Takumi Furuichi Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "After The Storm" Swiss alpine forest at night, after the first heavy snow storm hit in Leysin, Vaud.

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Steve Zmak USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Neowise Comet Over Big Sur with Setting Quarter Moon" The Neowise Comet visible in the night sky over the California coast.

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Carley Rudd USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Solo Palm" A solo palm defies odds in the Sahara Desert. A single of strength despite life's circumstances.

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Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Flames #2" A fire blazes on the edge of a lake on Fraser Island

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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Uncontrolled" Forest in Hawaii

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Gigi Williams Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Dune" This picture was taken in Namibia in Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert which is home to the world’s oldest and biggest sand dunes. This is a small one! “Big Daddy' as it is known by is about 400m t

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Marcio Cabral Brazil Honorable Mention Nature Professional " Iguazu Falls at new moon" Iguassu Falls under the arch of the Milky Way, 180º panoramaPaepalanthus wildflowers at sunrise, Veadeiros Tablelands, Brazil

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Stefan Nimmesgern Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "La Palma Vulcano 2" Published in the National Geographic special "Best Pictures in 2021" . Volcanic eruption at Cumbre Vieja on La Palma , a new peninsula is born.

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Craig Bill USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Starquest type 3:1" Nighttime at Arizona's Antelope Canyon USA

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Steven Begleiter USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Magical Moth " Hummingbird Moth

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Erika Valkovicova Czech Republic Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Boomerang" The Diamond beach in Iceland is full of gems, I captured this boomerang shaped ice late December after sunset. The frost highlighted the beautiful ripples in the black sand.

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "cipressini" Alberini al tramonto

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Scott Wurzel USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mountains of Hope" The sun breaks through clouds over Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.

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Paul M. Murray USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Desert Bloom" In the hot and arid Namibian dunes under a scorching sun, flora evolves to grow and bloom seemingly out of nowhere.

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Stephan Romer New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Swamp Forest" Swamp Forest on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

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Thomas Mauroschat Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Hibernation" A volcanic crater illuminated by the rising sun.

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Lisa F. Fleischmann Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Nature Holds Wisdom - 1" Tiny Island of Frost

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Doug Gibbons Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Defiance" A lone Tamarack surrounded by the forests of Dam Lake in Northern Ontario, Canada.

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Glyn Davies UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "As the Crow Flies" Last light on Elidir Fawr in Snowdonia

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Thomas Mauroschat Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Extending" The erupting volcano at Fagradalsjfall during blue hour.

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Marjorie Lord Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Sifar 1. A Sense of Nothingness" A landscape in drought leaving a sense of nothingness.

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Neil L. Johnson USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Red Cypress" Captured on Caddo Lake (Texas side) as fog rolled in during dawn. Nov 2021.

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Daniel Tremblay Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Eternal Fire" -30 degres Celsius is no joke but it sure brings a lot of magic to any scene!

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Jed Grandmaison USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Brunching Out"

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Kimberly Genevieve USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Key West" Had to pull over to capture a giant marshmallow in the sky.

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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "July storm" july storm

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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Soft Evening, Vinalhaven Island" From the series Vinalhaven

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Frans Strous Netherlands Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Showers over Sangatte" Photographed form a windy and wet Cap Blanc Nez, northern France. Very heavy winds an heavy showers over the sea near Sangatte

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Doug Gibbons Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Lucent Summit" Ice washed up along the shoreline of Lake Superior, glittering in the afternoon light.

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Ilia Uzunoski Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Rocks" Natural sandstone rocks around Sydney area.

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Alexander Vershinin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "The Bright Side" The Milky Way above the Sahara Desert in Egypt, july 2021

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Nature Professional "promised land - caravan" promised land The image of a caravan in the Sigh of Petra, which is only vaguely recognizable for centuries due to the force of the desert wind, was a sign of welcome for the arriving people for many

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Alys Williams Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Drifting Heart" “There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores.” - Matsuo Basho (Pacific Rim Natl Park, Canada)

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Anand Sharan India Nominee Nature Professional "Infinitely powerful." Fundamental force of nature.Thunderous, fast-flowing and turbulent Teesta river runs through valleys and gorges in the upper parts of Sikkim and traverses 172 kms to reach West Bengal to finally join

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Annette Wijdeveld Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Sakura" photo of cyanotype. The sakura; The beauty as you see it now, it will never be the same. things will pass, they will end, There will be constant movement in life. And the only thing you can do is acce

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Baroness Danute Federas USA Nominee Nature Professional "Namibia sand doons" I TOOK THIS PICTURE DURING STORM AS I ALWAYS SAY BAD WEATHER PAINTS BEAUTIFUL PICTURES.

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Wild Water"

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Cate Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "Liquid Sunshine" Summer sunrise swims

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "evolution"

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Breakthrough" Last month, a strong storm system moved through the Sierra and Yosemite National Park. I was there to ride out the storm in our camper. After a few days of intense rain — 12 inches in 24 hours — t

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Chris Becker USA Nominee Nature Professional "Untitled"

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Chris Anderson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Morning Alpenglow" September morning alpenglow blankets the snowcapped mountain 300 kilometers inside the Arctic Circle in Greenland

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Christian Redermayer Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Wild Pacifc Coast" Image taken on 2. September in Ucluelet - British Columbia, Canada. The Sea was wild down at the Pacific Coast that evening, the Sunset extreamly power- and colourful. Another day is gone another one will rise.

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Clarence Lin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rocks in Taroko #1"

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lunarscape" Death Valley nighttime long exposure

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Dana Hursey USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monarch" Focus Stacked Image of a Monarch Butterfly

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee Nature Professional "Patterns in Sand" A Dune Dream

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David Meaux France Nominee Nature Professional "Your Light in the Darkness"

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David Winegar USA Nominee Nature Professional "South Slope Sunrise" South Slope Sunrise, East Canyon, Salt Lake City Utah

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David Sieczkiewicz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mounting" Has the anticipation builds and circumstances unfold the the moments uncertainty begins to build.

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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Nature Professional "What Lies Beneath" Floating Piece of Dawes Glacier, Alaska

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Dolly Kabaria India Nominee Nature Professional "Skyline Arch" Milky way rising at Skyline Arch, Arches National Park

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Doug Gibbons Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Dark Web" Morning dew accumulating within a spiders delicate creation.

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Dragomir Vukovic USA Nominee Nature Professional "Keep your forests green" Quiet Message

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "First Snow Sets In" 27 September was a very early date for the first snowfall, but made the scene so much more attractive

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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee Nature Professional "At minimum" Iso 100, f25, 13 seg, 210 mm NDFILTER 10 STOPS.

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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Iris Selfie"

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Emilia Kashfian USA Nominee Nature Professional "Santa Fe"

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Eugene Langan Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Kalsoy, Faroe Islands" The Island of Kalsoy being picked out by sunlight as seen for its neighbouring island of Kunoy during a recent sailing trip to the Faroe Islands from Ireland

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Eydis Einarsdottir Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Pure" Mount Esja on a snowy day in Reykjavik

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Frances Suter Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Desert"

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Frank Rapp USA Nominee Nature Professional "Joshua Tree" Joshua Tree at dusk

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Frans Strous Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Rain coast Villers sur Mer" Late in the afternoon I noticed a heavy shower over the sea nearby Villers sur Mer. A beautiful play of light.

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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Brief Sri Lanka Garden"

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Gaudenz Danuser Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Lauteraarhorn und Schreckhorn" luteraarhorn, schreckhorn, mountains, alps

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Gene Sellers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Big Sky"

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee Nature Professional "cipressini" green fields

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee Nature Professional "flowers power" simply poppies!

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Tuscany" terre disegnate

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Glen McClure USA Nominee Nature Professional "Flowing Seaweed, Vinalhaven, Maine" From the series, Vinalhaven

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Evening Curtains" Such beauty in turmoil; drifting curtains of heavy showers backlit by wonderful Autumn sunset. Spray-covered faces; salt-crusted skin, and sea-coated glass all made for a vivid nature experience

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Pool of Ideas" Even in this thick sea fog the crash of the waves and the advancing tide is relentless and comforting, confirming a natural order of things

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "A Pattern in Confusion" Delicate man-made traces divide this ancient Welsh mountainscape, smoothed by erosion over millions of years

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Graciela Socorro USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lady in Red and I" While quarantined, dozens of lady bugs visited us every day, bringing hope to uncertainty. I had the opportunity to revive good old days between my camera and nature, my eternal muse.

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Harry Donenfeld USA Nominee Nature Professional "Seeing the lava through the trees" The lava slowly consumed the forest taking everything in its path.

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Harry Koester Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes"

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j. Madison Rink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sequel" Corral Fire, Malibu, CA

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Jack Kenner USA Nominee Nature Professional "Baobob Tree" Under the Milky Way

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James Cowlin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Zion Canyon Ledge" Trees growing on a ledge of the wall of Zion Canyon are highligted by the sun.

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James Fox USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ripples and Rocks" Water in a dry climate

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James Bourret USA Nominee Nature Professional "Kolob Oak" From a late fall visit to Zion National Park, Utah, USA

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Jan Brunclik Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Hour" Blue Hour - Corsica Island, France

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Jane Therese USA Nominee Nature Professional "Heaven Fell" And all at once heaven fell into the South Rim, Grand Canyon

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Jane Therese USA Nominee Nature Professional "Corn Field" Stormy Skies. Bucks County, Pa.

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Jeff Grant Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Devastation in the Snowy Mountains"

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Joan Grabel USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lamy, New Mexico " catching the sunset at the Lamy New Mexico train depot

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Joanne Scherf USA Nominee Nature Professional "Alligator Hill" A walk in the woods; just follow the light

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Johan Van Cutsem Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Marine Heavy Fuel above the North Atlantic" Marine Heavy fuel is extremely polluting fuel . the little black particles of the exhaust from ships land on glaciers worldwide and speed up the melting.photo at sunrise aboard the ferry to, iceland

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John W. McDermott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dawn dusting over the hills at dawn - Inle Lake, Myanmar"

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Josh Levine USA Nominee Nature Professional "Never Blink" Wave Portraiture. Sandy Hook, NJ

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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee Nature Professional "Crow and Ice in Blue" Magic Crows

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Julia Kuskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snowy Tree" Early snowfall in Mazama, WA

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Karineh Gurjian USA Nominee Nature Professional "calm" the stillness of life

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Keith Fishman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Palms, Ojai"

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Kim Kuhlman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter's Dawning" Panorama of winter's dawn over a serene lake.

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Kingsley Burton Australia Nominee Nature Professional "James Price Point 006" James Price Point 006 || Western Australia

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Kunio Nakaoka Japan Nominee Nature Professional "appearance"

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Brain Waves of the Cosmic Dune" Lines in the sand, like brain waves of the universe, run in patterns across the dunes in Death Valley National Park, California.

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Louis Gaillard France Nominee Nature Professional "Bunch of pines"

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Mathew Schwartz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Icing"

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Mathias Kniepeiss Austria Nominee Nature Professional "road to nowhere" Such an amazing road at the Valdevaqueros beach in Spain.

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Matteo Redaelli Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Aoraki/Monte Cook at Night" Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range.

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Michael Sakas Hong Kong Nominee Nature Professional "Andai" There is a mountain in the Gobi desert that is rumored to be the home of the Griffon legend. A mountain full of gold and peppered with strange skeletons of the mythical beast.

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Michael Krosny Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Bavarian Trees" Trees in Bavaria

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Michael Stoklos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Arizona Sunset" the full range of colors and texture in the classic Tucson Arizona sunset

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Michel Arnaud USA Nominee Nature Professional "River" Dream

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Mike DeCesare USA Nominee Nature Professional "Park Avenue" Golden Hour light travels through a narrow canyon in southern Utah.

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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Darkness Settles In" The sun setting over the sunflower fields made for some wonderful looking colors. A very unique image indeed!

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Mike DeCesare USA Nominee Nature Professional "Storm at Sea" Pacific coast storm competes with sunset

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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pink Dawn" From the Magical Mystery Lake Series. The ever changing lake.

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Nicole Frappier USA Nominee Nature Professional "Shenandoah"

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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Nature Professional "Dusk Surf" Atlantic surf rolls onto the beach at dusk.

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Ottmar Philipp Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Meltdown" Chunks of glacial ice are drifting into the ocean on the east coast of Iceland.

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Paul Dileanis USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pfeiffer Beach Milky Way" The Milky Way and Venus descend above the Keyhole Arch accompanied by bioluminescent plankton in the surf. Taken at Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, California.

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Raimund Feiter Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Reintal Valley Springs"

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Ramiro Salazar USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Lava Island" The island of Santiago, in the Galapagos, is a unique world full of amazing shapes that lava reminds us that the earth is always changing.

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Richard Mack USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset Peninsula state Park, Lake Michigan" Sunset and islands across Green Bay at Peninsula State Park on Lake Michigan. Part of the documentary The Sweetwater Seas - North America's Great Lakes.

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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Pagham Rocks"

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Professional "By the pond" Sunderban, West Bengal, India

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Rudolf Koenig Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "roots" roots of tree at Mantova lake, Italy with little green

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Rubbish Island" -

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Scott Dere USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Crescent Sunrise" Warm tones from the rising crescent sun penetrate the cool tides of the ocean as the waves crash Long Island's shores

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Stefan Schnebelt Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Kilcummin Bay, Ireland" Kilcummin Bay on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "rispecchairsi" Barcis

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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Bismarck Peaks" Bismarck Peaks, Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park, South Island, New Zealand

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Super Mega Bolt Hits The Monterey Bay" This is the storm that lit all of California on fire August 16, 2020.

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Steven Edson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mist" Atmospheric conditions resulting in morning mist on the Oregon coast.

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Stone Peng USA Nominee Nature Professional "Big crash at Grand Haven" Big Crash at Grand Haven Lighthouse

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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee Nature Professional "California Dreaming" California, a state, bordered by the Pacific Ocean on one side, contains a dry environment, which creates a unique diversity of flora and rock formations, that enables its deserts to flourish. It's ba

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Ice"

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Susanna Patras USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunrise at the Lagoon" I photographed this beautiful sunrise in the Danube Delta, Romania during a trip to Sulina, the point where Danube river flows into the Black Sea.

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Terje Skaare Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Sand Pattern" Sand pattern in a small dessert outside Essaouira/Morocco

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Theresa Tarara USA Nominee Nature Professional "Butter Moth" A winged visitor one morning. Printed as a Tri-Color Gum Dichromate.

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Thomas Mauroschat Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Veins Of Iceland" A stunning sunset in the icelandic Higlands.

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Thomas Mauroschat Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Among Giants" A german forest covered in snow and fog.

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Thomas Mauroschat Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Inside Out" The new volcano at Fagradalsfjall in Iceland taken in May 2021.

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Tong Fu China (PRC) Nominee Nature Professional "involvement relationship" I involve the land, grasslands, swamps, deserts, mountains, oceans, clouds, and sky to establish an aesthetic relationship to represent the interconnected nature Attributes.

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Tony Hewitt Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Arbor" Nature reveals its inherent design within the textured mud patterns left behind by a falling tide

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Tori Gagne USA Nominee Nature Professional "Spring Awakens" In camera multiple exposure

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Vera Regina Bandeira Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Luar #1"

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Vera Regina Bandeira Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Luar #2"

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Victor Elias USA Nominee Nature Professional "Grand Prismatic" GRand Prismatic in Yellowstone National Park

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Walter Giordani USA Nominee Nature Professional "Under the surface 001" Lion's mane jelly. This colorful jelly has a very toxic sting, but reports of human fatalities are few. It's considered a giant jelly — its bell can reach about eight feet (2.4 m) in diameter and it

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Old Rhine"

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Tree"

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Will Faulkner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Morning fog rolling over Mount William" I have been trying to capture this composition for 2 years now. I drive for miles, hike to the top of a mountain, balance myself on the 1000 ft cliff edge and wait for the dawn light.

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Will Enos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Live Tree - Dead Lake" A tree that is one of the last living things along the shore of a once vibrant lake.

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Will Fields USA Nominee Nature Professional "Swirl and Snow" The illustration of the end of my marriage.

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William King USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dawn at the Living Marsh" Dawn on Thanksgiving Day at The Living Marsh. The Salt Marsh Nature Center, is located in Marine Park, Brooklyn, New York.

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William Heuberger USA Nominee Nature Professional "long cloud" long cloud

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