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Massimo Giorgetta Italy 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "american crocodille" Cuba - Gardens of the queen |
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Paul Coghlin UK 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "He Turned His Back" Almost a symbolic gesture by the bald eagle, it suggests he is speaking for all of the natural world in showing his disdain for humans, and the damage we are doing to the world. |
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Barbara Fleming USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Deadly Beauty #2" On a recent photographic trip to Costa Rica we photographed a lovely Eyelash Viper. It was a rescued viper that was placed on the flower for our benefit. The snake was released back into the wild once |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Bonobos ICU Too" A Bonobos can charm your heart at anytime. There are many characteristics that look very similar to humans. The large ape in on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species. |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Colorful Elegance" I met this beautiful Marwari mare with her traditional halter on top of a dune in the desert of Rajasthan (India) on a sticky and cloudy day, which created a mystic light full of depth. |
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Les Sharp Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Courtship of the Kings" The South Georgia Island colony has thousands and thousands of king penguins packed closely together. But to one side near the tussock grass there is space for courtship displays. |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Good Mother" A momma polar bear, recently emerged from her den in Wapusk National Park, Canada, snuggles with her cubs. |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Arctic Fox and Swarming Insects" Dovrefjell, Norway |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Blue Jay Back" A blue jay in flight - sometimes it is the details that make the shot. |
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Craig Blacklock USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Stork" Wood stork, Florida. |
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Patty Hosmer USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Mother's Hug" |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Guardian of Scotland" The white guardian of the valley | It took us about 20 minutes to get to the highland ponies that live in the valley between these scottish mountains. |
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Deborah MacEwen Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Peek, Here I am" Image my surprise as I was walking by the Canola Field & out popped this beautiful young buck |
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Les Sharp Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Fall of the King" He was old, with mange and ringworm. He was locked in an epic struggle with a female Buffalo. Slowly the strength ebbed from his body and in the end, he was defeated. South Luangwa Park Zambia. |
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Craig Bill USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Submarine" Stingray glides by in the Grand Cayman Islands |
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Lennette Newell USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Macaw" Macaw flying away from viewer. |
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Serge Melesan France Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "At the surface" Lemon sharks at the surface of tiger beach Bahamas |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Prince of Pearls " A common green tree frog in Queensland Australia is not common at all when he's a Prince in a string of pearls. |
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David Gould UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Where sleeping dogs lie" Street dog rests on sacks of clothes, near Main Bazar, Paharganj, New Delhi. India |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Are You Looking At Me?" A grizzly bear lounging in the Khutzeymateen, British Columbia |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "oommmm" out of my series ANIMALS |
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Stefano Lunardi Austria Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "alexander" this picture is part of a large birds of prey project started this summer. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rainbows" Rainbow Lorikeets erupting out of a Eucalypt in the late afternoon light |
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Lee Scott USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A James's Flamingo Glides By" A James's Flamingo strides by in the shallow waters of Laguna Colorada. Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia |
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Bence Mate Hungary Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rabbit Shoes" European rabbits clash in the air at a speed barely visible to the naked eye. Such power assertive clashes are common, as they can reproduce almost all year long. A single female rabbit can breed six |
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Christian Schwetz UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Palomino" Profoto on Hasselblad |
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Tori Gagne USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Making a Dash from the Water Hole McCollough Peaks" |
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Carolyn Brown USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Dancing Flowers" Dancing in the Garden |
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Alain Ernoult France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Moments of wild grace" LION IN SAVANNAH. SOUTH AFRICA |
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Alain Ernoult France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Take care of each other" JAPANESE MACAQUES (Macaca fuscata) IN HOT SPRING SHIGA KOGEN, JOSHINETSU KOGEN (NATIONAL PARK. JAPAN |
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Alain Ernoult France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild complicity in danger" WHITE BEAR POLAR BEAR (URSUS MARITIMUS) WALKING THROUGH THE BANQUISE ALONG THE SHORES OF HUDSON’S BAY, MANITOBA, CANADA ENDANGERED (UICN) EN |
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Alexandra Cearns Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Magestic" The stunning face of Dinar the Orangutan. |
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Andre Clemetsen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Meeting with a wolf" The photo shoot was taken early in the morning at Langedrag National Park in Norway. I had a beautiful meeting and close contact with the wolf. |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Majesty" A Sand Hill Crane stretching out his wings, showing his reflection in the water, in Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, USA. |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Arctic Fox" Dovrefjell, Norway |
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Bahaadeen M. Al Qazwini Kuwait Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lion Hug D" Lions aree living in group called Bride. They are keep their contacts by touching. I shot this picture by using the shapes of the face and arm |
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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Deadly Beauty #1" A herd of cape buffalo came slowly toward us as they lazily grazed the rich grass of the Ngorongoro Crater early one morning. Using a number of darkening masks, I added drama and focus on the buffalo, |
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Baroness Danute Federas USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Moment of Peace" LOVE TO TAKE PICTURES AT NIGHT THE CATCH THE RIGHT MOMENT LOVE SNOW MONKEYS. |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Morning Breeze" It was a cold morning when I decided to meet with my best friend to be creative and see what her spanish stallion will offer me. He then reflected the soft and free atmosphere we felt perfectly. |
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Carina Maiwald Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild Nobility" Some moments in the life of a golden horse - full of nobility and untamed emotions. |
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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spoonbill" Roseate spoonbill, Florida. |
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Daniel Ruf USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Winter Fox" |
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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Heaven Sense" A Great Egret & the beautiful softness of sky & water |
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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sounding Off" A solitary moment watching this elk sounding out to attract females |
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Denise Lira-Ratinoff Chile Nominee Wildlife Professional "Megaptera novaeangliae 02 from the series Cetaceans" North of Chile, Marine Reserve Isla Chañaral. December 2020 |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Smoking-hot" Black smoke Maine Coon |
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Fred Reaves USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "USK River Early Morning- South Wales, UK" |
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Gabrielle Keller USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Heron 1" |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Don't Know Which Way to Turn - South Africa" Three oystercatchers scouring the shore at Melkbosstrand on the Western Cape of South Africa. Relentless but crystal clear Atlantic waves crash at this wildlife rich coast |
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Graciela Socorro USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hiding in Hibiscus " Jumping spider hiding in a Hibiscus flower photographed in my garden. |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Saving Orb" The Golden Orb spider was my company at the beginning of Covid-19. I stayed in my backyard and watched her eat insects. I'll miss Org when she dies. |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Chimpanzee Red Earth" Chimpanzee are large ape who are able to see colour. Chimpanzee are on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. |
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Johannes Bosgra Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Murmuration II, 2020" In my series Murmurations I’m creating images of starling murmurations that form abstract landscapes in the sky in a sublime musical rhythm. Music is the art with the highest abstraction and able to |
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Kousuke Kitajima Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "battle of snow field" Two monkeys fighting in the snowfield |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "One of the Prettiest Places I Have Ever Been" Laguna Colorada is one of the prettiest places I have ever been. I would say that it is right up there with: Kauai, Yosemite Valley, Denali NP and the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. Laguna Colorada, Boliv |
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Louise Sedgman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Raven" |
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Louise Sedgman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Teeko" |
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Louise Sedgman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cabbie" |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Last catch" A cormorant makes a last catch of the day |
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Mel Karlberg USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "View" Waking up, view from my kitchen window |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional "Amazonia mirror" Vigilant, spectacled Caiman during a cool afternoon in an oxbow lake painted among the reflection of Mauritia palm trees. Manu National Park, Peru. |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Foxy Lady" A red fox on the frozen tundra in Wapusk National Park |
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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Blowin' in the Wind " |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "My World" In the Arctic, the sea ice is becoming scarce as polar bears try to survive. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Alert" The smallest member of the antelope family, Dik-Diks, live predominately off of plants. Given their small stature, their alertness and speed are important advantages in their survival. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "A Family Float" In the Arctic, ice float offers walruses a safer alternative to land for rest and access to food. |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Gotcha" Sub Adults play fghting |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I Hear You" |
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Philippe LEBEAUX France Nominee Wildlife Professional "A Nother World" A small 0.5 millimetre globular springail under a Chlorosplenium green mushroom and water droplet |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Aggresive Tiger" Agreesive Tiger |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pigeon Fly" Pigeon fly |
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Robbert Hagens Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spring" lambs in the meadow and red Dutch tulips |
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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cormorant Uprising " |
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Samantha Schwann USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Circle of Life" Striped marlin and sea lion work cooperatively to corral and hunt a bait ball of sardine in an annual event known as the Mexican Sardine Run. |
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Sara Shoemaker Lind USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Leopard Shark Over Sand" A leopard shark stays close to the shifting sands of La Jolla Shores |
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Scott Dere USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Leopard" A high up perch gives a 360 degree view of the surrounding area so the Leopard can choose its prey from a distance and begin stalking it with a plan on where to traverse the land to get its quarry. |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Colors of the deep" Colors of deep mediterranean sea at 60 meters |
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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mom " A female clown fish with cubs on anemone if she die one of them will change sexe and become bigger and female. The female always the bigger on anemone |
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Shokoufeh Malekkiani Iran Nominee Wildlife Professional "Save the Animals / Save the Planet " In this century, there is no border for the environmental issues.We are all connected and we must protect the planet for survival all species (plants, animals ). |
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Stefano Lunardi Austria Nominee Wildlife Professional "deepsea" |
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Thomas Wiewandt USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Miraculous Egg" This photograph was part of a self-publishing project - FOSSILS INSIDE OUT: A Global Fusion of Science, Art, & Culture (Wild Horizons Publishing, 2021) - by ecologist-photographer-publisher Thomas Wiewandt. To help readers connect the past with the present, we needed an image of "The Miraculous Egg," an evolutionary innovation that enabled reptiles and birds to successfully colonize land. Their amniotic eggs contain a complete life support system encased in a tough, drought-resistant shell. Even the mammalian placenta and its associated membranes are all derived from those in amniotic eggs. I chose to feature the emu because paleontologists now know that their eggs are about the same size and color of some dinosaur eggs. Birds are, in fact, the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. Creating this story-telling composite in Photoshop from nine separate photos of emu eggs required several months of fact-finding, waiting, more waiting, and shoots on a farm and in my home studio. The resulting image conveys, with a little imagination, the beauty and magic of baby dinosaurs entering the world! |
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Tori Gagne USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild Horse Family Onaqui Basin" Wild horses at Sunset, nearby forest fires made the sky exceptionally colorful |
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Tori Gagne USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tiny One Sandwash Basin" |
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Tori Gagne USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild Ones to the Water Hole" |
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Victor Elias USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Royal Crane" Close up portrait of a Royal Crane |
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Vyacheslav Sarkisian Turkmenistan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dress " Camels festively dressed in national decorations are waiting for the owner to go for the bride. |
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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Next Generations of Octopus" Octopus babys with their mother's suction cups. |
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Yvon Jolivet Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "The postiche" Putting your head in the sand never made you invisible.. |