Steve Burkett USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Fine Art Amateur "Busy Day on the Grand Canal" A composite of many, many Venetian boats on the Grand Canal

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Renate Wasinger Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Fine Art Amateur "the palm"

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Elisa Miller UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Fine Art Amateur "The beauty clock" The Beauty Clock is part of my latest series, Eye of the Beholder. In this series, I examine the significant impact of societal beauty norms on women's self-perception. The series explores how various industries, such as glossy magazines and cosmetic chains, influence concerns related to appearance. This work challenges the pressures of societal expectations that measure worth by adherence to beauty ideals. I also shed light on the indoctrination from a young age with the belief that finding a partner is essential for a fulfilling life and that beauty plays a significant role in that pursuit. Being single is often stigmatized, leading to a sense of failure and inadequacy. Beauty pressure is constant, as if every second brings us closer to the inevitable loss of youth, sadly still equating a woman's value to her appearance in our society.

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Rolf Hillert Germany Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Fisher's Kingdom"

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Dora Duan USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Away" Memories are collective moments which may remain with us as shadows, intangible as they are. Inspired by a study of imperfection, I have been exploring how to narrate those uneasy and vulnerable momen

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Jane Strisik USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes" Street Window NYC

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Dominic Beaven UK Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Abyss"

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Pedro Diaz Molins Spain Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Alicante Beach"

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Lee Grossman USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "The hegemony of gravity"

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Anthony Iacuzzi USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Exit to Blue" An arched doorway leading to another part of a museum exhibit.

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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Industrial" Street-photography-inspired celebration of the beautiful industrial cityscape of Budapest, Hungary.

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Jason Chen USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Familiar" hand-woven archival pigment print

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Maighread Jardine Australia Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Aloft: To Lands Unimagined" A surrealist student work containing "Elements of Nature" that is both possible and impossible. I take the viewer to a wholly constructed world, viewed through a romantic lens. In this work, three you

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Joyce Reinertson USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Mirror reflection" In this portrait of my cat Koji,in his mirror reflection appears to look at my backyard with a white ceramic cat.

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James Hayman USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Girl Running,Haiti,1988"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Facade" Facade

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Nola Sumner Australia Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "The Gallery"

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Chester Ng USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "The Power of Flowers"

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Takashi Sugimoto Japan Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Flowers’ Disco 2023" I intended to produce those works to respect 1970s fashion photography. I photographed the flowers as I would photograph models. The works were shown in my solo exhibition in 2023.

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Anirudh Koppula Australia Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Fireworks" Bokeh

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Maighread Jardine Australia Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Urban Landscapes Reimagined - Haymarket No.2" The Darling Square Exchange is a learning, innovation and creativity hub brimming with intellectual and creative energy.

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Lewis Warner Australia Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Almanac "

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ky woo USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "liturgy of the subterranean" our spiritual journeys sometimes lead us into the depths of our own psyche to confront our inner monsters

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Viet Van Tran Vietnam Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "The dreamers" Dreaming is a way to know that one exists, rather than being lost in the thought of "To be or not to be" like Hamlet in Shakespeare's play.

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Petri Damsten Finland Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Two Graves" This image takes inspiration from a proverb by Confucius about revenge. "Before You Embark On A Journey Of Revenge, Dig Two Graves" - Confucius

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Cathy Webb USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Frosty View" Winter morning's view

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Jan Szolnoki Germany Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Cores And Veins" Created for the project Microelectronic Megacities/Mikroelektronische Megastädte. A closer look below the surface at the similarities between the structures of civilisation and circuits.

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Douglas Vernimmen UK Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Frankenstein Pub" Located in the heart of the historic city of Edinburgh, 'Frankenstein' is a church converted in a Frankenstein's laboratory, but used as a pub. The pub hosts daily live shows where the creature's body is released from a chamber, descents on a stretcher, and then brought to life with bolt of lightning.

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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Honorable Mention Fine Art Amateur "Lot" Contemporary image of automobiles that feel classically out of time.

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A M Clark USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Dolphin Dreams" A peaceful and dreamy view, waiting to see dolphins

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Busting Preconceptions" Though many think of the West Bank as purely Muslim, there is a sizable Palestinian Christian presence there too.

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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Climate change"

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Angela Vicedomini Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "The dark church"

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Angelo Brancaccio Italy Nominee Fine Art Amateur "The window of the eye" Cremona, Italy, 2023. The window of an abandoned shop reflects the morning light.

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Ann-Mari Broman USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "The Wolf & The Girl" from the series with the girl and the wolf

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Flaminco Dancer"

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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Abandonded" Ship wrecks on the Isle of Mun

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Living in a Ghost Town" Tiniteqilaaq is a small village in Greenland with nearly 130 inhabitants. - Greenland

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Trio of illusion" Lights On

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Barbara Beeman USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Caterpillar experiencing changes" Even during the pandemic this caterpillar was hard at work changing New York City

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Barking mad" Beach boulevard cafes in morning light

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Brooks Butler USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "DecoJet" Convair B-35 Peacemaker Jet Nozzle

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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Worlds Apart" Berlin artisan street tiles & grout shaped as a globe, with shadow applied. Small specs are construction dust. Photo shot 2019, reimagined 2023

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Carmen Ramon Cami Spain Nominee Fine Art Amateur "VIENA NIGHT" Image taken in night Viena, with neon light

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "The Color of Light" Serendipity and the sun made this magic happen.

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Chrissie Stillin USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Elevated Perspective" A change of view transforms the ordinary, into extraordinary.

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Amadeus Rising" Dreamscape of Lake Amadeus, Australia

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Be Afraid"

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Dave Johns USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Puddles"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "The Melting Pot"

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Debbie Scott-Queenin USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Mr. Tuba"

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Diane Klein USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Gentle Sway"

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Elena Santucci Italy Nominee Fine Art Amateur "HoldTightMyDreams" Tenaciously hanging by a thread, I hold on tight my dreams against everything and everyone (Self-portrait and superposition of shots).

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Fortress in Jodhpur" Built in the 15th century, Mehrangarh Fortress stands high atop a mountain in India's blue city.

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Erik Olson USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "AT THE NEIGHBORS"

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Gail Stent New Zealand Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Thoughts on Life" I created this Dali style image to raise awareness of Climate change. What if our future holds fake animals; what if humans are bred in eggs; what if our landscapes are barren; what if.....

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Gayle Pepper USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Church in the Meadow" Snow in Yosemite is Peaceful.

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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Fine Art Amateur "African landscape" Photo taken in Masai Mara National Park - Kenya

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Gwen Solomon USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Reaching Out"

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Hartmut Rieg Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Composition #03" North Sea Harbour Scene

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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Blue Lady" Yesterday, when I came home, a woman in a blue dress was sitting in my hallway in front of the bathroom door. Or was it all just a dream?

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James Hayman USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Orange Turban,TajMahal,2012"

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Jan Szolnoki Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Cyber Punk" Created for the project Microelectronic Megacities/Mikroelektronische Megastädte. A closer look below the surface at the similarities between the structures of civilisation and circuits.

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Jane Strisik USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Dance with Me"

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John Galbreath USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Colors of Old Havana" Street life on Calle Habana Old Havana, Cuba

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John H Hughey USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Austerity" Goblin Valley State Park, Utah

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Tritoni" The Art of Light and Water Dancing

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Josh Sacks USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Hoola"

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Joyce Reinertson USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Playing with a mirror" A fun portrait of my cat Yoshi who was seeing himself for the first time in a mirror.

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Julio Lucas USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Fly me to the moon. " Aircraft meets crescent moon, framed by palms in a tranquil twilight dance.

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Karen Safer USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "EXIT in Blue" All the blues of the world reflected in abstraction.

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Kenneth Tyson USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "At the beach"

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Kenneth Lai Hong Kong Nominee Fine Art Amateur "EX-METROPOLIS" Hong Kong 2023

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Chiesa San Michele Foro" The late afternoon sun warms stones, colors and hearts in the public square

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Road of Tuscan Cypress" The trees protect and guide the road

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ky woo USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "take the long way home" a passenger peers outside of a subway car to glimpse a monster

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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "City at Night" Fine-art representation of New York City at night.

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Lance Pressl USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Rose" Rose

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Lance Pressl USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Daily News" Daily News

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Larry Bean USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Refinery" Laurel, Montana

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Laura Fay Botfeld USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "RAINBOW POODLE" Show stopping standard poodle!

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "In the Land of Strangers" from my ongoing series, Marion under the Moon

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Dream of the Playground Melting into Night"

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Lee Grossman USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Reflected selves"

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Lynne Mass USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Two Dimensions"

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Burning Mummy"

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Maighread Jardine Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Jerilderie Landscapes - Jewels in the Dust" In the harsh heat and dry of the Southern Riverina, Billy Buttons grow wild in the paddocks and by the road. They are jewels in the dust.

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Maighread Jardine Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "When Our Spirits Go Aloft" A surrealist exploration of that blurs the imagined with reality, the possible with the implausible.

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Malu Baiatu Switzerland Nominee Fine Art Amateur "untitled #2"

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Maria Pauline Barberi Peru Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Tijsi (origen)" In Peru, we have the privilege of having a millenary culture, very rich in legends, magic, and ritual, an archaeological tradition that dates back more than 5000 years. One of the oldest temples is located in the northern zone, in a place called Las Aldas. An amphitheater was what caught my attention because this image is part of a musical project called "circular ruins" and I had been asked to find the image that represents this temple. I worked the session with a lighting engineer, we arrived at 4:30am and were doing light tests until dawn (about 5:30am). The silence and respect for the place overwhelmed me ... I could imagine how the first men who inhabited this area, performed sacred rituals. The intention of the photograph was to capture that time stopped where the spirit of the past is still alive.

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Mariano Belmar Spain Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Hojas de otoño"

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Marlene Mendez USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Gone Fishing"

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Mauricio Arango USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Night Guide"

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Mayda Rumberg USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Rain on newly cleaned window"

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Melanie Schoeniger Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "beyond the edge of darkness #01" This series reimagines the feeling of awe I experience when diving: and the vast mysterious sea is my stage. These images utilize unique perspectives that highlight bioluminescence and surreal colors

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Michael Singer USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Moonset"

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Michelle Nickerson USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Red Reflection" Red Tree Reflection on the High Line, NYC

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Michie Wong USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Dropping In" A self portrait of how memories and their baggage hitchhike their way back into our lives. The Hannya mask of Noh Theater represents female rage and pain.

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Moira Blincoe New Zealand Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Pink Swirls"

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Nestor Novo USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Brellas" Brellas

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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Monastery" the representation of a monastic scene at the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel (Northern France)

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Olena Tarnovska Ukraine Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Sunset highway"

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Pat Maycroft UK Nominee Fine Art Amateur "after Hockney"

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Paul Newton Canada Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Smoke"

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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Weiden am See" A jetty at Weiden am See, Neusiedler See lake, Austria, after sunset

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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Black Hole" A vortex on a winter swimming pool

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Rachel Nixon Canada Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Song Yet To Be Sung" In the morning I notice how my wet hair falls on my shoulders. I notice the sun spots on my skin, a result of carelessness on earlier vacations. A reminder of places visited and memories made so far.

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Rachel Nixon Canada Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Signs of Life" Fireworks in the night sky. A flower in our garden. Mirroring of the natural and the manmade - the small things that bring joy to our existence. A diptych of two images both made in Vancouver, Canada.

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Radek von Hirschberg Poland Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Hope in Decay, 2023" Desolate Beauty it is a project which combines, although seemingly mutually exclusive, beauty and decay. Beauty is gorgeous women, whereas decay describes the physical condition of places where I invi

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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Forgiven"

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Remi Joseph d'Argent Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Hay Market Street" LAte afternoon at aBusy Sydney Street NSW Australia

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Autum walk"

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Rivelea Citron USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Damage 1"

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Robin Sacknoff USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "bike on beach"

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Roxanne Darling USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Equus Among Us" Early morning at a horse farm in Nebraska

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee Fine Art Amateur "City o the move"

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Shoichi Toki Japan Nominee Fine Art Amateur "gate" The entrance to the temple in Japan. Typical historical building with nature as a background.

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Stefanie van Dijk Belgium Nominee Fine Art Amateur "World" Where to go in the world

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Stephen Mimms USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "To the point"

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Checking Into The Zebra Hotel" Architecture and Wildlife Combine in a New World

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Lunch at the Zebra Cafe" Zebras Descending on the Wynwood Building in Miami

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Steve Gelineau USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Boston After Dark" Boston Massachusetts USA. Three mini-bikes accent the colors of the city skyline after dark.

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "A Very Rare Desert Tongue Cactus" And at night, there is a chorus to the full moon

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Steven Farah Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Bliss" The bright orange colour that blessed us with its warmth on a weekend sunrise

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Susan Langer USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Homage to Magritte"

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Susan Langer USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Chelsea Square, NYC"

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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Circus Turkey" Preparing for the stage performance- vintage juggling act

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Thomas Dreier Germany Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Cleopatra, devil and monk caught in the act"

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee Fine Art Amateur "What is she thinking? 1" The first in a series of enigmatic scenes

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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Route 13 Ithaca" This image achieved maximum realization with a monochrome sky.

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Yuan Zhang China (PRC) Nominee Fine Art Amateur "Spring Outing" Six young ladies wearing traditional Chinese attire pose for photos by the Kunming Lake of the Summer Palace in Beijing on Mar 19, 2023. Traditional Chinese costumes are popular among young people.

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