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Victor Nunez Spain 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Amateur "Beautiful Danger" Jellyfish are organisms that approach the coast by the wind, generally in winter. They are as beautiful as they are dangerous, so bathing with them must be done very carefully. |
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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Amateur "Eruption" |
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Anne Neiwand Australia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Amateur "Surfs Up Norway" The most remote surf beach in the world - and the coldest |
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Kerry Maxwell USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Season's End" |
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Marc Ward USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Air & Water No.99" |
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Mariano Belmar Spain Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "La alameda" |
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David DesRochers USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Painted Hills" Distinguished by varied stripes of red, tan, orange, and black, the Painted Hills preserves a sequence of past climate change. |
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David Nomdedeu Spain Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Gaztelugatxe from the top" |
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Cindy Starr USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Moody Afternoon" |
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Mark Appleton Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "The Pool" The Pool floats effortlessly above the menacing storm surge. The sand beneath the rushing water glows to draw you in to the pool. |
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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Candid loneliness" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+ square, Hasselblad 4/40mm, 60'', ISO 100 |
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Volker Birke Germany Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Wake Up Darling" Nikon D810, close-up of the so-called "Salamander Tree" at Salamander Bay, New South Wales, Australia, during sunset and high tide. |
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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Quiet Times - Quiet Places" |
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Rolf M Germany Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "White Cliffs of Rugen" White Cliffs of Rügen, Baltic Sea |
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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Plitvice Lake" Beautiful Plitvice waterfalls (Croatia) with autumn foliage |
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Katherine Young UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Enchanted Woods" Richmond Park |
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Simone Arrigoni Italy Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Resonance: The secret beauty of visible Sound. Magma" What if we could see sound? We would be immersed in amazing shapes drawn by acoustic waves in space. Photos here presented: Magma |
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Jack Weingarten USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Atlas Mountains-Morocco" Atlas Mountains-Morocco |
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David Mediavilla Spain Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Volcan" Volcán de la Palma tirando lava por el penacho principal, por la ladera se ven las estelas de las rocas piroclásticas |
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Sharon Townsend USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Butterfly eating pollen" A Poinsettia treat |
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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Horseshoe Bend" Horseshoe Bend is a meandering part of the Colorado River found in Page, Arizona. |
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Julio Lucas USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Layers of Nature. " Surrounded by layers. |
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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Morning Majesty" |
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James Peterson USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Monsoon Storm over Jerome, Arizona" This very localized thunderhead popped up one afternoon over the Black Hills above the Verde Valley. It was about to drop some much-needed precipitation on the old mining town of Jerome. |
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Steffen Mueller Germany Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Winter Birds" Natural and man made structures are isolated by snow and sky in subdued color and light. A lonely flock of birds tops the scene. |
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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Good Morning America" This is the iconic Mesa Arch in the Canyonlands National Park, shot at dawn. |
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Anne Neiwand Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Impact" The moment of force where water flow meets the immovable Iceberg. |
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Janet MacCausland USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Storm brewing over Poison Spider Road" A foreboding storm forming over Poison Spider Road should have deterred our decision to follow the road less traveled. |
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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "The Morning Explodes" |
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Pamela Fickes-Miller USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Spring Skys in Colorado Springs #1" The un-natural yellow of the sky was startling that afternoon coming home from the gallery. |
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Adam Felde USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunrise Dunes" Sunrise in the Death Valley Sand Dunes |
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Adrian Per Romania Nominee Nature Amateur "Morning to Lake" SW Romnia, near Danube river . |
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Adriana Kastelan Croatia Nominee Nature Amateur "Pink Sunset of Dream" Sunset on Adriatic sea. Just a ordinary day. |
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Anita Schiedeck Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "old tree" |
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Annemarie Jacques USA Nominee Nature Amateur "there must be a god" i can only marvel at the beauty that the landscape offers |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "A cloudy rainhat" The image is captured in Mauritius. |
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Antonio Cunico Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Monte Lozze" The colors of Autumn in Asiago Plateau - Noth Italy |
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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Please give me some water" Desert New Mexico |
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Barbara Huwiler Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Clouds" |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Palouse Field 3" Palouse Field 3 |
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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Quaran Team" |
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Bruce Fraser Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "The Rising Sun" This image was taken as we were sailing into Akaroa New Zealand, just after sunrise. 8 stitch image. |
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Carol Zulman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Seven a.m." |
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Carol Schaller USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Log in Slot Canyon" An old log sits in a narrow Utah Canyon |
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Charita Carter USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Half Dome Sunset" Fall Sunset at Tunnel View |
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Christoph Roethenmund Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Before the rain" The setting sun bathes the bizarre 4,000-year-old lava field Berserkjahraun in the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland in wonderfully soft light. |
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Cornelia Schulz New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Winter Calm" A calm winter day over Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. |
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Craig Lefebvre USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Red moon over the red rocks" A composte of the partial lunar eclipse and the moonlit red rocks in the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona. |
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Dana Mikaelle Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Imaginary Landscapes" |
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David G Jones UK Nominee Nature Amateur "South Shropshire Sunrise" Image Captured in 2020 showing a beautiful sunrise and cloud inversion in the UK. |
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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Orange Explosion" While on a walk, this amazing burst of color caught my eye. |
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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "The Girl in Red" A girl in red enjoying the autumn view at the lake, Switzerland |
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Ed Sancious USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Leaves fall, water flows, life is" The beauty and mystery of change |
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Edward Mann USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Fire" Migration at sundown, Caribou, Brooks Range Alaska |
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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Enchanted" Lonely cypress tree endures a cold foggy morning on a distant lake. |
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Felice Willat USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Gros Ventre Road" We drove along this road near the Grand Tetons several times, and each time, the scene was strikingly different. At this moment, the bare trees stood out starkly with the snow white background. |
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Flo Fritz Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Snowshot" This is how artificial snow is made in South Tyrol, is it still nature? |
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Frederic Deschenes Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Zenitude" Peaceful morning on the St. Lawrence River |
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Gary Lopez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Shockwave" About 30,000 years ago a star explode and sent debris rocketing through the surrounding space, creating a shock wave of brightly glowing filaments of hydrogen gas. |
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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Deep in the forest" |
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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Andes" The incredible colors of the Andes along the road "Routa 27" and "Routa 52) from San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) to Purmamarca (Argentina) |
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Graf Markus Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "night panorama" view from bettmeralp |
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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Beautiful day on the beach" A sunny day on the beach with blue-ish light |
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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Gold at Indian Lake" Early autumn and the colors are starting to change. The blue of the early morning light gives a lovely contrast to the gold of the autumn leaves, while fog on the water's surface adds a little mystery |
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Hugh Jones USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blue Sky" Infrared Image |
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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Leopard rock" Rock at Twyfelfontein, so resembles a pouncing leopard and seems to capture the dynamic aspect of these predator cats. Namibia 2015 |
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Ivan Vucetic Croatia Nominee Nature Amateur "Black Pine Tree" very long star trail above beautiful black pine tree showcasing extraordinary relationship between our Planet and the rest of the universe |
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Ivan Pesic USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blue Mountain Wave" Shot from the plane above the Mojave Desert |
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James Hyde USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Melt" In the Weddell Sea, lit by a solstice sunrise, a giant tabular iceberg slowly melts away. Bobbing in its shadow, the dying remains of a once great icefloe symbolize the inevitable. |
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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Winter White Aspens" Winter white bark highlighted in this aspen grove. |
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Jaro Wave UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Bass Rock" |
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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Fish Lake Road Pond" An elevated pond along Fish Lake Road just north of Whitehorse, Yukon |
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John Ward UK Nominee Nature Amateur "The Loch" The Loch |
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Jon Meyer USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Jordan Lake Sunrise: The Near Shore" The near stillness |
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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "Hanging On" Pollin tasty Nature |
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Joshua Ilachinski USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Nature 1" Rocky stack on Rialto Beach, Washington |
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Julio Lucas USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Heaven & Earth" Where heaven and earth come together as one. |
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Karin De Winter Belgium Nominee Nature Amateur "Crazy River VII" Intimate landscape of acid and metal pollution in the Tinto River, Andalucia, Spain. |
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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "A soft layer" buttercups floating the in the wool of cottonwoods |
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Karl Glanville Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "Kirkyufell " A reflection of Kirkyufell mountain in the Snaefellness peninsula in west Iceland. |
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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Nominee Nature Amateur "Mysterious Lighthouse" The bright light of this small lighthouse appears to raise the Milky Way out of the darkness. |
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Kent Wisner USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Sun Versus Storm" Part of a project on Imaginary Kingdoms |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Clouds and old breakwater" This is an old wooden breakwater on the sandy shore of the Baltic Sea (Russia). The breakwater was built a hundred years ago |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Hello spring!" |
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Larry Bean USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Angle of Repose" Death Valley N.P. 2018 |
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Lois Pierris USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Bulong Lake Karakoram Highway" The Chinese part of Karakoram Highway, which follows the old Silk Road to Pakistan,ends at the Tajik town of Tashkurgan. Sadly their neighborhoods have been destroyed and they have been resettled. |
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Louise Richards Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Purple" Glasshouse Rocks, NSW Australia. |
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Madeleine Corbeil USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Climbing Dune 45 in Sossusviei, Namibia" I was mesmerized by the red dunes of Namibia; not just their size and color but the 5 million year age of the sand from the coast. |
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Martijn Rijnberg Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Study of a Wasp I" In a mission to get as close as possible, I have tried to express the unique and powerful features of a wasp. |
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Martin Moravek Czech Republic Nominee Nature Amateur "Baltic Sea" Baltic Sea in Poland |
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Martta Kelly USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Black Swallowtail" Black Swallowtail, West Orange, NJ |
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Mats Reslow Sweden Nominee Nature Amateur "Concealed" During a walk with the dog deep in the forest I found this lonely gnarly tree sorrunded by straight pine trees. I have walked nearby several times but was not seen until this day. |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Kaweah Reflection" Polished pebbles in the riverbed plus trees on the riverbank create this unique reflection in the Kaweah River (Sequoia National Park, CA). |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "A capella" Scene captured in a Snaefellness field in Iceland slightly from a low angle with a zoom to give the impression that this chapel mixes with mountains of snow and white clouds. |
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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Untitled" |
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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Lockdown Moonrise" |
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Neil Williams USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Chattahoochee Flow" The colors above and beneath paint an abstract work of art on the Chattahoochee River. |
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Nell Dickerson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Tres Amigos" A trio of 900-year-old CAMEL TREES survives the harsh Deadvlei clay pan in Namibia. |
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Nelson Rudiak USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Bleeding Hearts" Bleeding Heart flowers in full bloom |
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Nick Green UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Once Upon A Time" "Once Upon A Time" was captured in an ancient oak woodland late in the evening in thick fog and as the light was fading , A quite magical scene unravelled before my eyes |
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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunset" Winter sunset on the Adriatic sea south Italy |
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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Pathway" A hot day ends with the perfect sky show - time for a late evening swim. |
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Norbert Boeckmann Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "homage to the sun #2" pinhole camera long-term recording with the "solar can" on negative paper, scan and digital print. a continuous exposure of 118 days from february to june 2019 on a tree at a height of approx. 4 m |
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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Rainbow Pano" Lofoten winter 2020 |
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Pamela Fickes-Miller USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Spring Skys in Colorado Springs #2" the sky was Constantly changing. I had to pull into a Safeway to take my image before it was gone. |
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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Enveloped" A whelk shell is embraced by an incoming wave. Outer Banks, NC |
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Paul Dodd Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Eagle Nebula" |
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Paul Byrne Ireland Nominee Nature Amateur "Watercolour" Scarista Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrdes, Scotland. |
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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Geldingsadalsgos Eruption" |
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Paula Taylor USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Hanging Out With Friends" These Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers were hanging out at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "The silence" White Sands, New Mexico - National Park |
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Philip Marriott UK Nominee Nature Amateur "wild flowers" |
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Pierluigi Gualano Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Under the clouds" A day of trekking in dolomites - Sassolungo. |
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Prashant Naik USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Midnight in Maine" At midnight and long after, in the haze of the sky, millions of stars glittered in startling colors. Standing at the edge of the sea stack, I witnessed the milky way arching across the night sky. |
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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "coast" |
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Robert Bolton UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Temporary Beauty" Taken in Disko Bay, Greenland in 2019. A most majestic and fragile place. |
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Romy Klein USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Light Painting" Light Painting |
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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Buche im Fichtenwald" |
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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Moon" A full moon rising above a historic fortress in Belgrade, Serbia |
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Stan Friedman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "puzzle pieces wait for the sky and corners to be finished" |
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Stefan Buder Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "ice coast" Balic Sea - Germany |
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Steve Duncanson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Winter morning on the Pacific coast" Unedited scan of 35mm film shot with Fujifilm Superia 400 and Pentax K1000 with Tokina SD 70-200mm lens. Results have a painterly feel |
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Sue Trower UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Emerald Breaker" |
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Susan Vizvary USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Grand Prismatic Spring" A beautiful array of color comes from a natural spring in Yellowstone national Park |
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Susan Langer USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Snow Falling on Pine" |
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Susan Elliott USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflections " A bit of desert rain catches sunset reflections in the salt flats of Death Valley |
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Sven Thamm Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Lightning" A short moment full of energy! The light of the sky meets the light of the city. You can feel the tention in the air and hear the thunder although it is only a pictorial representation. |
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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Arcadia N.P" |
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Tim Owen USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Near Walden Pond" "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." Henry David Thoreau |
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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Golden Dawn" Nestled in the safety of ScoresbySund the sailers where met with a sunrise that would leave a long lasting impression of a truly magical location. |
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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee Nature Amateur "Mushrooms in Mullaghmeen Forest" I went to Mullaghmeen Forest in County Westmeath in Ireland. I saw a few mushrooms over а stump. I decided to take a picture of them. |
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Valentin Denyset France Nominee Nature Amateur "Harsh" In winter 2019, during a solitary 50-day trip to an isolated wooden cabin in Finnmark (Norway), lost in the white wilderness… |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Nature Amateur "flamboyan" Red tree |
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Vivian Koppelman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Winter Blues" |
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William Shoop USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Crushed" The rich colors of the tulip fields provided a stark contrast as a storm approached. |