Elaine Klein Israel 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Still Life Amateur "Still Life #3" From a series exploring woman's role as object in art and the intersection with the boundaries of still life

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Smadar Sasson USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Still Life Amateur "Hang On" Facade with ladder and its shadows

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Barbara Corvino Italy 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Still Life Amateur "Hugs"

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Jessica Margo USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Reclaim" A decaying steering wheel being reclaimed by nature.

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Debbie Hartley Australia Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Ranunculus - One Scoop or Two?"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "For careere changers "

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Andy"

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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Shattered"

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Enrica Ridolfi Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Bouquet" Un mazzo di carciofi appena raccolti di cui alcuni fioriti.

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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Grrrrassss" As grassy as it can get.....

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Cindy Poulin Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "A Missing Link"

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Carol Smokler USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Amarylis Unfolding" amarylis unfolding, day by day

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Marc Olthoff Netherlands Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "A Fish called Wanda" Part of series "Extra Ordinary"

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Nicola Roberto Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Royal apartments" One of the rooms of the royal apartments of the wonderful French Château de Azay-le-Rideau

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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Be Our Guest"

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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Deepening Autumn" The fruit falls to the ground and rots step by step, reminding us of the deepening autumn.

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Rachel Nixon Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Breakfast" A playful take on the plant-based diet.

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Christine Truhe USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Flowers at the Needle" The Seattle Space Needle in the fog looms high above and in contrast to the glass flowers created by Dale Chihuly.

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Andrew Ilachinski USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Aquatic Still Life" Aquatic Still Life

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Marianna Armata Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Circle of Life"

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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Arm In Arm"

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Adam Neuba Germany Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "dahlia" Impressions of a wonderful dahlia bloom after a light rain shower...

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Uri Mahlev Israel Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Zen"

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Leif Sohlman Sweden Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "An angel past my way " An angel past my way. There on the ground among some orage fallen leaves an angel left a message for me. But, she forgot I can't angels writings so I couldn't read her message. It just seemed to be an

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Judy Nussenblatt USA Honorable Mention Still Life Amateur "Lace Curtain"

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Adam Neuba Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "the frame" Nature meets Technics. One element of stainless steel, one from nature in harmonious interaction with light.

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Alex Politis France Nominee Still Life Amateur "Metaverse" Metaverse. A computer generated personality interacting at a real space with other people and users. Why not? Sculpture of Swiss artist Nicolas Party, at Lugano Switzerland.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Still Life 2022"

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Anita Schiedeck Spain Nominee Still Life Amateur "Gartenkunst"

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Looking Through"

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Anne Schlueter USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Mesquite Dunes" I was ascending one of the dunes and stopped in awe of the remains of desert trees standing like sentinels in Death Valley.

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Still Life Amateur "Barcode "

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Still Life Amateur "Machines #1"

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Anthony Iacuzzi USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Mayan Mannequin" Cultural misappropriation of Mayan Indian culture on a Macy's mannequin

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Antonio Bernardino Coelho Portugal Nominee Still Life Amateur "The light and the colors" Representation of the phenomenon related to light,from the electromagnetic wave composed of several other electromagnetic waves,which differ in their wavelength,resulting in the formation of colors

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Ayako Yamada Japan Nominee Still Life Amateur "Spring Flower" A collaboration of Ranunculus and Thunder Sonia. Expressing the joy of spring, when light pours down.

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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Vegetables composition"

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Beth Youmans USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Soft Landing"

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Bob Shor USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Floating Lilies" Green Cay Boynton Beach, Fl.

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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Behind the Blue Door"

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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Blue Light" Shanghai, China

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Budd Parker USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Color Box and Sketch"

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Budd Parker USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Glass Vase" Glass Vase

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Carol Smokler USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Peony" Portrait of a flower

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Carol Flanagan Corsi USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Hugs"

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Carolyn Edelstein USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tutu Pretty"

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pink Parlor" Decked out all in pink this formal parlor is awaiting its guests.

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Christine Akar USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Forsaken"

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Christine Truhe USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Banana Flower" This large flower that will give birth to a banana bunch was growing in the Naples Botanical Garden (Naples, Florida, USA).

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Dave Johns USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tuscan Tomato"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Dahlia Simplicity"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Apples to Daffodils"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Floral Art"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Last Dance of the Tulip"

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Debbie Kestenberg USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Swimming Sunflowers"

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Denis Sivack USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Blue Horizon with Padlock" Digital capture, archival pigment print.

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Dewi Puspasari Indonesia Nominee Still Life Amateur "A Path Of Autumn" In business terms, autumn is a great season for the economy. Whether a change is positive or negative, it's important to accept it & know how to adapt to it.

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Diane Kravetz USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Wilt"

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Diane Waldron USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Wild Mushrooms" I found myself lying on the ground in the middle of a forest to capture these ethereal mushrooms.

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Elaine Klein Israel Nominee Still Life Amateur "Still Life #2" From a series exploring woman's role as object in art and the intersection with the boundaries of still life.

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Esakiraja Vr India Nominee Still Life Amateur "Life of reflection" "Our language is the reflection of ourselves."

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Esakiraja Vr India Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tells a story" Little moments, big memories.

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Esperanza Gomez USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Waiting"

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Flo Fritz Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Halloween" A glimpse of Halloween at a Hotel near Lake Garda

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Gary Matson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Table Down"

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Gary Levy USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Go" Traffic Light

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Gary Levy USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rest Assured" Building Lobby

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Greg Finnegan Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Army Mannequin " Mannequin in window of army surplus store in Toronto Canada

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Just One More"

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Henk Langerak Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Oh, my beer" there goes my beer

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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Left overs" There once was a party.....

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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Makkaroni & Co" cutlery meets pasta

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Inna Malostovker USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "A Feather Afloat" A lonely pristine white feather floating on water that resembles silky abstract fabric.

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Iva Nash USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Carousel" The expressions on these horses is not ususally something one would see on a carousel for children. Frightening.

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Jackie Rosenthal USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Barn Light" I was about to leave this barn when I turned around and saw this light.

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James Meldrum USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Autumn Weekend"

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Shrivelled Pear"

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Jane Kreinberg USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Flower Dance" Do flowers cavort when we're not looking?

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Jane Kreinberg USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bottoms Up" Everyday objects can express their own beauty, when reflecting light and color.

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Jane Strisik USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Beauty Everywhere " In the parking lot

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Jane Craig Walker UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Ballerina Thistle" A Scottish thistle showing off its fluffy, white tutu at the end of summer.

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Janis Ehlers USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Just a Pumpkin" Just a pumpkin on a Maine country road

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Jim Markle USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "M Square" M Square is part of a found object with an intriguing 3D quality.

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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Dancing Tulip"

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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee Still Life Amateur "Annie's Flowers"

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Still Life Amateur "Still Life in Venice" Early morning window shopping in Venice.

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Judith Balari Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Frozen Lilacs" the purity of these frozen lilacs seem to be endless

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Kathi Mangel USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Best Seat in the House" An unusual seat from where to view the poppy fields in Lancaster, California

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Kathryn Johnson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Mementos" Found these souvenirs from a trip long ago stashed in a closet

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Kenneth Lai Hong Kong Nominee Still Life Amateur "Woman and Man" Inseparable beings in the universe.

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Prey and Preditor"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Silence"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Leaf"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Borderline"

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Konstantin Weiss Switzerland Nominee Still Life Amateur "Lotus Leaf"

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Laura Fay Botfeld USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "It's an Artichoke!" The world's prettiest vegetable.

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Lee Levine USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pencils" Only One Sharpened

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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "White lilies" White lilies captured in gardens of city Enkoeping (Enkoping) Sweden summer 2022. the white flowers are surrounded by green leaves in a square art presentation. The day was grey. This image was captur

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Lisa Donneson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fresh" This image is from a series about a sleek lamp in my living room that sits on a rustic antique table. It doesn’t “go,” but it works

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Lisa Donneson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Still Life in White" Here, I find solitude, quiet and pleasure inside my domestic space.

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Lynne Mass USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Egghead Family"

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Madeleine Corbeil USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Lily Pond" A trip to the Chicago Botanic Garden to capture macros was interrupted by this lone purple lily in the deep blue water pond.

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "Japanese Latern #1" Decaying plants

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "Japanese Latern #2" Decaying plants

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "Poppy #1" Decaying plants

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Still Life Amateur "Poppy #2" Decaying plants

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Margaret Sears Lindley USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Out of the Blue"

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Marie Kotschedoff USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Kings Ransom" Flora series

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Marion Rodgers Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Sunflowers"

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee Still Life Amateur "Behind the Curtain"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Cactus Flower"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Nostalgic Reflection"

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Bird designed" Random colour flowing downwards in feathers

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Beyond the Fire" Growing out of a decomposing blackened log, one petite blossom offers hope beyond the intense flames that decimated sections of California’s Stanislaus National Forest in 2018.

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Michael J Locke UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Altar"

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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Sentimentality of Hope"

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Mieke Douglas UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Fake"

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Mildred Salas USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Dining in Color"

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Nadja Perez USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Subtle"

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Nancy Chadwick USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "After the Harvest"

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Neil Hunter USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Mirror Image"

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Paola Francesca Barone Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "E122" Bottiglie del famoso aperiritivo Campari e del suo inconfondibile colore

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Patricia Schnepf USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Botanical" Nature readying some strawberries...

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Paul Dodd Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pencils" Pencils

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Pei-Yi Cheng Taiwan Nominee Still Life Amateur "Vase in Sunlight"

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Shocking Slaughterhouse Waste" Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Rachel Nixon Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "After the Rain" Fallen blossoms after a summer rainstorm.

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Raymond Williams Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Milkweed Bloom"

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Raymond Williams Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Early Morning Breakfast"

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Regina Cserna Austria Nominee Still Life Amateur "Daisysplash" double exsposure in camera of of the inside and outside of a daisy flower

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Regina Wolf Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Magic Blue"

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Daisy"

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "lightness"

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Romy Klein USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "The knot"

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Ron Smith Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pencils of Promise" New art pencils

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "The Heart of the Matter"

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Pretty in Blue"

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Mellow Yellow"

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Sally Paterson Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Le Jaune"

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Sergio Villaschi USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Quince and grapes" Still life taken with the light painting technique

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Sharon Townsend USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Air Plant "

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Sharon Harkness USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Remembrance"

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Silvia Lisotti Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Flower and Herons" I was inspired by the paintings of Watanabe Seitei; using acrylic plates of different thickness and opacity, I tried to reproduce minimal images of flowers to obtain an ethereal and suspensive effect.

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Smadar Sasson USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Heads or Tails" lettuce heads on display at the market

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Stefano Degli Esposti Italy Nominee Still Life Amateur "Barriers" Breaking of barriers against today's poor communication - Gerona (Spain)

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Steffen Mueller Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Berlin Stettiner Strasse #2" Fire fighters prepared to rush to the scene at the speed of light in a shared flat in the former East Berlin city quarter of Wedding

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "One Day Miracle" Passiflora "Monica Fischer" Blooms for Just a Single Day

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Prickly Situaion" Thorns of a saguaro cactus

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Stuart Lieberman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Technology" Technology in 2022

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Stuart Lieberman USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Yellow Flower" Yellow Flower

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Sylvia Gardner USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Orange Flower"

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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee Still Life Amateur "Secret Rendezvous" Secret Visits with the little princess before midnight

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Takashi Sugimoto Japan Nominee Still Life Amateur "Rose gold 2022" At last, a rose garden openly welcomed visitors after going through the situation for these two years.

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Terrance R Pack Canada Nominee Still Life Amateur "Water Droplets On Red"

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Hare today" The ever-flaking bark of this Eucalyptus Pauciflora trunk has toned, in a shaft of sunlight, to reveal a transitory animal head

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Vicki Gardner UK Nominee Still Life Amateur "Momento Mori (Tulip)" An image from my Moment Mori series, a study of the flowing forms and textures created by flowers as they wither and die.

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Still Life Amateur "Tequila"

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Luring Crabs" Canon EOS 5D, taken on Henley Beach jetty, Adelaide, Australia. Anglers were using cut fish heads from the fish market around (chicken parts, too) for luring crabs while shooting this.

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Still Life Amateur "Dangast" Canon EOS 5D MKII, taken on Jade Bight (a lagoon of the North Sea) at Dangast during blue hour.

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Down By The Rowan Trees"

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee Still Life Amateur "Cinema"

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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Leaves with Watermark"

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Wilfred A Sessoms Sr. USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Oranges" Oranges in there natural environment hanging on a tree

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Willa Davis USA Nominee Still Life Amateur "Leafy Sea Dragon" Taken with an iPhone.

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Yeom Dongsam Korea (South) Nominee Still Life Amateur "Inner conflicts" When the flowers wither, they end their lives by pouring out the remaining energy and keeping a beautiful inside

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Yeom Dongsam Korea (South) Nominee Still Life Amateur "Drooping shoulders" As if watching the exhausting process of life, it seems difficult for flowers to wither.

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