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Waiting room Esperanza Gomez
USA

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement
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"Waiting room"



Poivron a l'Araki 3 Saman Majd
USA

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence
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"Poivron a l'Araki 3"



Tangle Mieke Douglas
UK

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction
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"Tangle"



Gym Ball John McGill
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Gym Ball"
Gym Ball



Poivron a l'Araki 4 Saman Majd
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Poivron a l'Araki 4"



Caribbean broom Holger Goehler
Germany

Honorable Mention
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"Caribbean broom"
When you start sweeping bananas - In the interior of the Caribbean island of Domenica



Morbid Havanna 49 Peter Voss
Germany

Honorable Mention
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"Morbid Havanna 49"
' Historic Staircase from 1900 '



Forest signs Holger Goehler
Germany

Honorable Mention
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"Forest signs"
Dresdner Heide - old trails 49 trees, 49 means 49 characters



Autumn Isolation Tim Lucas
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Autumn Isolation"
Being the odd one out sometimes has its advantages



Bicycles Carol Rusinek
Canada

Honorable Mention
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"Bicycles"



Dahlia Debbie Hartley
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Dahlia"



Bunker Day, horn Danny Valk
Netherlands

Honorable Mention
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"Bunker Day, horn"
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)



Inherited Belongings Pat Maycroft
UK

Honorable Mention
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"Inherited Belongings"
Looking back at life in these uncertain times I realise how fragile life is. My ancestors 'in this case' my great grandparents are seen going about their business almost 100 years ago. The suitcase, handbag and hat have survived them by over 70 years. I begin to wonder which of my belongings will survive me.



Chopsticks, Kyoto John Doyle
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Chopsticks, Kyoto"



Lily Michelle Lake
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Lily"



Nemo Marianna Armata
Canada

Honorable Mention
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"Nemo"



Rhapsody In Violet Barry Brukoff
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Rhapsody In Violet"
THE JUXTAPOSITION OF THE FLOWERS AND THE STACKED CANVASES DEMANDED TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED!



Golden Spiral Ernesto Rodriguez
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Golden Spiral"
Nature is the true master of geometry.



Electric Calla Diane Kaye
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Electric Calla"
Lumen Sun Print made outdoors.



Chain and Rungs Denise Dethlefsen
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Chain and Rungs"
Rust patterns, a chain and ladder rungs on a vintage caboose



Autumn Bindu Chandan
India

Honorable Mention
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"Autumn"
Lost Autumn song



O Mimmi Moretti
Italy

Honorable Mention
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"O"



Tulip Marianna Armata
Canada

Honorable Mention
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"Tulip"



Table Still Life Sylvia Gardner
USA

Honorable Mention
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"Table Still Life"



Milk Bath Flowers Debbie Hartley
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Milk Bath Flowers"



Last petals Remi Joseph d'Argent
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Last petals"
Last petals before the long Sleep



Collective sleep Remi Joseph d'Argent
Australia

Honorable Mention
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"Collective sleep"



Life Aleksandr Stikhin
USA

Nominee
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"Life"
Real life on the street.



Winged Victory of Samothrace Alice Ng
Hong Kong

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"Winged Victory of Samothrace"
A window above the Winged Victory makes her like a goddess from heaven.



Doll Room Amy Siqveland
USA

Nominee
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"Doll Room"



Circles in the wind Ana Joveva
Republic of North Macedonia

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"Circles in the wind"
LIFE IS LIKE CIRCLES IN THE WIND... INFINITY.



Cafe Anita Schiedeck
Spain

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"Cafe"



Rest against a wall Anne Goedert
Luxembourg

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"Rest against a wall"



Bleeding Heart Anne Marie Walters
UK

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"Bleeding Heart"



catching the light Annemarie Jacques
USA

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"catching the light"



Lucky Duck Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

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"Lucky Duck"



Outspoken Anthony Iacuzzi
USA

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"Outspoken"
Bicycle pedal gears in a rainbow of colors



Growing up Barbara Corvino
Italy

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"Growing up"



Fire Control Plan Berry Bingel
UK

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"Fire Control Plan"
FIRE CONTROL PLAN storage box and hand rail shadows at sunrise



Ruby's Diner Bill Rosenberg
USA

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"Ruby's Diner"
This image was taken at a Ruby's Diner location at the end of a pier in Seal Beach, California. I believe this location has since closed. I moved the salt shaker.



Ode To Mark Rothko 6 Bob Neiman
USA

Nominee
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"Ode To Mark Rothko 6"
Ode To Mark Rothko 6



Plymouth Hood Ornament C E Morse
USA

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"Plymouth Hood Ornament"
1939 Plymouth hood ornament



Amaryllis Carol Wontkowski
USA

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"Amaryllis"
I wanted to capture the voluptuous opening of an amaryllis and was fortunate enough to do so.



work Carole Usdan
USA

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"work"



Flowering cactus Craig Lefebvre
USA

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"Flowering cactus"
The Easter Lilly cactus blooms for about 24 hours in Northern Arizona following a wet Winter



Bunker Day, fuse box 1 Danny Valk
Netherlands

Nominee
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"Bunker Day, fuse box 1"
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)



Bunker Day, fuse caps Danny Valk
Netherlands

Nominee
Still Life
Amateur

"Bunker Day, fuse caps"
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)



Bunker Day, wall 1 Danny Valk
Netherlands

Nominee
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Amateur

"Bunker Day, wall 1"
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)



Sushi Table Diane DeQuevedo Klein
USA

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"Sushi Table"
Repetitive lines and colors create a pattern.



Autumn Diane Kaye
USA

Nominee
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"Autumn"
Special slide scanner-as-camera.



Prickly Heart Don Holman
USA

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"Prickly Heart"



Prisms in Spectral Light Elizabeth Kazda
USA

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"Prisms in Spectral Light"
Five prisms refract and reflect spectral light generated from a prism in sunlight.



And so it began? Erik Olson
USA

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"And so it began?"



couple dancing Erika Tanzer
Austria

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"couple dancing"
two petals of a tulip at the end of their life



Goodbye Straws Gayle Pepper
USA

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"Goodbye Straws"
Looking for something to shoot inside on a rainy day as I was saying farewell to my plastic straws.



Silk Gillian Hunt
UK

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"Silk"



Backlight Giovanni Sonsini
Italy

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"Backlight"
Photo taken in a bar of Lisboa - Portugal



The Blues Hennie Kempen
Netherlands

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"The Blues"
A flower at the end of the life cycle has a certain charm



Orange dahlias hisao matsui
Canada

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"Orange dahlias"



Gold leaf hisao matsui
Canada

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"Gold leaf"



Nature's artwork Ian Shand
New Zealand

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"Nature's artwork"
Fairwell Spit, New Zealand, revealed this delicate arrangement left by the high tide



Expression, birthday party Ilya Trofimenko
Germany

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"Expression, birthday party"



Reflections Isik Sonenshtain
Israel

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"Reflections"



Rock Secrets 5 James McNelis
USA

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"Rock Secrets 5"



umbrella abstract Jed Best
USA

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"umbrella abstract"



A cool place for dinner Jober Costa
Brazil

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"A cool place for dinner"



Arti Joseph Lungaro
Malta

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"Arti"
The art of make believe at a market in Verona......Flowers or Artichokes?



Wheat Judy Nussenblatt
USA

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"Wheat"



Sands of time Karl Franger
Canada

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"Sands of time"
Franger, Karl - sands of time



Still life bread Kim-Pheng Sim
Singapore

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"Still life bread"
Color



Awakening Kit Snider
USA

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"Awakening"
First of the season



001 What is left if you sharpen your pencil Klaus-Juergen Roericht
Switzerland

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"001 What is left if you sharpen your pencil"



Temple Offering 3 Kristan Kosmos
USA

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"Temple Offering 3"
Part of my ongoing "Bali Soul" series, an offering with burning incense has been placed among others at the holy water temple Tirta Empul in Bali, Indonesia.



Almost White Leif Sohlman
Sweden

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"Almost White"
A photography of a white magnolia in the gardens of City Enkoeping (Enkoping), Sweden spring 2019, The background is rather white and digitally blurred.



Eloquence Leslie Gleim
USA

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"Eloquence"
Taken at the Foster Botanical Garden on Oahu Hawaii



Red Daisies Lyndall Dyer
USA

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"Red Daisies"



Buddha and Jesus M.L. Gitchel
USA

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"Buddha and Jesus"
What can we make of this? You write the caption.



The Photograph Manfred Schroeder
Switzerland

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"The Photograph"



my flowers Marco Enderli
Switzerland

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"my flowers"



Yellow Beauty Maria Castillo
USA

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"Yellow Beauty"



Urchin Marianna Armata
Canada

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"Urchin"



Kintsugi Flowers Marie Kotschedoff
USA

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"Kintsugi Flowers"
Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, the art of repairing cracked or broken ceramics with gold or metallic lacquer. As a result, the object becomes more beautiful than its original.



The Queen Martina Platte
Hong Kong

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"The Queen"



Wheels Martta Kelly
USA

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"Wheels"
We all had a wheel good time.



Red Chair and Flowers Mayda Rumberg
USA

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"Red Chair and Flowers"
Jolly corner



Night Music Nigel Bullers
Canada

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"Night Music"
The party once everything closes, new orleans.



Under Pressure Paul Crampton
Canada

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"Under Pressure"
Pressure gage and valves on a craft beer brewing tank.



World Map-1 Paulo Mittelman
Brazil

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"World Map-1"
Getting close I saw the world map in a felled tree.



Morbid Havanna 37 Peter Voss
Germany

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"Morbid Havanna 37"
' The tree should not fall over ! '



Walls have eyes Peter Rees
UK

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"Walls have eyes"



Invitation Poul Helt
Denmark

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"Invitation"



Bars and Wheels Poul Helt
Denmark

Nominee
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"Bars and Wheels"



A Flower Rainer Quesada
USA

Nominee
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"A Flower"
A flower in the field.



The Explanation Ray An
Canada

Nominee
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"The Explanation"



Bat Out Of Hell Remo Camerota
USA

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"Bat Out Of Hell"
Memories of my mother before dementia



Olympic Wine Richard Le Manz
Spain

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"Olympic Wine"
Playing with the double meanings



Fallen Leaf Rommel Lugada
Philippines

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"Fallen Leaf "



Poivron a l'Araki 1 Saman Majd
USA

Nominee
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"Poivron a l'Araki 1"



Arum lily 2 Shona Jaray
New Zealand

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"Arum lily 2"



Mosquito Coil Sonal Shah
USA

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"Mosquito Coil"



Bloom Tatiana Litova
Russia

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"Bloom"
Mixed light, mirror reflection, shades of red, long exposure... Fragrance of a torn tulip



Hope My Death Is Not In Vain TL Khong
Malaysia

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"Hope My Death Is Not In Vain"



Church light bulb - light of the world? Trevor Kerry
UK

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"Church light bulb - light of the world?"
Against the stained glass, this artificial source of light seemed to ask bigger questions about Light & Enlightenment



Tracks Volker Kesting
Netherlands

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"Tracks"



Gowanus Wayne Palmer
USA

Nominee
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"Gowanus"



My Yellow Duck 01 Willa Davis
USA

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"My Yellow Duck 01"