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Harry Koester Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Alps #1" |
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David Sieczkiewicz USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Pinnacle" |
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Bas van der Poel Netherlands 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "The magical tracks of the misty forest" One of the most special trips I made was to Taiwan. Hidden deep in a forest was this magical trail. The fog completed the scene. |
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Wally Randall Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mitton Lake" Smoky August light across the Driftwood Range, BC |
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Evan Siegel USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Melting" This image of an ice flow, in unusual highlights and shadows, was captured in natural light from a Zodiac off the Antarctic Peninsula with a Leica S digital body and 70mm lens. |
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Monique Felber Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "the fog of illusion" a fogy day around the drumlins near Zug in Switzerland - a mystic atmosphere |
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Vincent M France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Comete Neowise au dessus du Mont Saint-Michel" La comète Neowise au dessus de la flèche de l'abbaye du Mont Saint-Michel au mois de juillet 2020. L'observation de l'année. |
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Marco Crupi USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Last Dance" Last colors of the season inside a thick canapy |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Gibralter Fires" |
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Carolyn Brown USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mexican Hat Dance" Hat Dance with Critters |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Domestiche spaccature" diga di Ravedis Val Cellina (Italia) |
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Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional " Clouds and Fiorita" the magic nature in Castelluccio di Norcia |
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Daniel Tremblay Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Abeyance" Extremely cold morning in the Canadian Rockies resulted in some fantastic moody images!! |
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Federico Antonello Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Alpe di Siusi" Shot taken during sunrise, last autumn in Dolomites. |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Rainforest" The Chasm, Fiordland, New Zealand |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Black Summer" |
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Igor van de Poel Belgium Honorable Mention Nature Professional "silent witness" |
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Skip McKinstry USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Winter Is Coming #1" The old saying that "my favorite camera is whichever one I have with me" holds true here. I shot the image on my iPhone 11 while inspecting the damage to our front yard following an unseasonably early ice storm in October 2020. The photo, also called "The Green Knight's Revenge, #1" personalizes the tragic nature of all that happened during that pandemic year. |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Nilgiri Peak" |
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Sandy Adams USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Coralberries" Sign of Winter when Coralberries are in bloom. |
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Patty Hosmer USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Pele Speaks" |
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Georgette Aleiferi Greece Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Colorless Winter" |
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Dolly Kabaria India Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Sandstone Waves" Antelope Canyon, It’s a surreal place where the sandstone canyon walls have become waves; they're like a signature piece of art from the nature itself, achieved only through patience and time. |
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Maarten Wouters Netherlands Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Stop bugging me 'Wasp'" Closeup of a Wasp out of the 'Stop Bugging Me' series |
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Craig Bill USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Alien World" 442 20sec exposures to fully capture the star trails over the Alien Throne, New Mexico USA |
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David Meaux France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Moment before the Squall" This serene blended, long-exposure scene was captured a brief moment before a squall raged across the Lac de Gaube in the Hautes-Pyrénées department of France. |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Aoraki / Mt Cook" Last light on Aoraki / Mt Cook, Canterbury, New Zealand |
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Walt Thirion USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Brooding" The polar ice presents many faces from calm to stormy. From my 'Moods of the Ice" series |
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Steve Turner Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Long Reef Storm" A massive storm front approaching Long Reef Sydney Australia July 2020 |
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Paul M. Murray USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Sand Fog" In the dry hot dunes, winds blow fine sand from and across dunes and river beds like a fog. As the climate grows hotter, the desert expands slowly but undeniably taking over green areas. |
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Jeff Grant Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Two Cormorants" |
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Adrian Barrett New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Rock Formations" natural coastal rock formation |
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Alain Ernoult France Nominee Nature Professional "Ice storm at -30 in Japan" STORM WINTER LANDSCAPE IN THE NOTSUKE PENINSULE, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN |
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Alexander Varvarin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset at Mohave Point" Film Panoramic camera Linhof 617 IIIS |
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Alexander Vershinin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Cover Of Blizzard" Winternight on the Lofoten islands, Norway, 2020. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stormy Oxbow Bend" A storm rolling in over Oxbow Bend in the Grand Tetons during the Fall in Wyoming, USA |
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Bart Dumont Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "nice mountain moment" |
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Benoit Stichelbaut France Nominee Nature Professional "Indian Ocean" France, Indian Ocean, French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF), storm force 10 in the roaring forties, photos taken on board the Marion Dufresne (supply ship of the TAAF) en route between the Crozet |
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Bill Robbins USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Bluffs" Sun comming through the smoky clouds at sunset at the Carpinteria Preserve |
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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Retreating Tide" |
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Carolyn Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "Succulent Dance" Succlent Plant Fantasy |
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Carrie Johnson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beauty in the Mist" |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "El Capitan Emerges" Winter storms are especially magical in Yosemite Valley. When the weather turns nasty, that’s when I make a point to be there and watch the drama unfold. |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Good Morning, Yosemite!" As Covid-19 raged on outside the park, Yosemite Valley remained tranquil and quiet, as if recovering from having hosted too many guests. |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Last Sunsest" The Eastern Sierra is home to many graceful, photogenic Aspen groves. These trees are on the edge of one such grove along the June Lake Loop. I made this photograph on the last evening of my week-long |
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Christopher Ison UK Nominee Nature Professional "Silence" Silence - Cloudscape |
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Cody Yamaguchi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lava Wonderland" Lava destroys homes and land on Big Island of Hawai'i. The once beautiful Kapoho bay that was home to many is now consumed by lava and has changed the topography of this land forever. |
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Daniel Tremblay Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Land of the Dragons" Quite easy to imagine some elegant dragons a few thousand years ago, roaming over those absolutely epic Vestrahorn Mountains in Iceland!! |
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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee Nature Professional "Etched by Time" The Colorado River carves its way deep into the ancient layers of the Colorado Plateau. |
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Darcy Brown UK Nominee Nature Professional "The Things They've Seen..." It's easy to simplify life around us, forgetting the years that Nature has lived through and survived despite of us... |
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David Meaux France Nominee Nature Professional "Celestial Arch" The Milky Way mirrors the Pont d'Arc, a natural arch, in the Ardeche department of France. The final image is a 650Mpix multi-row panorama featuring light-painting of the foreground and countless star |
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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Four souls and the mysterious island" The fog was so thick that morning that I had to wait more than two hours in the same position to see the bottom. This moment of magical light lasted just 5 more minutes. |
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David Meaux France Nominee Nature Professional "Vallee de Bareges" As the sun sets, fog rolls through the Vallée de Barèges below the Col du Tourmalet in the Hautes-Pyrénées department of France. |
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Dolly Kabaria India Nominee Nature Professional "Hues" Antelope Canyon, It’s a surreal place where the sandstone canyon walls have become waves; they're like a signature piece of art from the nature itself, achieved only through patience and time. Impri |
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Doug Gibbons Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Northern Pallet" Autumns paintbrush in Northern Ontario |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Fragile" |
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Ellie Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Seascapes 7, 2020" |
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Erika Valkovicova Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Vestrahorn" Frosty morning at Stokksnes in Iceland |
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Erika Valkovicova Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Painted" Reynisfjara black sand beach in Iceland. |
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Erika Valkovicova Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Beach Sunset" Wonderful sunset at Anse Source D'Argent beach in Seychelles |
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Erika Valkovicova Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Arctic Love" Aurora dancing above a heart-shaped stone at Uttakleiv beach in Lofoten, Norway |
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Evan Siegel USA Nominee Nature Professional "Uluru Pool" This image was captured in natural light at the base of Uluru in the Northern Territories Outback in Australia, with a Fujifilm GFX 50s digital body and 32-64mm lens. |
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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Low Tide Minnamurra River" MINNAMURRA RIVER LOW TIDE SOUTH COAST AUSTRALIA |
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Gary Latham UK Nominee Nature Professional "The Groyne" The Groyne, Ramsgate. |
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Glenn Vanderbeke Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Fintele" Fintele is a very small town (in dutch it's called 'een gehucht) in West Flanders of Belgium. Despite it's size, the nature that surrounds this hamlet is magnificent and 'grand' to say the most. |
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Gretchen Troop USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bridge to the Milky Way" Staying at the historic White Pine Camp in the far north of New York was an amazing experience, especially at night when the Milky Way showed up, this shot was taken from their iconic bridge |
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Ha LI Hong Kong Nominee Nature Professional "Veins of Ocean" They are the veins of ocean. |
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Harry Koester Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Alps #2" |
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Inese Kalnina Latvia Nominee Nature Professional "Song of the songs" There are places in the world that have cleanliness and cosmic order. There are people with pure souls who tend to develop strong personalities. I trust in future. |
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j. Madison Rink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Edo Erotic" |
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j. Madison Rink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Elder Rest" |
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Jacob Kaptein Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Night of tribulation" Working on a assignment for National Geographic NL I about stream restoration in The Netherlands, I came across this little beech standing with her feet in the water, trying to survive the long winter |
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Jan Brunclik Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "in the morning" in the morning - Czech paradise location |
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Janet Century USA Nominee Nature Professional "Acacia Park" A walk in the park during sweet light |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Nature Professional "Drive-by soaring cloud" Driving north at sunset, a cloud like a soaring rocket framed by the red silhouette pattern of the railing |
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Jeff Johnson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Standing Proud Above Them All" This fellow held his head high above the rest of his family |
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Joan Grabel USA Nominee Nature Professional "Meditation 1" a quiet energy radiating from the white sand dunes of White Sands, New Mexico |
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Joerg Schwalfenberg Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Colca Canyon" deep and dry |
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Johan Van Cutsem Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "whiteout" whiteout during blizzard iceland march 2020 |
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Joseph De Sciose USA Nominee Nature Professional "In the Tensaw Delta" Tensaw Delta in Southern Alabama |
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joSon USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eureka Dunes-Death Valley National Park." Over 10,000 years these dunes have existed, providing a unique habitat for specialized lifeforms to evolve. |
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Karen Hirsch USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cold as Ice" Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Rainbow Falls into Place" I watched the misty light swirl into faint colors until this rainbow finally fell into place above Kalalau Valley. Nualolo Vista, Koke'e State Park, Kauai |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Morning Mask" Another surreal day dawns on the Salar de Uyuni. Jirira, Bolivia |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Altiplano" Sometimes I like the unexpected image more than the planned one. Like, on this trip, I had dreamed of photographing the Salar de Uyuni, the near mythical salt flats of Bolivia, flooded and at golden h |
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Lee Meltzer USA Nominee Nature Professional "The River" A quiet afternoon along the river. |
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Leland Bobbe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Fall Reflections" |
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Leo Fellner Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Stokkeness" Iceland shows its colorful side even in winter |
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Lori Farr USA Nominee Nature Professional "Heart Over Telluride" A flaming arrow goes through a heart in the sky above Telluride. This magical sky was made by nature! |
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Lou Novick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Box Canyon" |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Caddo Lake Cypress" Caddo Lake Texas, USA |
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Lynne Eodice USA Nominee Nature Professional "Palm Desert Afternoon" Palm trees sway on a desert afternoon |
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Marcio Cabral Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Electric sunset" Electric storm during sunset at salar de uyuni - Bolivia |
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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Delicate Beauty" Beautiful detail of water being purified throughh thick moss |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Duet" Diamond Beach, Iceland |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Indigo" Karijini National Park, Australia |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Rise" Senja, Norway |
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Mark Gray Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Spirit Tree" Dandenong Ranges, Australia |
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Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Tatras" |
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Martineau Alain France Nominee Nature Professional "Namibian desert #2" |
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Matilde Simas USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dead Vlei Trees" Among the towering orange dunes of Namib-Naukluft National Park is an area known as Dead Vlei. In the Dead Vlei, you will find the tallest dunes in the world. The rich orange dunes that surround the a |
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Michael Philip Manheim USA Nominee Nature Professional "Icy Stares" Remembering the seasons: From my Energy of Nature project |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Star Lights over Ebenezer" I thought it would be beautiful to show the stars shining over the Ebenezer bridge while I painted with light on the exterior and interior of the bridge. |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Nature Professional "Swirling Surf" Sunrise at the jetty in Ocean Beach, Fire Island |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Nature Professional "Melting ice" A remnant of a mighty glacier melts away; Iceland. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "2021" A new fern frond pushes up through a bed of burnt leaves after a wildfire. |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Ice" Ice on Lake Twenty Two, Washington |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cascade" Sandy Cape dunes, Fraser Island |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Dunescape" Sandy Cape, Fraser Island |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Remnants" Sandy Cape, Fraser Island |
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Seth Benson USA Nominee Nature Professional "FT George Island" |
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Shea Winter Roggio United Arab Emirates Nominee Nature Professional "Precipitous Slopes" A lone home sits on the shore of the Hallstatter See and the precipitous slopes of Dachstein massif in Hallstatt, Austria |
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Shinya Itahana Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Red galaxy" Red galaxy in the dark green universe. (Tottori, Japan) |
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Shokoufeh Malekkiani Iran Nominee Nature Professional "Legends of the Fall" The truth of industrial living beside pure nature and tryingtoshow that wecould use technology such as road construction,along with keeping nature alive and protecting the environment and ecosystem. |
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Stan Stansfield USA Nominee Nature Professional "Petrified Wood Utah" |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Controvento" Malmö (Svezia) |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Alberi scheletriti" Val Cellina (Italia) |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Moke Lake" A frosty start on Moke Lake, Central Otago, New Zealand |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "South Face" Mt Aspiring, Mt Aspiring National Park, West Coast, New Zealand |
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Steven Hans Lindner USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset From Home" Fleeting Sunset |
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Stone Peng USA Nominee Nature Professional "Weeds in the pond" |
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Susan Greeff South Africa Nominee Nature Professional "Desert Tree" A solitary tree in the semi desert overlooking a salt pan in Namibia |
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Susan Richman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Birds Of A Feather" Memento Mori created as part of my series Jenga to honor and celebrate the insects and small animals in my environment after observing their declining populations in my garden. |
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Thomas Wolf USA Nominee Nature Professional "Peaceful Iceland Beach" Ice blue waters on a remote Iceland beach. |
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Ton Dirven Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Cadettenkamp" Ton Dirven |
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Tony Gale USA Nominee Nature Professional "Old Faithful and Neowise" The comet Neowise and Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Ried" |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Evening light" |
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Wilfried Hinz Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Svodufoss - Island" |
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Will Faulkner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Purple Rain" "Purple Rain". Mackenzie falls in The Grampians National Park, Australia |