Rene Bernal Philippines 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Silhouette Amateur "Red" A young boy tried to put out the fire while his friends were watching in the slum area.

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Chuck LaChance USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Silhouette Amateur "Doorway Into the Unknown" The doors of perception that can lead to strange and wonderous exits.

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Dave Cohen USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Silhouette Amateur "Musical chairs"

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Sanjoy Sengupta India Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Dance ot the Tune of Dunes" group of Omani people dancing and singing and celebrating life in the dunes

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Berry Bingel UK Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Bulkhead shadow " Shadow of a mechanic on container bulkhead

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Klaus Spindler Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Mount Klotz" ON A FREYDAY EVENING

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Janet MacCausland USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Sandpipers on Gold" Sandpipers forage in a sunset reflection.

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Bob Shor USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Moonrise" My vision was to capture moonrise and the beautiful bird and tree silhouette it created at sunrise on a crisp, clear day in a South Florida wetland.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Tree Pose"

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Andre Mondou Canada Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Late Afternoon Fishing" Late Afternoon Family Fishing in Gaspé Quebec

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Volker Birke Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "O Man, Take Care" Nikon D850, taken at Brandenhusen, Island of Poel, Wismar Bay, Baltic Sea, in heavy fog during sunset.

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Prohaska Mark Daniel Austria Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Scooter Man" this picture was made in Triest Italy

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Adaptation"

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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Morning Catch" This gentleman was up at the crack of dawn doing what he loves best which is fishing in the surf.

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Ann Prochilo Malta Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Barumbara 2" Barumbara (Maltese for dovecote) is our home, a tower where pigeons once came to roost. Now, the eagle is in the dovecote. Covid wreaks havoc. I've gone feral, wing-frayed and flightless in paradise.

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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "im Nebelwald"

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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Double exposure winter spring" The surreal view from winter into spring

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Brian Jones Australia Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Up There" Up There, Aussie Rules football, big mark, sculpture at Derby; Western Australia

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Patricia Bauchman USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "A Zen Moment" An individual takes in the beauty of Lake McDonald as the sun rises. Glacier National Park.

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Franck Rouzes France Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Blue Mont" Mont Aiguille is one of the most iconic montain of France.Its first climb in 1492 mark the birth of mountaineering.

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Gary Levy USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "A Walk In The Sun" Tightrope Walker

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Mike Rutherford Australia Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Regeneration" After wildfires nature knows how to regenenerate

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Bodo Gebhardt Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Doreen 7"

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Grace Ho Malaysia Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Waiting for Dawn" Waiting for dawn at Jaisalmer desert , India

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Louise Pedno USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Fez" Fes, Morocco

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Flo Fritz Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Fishing at sunset" Fisherm,en at sunset at St Gilles Harbour, La Réunion

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Mik Rossi Italy Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Golden shipping" Maybe shipping costs are so high because now they leave a trail of gold behind

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Walking with giants"

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Matteo Busetto Italy Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "The thinker of Venice" A man sits thoughtfully on a bench in the city of Venice, contemplating the Venetian lagoon.

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Prohaska Mark Daniel Austria Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Mother and Child" this was taken in Sibiu Romania in September 2021

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Melissa Lackey USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "The Long Road Home" A weary traveler finishing his last leg of the day before he finally gets to rest

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Susan Langer USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Walking Away"

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SVETLIN YOSIFOV Bulgaria Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Mundari cattle camp" In the Mundari cattle camps, kids are doing most of the daily work. Kids collect the fresh cow dung and put it into piles which are then set on fire. Those fire are useful as they repel the (extremely

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Valentin Denyset France Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Toil" In the Passy district of Paris, during a cold winter day, a worker with his wheelbarrow was restoring a building frontage under the dazzling light of sunset. Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @155mm

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Alessandra Barracchia Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The red umbrella"

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Amelie Louys France Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Mother and son" A child stands at the water's edge and looks out toward the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean while his mother approaches him. Razo beach, Galicia, Spain.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Silhouette"

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Anirudh Koppula Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Dawn" By the window on a winter morning

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Shadow Play" And Then There were Three

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Winch shadows " Shadows of winch equipment on container bulkhead

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Sail " Timing and positioning is key in capturing the sunset sailboats as they head out into the Gulf of Mexico from Key West

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Bleu Dial USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Campsite Reflection" This photo was taken across the water of an Everglades campsite in the summer

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Bo-Yuan Chuang Taiwan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The River of Memory"

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Bruce Fraser Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Simply Green" A cheeky silhouette reflection in Stirling Western Australia

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Carolyn Edelstein USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "That's a Wrap" A security guard peruses the exhibit.

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Charita Carter USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Klamath Sunset" A sunset on the Northern California coast near Klamath

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Fisherman at Dawn" A photo shot in the colorful fishing village of Marsaxlokk at dawn.

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Colin Vince Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Winter Silhouette" Image captured on a cold winter afternoon in a park in Edmonton.

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Solidarity" I took this photo during a local protest

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Dale Duncan-Johnson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Rain in Paris"

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Dan Milham USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Beginning" sunrise seen through the nets of a shrimp boat

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "a day for a twirl"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise Ship"

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Ed Sancious USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Strain of Redemption" The irony of pain and suffering to insure peace and love

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Felice Willat USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Molokai Maidens" When the maidens finished their Hula Dance, their stillness was poetic. That's when my camera and I began shooting.

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Flo Fritz Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "After the thunderstorm" Sun comes out after a terrific thunderstorm at Leitgeringer See, Babaria

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Gus Fine Art Spain Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Old Arezzo"

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Hartmut Rieg Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Lightplay 04" Railway Station Sunset Pictuire

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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "sliver lining" sliver lining

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Ivan Pesic USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Summer Stroll" Headless mannequins protest. Fashion district, Los Angeles, California

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Ja-Shang Tang Taiwan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Tow of a kind" TOW OF A KIND

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James Peterson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Joshua Tree, Hualapai Mountains, Arizona" Joshua Tree with Staghorn Cholla and Ocotillo, Hualapai Mountains, Arizona.

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Open Billed Storks"

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Jon Trombetto USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Night Pose" Taken at Disney's Boardwalk in Orlando, Florida. This young woman was having a great night.

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Fisherman" A Fisherman on an early morning at Inle Lake in Myanmar.

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Jovelino Matos Almeida Portugal Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Forever Blue" absolutely divine this silent scene in a museum about civilization

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Judy M. King USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Paper Dolls" Backlit dancers behind a screen

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Karen Willis USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Into the Night" Into the Night

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Kathryn Johnson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Daybreak" Colorado ranch sunrise

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Kathryn Zerbe USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Contours" shadows in the sands of time

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Keli Wakeley USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Kicking up the dust" North Florida cowgirl showing her skills at dusk

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Kishore Murthy USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Creep" Furniture delivery from Bob's Discount Furniture

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Kosmas Lazaridis Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "On Road" Kettwig, Germany

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "She Sails By." Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, Hollywood, FL

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sea stack, The Dog" Most visited sea stack on Fårö, Sweden

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Margo Ryan UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Fiery" Man carries infant across bridge as the molten sun melts into the fiery sky. Burma

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Maria Castillo USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Glorious Sunset" Glorious sunset in a farm setting. God directs the palette!

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Way to Heaven" Sunrise from Chopok hill (Low Tatras National Park, Slovakia)

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Beaver Moon"

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Mauricio Arango USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Dreams Messenger"

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Mayda Rumberg USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Cloud"

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Joshua Trees" With the current acceleration of climate change, the Joshua Tree may be entering the sunset of its days.

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Melissa Lackey USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sun Salutations" Kissing the sun good night

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Brexit" In the Little Venice district of London, a tunnel with scarlet colors attracts attention. A British citizen crosses this tunnel on a simple bike. The glossy walls send him multiple reflections of his

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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "On the Lake"

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Monica Brewer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Holding Tight"

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Nestor Novo USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Into The Sea" Into The Sea

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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Still Together" Archway Islands at Waharariki Beach, South Island, New Zealand on a wet and windy day

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Paola Francesca Barone Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Omphalòs" Performance

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Paul Kessel USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "orange sky" an orange sky over fifth avenue, nyc

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Fisherman in sunset" Bali

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Working together!" Pantanal, Brazil

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Peter Nestler USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Taj Maha" A diver enters a halocline in the recesses of a cave system in Mexico.

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Rainer Quesada USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Merry Christmas" A silhouette of the Manhattan Beach pier in Los Angeles caught in the afterglow of sunset.

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Raluca Caragea Belgium Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Once upon a time"

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Rolf Hoesli Switzerland Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Twilight at river" Marking lances for ebb and flow at sunset

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "64 seconds" This is spring evening in Yekaterinburg. Rumbling cars, harsh sunlight, get to wait another 64 seconds

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Rupert Horst Portugaller Austria Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Winter Sun 1" Winter in the mountains of Austria.

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Sasa Prizmic Croatia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Riding Off into the Sunset"

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Sascha Dietze Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Looking through the morning dew."

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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Untitled, from the series Rainy Season"

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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Through The Haze" Sun setting through heavy air pollution in Belgrade, Serbia

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise on Lake Michigan" Sunrise from a Terrace on Lake Michigan, Chicago

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Susan Langer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Encircled"

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Suzanne Schwartzman USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Dark and Dangerous" The crowd was getting rowdy once it turned dark during the holiday of Holi.

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Swee Hoe Lim Malaysia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Family Portrait" A new way of family portrait

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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Dutch landscape"

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Tal Lassman Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Solar Eclipse" Solar Eclipse over lake Ontario

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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Paddling in the Cayman Sunset" A paddleboarder makes his way home in the glow of the sunset in Grand Cayman.

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