Nature nominees
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Title: Double exposure in November light
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Title: I am off then
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Title: Inner landscape
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Title: Plain and deep like a mirror
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Title: Near Girard I waited for this cloud to drift across the sky. I felt lucky it didn't dissipate before I could capture it in just the right spot.
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Title: Flight Butterfly and Poinsetta
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Title: Aurora Parc National du Mercantour. France/Italy
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Title: Can't see the Tree From the Forest
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Title: Us
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Title: One lonely weed Dried up weed in evening light
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Title: Marquesas Keys Beach The light, color and haze made the sky and the sea blend at the horizon
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Title: Jabba The Hut Jabba The Hut
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Title: White Pelican at Dawn Pelican
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Title: Jigokudani Snowscape
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Title: Tree in fresh snow at Bihoro Pass Tree in fresh snow at Bihoro Pass, Hokkaido
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Title: Paradice A sunrise image taken in Karridale Western Australia
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Title: Rubber Plantation Cambodia
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Title: African Beauty
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Title: Sibling Rivalry
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Title: Slot Canyons
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Title: Submerged Every fall the waters at Abraham Lake rise submerging the trunks of the beautiful aspen trees. Allen leaves float on the turquoise hued water with the beautiful white tree trunks rising above.
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Title: Snow Storm Snow Storm in the Desert in March
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Title: Beach Ice
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Title: Kauai from the Air
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Title: Skeeter Shot in full color; unmanipulated
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Title: Wind Swept Trees in Summer
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Title: Tempting
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Title: The Lonely Mountain rounding a bend on a road in the north of Scotland and wondering for a second if somehow I missed a signpost and took a turn into Middle Earth instead
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Title: Imagine The green of the bush was quite a contrast to the fantasy like colors of the 'painted' mountains.
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Title: Dance With the Sky Ancient juniper and dramatic sky
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Title: Toul
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Title: Wvet
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Title: Lone Pine Sunset Fire in the sky above a lonely road in desolate Lone Pine, California.
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Title: Flourishing The beautiful natural colours of plants to be found in the open countryside of England.
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Title: Fall Grass
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Title: Tsagaan Suvarga Milkyway Tsagaan Suvarga is a cliff/Valee in the Gobi Desert - 600 m long and 50 m high
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Title: Pohnpei Purple Sunset Purples on the Pacific Island of Pohnpei
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Title: Aoraki Mount Cook
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Title: Marion Creek
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Title: Mohakatino River Mouth
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Title: Stillness Reflecting on Bandon
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Title: Blue Hour Magic Tufa towers formation of Mono lake in California at blue hour
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Title: Silence Painted by Dawn Early morning rural landscape before the rising sun chases the mist away
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Title: Creation In The Colockum Rare albino lupine and balsamroot wildflowers illuminated at sunrise in central Washington State.
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Title: Visit from the Aurora Australis The Aurora rarely visits the south coast of Australia strong enough to reveal its full colours but I felt so privileged to capture it at Flinders as the Milky Way slowly moved across
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Title: Touch Incoming tide gently touching the rocks at sunset
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Title: Fanal Forest Old trees in the fanal forest of Madeira
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Title: Pico Ruivo, Madeira Mist around the peaks on the island of madeira
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Title: Road To The Arctic Circle Clouds hang low over the dirt road to the Arctic Circle.
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Title: Playa de Salinas
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Title: Mekicevica
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Title: Alpe di Siusi Alpe di Siusi is the most breathtaking and the largest high Alpine pasture in Europe.
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Title: Krivan This photograph shows the majestic Kriváň mountain, one of the most iconic peaks in the Tatras.
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Title: Dawn on the Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland, 2024 As the Sun paints the top of the Matterhorn
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Title: Mushroom Cloud
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Title: Nighttime at Alien Throne From the badlands of northwestern New Mexico, this image was captured in the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness.
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Title: Rebound Cacti are nothing if not resilient, as this saguaro proclaims. It resides along a trail in the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park, east of Tucson, Arizona.
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Title: Singing Canyon Singing Canyon is a short but very deep slot canyon near Boulder, Utah. Invisible (infrared) light reveals the intricate designs in desert varnish on its towering walls.
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Title: Colorado Colors Colorado backroad scenery in September. Went looking for moose, but the colors grabbed my attention.
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Title: Hot Spring & Hoof Patterns Bison Hoof prints add mystery to the hot spring patterns in Yellowstone National Park
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Title: Lady Bug
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Title: Opposing Lights
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Title: Ancient
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Title: Ethereal
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Title: Stumpy at Sunrise
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Title: Beautiful Chaos A close-up view of a tree bark: The eye is wandering around being overwhelmed by its beauty
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Title: Painted Sky A beautiful shot after a passing storm that just left the sky painted with one of the most beautiful colours that I happened to capture
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Title: Lone Tree A lone willow tree located at the southern end of Lake Wānaka in the Otago region of New Zealand.
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Title: Pollen Butterfly Butterfly pollening in Cambodia.
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Title: Sun Panel
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Title: Clouds Over Greenland Magnificent Landscapes
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Title: Sunrise Sunrise
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Title: The branch
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Title: Center Stage
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Title: Triple Flash Essen-Kettwig, Germany
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Title: Horseshoe Bend Colorado River Canyon at Horseshoe Bend, Page Arizona
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Title: The Power That Builds in Solitude
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Title: Uprooted
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Title: In the rain
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Title: Untitled #1 A textural view of the bark of a tree. Katonah, New York
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Title: Stargazing in Yellowstone Wow moment over Castle Geyser in Yellowstone
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Title: Mountain Glory dushambe tajikistan
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Title: Country Sunset A beautiful sunset in the Australian countryside.
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Title: Russula bed
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Title: Fantasy Island
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Title: Glasshouse Mts Capturing the angle of the clouds when they matched those of the mountains, was pure luck.
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Title: Night of the lights Northern lights in northern Iceland
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Title: Looking Toward San Francisco From the west shoulder of Mt. Tamalpais in early morning light, looking across the Pacific Ocean toward San Francisco
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Title: Ocean Spirit Thankfully the rainbow stayed in this position for an unusually long time and allowed me to refine a composition and wait for the light to illuminate the rock at the same time as a perfect wave hit.
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Title: Morning reflection Lofoten Islands, Norway
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Title: The Garden on Passo Gardena This year's trip to the Dolomites could not have been better timed. Meadows in full bloom, a sky with thick clouds, sometimes with fog... Then interesting views are created almost by themselves.
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Title: Aurora Australis 1 A powerful Aurora struck the Southern Hemisphere and I was in Hobart, Tasmania at the time
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Title: Trees in mist, Catskills
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Title: Incoming An unexpected mid-June storm returned Wyoming's Grand Tetons to a winter landscape.
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Title: The Brink Yellowstone National Park’s name is understood while standing on the brink of the falls and gazing down the yellow canyon.
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Title: Bad Moon Rising The Badlands of South Dakota, USA.
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Title: Bee at Blue Breakfast The beauty of this little one on an early morning trip is couched in blue.
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Title: Reflections of Spring The early morning sun paints a burst of colors on the water in this beautiful nook in Virginia.
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Title: Red Leaf Autumn reds taking over the summer green.
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Title: Water Lily One of the beautiful summer flowers that are abundant in the lakes of Wisconsin.
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Title: Tasmanian wind Some places are windier than others. This is probably the case of Maria Island in Tasmania where the trees witness it every day.
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Title: Oregon Fog Beautiful foggy morning in Oregon
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Title: Cascade Pond Green hills flanking Cascade Pond in upstate New York
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Title: Blue Ridge Falls Off road on the Blue Ridge highway
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Title: Daliesque Eye of the Wind on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona
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Title: Aurora Red III Bodoe, Norway 2024
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Title: Borvasstinden III Bodo Norway 2024
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Title: Northshore waves On an amazing first evening in Hawaii walking on a beach on the NorthShore the waves crashed along the rocky shoreline.
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Title: Purple!
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Title: Raven in Fog
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Title: Delicate Delight Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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Title: Auroral Corona Over Lone Peak A surprising and strong display of the Northern Lights appeared in Montana in May of 2024.
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Title: Romeo & Juliet Off the Oregon coast, a crashing wave and passing cloud caught in an eternal dance.
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Title: Sitting Pretty Male Common Green Birdwing Butterly was taking a rest with a soft lit background.
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Title: Thin line This picture belongs to a series of experimental photos.
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Title: Celestial Neighbors The Running Man (L) and Orion (R) nebulae in this image are relatively close to earth. They are part of the sword in the contellation Orion.
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Title: White Sands Fog Yucca plants on a foggy morning at White Sands National Park, New Mexico.
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Title: Make a wish A Kappa Cygnid meteor with star trails and remnants of sunset light over High Tatras, Slovakia
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Title: Tranquility on the mountain in the dolomites
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Title: The Windy Farm An abandoned farm in a famous valley full of wind turbines in Italy's countryside.
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Title: Stream of Solitude
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Title: Morning Geometries After a rainstorm the night before, water droplets adorn the spiders’ webs laced on the fence at the end of the garden. Image made in Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
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Title: Empire of the Sun Sunset in Śnieżne Kotły in Karkonosze (Poland). Taken in IR Chrome.
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Title: Guarding the Swamp Giant Cypress trees casting a colorful refection on Caddo Lake.
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Title: Campo Imperatore
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Title: Listening
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Title: Cutting Through The wonderful and iconic beach at Luskentyre, Isle of Harris, Scotland. A lovely moody evening. Photo taken last year.
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Title: Granites The photo was taken in July 2024 in the Cies Islands, a marine protected area and national park in t
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Title: Prion Bay, Southwest Tasmania Lying along Tasmania's wild southwest coast, Prion Bay is a two-day walk from the nearest trailhead.
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Title: Ice cave Magic The wonders of the Ice caves in Iceland are a wonder to behold in terms of colour tone and textures
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Title: Lanzarote sands The small but beautiful dunes in Lanzarote contrast with the volcanic black sands and active sky
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Title: Morning dew June dew transforms the this simple plant shot close to my home with a macro lens
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Title: Vestige Vestige captures the Australian coastline’s ever-changing landscape, shaped by time and tide. The rock formations, softened by the ocean’s rhythm, reveal traces of ancient transformations. This ph
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Title: Sunset With Pelican Beautiful painted skies in Cape Coral, Florida, USA. Love photographing the waterfowl as well.
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Title: A Scottish Landscape
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Title: Sunny Beach
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Title: Discovery of colors This is a photo of a waterfall. The falling water is colorless, but it was interesting to see that the water below was colored.
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Title: Alpenglow The last sun rays in the Dolomites
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Title: Moonrise Over Montepulciano Moonrise over Montepulciano, Tuscany
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Title: Ominous Approaching storm in the Dolomites
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Title: The Slot Antelope Canyon
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Title: Mysterious Water the slippery mind of water
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Title: Desert Sunset Another beautiful night is falling in the Sonoran desert. And I am thankful that I was there to enjoy it.
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Title: Long Shadows The last vestiges of a long-ago forest fire cast their afternoon shadows on the snow at the last vestiges of the day.
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Title: Majestic A majestic peak in the Banff range of Canada
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Title: Saguaro Ridgeline Saguaro cacti standing tall on a Sonoran desert ridge
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Title: Natural Bridge A winter view of the nature-formed arch of the Natural Bridge site in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah USA.
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Title: The Show Begins The wonderful, colorful, and always different spectacle of sunset along the grassy shoreline of Cape Cod Massachusetts USA
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Title: Ocean in Motion
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Title: Winter Beach I took this picture at a truck stop after riding a bus for four hours. On one side was the truck sto
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Title: New Beginnings The sun rises over the vast salt flats of Rann of Kutch in India
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Title: Wild and Free Two horses make a run across the undulating slopes of the Kakshaal Too mountain ranges at Köl-Suu
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Title: Norwegian Sakura After a winter storm, frost formed delicate, flower-like patterns on bare branches, resembling the beauty of sakura blossoms. As the clouds passed and light returned, a striking interplay of form, color, and stillness emerged. It was one of those moments where nature arranges everything just right.
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Title: Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly Yellow swallowtail butterfly on the lakeshore with the remains of a bird
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Title: Melancholy A tree on a very tiny island (Island of Peilz) on Lake Geneva on a foggy winter morning
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Title: We Paint Our Dreams This shot was taken in Tuscany, a summer morning.
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Title: Smythes Creek Falls Located in a remote location within the Otway Ranges, these waterfalls ae found after many Km of steep and slippery walks. By the time the falls are reached its common to be wet from many creek crosse
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Title: Flamboyan The local island tree at full bloom. Spring 2024
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Title: Sundown Splendor Santa Isabel, PR.
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Title: Wildflowers
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Title: Posidonia oceanica Posidonia meadows, a mediterranean marine plant
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Title: A beautiful dawn We photographed the beautiful dawn of Huangshan, located in China, which is famous for its beautiful scenery from the top of the mountain.
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