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Rob Smalley UK 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Forest " Part of a series of images com |
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Peter Lik USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Bella Luna" |
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Dennis Frates USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Ocean Sink" Sink hole on Oregon coast. 201 |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Soul Steps I.1" From the project “Soul Steps”, the memories of a pilgrimage as I mean it: a purification through the journey, not the worship of its sacred destination. The shrine is just the end of a prayer started with the beginning of the pilgrimage. |
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Paul M. Murray USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Iceberg Passage" |
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Jim Reed USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mothership" Supercell over Kansas, 2004 |
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Roberta Murray Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Triticums Winds" Prairie lake and wheatfields. |
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Antonio Busiello Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Anacapa" anacapa island, channel islands, California |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Celestine Prophecy" The Milky Way rises above Kali |
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Alexander Nerozya Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Mirror" Lake Mountain Spirits, Nature Park Ergaki, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Full calm surface of the lake turned into a mirror. |
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Andrew Kemp Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Glacier Perito Moreno" Argentina |
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Andrzej Bochenski Poland Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset in the Reeds" Puck Bay spring of 2012 |
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Balázs Merész Hungary Nominee Nature Professional "Landscape - Minimal" |
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Bryan Cole USA Nominee Nature Professional "Behind Dallas Divide" near telluride, colorado in late october |
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Chad Holder USA Nominee Nature Professional "Crow" Crow in Egypt's White Desert |
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Charles McKean Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Devil Island" You never want to be left here |
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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Mesa Arch" The incredible early morning light on Mesa Arch in Utah causes it to glow like a neon sign. |
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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mineral Seep 1" Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is best known for these mineral seeps, which color cliffs rising right out of Lake Superior. I've kayaked beneath these cliffs for years, photographing the ever-changing patterns. The white streaks in this remind me of human figures distorted by distance and atmosphere. |
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Daisy Gilardini Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctic Storm" Storm approaching in Antarctic |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lone Tree" Lone tree in pasture. Hawaii, |
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Desiree A. Neville Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Berries" Winter in Canada, sometimes presents a bleak and bland looking environment. Then, there is this instant of pure joy when, in the midst of all that white, I spot a small bunch of red! I suddenly forget about cold wind and ice. All I want to do is show how I feel in that instant. |
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Emmanuel Coupe Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Bow Fiddle" Moray, Scotland |
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Emmanuel Coupe Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Desert" Utah, U.S.A. |
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FAHAD BAHADA Saudi Arabia Nominee Nature Professional "Light " Even though desert is one of the toughest places in our world, it has some smoothness to enjoy looking at. |
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Florence Iff Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Post Arcadia 7" The central theme of one of my long-term projects is the domestication of nature, which encompasses both exterior and inner space as concepts on aesthetics. Landscape is in its origin a concept, which roots in the beginning of industrialization and renaissance painting. Seen as a concept, landscape therefore represents an image of an idea. We declare what an ideal landscape looks like and represent it e.g. in a photographic reproduction. In everyday life simulations of landscape and nature in relation of educative, scientific, recreational-oriented or economical contexts are ubiquitous. They not only influence our notion of nature in its derivation but also enhance implicitness of a designed environment. The differentiation between image, copy, representation, simulation and finally simulacrum is increasingly more difficult. |
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Gareth Rockliffe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dead Lake" Man and nature collide |
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giona bridler Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Alps" |
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Glenn Harper UK Nominee Nature Professional "Bedruthan Steps" |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Nature Professional "Champe Rocks - Meadow" Late summer view of meadows with Champe Rocks in the background. This rock formation is located near the more famous "Seneca Rocks" in West Virginia. |
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Hilary Hann Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Where The Sun Falls" Flinders Ranges in the dying m |
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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sea Squirts " Philippines green sea squirts |
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Jack Picone Thailand Nominee Nature Professional "Cane Toad Love" Cane Toads during mating. Outback Queensland Australia. |
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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Nominee Nature Professional "Eternal Frontier" This glacier in Patagonia has |
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Jean-Paul Cattin Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Mountains" The Mont Blanc massif |
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Jeff Eden UK Nominee Nature Professional "Firetrap" Ladybird on sunflower |
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Jim Reed USA Nominee Nature Professional "Kansas Tornado" Kansas Tornado, 2008 |
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Jim Reed USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Bolt from the Gray" Supercell, Kansas, 2004 |
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Jim Reed USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hurricane Ike, Texas" Hurricane Ike, Texas, 2008 |
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Jim Reed USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mammatus Clouds" Mammatus Clouds, 2005 |
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John Scanlan USA Nominee Nature Professional "Enchanted" |
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José Manuel Bielsa Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Jumping Waves" When winter storms come, the Cantabric sea becomes strong and dangerous. Quite a spectacle!!!.. |
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Joseph Romeo USA Nominee Nature Professional "White Sands National Monument, New Mexico" |
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Judith Orr USA Nominee Nature Professional "Desert Beauty" |
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Julia Smirnova Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Butterflies" 2012, Munich |
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Justin Fabian Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Killarney" |
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kevin erskine USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bryce Canyon 2012" |
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Kevin Karg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Creosote" |
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Kike Suay Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Landscape 101" |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Soul Steps I.8" From the project “Soul Steps”, the memories of a pilgrimage as I mean it: a purification through the journey, not the worship of its sacred destination. The shrine is just the end of a prayer started with the beginning of the pilgrimage. |
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Mark Paulda USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mirror Mirror" Connemara Loop Reflection - We |
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Melanie E. Rijkers Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Awe" Great Ocean Road, Australia |
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Mike Grandmaison Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Albion Falls" Albion Falls. Ontario |
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Mike Grandmaison Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Island in the Mist" Island in Mist. Lake Superior |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Salt Storm" A salt storm is a low-lying cloud of airborne salt that hovers over large areas, the result of wind sweeping over salt flats. Salt storms usually occur in places with large aboveground deposits of salt, such as those surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the Aral Sea. Salt storms are also a frequent phenomenon in the Salar de Uyuni region in Bolivia. © wikipedia ----------- In couple of minutes we were running to our cars, visibility dropped to several yards and we ended up submerged in thick cloud of salt. --- Altiplano, Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni near Tunupa Volcano. |
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Mustafa Onder USA Nominee Nature Professional "Untitled" Solar de Manaña, Bolivia |
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Nicklas Blom Sweden Nominee Nature Professional "Landscape on Svalbard" |
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Nir Alon Israel Nominee Nature Professional "Vaporous" Geothermal in Iceland |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gone to the Sea" I am more ... |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter" Rough day at the lake |
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Paul Marcellini USA Nominee Nature Professional "Frozen Tempest" As icebergs calve off Vatnajökull and flow out to sea, many are washed back onto the beach. This stormy morning provided a nice brooding backdrop to display the glow of this ancient ice. Jökulsárlón |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Butterfly Feeding" |
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Pete Saloutos USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Sentinel " Sentinel rock taken at Joshua Tree National Park |
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Ralph Mercer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eureka Dunes Abstract #2" Located in Death Valley Nation |
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Rhona Wise USA Nominee Nature Professional "Midflight" A butterfly gets set to land on a Bougainvillea bush. |
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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee Nature Professional "Westcombe Bay" The dramatic rocky outcrops at Westcombe Bay in Devon in the UK |
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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Sands' Cascade" Upper Antelope Canyon, Navajo Tribal Park, Page, AZ |
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Ron Schwager USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bald Rock Comp" Huge outcropping of granite east of Oroville, California. |
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Russell Stewart Stone UK Nominee Nature Professional "Loch Duich, The Highlands, Scotland" Simplicity |
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Samuel Fee USA Nominee Nature Professional "White Sands" |
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Sascha Unger Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Spa Pool" Karijini National Park, Western Australia |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Crystal Spring Remains" Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River Florida |
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Sean Stuchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cloud Forest" Taken in high mountains of Peru November of 2011 |
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Stefan Hefele Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Golden Iceland" On my way from the peninsula Snaefellsness to the Westfjords, I came across this wondrous light mood. Sunrays breaking through the clouds and bring me the feeling of finally having arrived in Iceland. |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Bay of Fires" Tasmania East Coast |
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Terry Vine USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gubbio, Italy" |
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Tim Hall UK Nominee Nature Professional "Arlberg III" Arlberg mountain range, Austri |
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Vadim Balakin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "When Someone Lights the Stars Up..." Indian Beach, Oregon, USA, September 2010 |
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William Chua Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset" |
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William Chua Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Aurora Borealis and Starry night" |