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Phil Anderson USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Amateur "storm light" first light after a clearing winter storm, California desert |
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Volker Kesting Netherlands 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Amateur "Evergreen" |
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Matt Burgess Australia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Amateur "Swan" Two waves collide under a moody cloud-filled sky creating a Swan like shape. Captured with Canon 5DMK3 + Canon 16-35 II + Aquatech water housing |
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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Gateway-1" Nature shows us the way, even if it is in the bark of a palm tree. |
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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Autumn Colors" The red colored maple leaves are against the background of brightly glowing mountain surface illuminated by the morning sunshine. |
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Nick Green UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Dancing Girls of the wood" |
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Rolf M Germany Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "summer" summer |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Islands in a Radiant Sea" Surrounded by the Heart Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia are islands of dust silhouetted by a sea of glowing oxygen gas. |
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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "A tree" |
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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "A touch of color" |
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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Lonely Heart" Landmannalaugar, Iceland |
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Marvin Basil USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Japanese Garden" |
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Bob Neiman USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Dead Horse Point 0855" Dead Horse Point 0855 |
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Marie Kotschedoff USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "November Lotus" |
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Cindy Bosveld Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "A Lone Tree" Autumn in Balingup, Western Australia |
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Phil Anderson USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "dune perspective 1" morning light on a massive dune |
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Paul Christener Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Vanishing Silence 05" Vanishing Silence Emmen Valley |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Stellar Coast" The Cygnus Wall is a ridge of gas and dust about 20 million light-years long. Like a rocky coastline carved by water and wind, it is shaped by the radiation and solar winds from nearby stars. |
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Patrick Ems Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Approaching silence" |
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Peter Nestler USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Aurora" Aurora Borealis over a glacier in Alaska |
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Gayle Pepper USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Snow Tree" I was snowed in at Yosemite National Park for 3 days. This was my Christmas Tree. |
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Bobby Samuels USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Three wooden posts" Thress wooden posts stand out amongst the poppies. |
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James Peterson USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Cholla Forest" Chollas are among the prickliest cacti found anywhere. This group of them, captured in infrared, is in Arizona's Lower Sonoran Desert. |
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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Dancing Mangroves" the home of dancing mangroves |
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Steve Burkett USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Zig Zag" An Iconic High-Mountain Fence Holds a Magnificent Autumn View |
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Carol Wontkowski USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Autumn Mist-1" I love fog and on this particular morning was on my way to an appointment when I saw the beauty of both he sun and fog enveloping this field. |
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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Red at rest" Hasselblad 503CW/Phase One P20+, Hasselblad 4/40mm, ISO 100, 120sec |
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Adrian Per Romania Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunflowers" Sunflowers to Final Stage |
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Adriana Kastelan Croatia Nominee Nature Amateur "secret place" Cloudy sunset time in my secret village. Photo taken on island Rab in Croatia |
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Alex Politis France Nominee Nature Amateur "Wondrous" Breathtaking spectacle. A sunset at its purest form at a remote beach on the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece. |
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Amr El-shafei USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lavader " Southern France in July. |
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Andrea Richey Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "autumn mood" This photo was taken last autumn. Macro photography is one of my favourite areas of photography. This kind of photography relaxes me and lets me dive into nature. |
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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Los Cuernos and Torres del Paine,Patagonia,Chile" |
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Anita Schiedeck Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "German Autumn" |
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Anne Neiwand Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Milford Gold" New Zealands Milford sound basked in the golden glow of sunset |
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Annemarie Jacques USA Nominee Nature Amateur "shades of blue and grey" |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Really local rainfall" |
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Antonio Salaverry Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "Nature Impression" Digitally Worked Nature Scene |
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Antonio Salaverry Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "Ghoulish" A macabre and ghoulish nature scenery |
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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Algarve Cave at sunset" FOR MANY YEARS I HAVE WANTED TO PHOTOGRAPH THE SOUTH COAST OF PORTUGAL. THESE CAVES ARE A BIG PART OF WHY, AND I EXPERIENCED THE PERFECT MOMENT. |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Arches Reflection 1255" Arches Reflection 1255 |
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Bob St-Cyr Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Linear Autumn" A colourful carpet |
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Bobby Samuels USA Nominee Nature Amateur "A sea of orange" California received some much needed rain during the last part of winter and the poppies were in full bloom this spring as a result of it. |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Pamukkale Travertine Terraces" Pamukkale Travertine Terraces, Turkey |
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Brian Hunt Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Nazare Wave" the largest waves in the world at Nazare, Portugal |
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Bruno Oliveira UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Frozen Waterfall" A beautiful frozen world captured during a massive snow storm. |
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Carol Zulman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Palouse Hues" |
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Carr Ward USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Eye of Eternity" Upper and lower falls at Stepp Creek in the Ozark National Forest during sunrise |
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Charita Carter USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Mighty El Cap" El Capitan of Yosemite Valley, CA during a clearing storm |
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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Daybreak in Trida" Just before daybreak, the light is magical, creating layer upon layer of rolling purple and violet hills. |
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Cindy Starr USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lookout Point" The sunset and the location provided a perfect moment of peace. |
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Darren Moore UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Lakeside" |
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David Mediavilla Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Suave atardecer" Nos acababa de pasar una fuerte tormenta por encima, no obstante nos compensó con unas nubes y luces para no olvidar. |
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David G Jones UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Wildflower Sunrise" This photograph was taken in Bewdley England during 2019. I wanted to capture mist and a sunrise sky to compliment the stunning display of wild poppy's at this location. |
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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Nature Amateur "First Snow 2" |
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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Joshua At Its Best" The dark sky enhanced this playful tree and all of its accoutrements. |
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Debra Achen USA Nominee Nature Amateur "A River Runs Through It #1" From the "ChromaSynthesis" portfolio exploring duality in nature through the fusion of color and monochrome. |
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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Red Rocks Winter" |
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Dmitrii Nikishov Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Serene" With this shot of Kotor bay mountains I went for a minimalistic look to ephasize the dark jagged shapes of the mountains which are contrasted by serene watercolor-like sky. |
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Elena Bolshakova Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Mirror" |
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Emilio Campanile Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Stillness" Gran Sasso d'Italia, autumn 2017. |
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Fabio Rossi Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Mare Nostrum" Italy Mar Adriatico |
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Fiona Carter Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Home " A wasp overseas its building skills. |
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Gary Lopez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Luminant Lace" In the constellation Cygnus is a chaotic lace-work of glowing filaments, remnants of a super nova explosion. The red and blue color are ribbons of energized hydrogen and oxygen. |
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Gary Lopez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Cosmic Watercolor" Bubbling through a massive cloud of glowing gas and dust are star chambers called Bok Globules, the nurseries for new stars that are ignited by the intense gravity and heat. |
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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Cathedral Rock" |
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Gillian Marshall USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunset over Nam Ngum Lake, northern Laos" The softness of clouds at sunset, mirrored in the serenity of Nam Ngum Lake, Xayaburi province, northern Laos, as the day draws to its close, deep in Nature. |
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Harald Weimann Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Frozen" Photo was taken on a terrible cold afternoon were the fog was frozen on the trees - Winner - Landscapes & Seascapes Category - 13th Pollux Awards’ |
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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Layer Cake" Layers and layers of mountain ranges as seen from the Great Wall |
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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Late spring nearby the pass" |
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Ivan Pesic USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Feast on the Black Locust Tree" Los Angeles, 2019 |
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Jean-Marc Felix Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Where have all the glaciers gone? Long time passing" Dying Swiss Glacier near Saas Fee at some 2500 meters above sea level |
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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Nominee Nature Amateur "Lone Hut" A lone hut in Iceland.... |
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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Clouds in the water, lake in the sky" Franger, Karl - Clouds in the water, lake in the sky |
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Karl Glanville Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "Fairy Bridge" The Fairy Bridge is an often under rated gem found in the Elleric Woods in the Scottish Highlands, near Appin. |
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Karolin Schild Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "The Wizard of OZ" Hopetoun Falls along the Otway Ranges, Great Ocean Road one of Australia's most iconic natural attractions. |
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Keith Manning USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Calm Costa Brava" As the sun rises above the horizon its warm light paints the sky, the clouds and the coastline at Cap de Creus on Spain's Costa Brava. |
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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Namibian Dawn" |
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Lyndall Dyer USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lone Tree" |
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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Nature Amateur "Butterfly" |
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Manfred Voss Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Milkyway Rendezvous" |
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Marc Olthoff Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Beach" |
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Margo Kessler Cook USA Nominee Nature Amateur "In The Midst of the Storm" |
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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Skogafoss" |
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Martin Bigmore Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Autumn Torches" Beautiful autumn colour catching the last of the light |
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Marvin Basil USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blowing Grass" |
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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee Nature Amateur "moody sunrise" storm clearing on block island at sunrise |
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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "The Seductive Dry" When the bush is so dry, fire is inevitable, even the animals have ceased to come, anticipating the horror |
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Masoud Shokrnia Iran Nominee Nature Amateur "The One" The alone tree fights for life. |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lone Leaf" This lone leaf magically avoided the rocks as it floated through the swirling colors of Pollywog Stream along the Appalachian trail in upstate Maine. |
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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Magnificent Maple" Fall color on full display on a foggy morning. |
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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "The Dawn" |
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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "The yellow field" |
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Paul Kloschinsky Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "First Beach Sunset" Taken in Olympia National Park, Washington, USA |
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Pei Chun Shih Taiwan Nominee Nature Amateur "Himalayas in the early morning" The distant mountains look calm but seem to have an avalanche. |
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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Amateur "Waves" Waves of fields in Moravian Tuscany |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Morbid Havanna 93" ' El Malecon get's wet ' |
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Phil Pogledich USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Classic California" A vast field of spring flowers and a Valley Oak shortly after sunset |
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Poul Helt Denmark Nominee Nature Amateur "At Low Tide" |
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Rene Roalf Denmark Nominee Nature Amateur "Seascape" Long time exposure. West coast, Denmark. Always windy and wild - and beautiful |
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Rowena English Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Magical Mt Cook" Sunset over New Zealand's tallest mountain, Mt Cook |
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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Splendid Yellow " Perthshire Scotland in full Autumn colour |
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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Summer dawn Shingle Street " Dawn at Shingle street Suffolk in the uk |
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Sally Stevens USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Butterfllies at Play" Wildlife of the Bayou at play, Louisiana |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Nature Amateur "Anemona 01" Anemona underwater |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Working on the Boat" |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunrise in the Mara" Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya |
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Steffen Ebert Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunrise" Sunrise at the Beach (Baltic Sea) |
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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Midnight Sun in Greenland" Red sails reflect in the colourful Ilulissat Ice Fjord during the midnight sun. |
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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Climate Change" An Early Autumn Storm Approaches |
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Sven Van Ossel Belgium Nominee Nature Amateur "Storm In Paradise" |
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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Florida on a misty morning" |
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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Godafoss Dawn" A different take on a famous location, Godafoss at Sunrise has a presence thats hard to describe, but a joy to experience. |
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Tom Seiler Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Mushroom Hideout" A small group of mushrooms hides in a rotten tree stump. |
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Tom Seiler Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Myvatn" This never-ending sunset was captured late at night. Iceland has given me some sleepless nights. |
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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Derwentwater" Morning mist captured in high key in the English Lake District |
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Valentin Denyset France Nominee Nature Amateur "Lily" In winter 2019, during a solitary 50-day trip to an isolated wooden cabin in Finnmark (Norway), lost in the white wilderness, northern lights were dancing to draw a lily flower. |
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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Dreamy" The shape, colour and texture of water |
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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "The Grave-Song" Dead driftwood, Baltic Sea, offshore Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula coast, Germany, after sunset in a very cold winter night some days after a very heavy winter storm had especially hit this coast. |
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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Head Of The Meadow" |
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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Marine fog" Es Vedrá (Ibiza) |