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Fine Art - Amateur

Boat with Poles (Mardorf) Volker Birke
Germany

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement
Fine Art
Amateur

"Boat with Poles (Mardorf)"
Nikon D800, taken on Lake Steinhude (Steinhuder Meer) at Mardorf (Neustadt am Rübenberge) facing south towards Steinhude.



Mental Wheel Petri Damsten
Finland

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence
Fine Art
Amateur

"Mental Wheel"
Feelings from the COVID-19 isolation.



Blue Train Michael Jurek
Germany

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction
Fine Art
Amateur

"Blue Train"



car park Klaus Lenzen
Germany

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"car park"
A colorful parking lot - seen in Moenchengladbach (Germany)



Soul of the sea Fabio Rossi
Italy

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Soul of the sea"
The colors of the sea fill your soul



Sea Pool Sue Trower
UK

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Sea Pool"



Big City Pink Prohaska Mark Daniel
Austria

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Big City Pink"
this picture was taken in Wien Austria



The visitors Shifra Levyathan
Israel

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"The visitors"



Upon Awakening Michael Brodie
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Upon Awakening"
Dis-orientation



Doors of Port Phillip Ruth Woodrow
Australia

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Doors of Port Phillip"
Doors in my neighbourhood I walk past on my daily lockdown walks. City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia



The Road to Orion Kensaku Tsutsui
Japan

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Road to Orion"
A single road up the hill leads me to the constellation of Orion over the cherry blossoms in full bloom.



Heritage Beatrix Jourdan
Hungary

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Heritage"



Possibilities Arthur Jacoby
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Possibilities"
Guest at the Hard Rock Cafe



Havana Green Eddy Verloes
Belgium

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Havana Green"
2016, Cuba, Havana



Greentarctica Tim Lucas
Australia

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Greentarctica"
In the not too distant past, this boat would have been sailing the polar waters along side a whaling fleet. These days the boat is in ruins, and the waters are full of whales swimming in safety.



Isolated House Grace Ho
Malaysia

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Isolated House"
This isolated house is built by the fishermen as their rest hub in the middle of the sea



Women on yellow Stanislav Sitnikov
Russia

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Women on yellow "



Sunrise Illuminated Nestor Novo
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Sunrise Illuminated"
Sunrise Illuminated



Jesus Saves Jessica Margo
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Jesus Saves"
This neon light is a beacon of hope for people who are homeless, poor or struggling with addiction at the Market Street Mission. Morristown, NJ-August 2021



Mystical Life Smadar Sasson
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Mystical Life"
Life & love at the Dead Sea in Israel. Young couple on top of salt formations with their reflections in the water at this mystical place with seemingly no horizon



Spies Lawrence Russ
USA

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Spies"



Waves Mieke Douglas
UK

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Waves"
The repeating forms, shapes and lines of the rhythmic and unstoppable progression of Nature.



Opium Izabella Sapula
Poland

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Opium"
2020 taught us the only thing that mattered was truly deep relationships and bonds. But…do we know how to tell the difference between truth and illusion?



Green light Pierre Pellegrini
Switzerland

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Green light"
Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+ square, Hasselblad 4/40mm, 30'', ISO 100



Contemplating life Hendrik Kotze
Namibia

Honorable Mention
Fine Art
Amateur

"Contemplating life"
An early riser sits on the steps to his front-door in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, contemplating life, while his trusted "steed" waits patiently in the street to take him on the journey of his dreams



Into the Abyss Achraf Baznani
Morocco

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Into the Abyss"
Life is not too easy to live as it seems. This is the idea that pushed me to create this image, through our life we meet many difficulties, enemies, problems, diseases ... until the end of everything.



The pool is the house of swimmer Alessandra Barracchia
Italy

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The pool is the house of swimmer"



Pearl Alesya Osadchaya
Russia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Pearl"



Gliding Through Dreamland Alph Leydon
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Gliding Through Dreamland"
An Intimate Study of a Kayaker in Motion in the Silence of the Early Morning



Collage Amy Siqveland
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Collage"



beach tipi Andrea Richey
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"beach tipi"
beach day at the North Sea



Carousel Angelos Papamichail
Greece

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Carousel"



Soul Keepers Anne Dignam
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Soul Keepers"
Hofskirkja is the last of the old churches to be built in this beautiful traditional turf style. The spirits of those departed are cared for by the "soul keepers" who tend the graves.



Chania, Greece Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Chania, Greece"



Out There - 1 Ayla Campbell
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Out There - 1"
Quiet rain. Patient dock.



Borrowed Paradise Barbara Huwiler
Switzerland

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Borrowed Paradise"



Longing Barbara Groom
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Longing"



Circe - Napoleon's last Ruin Bernd Schirmer
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Circe - Napoleon's last Ruin"
Circe, or Kirke, the ancient Greek sorceress reinterpreted based on Homer's Odyssey. She drives sailors crazy with her song and beauty.



Kebab Max Berry Bingel
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Kebab Max"
Street scene, Urban observation at pedestrian crossing



The Painter and his Model Bertrand Helbling
France

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Painter and his Model"



Sandy Bottom Bobby Samuels
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Sandy Bottom"



Aljona 4 Bodo Gebhardt
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Aljona 4"



Isolation Bruce Fraser
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Isolation"
A creative fine art portrait image taken of my son in the family study, in Perth Western Australia



Prague Night #1 Carmen Ramon Cami
Spain

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Prague Night #1"
PICTURE TAKEN IN CITY PRAGUE WITH FUTURISTIC AESTHETIC



Red Head Carol Zulman
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Red Head"



Mother Earth Carolyn Edelstein
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Mother Earth"
A double exposure of 2 details of a colossal sculpture on Fort Lauderdale’s Riverwalk outside the Society Las Olas building.



The Colour of Light for Alice 11 Chris Byrnes
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Colour of Light for Alice 11"
Solargraphic light from Nobbys Whibayganba 2



Mountain Ash 13 Christine Goerner
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Mountain Ash 13"
Nature’s hatched lines soften the scenes of these highly textural, multi-layered mountain-scapes.



Rebirth Chun Wang
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Rebirth"



Beach Dreams Dale Duncan-Johnson
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Beach Dreams"



Imaginary Places Dana Mikaelle
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Imaginary Places"



The fallen angel, an angel expelled from heaven Daniel Arranz Molinero
Spain

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The fallen angel, an angel expelled from heaven"
Madrid (Spain)



At the Fountain Dayle Ann Clavin
Austria

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"At the Fountain"



Convex Debbie Scott-Queenin
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Convex"



UF Eyes Denis Sivack
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"UF Eyes"
This is part of my ongoing documentation of ephemeral street work that calls to me.



Dreamin' Diane Kravetz
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Dreamin'"



Boy by the Sea Dominic Cox
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Boy by the Sea"
Taken at Radio Beach in Bimini, The Bahamas



Confused Dora Duan
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Confused"
Over the past few years I have been thinking of issues of imperfection. I have decided to portray some restless moments from my earlier life as a way for me to understand them with greater depth.



Week-end a Zuydcoote Dvornik Gabor
Hungary

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Week-end a Zuydcoote"
“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” said the wise man. But then came war and nothing else remained but blood and sorrow and death for all.. .



Dead End Ellin Pollachek
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Dead End"
Looking Out At Manhattan's East River



Spiritree Estevao Lafuente
Portugal

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Spiritree"



Sorriso Fabrizio De Fabiis
Italy

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Sorriso"
Screenshot from an Instagram video



This is not Japan Flo Fritz
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"This is not Japan"
Mussels are breeded in Sacca di Scardovari, an ocean bay at Po Delta Region, Italy



Green Peace Francis Meslet
France

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Green Peace"
Abandoned Green House of a Castle, Belgium



To Serve And Protect Gary Levy
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"To Serve And Protect"
Awning and Lattice Work



Where Am I? Hector Bird
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Where Am I?"



Spacetime Hugh Jones
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Spacetime"



Ghost Surfer James Lee
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Ghost Surfer"
Experimenting with the ocean and slow shutter speed



Primary Colours James Abell
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Primary Colours"



Cracked Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti
France

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Cracked"
A land that is thirsty even if the water is near. A contradiction which is in the image of our world.



Christmas Truce Cemetary Jesse Mechling
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Christmas Truce Cemetary"
Christmas Truce Cemetary, St Yvon, Belgium



Company Jimmy Lok
Hong Kong

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Company"



Portal To Darkness Jober Costa
Brazil

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Portal To Darkness"



Memorial of Kumi Joyce Reinertson
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Memorial of Kumi"
After the sudden death of Kumi I wanted to create an emotional conceptual image along with her two companion cats to honor her life.



Lady Desert Judy Nussenblatt
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Lady Desert"



the Queen Karlygash Aitkazyyeva
Kazakhstan

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"the Queen"



Void Kaushik Dolui
India

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Void"
When nature becomes a manifestation and symbolic expression of our innermost thoughts and feelings.



White Trash: Tattooed and Out of Date Kerry Maxwell
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"White Trash: Tattooed and Out of Date"



The Flower Kim Lien Dang
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Flower"
The girl with a flower.



Green Kit Yeung
Hong Kong

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Green"



Homage to Georgia O'Keeffe Larry Bean
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Homage to Georgia O'Keeffe"
Shawmut MT, 2020



Blue Bird... Lena Sha
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Blue Bird..."
This is a composite of 5 different images captured at different times in different places, by me with sonya7III and sony and Helios lenses.



Covid Dream 1 Leslie Gleim
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Covid Dream 1"



Old Man Moscot Lilyan Aloma
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Old Man Moscot"
Reflective Cityscape, Window of Optometrist, Chelsea, New York City, NY



Retribution Liz Hardley
New Zealand

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Retribution"



Jill in Newburgh Lynn Saville
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Jill in Newburgh"
Archival Pigment Print



Hazy Days of Summer Madeleine Corbeil
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Hazy Days of Summer"
The haze of a really hot day in Chicago hung over Lake Michigan on a very blue day. I puled the car over at 39th street bike and walking path to capture this image..



Goed Fout Marc Olthoff
Netherlands

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Goed Fout"



Mood Margo MacArthur
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Mood"



MEn la catedral Mariano Belmar
Spain

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"MEn la catedral"



IOrigine 0022 Martine Lemarchand
France

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"IOrigine 0022"
Mon processus créatif porte sur l'utilisation d'ingrédients et de récipients alimentaires (miel, lait, eaux gazeuse, infusions,...) pour créer un monde imaginaire qui prend des formes, des texture



The Unknown Species Massimiliano Balo'
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Unknown Species"



Untitled Mayda Rumberg
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Untitled"



Suddenly, a Wake Melinda Goodall
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Suddenly, a Wake"
Haiku: marina boat ramp / reflects in dark, deep water / suddenly, a wake



Suburbia With Topiary Mike Rutherford
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Suburbia With Topiary"
Lockdown in Mebourne, Australia - suburbs without people



The color of lights Mimmi Moretti
Italy

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The color of lights"



Colored Soul Nadja Perez
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Colored Soul"
Perez-Nadja_Colored Soul.jpg



The Painted World Of Ariandel Narcis Mursa
Romania

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Painted World Of Ariandel"
Taken in my home town -Orsova-Mehedinti County-Romania



Gypsophila Natalia Polomina
Russia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Gypsophila"



Good morning Nathalie At
France

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Good morning"
photograph taken through the windshield of my car on a rainy morning



Our Shadow Self Nicole Vittoria de Jager
South Africa

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Our Shadow Self"
It can be cathartic to allow nature to be part of embracing your shadow self. Concrete Water Reservoir Tank, Brackenfell, South Africa. 31st May 2021



Awaken Nigel Moyes
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Awaken"
Pre dawn light at Benoa Beach in Bali



Spring 2 Pablo Madanes
Argentina

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Spring 2"



Dame avec eventail rouge Paul Licman
Czech Republic

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Dame avec eventail rouge"
Breeze of wings and moments for siesta



horse and pigeons Paul Kessel
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"horse and pigeons"
NYC



Garden Seat Peter Rees
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Garden Seat"
Holy Isle. Isle of Arran



Servizio Gondole Peter Wingerter
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Servizio Gondole"
Fog in the morning



Cruise Control Rachel Nixon
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Cruise Control"
A cruise may be utopia for some - but this artificial world is not for me. Pre-Covid, huge ships would begin and end their trip in Vancouver. I captured the start of one such journey from the shore.



Crossing Mirage 1 Remi Joseph d'Argent
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Crossing Mirage 1"



summer Renate Wasinger
Germany

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"summer"



Loss Rivelea Citron
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Loss"



Morning View in Situ Patenggang Robert Lie
Indonesia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Morning View in Situ Patenggang"
It was a beautiful and cold morning when I shot this picture. The lake was silent and the ray of light came upon a small ship around there.



The Operation Ron Smith
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"The Operation"



Lowry meets Bamburgh Ruth Grindrod
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Lowry meets Bamburgh "
Bamburgh beach Northumberland at dusk with matchstick people



Two Of A Kind Sarah Ley
Switzerland

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Two Of A Kind"
Just a normal evening, when icebear and princess pass the time in their castle.



Indian Renaissance 2 Shahzad Bhiwandiwala
India

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Indian Renaissance 2"
A visual exploration of a what if scenario showcasing how Indian royalty could have presented themselves had they been inspired by the high renaissance period of the European renaissance.



Water Crossing Stephen Mimms
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Water Crossing"



Smoky Overtones Steven Greenbaum
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Smoky Overtones"
Smoky Overtones



Dreaming Under Water Susan Langer
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Dreaming Under Water"



Untethered Susan Jacobs
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Untethered"



Where is the Exit? Suzanne Schwartzman
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Where is the Exit?"
One door leads to another, to another, and finally you're out.



Canola Field Tailai OBrien
Australia

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Canola Field"
The beauty and power of Mother Nature looms over the powerlines in a field of canola.



Passing Storm Terry Self
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Passing Storm"
Storm passing over the countryside.



Steam Punk Girl Tom Rutherfoord
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Steam Punk Girl"



Midtown Before Down TR Smith
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Midtown Before Down"
Midtown Before Down



Dance of summer Val Asuga
Belarus

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Dance of summer"
Photo of a dancer transformed into contemporary image, then merged with a summer landscaper



Operating Theatre, Poltimore House Vicki Gardner
UK

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Operating Theatre, Poltimore House"
The old operating theatre is a dark, slightly menacing room at Poltimore House, Exeter. In the past, Poltimore has been a school, college and hospital. Shot by pinhole camera with a 32 minute exposure



Identity Viet Van Tran
Vietnam

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Identity"
The era of scanning QR codes has sometimes covered many layers of cultures from the past to identify people. A conceptual photograph from the Identity series.



Colour Blindness Vincent Morban
Canada

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Colour Blindness"
Love thy neighbor. Love is color blind!



Low Tide Wayne Palmer
USA

Nominee
Fine Art
Amateur

"Low Tide"