middle of the salt lake |
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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Wall" A wall in Winwood, Miami's art district. |
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Berry Bingel UK Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Fire Exit" from my series "Urban Observations" |
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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Things are not what they seem" |
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Norman Robbins USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Vents" The two vents look like eyes overseeing the street |
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Ron Pickering USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Spicko" An Node to Rothko |
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Pamela Fickes-Miller USA Honorable Mention Abstract Amateur "Ripped" From the halls of the Metro. |
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Aaron Purser USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Julius Presley" Turbulent Pathway |
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Adam Felde USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "SoapBubble 01" Soap Bubble generated by street artist in Rome |
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Adrian Per Romania Nominee Abstract Amateur "Mirror" Trees in Spring water floods , Cetate Romania |
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Adriana Kastelan Croatia Nominee Abstract Amateur "#2" Swirling sunset |
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Akishige Kano Japan Nominee Abstract Amateur "Sabi 01" I explored the concept of Sabi, an idea peculiar to Japanese aesthetics, by means of photography. I am capturing the paradoxical beauty created by unexpected collaborations of human, nature and time. |
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Aleksandr Stikhin USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Explosion" Color explosion. |
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Alice Ng Hong Kong Nominee Abstract Amateur "Twisted city" Who can really distinguish what is reality and what is illusion? |
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Ana Joveva Republic of North Macedonia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Vibration" I make this photography one morning in Lisbon. A vibration of the moment. Vibration of our own individual experience, essential to move forward in life. |
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Angele Bianchi Malta Nominee Abstract Amateur "Passage" The passage of a boat on land. Decay is renewal. |
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Anita Schiedeck Spain Nominee Abstract Amateur "Bridge" |
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Anne Connor USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Inside Outside" |
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Anthony Brown Russia Nominee Abstract Amateur "False border" The "false boundary" is the framework in which thoughts, ideas and plans are enclosed. It calls for awareness of their presence, and the ability to eliminate them. If you look closely, they do not exist at all, and they are not tangible. It calls for dropping the fetters, and moving thoughts to where the thought is free. |
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Antonio Salaverry Brazil Nominee Abstract Amateur "Rush" Part of Rush Series - Organized Chaos of the Urban Environment |
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Arthur Karcenty France Nominee Abstract Amateur "Kind of Blue" This photograph was taken on the French Riviera |
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Barbara Huwiler Switzerland Nominee Abstract Amateur "Light Explosion" light dots of a fiber glass lamp |
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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Wynwood Stripes" Select, slice, dice, blur and assemble. Abstractions from many images taken in the Wynwood section of Miami. |
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Brandon Boothe USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Stainless Steel" The light found internally |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Let There Be Light" Let There Be Light, Sainte Chapelle, Paris |
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Brian Rope Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Disappearing Into Infinity" Taken inside a gallery exhibit about infinity |
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Bruce Fraser Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Green Spaghetti" My vision was to illustrate flow, and this was achieved by doing a 1 sec shutter speed, at f/8 ISO 400 downward panning shot. The title, was to reflect public engagement in the light tunnel by silhouetting the persons walking through the flowing green strands of light. |
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C E Morse USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Finntown #73" Abstract detail of found object: part of the letter D on a derelict moving van |
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Carole Usdan USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "son compagnon" |
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Carolyn Edelstein USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Prideful Chieftain" Taken with a zoom at the 2019 Gay Pride Parade in Wilton Manors, FL |
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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Gulf Sunset" Sunset on Captiva Island, FL |
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Chae Yun Christine Park Korea (South) Nominee Abstract Amateur "Jeu De Blues" This project explores how light can produce another category of colour that is not solid but changeable that creates movement in perception of colours. |
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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Abstract Amateur "Reflections through the Rains" This is a photo where reflection in a puddle of water is captured and inverted |
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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Compassion" With an intense palette of purple, from my series Flora Euphoria – abstract photographs of flowers each expressing an aspect of euphoria. |
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Christopher Paul Brown USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Cart Times Five, Swannanoa Industrial Park, 2018, 09142018FA" Penta-Yellow |
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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Transition" |
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Diane Kaye USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Flask in the Rain" Making a bottle Lumen when it happily began to rain. |
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Dominique Genin Belgium Nominee Abstract Amateur "The Sacrifice" The resurrection of the sacrificed |
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Eduardo Fujii USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Untitled" |
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Elizabeth Kazda USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Violin in Motion" An in-camera multiple exposure of five photos of prisms in spectral light. |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "The Hollow Men" Hollow men and empty men, men with heads filled with straw still rule our world. |
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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee Abstract Amateur "reeds" reeds in the sunset on a lake near Innsbruck |
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Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee Abstract Amateur "Sunset" This photo was made in Pantanal, Maro Grosso, Brazil |
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Frantisek Rerucha Czech Republic Nominee Abstract Amateur "Spanish Guitar Players" Dynamics, melody, movement, temperament. That's how I perceive classical Spanish guitar players. Photo captures an abstract composition created through an overlay photography technique, focus stacking |
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Gabriela Fuchs Mexico Nominee Abstract Amateur "My Father's Ashes" When my father died I needed to understand life, instinctively something inside of me rushed me to see his ashes under a microscope, the scientist I spoke to predicted monochromatic images, to everyon |
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Gary Wiesner USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Eyes" This colorful abstract has many eyes looking back toward the viewer. No digital manipulation was used on this image. |
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Graeme Gordon Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Two eyes" Captured flying over a mining site in Western Australia |
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Grayson Dere USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Paradox V" An exploration using only in-camera techniques to create abstract photography |
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Hartmut Rieg Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "The Red Flag" |
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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Display" Doha business lounge - display from the side |
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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Nominee Abstract Amateur "Cloudy Waters" On a sunny day with an electric boat in the Biesbosch in Holland, great place to be! |
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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Nominee Abstract Amateur "Shadows On The Water" |
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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "Urbangraphy 201903-II" |
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Iva Nash USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Broken Window" This was taken in Woodstock, NY at an old, abandoned train. |
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James Meldrum USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Altered Reality" |
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James Peterson USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Ballistic Threshold #2" Ballistic Threshold #2 - An explosion in a distant realm. |
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Jed Best USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "yellow-blue abstract" |
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Jim Sterne USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Suspense" |
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Jober Costa Brazil Nominee Abstract Amateur "Contemporary" |
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John Wang Australia Nominee Abstract Amateur "The Sound of Colour" Vivid colours and the vibrating traces of light intimate a truly electrifying visual experience. The composition lapses into psychadelia and sends the eye in a dizzying, centrifugal motion. The aurora |
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Judy M. King USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Constricted Purple" |
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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Forrest" Just love the Snow in the the Forest of Hokkaido |
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Keith Monsoor USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Elipse" Marin Headlands |
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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Nominee Abstract Amateur "Catching the universe" The Orion Nebula shining in the winter night sky. I wish I could capture the shining jewels in the universe. |
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Klaus Tesching Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "Blue Mirror" |
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Lee Grossman USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Fountain of Age" |
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Abstract Amateur "Our world" Someone has questioned if our world is real or just an imagination. This image shows a non real world that mostly seems to be very cold, except for a little island in the middle that seems |
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Lilyan Aloma USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Lunch Hour" Infrared Image, Time Warner Building, New York City, Archival Pigment Print |
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Lyndall Dyer USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Abstract Woods" |
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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee Abstract Amateur "big wheel II" |
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Margo Kessler Cook USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Rise and Fall" |
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Maria-Camilla Fiazza Italy Nominee Abstract Amateur "Power of the Present" A metaphor of the human condition obtained through reverse panning. We are immersed in the flow of time, but rooted only in the present. What we perceive vividly in the Now becomes a fading memory. |
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Marie Kotschedoff USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Museum of the City of New York" |
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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee Abstract Amateur "Landscape" Rust Pattern |
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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee Abstract Amateur "The Monk" |
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Mayda Rumberg USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Abstraction" Bar ceiling with dollar bills |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Canyon Abstract" Arizona's Antelope Canyon in abstract |
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Mia Depaola USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "The woman in red" Winter mood... nonchalant attitude |
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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Water Is Life" Bubblig water in a fountain with lots of sunlight to make it sparkle. |
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Mirka van Renswoude Netherlands Nominee Abstract Amateur "Courage" Oil on water - Meditating on the element of water, and emulating its qualities, can allow us peace, growth, inspiration, and harmony with our surroundings. |
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Monika Weilenmann Switzerland Nominee Abstract Amateur "purple ceiling" |
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Narcis Mursa Romania Nominee Abstract Amateur "A Moment From Another World " Thos photo was taken in Cerneti Fields-Mehedinti County-Romania- |
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Nicole Urbscheit Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "Love affair" "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life of our souls" Picasso. The beauty of a flowering redefined by unfamiliar perspectives, breaking daily point of views. |
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Olga Merrill USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Harbor's Secret" |
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Olga Merrill USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Otherworldly" |
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Oren Hasson Israel Nominee Abstract Amateur "A Dreamy Early Morning" She was on her way to school. I used a slow shutter speed and special camera movements to create an expressionist painting-like photograph of this early summer morning. |
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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Waterfall Of Colors, Valley Of Fire" |
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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee Abstract Amateur "Mater Nature-1" The extinction of rainforest is a violent aggression against all human beings. |
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Phil Anderson USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "land and sky" dunes and sky before dusk |
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Robert Davis USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Brilliant on White flower" |
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Ron Geipel Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "Frühtau zu Berge" Organic structures of bacteria on analogue material |
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Sami Voutilainen Finland Nominee Abstract Amateur "Dancers in the Dark" Single lightpainted exposure of dancers with led lights, no composites. |
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Sandipan Mukherjee India Nominee Abstract Amateur "The water canvas" |
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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee Abstract Amateur "Stepping Up" Auckland, New Zealand |
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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee Abstract Amateur "Red Wall" |
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Sandro Tedde Italy Nominee Abstract Amateur "6" |
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Scott Oliver USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Prisms in Architecture" A beautiful play in natural light and reflection. |
.jpg&img_size=400 "Burano, Italy (from 'The Lagoon' series)")
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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Burano, Italy (from 'The Lagoon' series)" |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Abstract Amateur "Spirographe" A underwater spirographs |
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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee Abstract Amateur "Fragmented" |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "In the Beginning" |
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Stanislav Sitnikov Russia Nominee Abstract Amateur "Triangle" Color, lines, triangle, delta, architecture, element |
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Stefano Degli Esposti Italy Nominee Abstract Amateur "Pink Frame" Study of the architectural features of Harpa building (project Harpatecture) - Reykjavik (IS) 2016 |
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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "Streaming, Sixth Avenue" |
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Suzan Mandla Canada Nominee Abstract Amateur "Rise" An orange rose, abstracted through the magic of ICM (intentional camera movement) and additional post-processing using multiple applications and programs. |
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Svitlana Myslyvets Ukraine Nominee Abstract Amateur "Heat" "The fried sun" of cities. Photographed on analog pinhole camera. |
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Sylvia Wright Canada Nominee Abstract Amateur "Collective Soul " |
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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee Abstract Amateur "Bull's eye" Juxta-positioning of these made-made objects provides an almost human face to the wall |
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Viet Van Tran Vietnam Nominee Abstract Amateur "Dance No2" |
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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee Abstract Amateur "Lost In The Weeds" The wreck in the field of weeds. |
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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee Abstract Amateur "Walk!" |
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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Abstract Amateur "Reemenreh" Sculpture called "Reemenreh" made by Bogomir Ecker, Ruhr region, Germany |
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Willa Davis USA Nominee Abstract Amateur "windows 01" |
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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Abstract Amateur "Eyes" Detail of the wings of a butterfly. |