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Barbara Maker USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Still Life Amateur "Reflections" REFLECTING ON A MARTINI |
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Daniel Christie USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Still Life Amateur "Orange Peel" |
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Sylvia Gardner USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Still Life Amateur "What to Pack" |
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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Fruit" |
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Jennifer Grant-Keene USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "The Museum Closes in Ten Minutes." Museum attendants rarely sit in their assigned chairs. As closing time approaches the make their rounds. Window shades are drawn, shadows cast by exhibits can be seen and a chair will be unoccupied. |
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Silvia Lisotti Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Tulip & Butterfly 1" Butterfly and flower both icons of the rapidly fading beauty and transience of every earthly thing; photo taken with natural light, the background is made of mulberry paper |
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Antonio Bernardino Coelho Portugal Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Consumption" |
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Konstantin Weiss Switzerland Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Shift" |
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Jennifer James USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "What is the point?" |
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Pat Rose USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "A Withered Soul" The quiet beauty of a fading bloom. |
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Gary Levy USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Eye There!" Ceiling Lights With Security Camera |
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Adam Neuba Germany Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "After Raining" Hibiscus blossom after a rain shower... |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Bookstore in Venice 3" The canals,which are often under flood, are not very culture-friendly. |
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Mik Rossi Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Magic Mushrooms" These mushrooms found in Singapore glow thanks to bioluminescence. Few species in the world have this dim glow that can be seen in the darker part of the night, fighting the mosquitoes... |
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Rommel Lugada Philippines Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Good Morning, Manila!" Composition with colors and shapes of a good morning while waiting for my wife at the cafe in Manila. |
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Guenther Reissner Austria Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Old Sofa" lost place, sofa, architecture, forgotten, abandoned |
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Nadja Naujoks Germany Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Citylights" Late at night in Berlin. |
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Henry Eicken Germany Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Coneflower" A still closed bud of a coneflower plant in our garden, just before blooming. |
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Mitchell Anolik USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Lily Pads and Tree Reflection" |
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Ron Mayhew USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Two Pounds" Two Pounds of Peaches - a Still Life |
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Kerry Maxwell USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "End of Summer The Tattered Dress" |
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Mark Chernin USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Bok Choy with Antique Scale" This is the second in a series of vegetables and antique scale taken as part of f self challenge to learn still life photography during COVID-19 lockdown. |
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Kim Lien Dang USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Red pillows." Red pillows on the sofa. |
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Marie Kotschedoff USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Marika" |
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Devin Campbell USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Storm Brewing" Summer storm arriving that provided the most unusual colors |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "The last Dance" Faded Clematis in the last autumn sun. |
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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Shades of Green" |
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Allan Maxwell USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Thin Blue Line" Thin Blue Line |
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Alph Leydon Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Farmers Bounty" Inspired by the Farm-to-Table Movement where Chefs source their ingredients from local farms, usually through direct acquisition from the farmer |
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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "2021 Assemblage " |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Too Hot To Touch" This is a piece of glass being heated and shaped with fire. |
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Anne Neiwand Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Sunflower" The Dark Stormy skies highlighted by the field of Sunflowers |
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Annemarie Berlin Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "mysterious" Sundew in the bog early in the morning |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Still Life Amateur "Quatro Stagioni" |
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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Curl" Withered cyclamen. |
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Bob St-Cyr Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Lumen Lumination" Working with lumen printing from nature |
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Budd Parker USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Woven Baskets" |
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C E Morse USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Worms" Marilyn in the widow of a Mom & Pop store; selling live bait. Part of a series entitled "Faded Celebrity" |
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Carl Green New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tulip Discreet" Tulips are the only flower that keeps growing after they are cut. As they opened they almost had unique personalities too. These are my portraits of the delicate tulip. |
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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Abandoned in the Woods" |
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Carol Zulman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tulips" |
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Christian La Carbona France Nominee Still Life Amateur "Heartbreaking" Arround the flowers of bananas trees, there is a part made of bracts. Because of their shapes and their red colour they are called the heart of the plant. When the bananas are formed the bracts fall. |
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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Still life no 8" |
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Damaso Avila Spain Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bokeh" A beautiful flower that can be found in the Canary Islands (Spain). The bokeh in the photo gives it a special charm |
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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Leaf Lips" There is love in a leaf. |
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David Johns Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Determination" |
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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tulip's Last Dance " |
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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Framed" This is scanography of flowers from my garden. |
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Dominik Richner Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Lumiere L'Occitane" |
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Ed Sancious USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Ambedo - Morning Java" The melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details. |
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Elisabeth LaFontaine Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Twins" For the love of Calla Lillies |
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Elisabeth Murray Portugal Nominee Still Life Amateur "Standing Tall" A very proud tree at the National Palace in Sintra. It is delicate but yet fits perfectly into the 15th Century setting. |
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Elizabeth Kazda USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Nature in Peril: Burning Nature" I created this photo in response to my concerns over climate change and its impact on nature. In-camera multiple exposure of five frames. |
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Enrica Ridolfi Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Senza titolo" Bottiglie di vetro sull'acqua |
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Fabio Batocchi Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tuscan autumn" An old farmhouse in Cortona - Tuscany - Italy |
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Felice Willat USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rags" Easily overlooked - one person's worn out rags becomes fine art to me. |
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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Hosta" |
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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Untitled frame" |
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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee Still Life Amateur "Old Piano" old, piano, lost place, forgotten, abandoned |
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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee Still Life Amateur "Old Stage" piano, stage, lost place, abandoned, forgotten, architecture |
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Helen Storm Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Resiliency of Mushrooms" |
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Helle Nielsen Denmark Nominee Still Life Amateur "Empty Space" |
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Henk Langerak Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Beer" They shoot my beer |
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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "New Dress?" Very intricately woven dress |
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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Frozen Delight" Iced Peony lemonade. |
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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "transparency" |
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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Cutlery Drawer" To Betty, RIP, familiar in Cape Town mountaineering circles, visitor to 100 countries, anything not directly needed for climbing needed only to serve a function but was always clean and ready for use |
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Inna Malostovker USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bird Tales" So many tales to be told by these tail feathers |
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Jacqui Turner USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Sitting For A Portrait" |
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James Meldrum USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Summer Echo" |
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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Honey Pot" |
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Jane Strisik USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Into the Eye" Grocery Store Flower |
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Janet MacCausland USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rebirth" The ageless contemplation of death and birth. |
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Janet Kelfer USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Transformation 1" "..to the eyes of a man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. " William Blake |
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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rain Upon Lily" |
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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Still Life Amateur "Deadpool" Those were the days, a pool in decay. |
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Judy Nussenblatt USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Green Bench" |
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Judy M. King USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Strand's End" Three runaways from a sinuous string of pearls |
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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Daisies" Don't fence me in |
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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "The gas meter" Don't forget me |
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Kathryn Zerbe USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fly Away Home" From one, many - a story of hope and rebirth |
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Kenneth Lai Hong Kong Nominee Still Life Amateur "Chaos" filmed by Kodak Portra800 120 |
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Klaus Lenzen Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Willkommen" A vintage, colorful chain carousel - seen at the Theresienwiese in Munich home of the Oktoberfest |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bookstore in Venice 4" The canals,which are often under flood, are not very culture-friendly. |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bookstore in Venice 5" The canals,which are often under flood, are not very culture-friendly. |
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Larisa Korzhenevskaya Russia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rest" |
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "colour burst" Colour burst is a photo of a lilac floweron a green background. |
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Lucy Lasky USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Have a Seat" Paris France |
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Lynne Mass USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Prongs" |
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Mark Chernin USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Baby Bok Choy, Carrots and Scale" First in a series of vegetables and antique scale taken as part of a self challenge to learn still life photography during COVID-19 lockdown. |
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Mary Ann Tardif USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Summer Blues" The painted color of the bench caught my eye the moment I saw it |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Awaiting a Breeze" A flower’s numerous seeds with their array of silky hairs await a breeze to carry them aloft. |
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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fall" |
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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Laundry Day" Laundry hanging to dry in the summer sun in rural Wisconsin, USA. |
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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fragility of Flowers" |
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Mildred Lai Hong Kong Nominee Still Life Amateur "dancer" At the end of its life, the faded lotus are still dancing in the wind. |
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Mildred Salas USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Feast for the Eyes" Color and Texture |
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Monica Brewer USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Together" |
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Monika Schneider Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fragile Globe" The dandelion provides its seeds with a slightly more complex flying apparatus, a tiny disc of radiating threads that form, in effect, a parachute. |
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Neil Hunter USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Supermarket Flowers" |
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Nestor Novo USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Going Bananas" Going Bananas |
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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Urban pasture" Part of a building in Frankfurt (Germany) that appears to be an urban reiterpretation of a country house |
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Nicole Vittoria de Jager South Africa Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pink Protea" CapeTown, South Africa. 15th September 2020 |
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Nigel Bullers Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Isolated stuff" Old Cheese shop in Vancouvers Chinatown |
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Pamela Hymer USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rusting" Old Chevy sits rusting away on a farm |
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Pat Maycroft UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Blue Glass" |
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Pat Rose USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "John Prine Rose" Rest in peace, beautiful man of song. |
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Patricia Schnepf USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Blue Delight" Bountiful Good Energy. Uplifting Energy. |
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Paul Blieden USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Center of Life 01" Part of a series of images I started during the pandemic using my macro lens to keep myself sane. |
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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee Still Life Amateur "Dead Fish 1" Highlighted details can transcend what is simply there |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "On the market" Calcutta |
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Philip Marriott UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "the nets" |
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Rachele Gabrielli Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Room 405" Self-portrait made in room 405 |
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Raine Lamb USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Marigold" Still life with magpie, garden roses, and pepperberry. |
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Robert G. Waite UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fork" |
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Robin Zygelman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "It's The Last Dance" Miami Florida |
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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Non-objective composition" This photo in the spirit of the Russian avant-garde was taken in St. Petersburg |
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Ron Mayhew USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Key to Life" Vanitas - the Key to Life |
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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tulips" Swirled in Coor |
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Sara Szpektor USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "My heart in the shadow" |
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Sergio Villaschi USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Homage to Gustave" A Homage to a great artist |
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Silvia Lisotti Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tulip & Butterfly 2" Butterfly and flower both icons of the rapidly fading beauty and transience of every earthly thing; photo taken with natural light, the background is made of mulberry paper |
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Smadar Sasson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Light Acrobatics" Light reflections and rope formations creating a special nautical dance vibe |
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Stefanie van Dijk Belgium Nominee Still Life Amateur "Vaasje Lupine" storm victims from my garden transformed into a quiet life: a vase of lupine |
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Stuart Lieberman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Eighth Day of Hanakkuh,2021" Eighth Day of Hanukkah, 2021 |
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Susan Brandt Graham USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Nevertheless, Beautiful" |
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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Blue Reflections" Reflection of bottles |
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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Cultured Pearl" Mikimoto Kokichi inspired still life image featuring vintage washing accoutrements and a beautiful cultured pearl |
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Takashi Sugimoto Japan Nominee Still Life Amateur "Sky Gold 2021 R" I printed the flowers on the Washi, and applied transmitted light from behind. |
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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "the canopy bed" |
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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Trumpet dew" damp night enhances the colours of this carnivorous flower |
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Valentin Denyset France Nominee Still Life Amateur "Contemplation" 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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Vivian Koppelman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pink Lady" |
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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Borderline" Nikon D850, remnants of an abandoned military facility (former airbase) at so-called Pötenitzer Wiek (an inland lagoon of the lower Trave river), Baltic Sea, east of Lübeck. |
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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Terrain" |
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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bark on Pavement" |
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Willa Davis USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Lockworks Orange" Inside of a Victorian door lock with a leaf that fell on it. |