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Madhur Shroff India 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Quench" Mother & Child quenching their thirst at a forest waterhole |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Clown in the blue" Indonesia - Lembeh Strait: while diving on a small coral I encounter an anemone with its clownfish I shoot it with the double exposure technique, first I take a picture of the surface and then one of |
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Cim MacDonald Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Mandarin Duck" macdonald-cim_mandarin-duck.jpg |
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Steve Sorensen USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Looking out to Sea" A beautiful puffin preparing to head out to sea...Iceland |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "flamingo" This wonderful flamingo is just waking up and opening its eyes. |
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Sara Lind USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Banded Sea Snake beauty" A Black and White Banded Sea Krait hunts On Wall of Sponges |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Black-browed albatrosses, South Georgia 2014" A pair of Black-browed Albatross. The birds are monogamous, pairing off for life. |
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David Skernick USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hey There" Some times you are just in the right place at the right time. This time it was on Caddo Lake in Texas, on a boat, with a long lens. |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Face to face" Indonesia - Komodo Marine national. park at one of the most important dive sites in the world I met a sea turtle face-to-face 3 cm from my fisheye |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Caught!" |
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Nancy Ney USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Circle of Life" Crains and snow Geese in Bosque del Apache, New Mexico |
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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "osprey fishing" Mighty hunter never missed |
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Bence Mate Hungary Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Marvel Of Ants" A shadow theatre of leafcutter ants taking pieces of a banana leaf back to their underground colony. |
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Peter Dorfberg Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "the King" |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "The Grand Council" |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Best friends" |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Wongari Dunes" Dingoes on the dunes of Sandy Cape, K'gari |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Grey Langur" Semnopithecus is a genus of Old World monkeys native to the Indian subcontinent, with all species, with the exception of two, commonly known as gray langurs. Traditionally, only the species Semnopithecus entellus was recognized, but since about 2001, additional species have been recognized. The taxonomy has been in flux, but currently eight species are recognized. Grey langurs have fine silver fur and black faces, ears, fingers, and toes. Their tails are longer than their bodies and are used dextrously to maneuver through the canopy. They are sometimes referred to as the Hanuman Langur, after the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman, and are considered sacred in Hinduism. |
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Alice Zilberberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Onwards Ostrich" In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy, drawing attention to mindfulness and nature conservation. |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Albatrosses, South Georgia 2014" Estimates place the Black-browed Albatross worldwide population at over 1.2 million. About 75% can be found in the Falklands and on the South Georgia islands. |
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Evan Siegel USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Flamingo Alley" This image was captured in the Galapagos in May 2023 |
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Alain Schroeder Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Vulture Restaurant" Nepal, Kawasoti, Lamichaur Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park, Jatayu Restaurant, vulture feeding center Hundreds of vultures fight for eating rights with the critically endangered White-rumped vul |
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Ashley Garrett USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Skip To My Lou" |
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Paul Dileanis USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Living on the Edge of Sea and Light" The sea lions of Point Lobos State Natural Preserve live a precarious life balanced on the edge of sea and light. |
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Bryan Parsons USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Greater Flamingos in Flight" Tagus Estuary, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Penguins, South Georgia 2014" The island hosts probably the biggest rookeries of king penguins, located in St Andrews Bay and in Golden Bay. |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Penguin family, Antarctica 2014" Emperor penguin males are among the best fathers in the natural world. Living in large colonies they form nuclear families, and protect their offspring until the chicks are matured enough to live on t |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hunting" Indonesia - Lembeh Strait: during a night dive called "Black water" I had the opportunity to meet a 2 cm cuttlefish. who had harpooned the prey |
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Sreeroop KT India Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Alien of the Micro World" This macro closeup of the Mantis reminded me of an Alien |
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Nicol Hockett USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Nesting" |
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Robin Scholte Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Focus" The piercing gaze of a vulture on a mountain in South Africa gives you goosebumps |
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Irina Petrova UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Teaser" A portrait of a funny friendly giraffe. |
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Pal Hermansen Norway Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Hungry!" Robin chick craving for food |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Allens Hummingbird" An Allens Hummingbird and a bee enjoy the fruits of a Torch Lilly in New Mexico. |
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Debby Thomas USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Shall We Dance" Play fighting foxes |
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Remuna Beca USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Ray of Sunshine" A Southern Stingray glides gracefully over shallow seagrass while thousands of tiny silver fish swirl in the sunshine at the surface. |
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Alan Barker Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hide and Seek" In the foothills of Ghost Mountain, two Egyptian Geese play an awkward game of hide and seek, while foraging for food. |
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Alberto Cicchini Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "the borderland" Survival in the small fishing village in the borderland |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mom, I'm hungry!" young pinguin was feeded from his Mother or father on the antarctic peninsula |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "no soy marinero, soy capitan" a beautiful scene taken on decepcion island, antarctica. |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lets go swimming" |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "who will winn" |
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Alice Zilberberg Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Comfort Me Conures" In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy, drawing attention to mindfulness and nature conservation. |
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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Deadly Glow" A Cayman silently lingers on the surface patiently waiting for its prey, with the last rays of sun creating the perfect back drop. |
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Anna Archinger Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional "Calmness" A shot I almost sorted out, because the mare had her eye closed. But then I saw how beautiful the picture actually was and what a calmness it creates. |
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Anna Archinger Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional "Softness" Every horse person knows - there is nothing more soft than a horses nose. |
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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hippo Heads Up" |
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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I'm Thinking" |
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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Long Day At Work" |
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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Una Para Todos, Todos Para Uno" |
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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "North Amerinca Grizzly" Fall is a busy time for the grizzly bear as they are trying to eat as much as possible before hibernation. This female looked up for just seconds before resuming her search for food. |
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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephants of Amboseli" The large breeding herds of elephants in Amboseli are a result of many conservationists, both government and private entities, protecting these gentle giants from ongoing poaching. Success in the last |
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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "" As it rained the female cheetah and her three young began to clean each other. They were also able to get moisture from the downpour. |
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Beat Habermacher Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Giraffe at lunch" Giraffe at lunch at the zoo zurich in switzerland |
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Blake Kuehn USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "German Shepherd with Bow Tie" Marquette, MI, 2023 |
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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Room with a View" Tern nesting on the ledge of a cliff face |
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Brian LaCas Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bird Bath" A tropic bird takes a dunk in a glass of water at an oceanside bar in Bonaire, in the Caribbean |
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Camilla Broadbent UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "'Fukushima Frog'" |
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Christoph Siegert Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "wild-art-surveilance" Lynx wild-art-surveilance |
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Coby Cooper USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Eagle against the sunrise" Nesting Bald Eagle in the morning mist against the sunrise over Medicine Lake, Jasper, Alberta Canada |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rooster" I was driving along a back road when I came alongside of this amazing creature. I just leaned out of my truck and grabbed the shot with a long lens and a smile on my face! |
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Denis Grudet France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fox in the wheat" Auvergne |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Heart of Africa" A female mountain gorilla in the Igisha family rests in a bed of leaves in Rwanda. Mountain gorillas are one of four sub-species of gorillas and are found in a small area of land in Central Africa. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Oh, to be Young!" A "blackback" gorilla is one that is too young to be considered a silverback, but too old to be called a juvenile. Here, a blackback rests after somersaulting down a hill. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Watchful Eye" Mountain gorillas are one of four sub-species of gorillas and are found in a small area of land in Central Africa. Here, a Kwitonda family silverback in the dense jungles of Rwanda. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Social Hour" Like oversized, asynchronous dancers in training, sperm whales twist and turn at the surface, rubbing their bodies together to socialize. As with humans, touch is important to whales for bonding. |
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Eric Miller South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mother Love" Baby baboon clings to mother while sleeping. Rooi Els Village, South Africa. The troop lives on the urban edge foraging in and around the village, sometimes 'raiding' homes for human food. |
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Evan Siegel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Next Generation" This image was captured in the Galapagos in May 2023 |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "A Place Called Home" During a kayak trip in early November last year in a Louisiana swamp, the morning sun shined through the Cypress trees and the hanging Spanish moss when a Great Egret flew into this fascinating scener |
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Gerard Luthi Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Le repas des lions" Dans le parc national de Chobe, à Sawuti, six lionnes mangent un phacochère avant l'arrivée du lion. |
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Glen McClure USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Two Horses, From the series, Grasslands" From the series Grasslands |
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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ospreys' Nest" During a hike in the Everglades, safely high up on a tree, I came across these Osprey parents protecting and nesting on their eggs, Flamingo, FL |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Brown Pelican - Point Lobos" Brown Pelican in flight, Point Lobos, California. |
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Ilia Uzunoski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "First Flying Lessons" This picture was taken when one of the parent storks is teaching the chicks how to fly. That learning process takes days. |
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Irina Petrova UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Portrait Of An Alien" A photo of the skin of a corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus). It was made using ultraviolet light. It's a scientific fact that snakeskin glows in ultraviolet light which herpetologists use to find snak |
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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee Wildlife Professional "WELCOME TO PARADISE" no comment |
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Jeremy Green USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "On the Border" Ojinaga, Mexico |
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Josip Miskovic Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pisces Constellation" In the days when I took this photo (of the small lake in Central Bosnia) I was also working on a painting that had a kind of blue as the main and almost only color, at the time I came across the Yves |
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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Soaring Eagle" Soaring eagle in front of frozen waterfall |
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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Alaska Eagle Take Off" Alaska Eagle Take Off with Snow Spray |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Emu Love" Emu poses at Fossil Rim Wildlife Research Center. |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mained Wolf" An endangered Mained Wolf prowls the forest with her long legs. |
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Ko van Leeuwen Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Young deer" Young deer at The national park Sallandse Heuvelrug in the Netherlands.The Sallandse Heuvelrug is a national park in the east of the Netherlands. It originated during the Ice Age when large ice masses |
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Laura Fusaro Camey Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Encontro de Duas SaÃras" Um macho tangara cyanocephala encontra uma fêmea no comedouro |
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Laura Fusaro Camey Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tuins" Casal de Forpus xanthopterygius comendo |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lunch at Lake Manyara" A Southern Grond-Hornbill enjoys lunch on the go at Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "A Roller in High Key" A Lilac Breasted Roller sits on a branch in the early evening in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Power of a Gaze" A beautiful leopard looks down onto me from a massive baobab tree in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. |
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Linda Matlow USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hitchin' A Ride!" Double Crested Cormorant hitches a ride on decoy swan in condo pond. |
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Liz Dahler USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spoonie Bathed in Pink" Roseate Spoonbill reflections on a pond |
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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephant at Sunset" This was on its way to the waterhole when it became aware of a group of sub-adult lions nearby that were awaiting thier mothers' return. Elephants are considered Endangered.. |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "HALO" Gannets flying against the sun creating a magical halo effect |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Deadly snake eyes" The backlight lit eyes of a deadly viper in the central american jungle |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mantis Shrimp" Indonesia - Lembeh Strait - Mantis shrimp about 5 cm in size, shows rainbow of colors outside its burrow |
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Matt Lit USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bobcat" A bobcat in blue grama grasses of the San Luis Valley, Colorado. |
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Matt Lit USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Teen Yaks" Teen Yaks charge each other for sport on a Yak ranch in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. |
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Matt Lit USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lesser Finches Feeding" A female lesser finch appears to harp at her male counterpart while feeding on sunflowers. |
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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Last Winter on Earth #2" Sandhill cranes come in for a landing at sunset in New Mexico... |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Field of Gold" While shooting at sunset, I wanted to have the sun light up the petals from behind. I noticed this butterfly hopping flowers so I changed my shutter speed to keep the wings sharp. |
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Nigel Hicks UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dusk Flight" Gannets in formation against a fiery sky. |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild Horse" Oniqui herd in Southern Utah |
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Ori Gerard Frances France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Crocodile" Micro landscape |
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Patrick Bennett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Salmon Flight" Patience at the Salmon Cascades waterfall resulted in these three salmon jumping the falls. |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Grasp" the hand of a orangutan mother holds on to her forest home |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Orphan" an orphan lowland gorilla seeks comfort with a fellow survivor |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Axnious" The necessary trip to a watering hole is an anxoius experience for the smaller, younger and older Namibian wildlife as they break through the protection of their cover. |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Better To Hear" Wild Dogs |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dinner" Pup having some dinner |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Going Home" After the hunt, heading home |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Head Butt" Lion Couple |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I Want Up!" Cub with her sister and mom |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "On The Move" Leopard going after dinner |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snarl" |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hippo Gardens" NIle cabbage hanging off hippos |
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Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz Spain Nominee Wildlife Professional "Final Round" Two red weevils facing each other (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) is a species of beetle from the weevil family, native to tropical Asia. |
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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cabron" Cabron, a dog with an attitude but with a golden heart |
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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Boss" A sheep/goat in a wildlife park in Germany |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bengal Tiger" The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera, native to Asia. These subspecies are the Bengal tiger, South China tiger, Indochinese tiger, Sumatran tiger, and Amur tiger (also known as Siberian tiger). Sadly, three subspecies of tiger have become extinct. |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild & Free" A pod of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins swims in synchronized formation in the clear blue water of the Bahamas. Captured in their natural environment, wild and free as they should be. |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I See You" A curious Nurse Shark peaks above water to get a different view and, as she swam by to investigate my presence, I captured our moment of eye contact. |
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Richard Cannon UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Turtles" Shot over a small river in Andalusia Spain |
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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Eyelash" This yellow-billed hornbill is quite audacious and almost walks into the camera lens |
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Ruud Peters France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Quarrel in the tree" |
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Sara Lind USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Colorful Character" Anole Lizard on Amaryllis flower searching for food |
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Stefanie Hauger Singapore Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fly" This fly landed on my reading glasses and gave me plenty of time to capture its star-power, brilliantly illuminated by the intense sunshine above. |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Now What?" This very ambitious penguin is climbing his/her very own Everest. What it will do when it gets there is anyone's guess.. |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Drying Out, So. Africa" A resplendent cormorant taking time to dry it's wings in South Africa. |
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Terje Skaare Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Family" Monkey family in India |
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Thomas Wolf USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Treetop Serenity" Time to rest. |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Penguin colony, Antarctica 2008" A colony of Emperor Penguins on the Luitpold Coast of Coates Land, West Antarctica, on the east side of the Weddell Sea. |
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Tomasz Gudzowaty Poland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Penguins bracing for storm, Antarctica 2008" Emperor Penguins stay warm in harsh weather by grouping to withstand the wind, protecting the young chicks during their molting stage. |
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Towanda Hannah USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "You Looking At Me" |
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William King USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ring-necked Pheasant Mating Call" The Ring-necked Pheasant nest in the meadow of the Marine Park Nature Center. During sunrise in the spring, the male can be seen performing his mating call, hoping to attract hens in the meadow. |
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William Hebert USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Madikwe Giraffes" Giraffes feeding in winter. The perfect confluence of subject, light, posing, color palette, camera position, and luck. |
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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Whale Shark" whale shark |