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Rene Bernal Philippines 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Silhouette Amateur "Finding Beauty in the Unseen" In the midst of a landfill's smoky haze at sunset, a resilient young girl finds happiness in the simplest of things. |
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Karen Safer USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Silhouette Amateur "Bagan Balloon" Capturing layers in the landscape creates silhouettes on the horizon. |
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Margo Ryan UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Silhouette Amateur "Veil" Two young women walk by a tiny ochre coloured mosque with it's green door set against a deep blue sky. Their shawls wrapped elegantly around their heads which creates a beautiful profile of the first |
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Louis-Philippe Provost Canada Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Freedom Tower" The Freedom Tower and part of lower Manhattan in New York City at sunset. |
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Joseph Sharp USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Paris Grafiti" Paris Street Art and a Cafe visitor |
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Ingrid Arnett USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Greetings" It felt like being at the top of the world on this exceptionally bright and sunny afternoon at the Oslo Opera House where friends and family gathered, exchanged greetings, and lingered in the light |
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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Catania by night_02" |
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Hartmut Rieg Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Composition #05" Sunset Sky Silhouette #02 |
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Robin Zygelman USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Captive Innocence" Bars Bind a Child's World |
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Brendan Berryman Australia Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Feeding Time" By the looks of it, Mummy Kookaburra is feeding her baby with a lizard. This image was captured in Balingup in Western Australia |
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Lynn Hedges New Zealand Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise Silhouette" Taj Mahal at sunrise |
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Melissa Lackey USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Smokescreen in a Seedy Bar" |
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Bob Shor USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Tipsy" Miami Museum and Library |
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Michiko Ôtomo Canada Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "In the underpass" Taken from the courtyard of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. |
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Christine Truhe USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur " Ranch Sundown" A hot night settles in on a ranch in New Mexico. |
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Josh Sacks USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Burt" |
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Denise Dethlefsen USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Departure" Sandhill cranes take flight on a cold, misty morning in Colorado, USA |
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Renate Wasinger Germany Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Lonely" |
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Robin Zygelman USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Silhouetted Secrets" A shadowy silhouetted figure against the garden wall |
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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Sunrise on the Savannah" |
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Erin Jacob New Zealand Honorable Mention Silhouette Amateur "Black Church" Sunrise at the Black Church, Iceland |
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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Shared Beauty" These wild flowers dotted the landscape in Israel & the Palestinian Territories.Their calm beauty stood in stark contrast to the tension I felt in most places I visited. |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Bowing to Heaven" |
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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Cheetah" Sunset Cheetah on termite mound using the elevation and last bit of light to try and find some prey to hunt |
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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Place Saver 3" We left Camp in the Botswana's Okavango Delta before sunrise on our early morning game drive and as the sun was rising through a hazy orange sky I noticed a Vulture on top of a dead tree. So I asked o |
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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Where Light Beautifully Meets Dark" A beautiful sunset over the River Li in Yangshuo, China, 2018. Reimagined 2023 |
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Bruce Orr USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Bridge Under Red Skies" The beautiful Liberty Bridge over the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary; Photo taken 2019, reimagined 2023 |
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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Morning Breakfast" A man and a dog preparing breakfast at sunrise like the old days |
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Cindy Poulin Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "A Murder of Crows" |
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Claudia Zeien USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Depth of Dots" Endless reflecting dots encroach on a lone visitor to a museum exhibit |
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Dale Duncan-Johnson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Tunnel Vision" |
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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Branching Out" |
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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "What A View" |
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Denis Sivack USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Wall Rack" Wall Rack |
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Donald Wilson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Ibis Roost in the Sunset" Ibis roost in the glow of an orange sunset |
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Doug Testa USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Resting" Hiker resting after a hike through the sand dunes in Death Valley. |
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Edwin Robinson USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "CAMELS IN THE DARK" |
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Erin Jacob New Zealand Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Svortuloft Lighthouse" Winter sun behindLighthouse, Iceland |
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Frank Proost Luxembourg Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Gender Shadow" People walking towards the light at the end of a tunnel passage |
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Gary Levy USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Panasonic Panner" Videographer at orchestra performance |
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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Buddha's Light" Buddha's light, I live freely according to my heart's desires, content and at ease |
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Ingrid Arnett USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Clarity" |
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Jack Weingarten USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Ben Yehuda Street-Jerusalem" An evening stroll along Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. |
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Joergis Maislinger Austria Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Inside" wenn eine Person in einer jederzeit zerplatzenden Umgebung abgebildet wird. |
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Josh Sacks USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Throwing Color" |
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Judy Nussenblatt USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "2 Shadows" |
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Kensaku Tsutsui Japan Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Watchers" Sunset in the Pinnacles Desert of Western Australia. Lots of people on a small hill watching the sunset over the ocean. |
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ky woo USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Alive" At least I'm alive |
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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Renewal" Abstract representation of the appealing potentialities of rebirth and rejuvenation. |
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Lynn Hedges New Zealand Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Hands at the Door" Hands showing through stainglass door |
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Lynne Mass USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Caged" |
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Margo Ryan UK Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Golden interior" In the afternoon scorching heat devout pilgrims enter the cool interior of this temple in Bagan Burma, they slowly circumnavigate and some stop and offer prayers to the golden sitting Buddha. |
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Matteo Busetto Italy Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Svalbard, the Arctic" The Silhouette of a walrus belonging to the walrus colony that lives in Borebukta Bay, in the Svalbard Islands (Arctic Ocean) |
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Matthew Bedford Australia Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Last light" |
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Mayda Rumberg USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Smoke" |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Olympic Sunset" Formed by wave erosion, sea stacks add grandeur to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. |
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Melissa Lackey USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "That Girl" |
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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Lake Superior Sunset" Sunset on one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, Wisconsin, USA. |
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Michael Singer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Layers" Sunrise layers at Death Valley National Park. |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Cinderella" Cinderella seems to have lost her shoe. However, the ball has only just begun. |
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Michiko Ôtomo Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Upwards" This photo was taken at one of the stairs in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec city, Canada. |
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Neil Hunter USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "No Body" |
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Nicholas Wong USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Sunset Rider" |
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Norman Robbins USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Catching Up" Group of Herons flying north at sunset in Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge |
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Pamela Hymer USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Monolith at dusk" As we were setting up at dusk preparing for a milky way shoot. The sky began to darken and the light faded into orange as the night sky turned a dark blue. The Monolith and it's guards stand ready. |
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Paul Newton Canada Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Last Walk Home" Captured this man and dog walking on a fog covered beach in Tofino, British Columbia. To looked to me like one was guiding the other for their one last walk to a better place. |
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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Wooden silhouettes" |
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Robin Zygelman USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Soulful" I am the queen of my own world |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Alone" |
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Willa Davis USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Standing in the Glow" Sunset on the Silver Strand. This was their favorite place. But now she is gone. What will the future be without her? |
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William Shoop USA Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Walking On Broken Glass" "But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams." (Maya Angelou) |
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Wolfgang Autexier France Nominee Silhouette Amateur "Spiritual even in adversity" 4 steeples and a terrible cloud: spiritual even in adversity |