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Stephanie Swartz USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Lion in the Shadows" This lion at a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia found his light at the perfect moment for me to capture it. |
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Carmen Spitznagel Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "be a sheep" |
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Daniel Beltra USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Oiled Pelicans" Pelicans covered in oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait to be cleansed at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana, June 20, 2010. |
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Alex Bernasconi Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Charge" Elephant bull (Loxodonta africana) charge - Okavango Delta - Botswana |
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Chris Gordaneer Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Pendleton Horses" |
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Rachael Waller USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Mustang 42" BLM rounded up Mustang lives another day. |
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Pascal Curtil France Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Polar Bear" Canadian Polar Bear |
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Lennette Newell USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "crested porcupine" African Crested Porcupine |
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Gary Tack UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Tiger Beetle" cicindela hybrida |
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Alex Bernasconi Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Danger at Dusk " Lioness close up at dusk - Okavango Delta - Botswana |
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Alex Bernasconi Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Thunder" Elephant herd crossing river - Okavango Delta - Botswana |
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Alex Bernasconi Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hunters" Lions hunting - Okavango Delta - Botswana |
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Alex Bernasconi Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "An Other Day" Burchell’s zebra (Equus Burchelli) grazing at sunrise – Masai Mara - Kenya |
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Andrew Kemp Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Seagull" Seagull |
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Angel Burns USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Together Means All Is Well" These wild rhesus monkeys didn't seem so different than us humans, calmed by their connection. |
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Anthony Tortoriello USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Smooch!" Two horses sharing a candid moment. |
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Anthony Tortoriello USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cost Rican Tree Frog" Taken while in Costa Rica recently where a friend, who has a PHD in Natural Science, raises frogs and releases them back in the wild in the rain forest where guys such as this one thrive. |
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Bahaadeen M. Al Qazwini Kuwait Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lazy Bird" Kruger National Park/South Africa 2009 |
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Bapi Chakraborty Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "'s' is for flamingo" |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Exclusion" |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lizards Eye" |
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Brent Ward USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild & Crazy Guy" |
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Charles Dufour USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Where Do We Go From Here?" |
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Daisy Gilardini Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "The laughing seal" Weddell Seal Laughing - Antarctic Peninsula |
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Daisy Gilardini Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Hug" Polar Bears (Ursus Maritimus) hugging - Wapusk National Park - Manitoba - Canada |
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Debra Jansen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mantis" Baby mantis on a girl's thumb |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Witlip Bamboeadder - Trimeresurus albolabris" White-lipped tree viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) is a venomous pitviper species found in Southeast Asia. They can be quite aggressive but settle well in captivity, where this one is photographed. |
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Frank Grisdale Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Golden Plumage" Mature Golden Eagle's Crown |
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Frank Grisdale Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Young Golden" 4 month old Golden Eagle |
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Fyodor Savintsev Russia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Whitecoat seal" Recently born whitecoat seal on a drifting ice floe in the Arctic ocean |
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Gary Tack UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hoverfly" Helophilus pendulus |
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Gary Tack UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Burying beetle" Nicrophorus investigater |
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Gary Tack UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Devil's Coach Horse" Stephylinus Olens |
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Heather Douglas Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Landing Bee" Landing Bee |
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Jan Maree Vodanovich New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kaimanawa Stallions" The Kaimanawa Wild Horse is New Zealand’s very own Heritage Horse living wild in the central North Island. They live in small roaming bands and are mustered every second year to keep the herd numbers manageable and protect the native vegetation. Their isolation has led to a unique gene pool. This photo of two stallions was taken during the 2010 muster in the Argo Valley, Waiouru. |
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Joseph Bankowski USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Swamp Bird" |
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Judy Griesedieck USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ecuador Jungle Snake" The image "Ecuador Jungle Snake" was taken during a hike through the jungle in the dark of night. There's definitely a feeling that a thousand eyes are watching you in the night jungle, and if you're lucky, you might spy one or two of these observers, but you definitely sense their presence. With a headlamp for light, I found this gorgeous snake curled around a tree that was inches from my head as I passed by. |
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Ko van Leeuwen Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Easy going" Easy going horse in the first snow, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Suzy" African Elephant |
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Leora Eger-Dreyfuss Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Strolling" Serengeti, Tanzania |
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Maarten Wouters Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "frog stack" Happy frogs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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michel perrin New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Southern Beauty" Otago Region, South Island, New Zealand |
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Michele Doucette USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Frog From Above" |
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Nico Garstman Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fallow deer" Fallow deers in the fog |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Butterfly" Face to Face. Who is flying first? Costa Rica. |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Northern Hawk Owl" Imagine a whistling "ki ki ki ki ki ki ki" that still resonate in my head. Patiently waiting for days, this Hawk Owl displayed a very unique posture seldom seen. Northern Canada. |
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Paul Kennedy USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "For_The_Right_To_Mate" Etosha National Park, Namibia |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lilac Breasted Roller Zambia" LBR in Zambia |
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Peter Lippmann France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Luxury Chick" Client: Marie Claire |
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Pierre-Andre Ouellet Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hypnotized" Picture taken in 2007 in Southern Alberta. |
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Pierre-Andre Ouellet Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Barn Owl" Picture taken in 2008 in Coaldale Alberta. |
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R.D.Wayne Holloway Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Croc 1" A series of shots taken in South Africa of the Nile Crocodile |
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R.D.Wayne Holloway Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Croc 2" |
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Richard Jones Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Great Escape" A baby panda tries to escape from nursery, China. |
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Russell Stewart Stone UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dartmoor Ponies - Dartmoor - England" Summer on Dartmoor, Devon |
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Sergio Pessolano Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Team" Namibia |
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Stefan Schnebelt Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Icelandic Horses" Horses in the south of Iceland |
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Tariq Dajani Jordan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Arabian Hunting Falcon" |
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Toni FULLER Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Australian Frog Mouth" |
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Walter Fogel Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "raindrops keep falling on my head" raindrops keep falling on my head |
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William Chua Singapore Nominee Wildlife Professional "at loggerheads" |
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Yeang Chng USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bower" |
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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Applauses" This dolphin pink seems to be applauding. Black River Amazon. |