Bill Klipp USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Silhouette Amateur "Baboon Sunset" We were photographing Baboons playing around on an old dead tree as the sun was slowly setting lighting up the sky in in bands of color from deep red to yellow.

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Gary Levy USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Silhouette Amateur "In Emergency, Break Glass" Man Approaching Glass Door Entrance

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Kathryn Zerbe USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Silhouette Amateur "ingrained" optical confusion- you see her... then you don't

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Cindy Poulin Canada Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "A Classic Pose"

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Jeff Olson USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "The Holdout"

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Jimmy Lok Hong Kong Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "A Call from a Distance"

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Bruce Orr USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Under the Monlight #1" "Impression Sanjie" River Ballet staged on the River Li, Yangshuo, china

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Trevor Kerry UK Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "In the Country(man)" On a winter's day in the woods, tress silhouetted on the car - a Countryman

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Winter-Graphik"

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Sara Szpektor USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "2 Players, 3 Shadows" szpektor-sara_2 players 3 shadows.jpg

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Sonal Shah USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Chilling in the Mara" Sunset and the Wildebeest in Masai Mara, Kenya

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Robin Zygelman USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "In The Pink" Walking toward the light

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Dale Duncan-Johnson USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Lawai'a" Hawaiian fisherman

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Henk Langerak Netherlands Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Shadow on the wall" when the shadow is faster then the man

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "At the edge of the bay" Promenade, Botín Center. Santander, Spain

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Flo Fritz Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Lake Garda Winter Silence" A quiet garda lake winter moment, with a bird and Monte Baldo in the background and a smooth silhouette

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "The painter" life mimicking art?

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Adrian Per Romania Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Tree and Me" On the hill SW Romania , Eibenthal village ,

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Alex Politis France Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Life on Mars" Just playing with the sun...

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Changing roles" Botín Center. Santander, Spain

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Navigating the Skyways of Minneapolis in Below Zero Temps"

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Andre Mondou Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Snowstorm" Couple struggling home during a snowstorm in Montreal at night.

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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Double exposure tree in the lake"

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Anirudh Koppula Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Lone Warrior"

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Anita Schiedeck Spain Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Castle"

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Anna Pilat Poland Nominee Silhouette Amateur "sunny darkness"

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Anne Neiwand Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Homeward Bound" The Sheep of Middlehurst Station head home for dinner.

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Waiting for signals"

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Silhouette"

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Derrick structure #1 "

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Morning stroll " A couple silhouetted against the morning sun on a leisurely walk on beach boulevard.

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise Masai Mara" Key to an awesome sunrise or sunset photo is having a distinctive foreground or an identifiable shape which makes a good silhouette and shows some sense of place. It could be as simple as a tree or a

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Baboon Tree" We were photographing Baboons playing around on an old dead tree as the sun was slowly setting lighting up the sky in in bands of color from yellow to deep red.

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Bob St-Cyr Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Prairie Sunrise" Made during an early morning winter in a small prairie town.

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Brendan Berryman Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Softness Over Hard Faces" This image was captured at Gibson Steps on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria Australia, the edges of the cliffs remind me of faces

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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Bar Scene" Shanghai, China

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Carlos Cabral Portugal Nominee Silhouette Amateur "All That Jazz"

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Carolyn Edelstein USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Twins At Play" Twin sisters on the beach at sunset

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Debris" Reflection of a man sweeping debris in water

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Colors of Zejtun Fiesta" Moments of fire and agitation at Zejtun Fiesta

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Chester Ng USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Purple Rain"

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Cindy Poulin Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Overwhelmed" I caught sight of this young person at the "Imagine Van Gogh" exhibition in my city. The title could just as easily been "Enthralled!"

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Craig Christianson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Study in Symmetry"

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Simply Regal"

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Doug Testa USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Overhead Sunset" Across the water in Portland Maine

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Edwin Robinson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Rock Harbor"

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Enrica Ridolfi Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Untitled" Una ragazza osserva un'opera di arte digitale a Palazzo Strozzi a Firenze

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Flo Fritz Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Franzensfeste Castle in Bressanone, Italy" Art Festival at Franzensfeste Castle and how visitors can be part of the game

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Franck Rouzes France Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Horse" When you look up in the sky sometimes it's not your imagination.

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Gillian Marshall USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise, York, Maine" A fishing boat is held in silhouette by the rich tones of sunrise as it moves across the harbor.

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Self love" Sometimes you have to love yourself first before loving others

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Nominee Silhouette Amateur "To go" Men at work

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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Windsurfing" Photo taken on the beach of Prassonissi - Rhodos island - Greece

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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Portrait of my shadow" My shadow on a painted road for a school kids run

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Graham Macfarlane UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Copse" A copse of trees captured on a foggy day

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Guy Llewellyn USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Bent Oak in Resurrection Fern" Bent Oak covered in Resurrection Ivy. A common symbiosis in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.

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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset"

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James Meldrum USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Door County Sunset"

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Days End"

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Float Plane Silhouette" Flying low in the Homfray Channel with CorilAir, approaching Klahoose Wilderness Resort, BC, Canada.

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Jennifer James USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Close to You" A couple enjoying the sunset over the Everglades.

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Jonas Joerg Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Watching the divine play" A couple watching their children play on the shores of Newport Beach, California, with the last sun rays of the day.

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Judy Nussenblatt USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Fresh Catch"

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Judy M. King USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Followed" Who follows her on the stairs at Casa Batllo in Barcelona, Spain?

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Julio Lucas USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Last Light " California skies

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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Chimneys" silhouettes and geometry

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Kathryn Zerbe USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Up! " who says gutter cleaning can't be beautiful

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Kathryn Zerbe USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Chesapeake moon"

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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Special Moment" Sunset on the Big Island of Hawaii, a special moment for the family.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Escalator Collision"

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Lynne Mass USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Night Surprise"

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee Silhouette Amateur "sunset"

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Margo Ryan UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Feed the birds" Feeding the seagulls at sunset is good karma for this man. Burma

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Margo MacArthur USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Break"

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Swell"

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Martin Hoffmann Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The Artist Prepares" The Artist Prepares

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Cloudscape" Glowing clouds bathe California’s Marina del Rey harbor in fading twilight.

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Melissa Lackey USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Everywhere, Man"

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Michael Mannix USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Homeward Bound on Golden Waters" This sailboat glides as the sun sets and points the way toward home, the Greek Island of Kea.

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Through the fog" They say we are all in the same bath. However, some seem to find a passage above the fray and cross the test without getting wet at all. They show us the way.

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Michiko Ôtomo Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "America Exhibition" A man was looking at a work at the AMERICA Exhibition at the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City, Canada. It seemed to me that his silhouette was also part of the art.

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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "People at Sunset" Why is the girl walking to the left alone? What in the couple in the middle thinking? We might never know

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Nancy Mitchell USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Dreams"

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Nicole Vittoria de Jager South Africa Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Graffiti Shortcut" On our journey in pursuit of light, there is always something incredible we encounter in the dark moments too. In our haste, we often miss it. 5th May 2022, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Hermods House" Lofoten

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Pamela Hymer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "As the sun goes down" The end of a day along a Channel Jetty.

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Paola Francesca Barone Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Indicami il sentiero tortuoso"

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Paola Francesca Barone Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The wait" Aeroporto di Marsiglia, agosto 2022: l'attesa dei bagagli

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Patricia Turo USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sky Bound"

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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise Sandhill Crane Take Off" A pair of Sandhill Cranes take off from the water at sunrise in Bosque del Apache, NM.

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Paul Dodd Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Princes Pier, Melbourne" Princes Pier, Melbourne

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Petra Theilemann Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Spanish Silhouette" A pura raza española stallion in northsea sunset performing classical equitation piaffe

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Poul Helt Denmark Nominee Silhouette Amateur "People by the Sea"

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Prohaska Mark Daniel Austria Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Light my fire" around Salzburg area

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Romy Klein USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Windows"

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Sara Blumberg USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Tranquility" Tranquility

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Sergio Ferreira Ruiz Spain Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Golden Instant" We hope that climate change does not deprive us of these wonderful moments.

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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Best Views For Sunsets" Beautiful Florida, USA sunset with the boats

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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Modern Romance"

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Stephen Buhagiar Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Into the mist" Three gentlemen trying to find way in a misty morning at Sv Tomas.

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Steve Gelineau USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Eyes" Delray Beach Florida USA Bridge Tender's Quarters Linton Avenue Bridge over the IntraCoastal Waterway

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Susan Langer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Stirring up Reflections"

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Susan Langer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "The open door"

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Look out" Looking outward-but looking inward, too.

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Tim Owen USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Awakening" Cathedral Rock is a spiritual place due to its vortexes that are believed to inspire oneness and serenity. At daybreak, the sun rose and illuminated the spires ... a new dawn and a new day.

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Tom Marantette USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset in Hawaii" Watching a beautifull Hawaiian sunset

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Osterfeuer"

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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Morning, Paris"

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William Shoop USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Civil Twilight" Webb Cove on Deer Isle, Maine on this morning was filled with solitude in the moments just before the Sun broke forth.

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Winfried Alberti Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Stroller" Woman in front of a gate of a fire brigade in Berlin.

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Winfried Alberti Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Unequal race" Scooter driver against pedestrian.

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Zita Quentin USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Lioness Silhouette at Sunset" A lioness watching the surroundings at sunset in the Serengeti

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