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Gillian Lindsay Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "A New Day" montage |
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Julie Fowells USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Depressed Hornworm" |
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Kevin Vandivier USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Annular Eclipse 2023" The 2023 annular eclipse over Kerrville,Texas |
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Scott Wurzel USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "In the Shadow" The mountains of a Norwegian fjord tower next to rural homes as the clouds descend toward the ground. |
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Monique Felber Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Whispers of mist in the Val d'Orcia" A fogy morning in the beautiful and magic Val d'Oricia |
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Justin Pumfrey UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ham Lands" Hawthorns in blossom |
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Torleif Lie Norway Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Azure" Big Lagoon, Shark Bay, WA |
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Lee Gordon USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Lighting Storm Offshore" Thunder and lighting storm forming offshore |
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Eric Kanigan USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Helios" Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring from a helicopter. While still impressive from the adjacent pathway, I wanted to capture the scale and the abstract nature of the thermal feature from above. |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Whisper in Sunset" In southeastern Georgia, United States, as water breathed life into the Cypress trees, summer met winter, and sunlight infused nature with an artistic touch, the park was a living outdoor art exhibit, |
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Paul M. Murray USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Adaptation" In Namibia, adaptation to a challenging environment with often scare resources is critical for everything and everyone. |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Llano River Lightening" Two storms merge to create cloud to cloud lightening at dusk over the Llano River west of Llano, Texas. |
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Karolin Schild Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Volcanic Reverie Nature's Power in Gentle Embrace" As the sun dips below the horizon, Mount Taranaki casts its shadow on a world transformed. Once teeming with life, this moody New Zealand landscape now stands as a testament to the loss of connection |
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Gio Fleming France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "GODS'S WRATH" Taken from the Mont Blanc mountain range looking down into the village of Courmayeur. This sunset was very troubling, beautiful but not peaceful. It looked to me like mount Olympus when Zeus was forgi |
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Nigel Hicks UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Roller" An Atlantic roller crashes onto shore on the island of Sal, in the Cape Verde Islands |
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Gareth Rockliffe USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Dead Lakes" Sunrise over Dead Lakes in the Florida Panhandle! |
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John Siskin USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Lightning 2023" Power |
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Jean-Sebastien Vaillancourt Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "78th parallel north no. 4" This image was taken on an icebreaker in the middle of the Canadian Arctic. |
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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Tuscan Morning" From the series Tuscany |
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Henrique Murta Brazil Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ilusão" Fresh water falls off volcanic cliffs, right next to the sea. Or maybe an illusion… A daydream? Impossible lands that actually exist. This panorama was created by stitching 32 photos captured with t |
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Mauro Zorer Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "AFTER_THE_RAIN" after a storm, towards sunset, the sun's rays filter through the still threatening clouds and illuminate the hills of the val d'orcia endlessly |
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Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "painted" tuscany is shining color, interrupted only by dark cypresses Where, sharp-edged shadows,the sun, the clouds, the morning fog create a unique atmosphere. |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Night Passage To Big Sur" |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mt Cook Milky Way" The Milky Way above Aoraki/Mt Cook, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. |
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Eckhart Matthaeus Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "23-08-13_Maelifell_01" Maelifell, Mountain, Iceland, Eckhart Matthaeus, Nikon Z72, 16mm |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Amber wave" |
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Todor Tilev Ireland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "The Meanders of The Arda River" Arguably Bulgaria's most picturesque river Arda flows through some of the most beautiful and pristine scenery in Bulgaria. Her meandering route takes her past lush green hills, majestic mountains and |
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Lars Gesing USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "A DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY" Sunlight perfectly brings out the beautiful jade color of these waves as they crash and form wondrous shapes. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Sacred Mangrove #1" A Sacred Kingfisher sits on the branch of a Grey Mangrove shrouded in fog. |
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Jack Kucy USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "NYC Sky Sometimes" Park Ave in New York City in July 2023 |
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Aaron Rayburn USA Nominee Nature Professional "Signal Hill" |
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Abel F. Ros Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Bloom" Flowering of fruit trees in the fields of the city of Cieza, in Murcia |
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Aleksandrs Drozdovs Latvia Nominee Nature Professional "Impeccability Of Nature In Latvia" Nature is like an oasis for the soul , free from error and fault |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Nature Professional "iceberg" every iceberg is a very special kind of natural art |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Nature Professional "antarctic iceberg" |
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Anatolie Burdeniuc Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Tre Cime Dolomiti" |
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Anthony Nex USA Nominee Nature Professional "FlyingSouth" |
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Bahar Kural USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ode to Georgia O'Keefe" Tulips in their most fragile and beautiful state |
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Bahar Kural USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cherry Blossoms" Cherry blossoms at their peak in April at NYC's Central Park |
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Bahar Kural USA Nominee Nature Professional "Solitude" A lonely tree at a beach in Algarve |
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Bernd Opitz Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Atacama_desert" Picture of the Atacama Desert in Chile |
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Bill Robbins USA Nominee Nature Professional "Red Sky at Night" Red sky at night sailors delight |
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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Fallen Trees" The Pohutukawa tree has become an established part of the New Zealand Christmas tradition and has become an important symbol for New Zealanders at home and abroad and has become an important symbol f |
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Burkhard von Harder Germany Nominee Nature Professional "CLOUD MAN" |
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Cheryl Stockton USA Nominee Nature Professional "Entrance Awe" South Rim, Grand Canyon |
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Cheryl Stockton USA Nominee Nature Professional "Crown of Gold" South Rim, Grand Canyon |
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Christina McFaul USA Nominee Nature Professional "Butterflies in Jar" |
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Con van Staa Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Blowing in the wind" Corn |
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Danielle Austen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Blue" Dawn along Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Island Sunset" I was on a tour boat looking for birds on Chincoteague Island in Virginia when this sunset happened. Luck is always a huge part of nature photography |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Caddo Lake, Texas" Photographing from a boat is always a chalange. On Caddo Lake the hardest part is being picky about what you want to shoot. Every direction is amazing! |
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David Sieczkiewicz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hydra" A wave breaks in the sea coming to life amongst the rising sun that creates a glisten in the water. |
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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee Nature Professional "The Bamboo Path" |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stand Tall" A lone tree stands in a meadow in Wyoming on an early morning. This image was taken a few months into the start of the COVID pandemic, and captures what that period of time felt like to me. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Nature Professional "Resilience" A soaptree yucca in White Sands National Park. Desert plants are forced to adapt to difficult conditions. These plants grow stems that extend up to 30 feet to allow flowers to grow above the sand. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Nature Professional "Solitude" Between Alamogordo and Las Cruces sits the largest gypsum dune field in the world. The blinding white crystals create simple and magical scenes that change constantly with the wind and the weather. |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn's Poem" In southeastern Georgia, United States, as water breathed life into the Cypress trees, summer met winter, and sunlight infused nature with an artistic touch, the park was a living outdoor art exhibit, |
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Frances Suter Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn Leaves" Autumn Leaves Cradle Mountain, Tasmania |
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Frances Suter Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Ice Cathedral" |
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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee Nature Professional "cipressini nebbiosi" tuscany is shining color, interrupted only by dark cypresses Where, sharp-edged shadows,the sun, the clouds, the morning fog create a unique atmosphere. |
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Gio Fleming France Nominee Nature Professional "GOLDEN GLOW" Autumn is a beautiful season.The warm colour of the sky, the grass and the trees seem to catch fire in this glowing sunset |
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Gio Fleming France Nominee Nature Professional "DAWN EMBRACE" At the mountain's summit, a dusting of snow highlights the rugged terrain. The sky is a canvas of dynamic, windy clouds, occasionally revealing the vibrant hues of the sunrise through scattered openin |
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Gio Fleming France Nominee Nature Professional "Whispers of Winter" I'm always drawn to water in its various forms as a photographer—whether it's lakes, icebergs, snow, or rivers. It's an attraction that might stem from an underlying awareness of how essential water |
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Glen McClure USA Nominee Nature Professional "Light at Sheffrey Hills, County Mayo, Ireland" From the coninuing series, The West of Ireland |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dunloup Creek Waterfall" Dunloup Creek Falls is a stunning 20 foot tall waterfall in Fayette County a couple of miles southwest of Thurmond. Dunloup Creek, a tributary of the New River, winds through the park following active |
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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Nature Professional "Land of Enchantment" |
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Hugo Rompa Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Kunneweg #1" Terschelling - Netherlands |
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Ioana Vrabie Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Pyrenees Daydream II" In camera analogue double exposure. In the Summer of 2020, after the long lock down in Barcelona I got commissioned this project for a chalet located in the French Pyrenees overlooking the iconic moun |
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James Smith USA Nominee Nature Professional "What I Saw" I stop by a roadside to take this image. The world righted itself and all my broken dreams went quiet. |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee Nature Professional "Child-king" |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee Nature Professional "Amber wave ii" |
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Jean-Sebastien Vaillancourt Canada Nominee Nature Professional "78th parallel north no. 1" This image was taken on an icebreaker in the middle of the Canadian Arctic. |
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Jiri Tondl Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Litlle drama 2" |
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John Siskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monument Valley, Dawn" Monument Valley, Arizona |
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John Siskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Canyon De Chelly" |
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John Mitchell Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Thomson's fallen Jack Pine" |
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Jonathan David Sabin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Navajo Sunset" |
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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee Nature Professional "Tor" Winter at Glastonbury Tor |
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Justin LeVett USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hide and Gecko" Gecko hiding on leaf in Pahoa, HI |
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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dolomites Tre Cime Sunset" Dolomites Tre Cime sunset panoramic view |
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Kazuaki Koseki Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Lights of Life" The spectacle of fireflies " Himebotaru", an endemic species of Japan, flying through the summer forest is like a scene where the stars in the sky repeat twinkling. It is the shine brightness of life. |
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Kevan Ashworth Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Titanic" |
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Kevan Ashworth Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Clam Diggers" |
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Kingsley Burton Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Hamersley Gorge 031" Nature abstract of orange and green at Hamersley Gorge |
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Leeanne Mason Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Pictorialist Landscape" The colours of the Australian Bush are as muted as a pictorialist image once was. |
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Marcio Cabral Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Golden Mountain" Night panorama during moonrise with views of Mount Fitz Roy illuminated by moonlight. |
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Maria Coletsis Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Intermission: Deforestation" Each image exposes the threat pollution poses to our natural world and ultimately to the human population. |
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Markus Gmeiner Austria Nominee Nature Professional "EPHEMERAL" |
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Marshall Clarke USA Nominee Nature Professional "Reach" Insect reaching to climb down a flower |
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Marshall Clarke USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice" Morning ice crystals on lamb's ear plant |
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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Nature Professional "Waterfall of Bystré" National Natural Monument Waterfall of Bystré is located on the southern slopes of Poľana. It can boast of its 23-meter height, making it one of the highest and most massive Slovak waterfalls. |
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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Nature Professional "Connection" |
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Mauro Zorer Italy Nominee Nature Professional "SIGNS" The signs of the passage of man seem to blend into nature, becoming an integral part of it |
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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee Nature Professional "North | Scapes" Impressions from beyond the arctic circle. |
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Michelle Ranee Johnson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beyond the Realm of Your Perceptions" The title was taken from an Alice Catherine Evans quote: "In the poverty of your imagination it is easier to believe that the printed word is gospel truth. I went beyond the realms of your perceptions |
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Mike DeCesare USA Nominee Nature Professional "Wetlands" |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bee-utiful Pollinator" I was so happy when I captured this bee inside of this flower. He had been hopping from flower to flower. I was hoping he made it to the flower as the sun was streaming through the plants. |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dewey Morning Flight" I went to the sunflower fields with a plan to hopefully get a bee with one of the beautiful flowers and the morning dew on it. I used fill flash to stop the bee's actions but slow enough to let the wi |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Nature Professional "Skyfire" Sunset sky on Great South Bay, Fire Island, NY |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Nature Professional "Peaceful Morning" Early morning at Schwabacher Landing in the Grand Tetons |
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Neal Panton Canada Nominee Nature Professional "When Mountains Turn to Stone" |
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Nick De Clercq Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Streams" |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Nature Professional "Moonset" A full moon sets over the coast, behind the remains of a rotting harbour |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Nature Professional "Sculpted Sand" At low tide, the exposed sand and wind-whipped pools create a stunning abstract pattern |
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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee Nature Professional "HALO" That Tree in Wanaka, New Zealand at Dawn. |
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Olga Nebot Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Hand to the sky" The Cardon Cacti: The cardon cacti are important to the people in the region for many centuries. They've been used for making things, eating, and as medicine by the local indigenous communities. Also, |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Endless Plain" southern grass plains of Eastern Tanzania |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset in the Dunes" The Namibian sunset is colorful as it brings darkness to the dry and hot dunes and river pans. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Acacia" In Namibia and several African nations, the acacia tree is a common sight. Sometimes standing alone and apart from any other significant shade tree, it can provide a rest from the strong sun. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Breaks in the Wall" Global warming has become a visible reality in the polar regions as glacial fields and massive icebergs break down. |
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Pete Saloutos USA Nominee Nature Professional "the gull and the wave" Giant Wave & Gull Meet |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Misty Mangrove" A Grey Mangrove stands out at high tide shrouded in a coastal fog |
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Pim van der Maden Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Sligachan" |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cirrus Sunset" Cirrus cloud in Methow Valley, Washington |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Time and Tide" Exposed remnant tree - Sandy Cape, K'gari |
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Roger Archibald USA Nominee Nature Professional "Canyon Companion" Inside Antelope Canyon, Navajo Nation near Page, Arizona |
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Salvatore Valente Italy Nominee Nature Professional "toscana" Toscana valle d'orcia in primavera |
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Sant Khalsa USA Nominee Nature Professional "Salt / Water" Salt Mine at Bristol Dry Lake near Amboy, California |
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Scarlett Freund USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Tree Among the Ruins" A tree grows among the Volubilis ruins |
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Scarlett Freund USA Nominee Nature Professional "Waterfall Among the Greens" A towering waterfall, surrounded by multiple layers of green, dominates the Icelandic landscape. Next to it, people look minisucle, barely visible. |
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Shaun Wolfe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Socially Distanced" I took this photo in 2021 as COVID concerns were slowly waning. It seemed fitting to see this solo hiker up on the sand dunes upon waking up, a perfect representation of what the previous year was. |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Matheson" Morning Fog on Lake Matheson, Westcoast, South Island, New Zealand. |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Paringa Mist" A rainy afternoon at Lake Paringa, Westcoast, South Island, New Zealand. |
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Stephan Romer New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Piopiotahi" A stormy afternoon at Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand. |
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Stephane Garnavault Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Walking Nezuko Diptyc 4" The Walking Nezuko series continues to explore Stéphane's relationship with the world around him. In this series, he strolls around accompanied by his dog Nezuko. In nature, he feels at home. The lan |
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Stephane Garnavault Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Walking Nezuko Diptyc 3" The Walking Nezuko series continues to explore Stéphane's relationship with the world around him. In this series, he strolls around accompanied by his dog Nezuko. In nature, he feels at home. The lan |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Window" The center cloud of the Milky Way Galaxy 26,000 light years away framed by the jagged rocks of the California coast that formed 100,000,000 years ago. A window looking out to an unfathomable drama. |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Majesty of Patagonia" Torres del Paine Natl Park with Patagonia is one of the most beautiful places on earth. |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Waterfall, Colorado" Heavy rains in Colorado have produced silky waterfalls. |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Aspens, Colorado" Aspens, some in the light, some are not...just right. The beauty of Colorado. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Rocks Sea And Storm" Single image capture no ai used on this image. |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Invasion of the Lily Pad Overlords" Invasion! — The Lily Pad Overlords have returned to Earth and their ships fill our skies. We will be judged by how we've treated them, and punishments or rewards doled out accordingly. |
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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee Nature Professional "California Dreaming" Image from the California Dreaming series, a nostalgic vision of the California |
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Terje Skaare Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Windy" Windy winter day in the mountains of Norway |
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Thomas Minczeski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon" Hoodoos at dusk in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah |
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Tom Zimberoff USA Nominee Nature Professional "Giant Camera" The Giant Camera at the Cliff House above San Francisco's Ocean Beach with Earthshine on Moonrise |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Tsutanuma, burn up!" After 6 o'clock in the morning in Tsutanuma, The sun shines in and with its light The forest burns red. There was a spectacular view beyond my imagination. |
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Torleif Lie Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Vitality" Shark Bay, WA |
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Towanda Hannah USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Path" |
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Victor Elias USA Nominee Nature Professional "Japanese Garden" Maple Tree in fall colors |
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Will Fields USA Nominee Nature Professional "Shiprock, golden hour in the rain" Shiprock under rain clouds |
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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Bird & Bushfire" Flying bird and bushfire |