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George Kavanagh Ireland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Almo trees" Almo trees |
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James Fox USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Bend on the Dune" |
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Rafael Rojas Switzerland 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Burning Peak" The mighty Matterhorn mountain becomes a fiery volcano at sunset. A long exposure blurs the banner clouds clinging to the peak. Swiss Alps. |
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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "First Day" iPhone composite of the intimate landscape |
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Theo Bosboom Netherlands Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Waves on lava beach" Waves of the Atlantic Ocean wash ashore on the black lavabeach near Vik, Iceland, around sunset, creating colourful patterns on a black canvas |
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David Koester Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Snowscape" Snowy Landscape, Hellisheiði, Iceland |
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Matt Stock USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Timekeeper" As an artist, I am captivated by the idea of bringing forgotten or underappreciated locales out of the shadows and into the limelight before they are lost forever. I am drawn toward untold stories and subjects that are looking for a voice and a champion. Since 2009 I have worked closely with national and state parks, non-profit organizations, and historical societies to raise awareness about the world around us. In partnering with these organizations, I have created unique images for them using my Painting with Light in the Dark® technique of digitally weaving together hundreds of individually exposed images into a single luminous composition. This image of a red mangrove, Timekeeper, was created for Biscayne National Park in Miami, FL and I can only hope that through my work, people will begin to realize that the fight for preservation is not one that ends when the sun sets. There is beauty in the world twenty-four hours a day and it deserves protection twenty-four hours a day as well. |
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Derek Anson UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Snowy Lane" |
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Bruce Omori USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Bursting Fourth" A giant lava bubble, over a hundred feet across, explodes violently in the 4th of July morning sky at the Waikupanaha ocean entry in Kalapana, Hawaii. |
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Lucille Feremans Belgium Honorable Mention Nature Professional "MIDNIGHTSUN 02" MIDNIGHTSUN NORWAY |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Chamber Of Secrets" Incredible reflected light off of redwoods in Northern California. |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eternal Vernal" Unbelievable display of light in Yosemite National Park. |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rainbow Connection" Sometimes sitting in the rain for over an hour pays off. All good things... |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Redwoods" Redwoods plantation in Victoria does make ona feel very small. In a good sense. May help some to start respecting the nature. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Nature Professional "storm" Ocean pool in Bondi being taken over by the element. Australia. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Nature Professional "crab crowd" The more, the merrier. Shot taken on the Egyptian beach. |
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Ben Kopilow Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Foggy Morning" |
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Brigitte theriault Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Bahamas" island,caraib,blue,turquoise,quebec,bahamas,art,water,yellow,sea,river,landscape,medium format,film,6x7,love,soft,pastel,innocence,gratitude,zen,pure,minimalist,brigitte theriault,dream,travel,freedom |
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Brigitte theriault Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Blanc" AMERICANA,white sand,new-mexico,desert,white,blue,space,québec,,art,landscape,medium format,film,6x7,love,soft,pastel,innocence,gratitude,zen,pure,minimalist,brigitte theriault,dream,travel,freedom |
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Bruce Omori USA Nominee Nature Professional "Volcanic Vortices" Lava from Kilauea volcano poured into the sea at Kalapana, creating a huge steam plume that rose with such velocity, it generated multiple vortices as it billowed into the sky. |
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Cath Evans UK Nominee Nature Professional "Golden" The sun broke through the early morning clouds to bathe the beach in stunning golden light, lasting only a few moments. I love the way the light sparkles on the sand and travels through the image. |
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David J. West USA Nominee Nature Professional "Denali Sunrise" After several days spent camping in the rain, my intuition told me to hike to this pond before sunrise. To stand here alone before North Americas highest mountain in such beautiful light was humbling. |
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Dean Cooper Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Birdrock" |
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Dean Cooper Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Father and Son" |
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Dean Cooper Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Sea Garden" |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Erosion's Beauty" Eroded and cracked rock and mud formations. Badlands National Park. South Dakota formations. |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dune Life" Sand slide with animal tracks. White Sands National Monument. New Mexico |
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Destin Sparks Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Enchanted Passage" Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia |
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Doug Gibbons Canada Nominee Nature Professional "a_Spirts Of The Night" Moonlit Aurora Borealis |
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Douglas Henry Haack USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dinner Invitation" Spider and it's web on my back porch |
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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "The Other World" As the sunset, the milky way appeared in full force. I watched the sunset, the milky way come out, and hours later, watched the moon rise. The Pinnacles, Western Australia |
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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "c_The Glow" |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "c_Canyon Flames" Lower Antelope Slot Canyon |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Fire in the Sky" Dramatic clouds in Antarctica |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Iceberg #2" Antarctic Sound |
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Emmanuel Coupe Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Eystra Horn" Eystra Horn, Iceland |
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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee Nature Professional "PolaLux: Hemingway" Part of the series "PolaLux". Real polaroid photographs, shot with a SX 70 Landcamera. scanned and resized up to 1 meter length. |
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Frantisek Herman Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Herman-Frantisek_Track" |
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Gene Taylor USA Nominee Nature Professional "Balanced Rock at Night" The Milky Way rises, a passing car lights the rock, a flashlight on the tree, and Moab, Utah in the distance. 10pm. |
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Gene Taylor USA Nominee Nature Professional "Moulton's Barn at Night" About an hour before sunrise at Mormon's Row near Jackson Wy. |
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Grant Legassick UK Nominee Nature Professional "Great Karoo Dusk" I was driving on an old road in the early evening watching a thunderstorm brewing. I passed this location and pulled over to capture the shot. I storm erupted and lightning chased me back to the car. |
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John Coxon Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Intense Red" |
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Jonathan Andrew Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Kunoy, Faroe Islands" |
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Jonathan Andrew Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Mulafossur waterfall, Faroe Islands" |
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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee Nature Professional "Web on Pond" |
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Justin Ng Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Eta Aquarid Meteor above Mount Bromo" Eta Aquarid Meteor above Mount Bromo, one of the active volcanoes in East Java Indonesia. |
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Kathryn Jacobi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Joshua Tree Rocks" |
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Keith Kiska USA Nominee Nature Professional "Badwater Fire" A burnt red sunset over Batwater, CA. |
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Keith Kiska USA Nominee Nature Professional "Natural Bridge Pink Sunset" A colorful sunset at Natural Bridge State Beach. |
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Keith Kiska USA Nominee Nature Professional "Horseshoe Bend Sunset" Horseshoe Bend in Page AZ. |
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Keith Kiska USA Nominee Nature Professional "Fire Clouds on the Playa" The Playa Race Tracks are illuminated by a radient sunrise. |
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Kim Sokola Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Heaven" |
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Kim Sokola Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "True Level" |
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Lenka Cizkova Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Trümmelbachfälle: cyan 1" Last turn… and leave the darkness! Trümmelbachfälle (Trümmelbach waterfalls) is a unique-in-Europe series of waterfalls inside the mountain, draining the whole glaciated area Eiger-Mönch-Jungfrau. |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Nature Professional "tanzania_262" Tanzania tree grouping. |
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Linda Looi Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Monte Carlo Seascape" |
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Liyun Yu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Barratte" Lake Barratte and nearby mountains |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Soul Steps II" The memories of a pilgrimage: 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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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Mustang Wonders" Nature made sculptures by wind, rain and snow. Mustang, Nepal |
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Luke Hayes UK Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Michigan" Lake Michigan, December, 2009. |
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Malissia Simpson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Jelly Glide" Jelly Glide was taken at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL. Watching the jellies move is almost hypnotic and there are so many different species. They are beautiful to watch and dangerous to be close to. Mother Nature has a profound sense of humor. |
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Marguerite Garth USA Nominee Nature Professional "the pond #42" I call this work "personal landscapes" as it is more about my inner life than the subject matter |
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Marguerite Garth USA Nominee Nature Professional "the pond #12" I call this work "personal landscapes" as it is more about my inner life than the subject matter |
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Mohammed ALSULTAN Kuwait Nominee Nature Professional "Bone" Photo of Kuwait desert. |
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Mohammed ALSULTAN Kuwait Nominee Nature Professional "Milkyway" Kuwait Desert at night .. A flash with cto gel was used to light up the ground |
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Nicolae Cosniceru Romania Nominee Nature Professional "New Life" |
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nigel dickson Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Angel Falls" world's tallest waterfall |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Icelandic Basalt Beach" |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice Bits On Basalt Sand #2" |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice Bits On Basalt Sand #1" |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Liquid Flames" A Bush fire reflected in a freshwater lake |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Eucalypt Fire Regeneration" After a Wild Fire this Eucalypt sent out many Epicormic Buds to begin photosynthesising again. |
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peter muller UK Nominee Nature Professional "wave" |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Grasstree regeneration at 2 weeks after fire." Grasstrees ( Xanthorroea sp) are one of the many native Australian plants that need fire to reproduce. After a large wildfire taht swept through this forest, they were the first plants to regenerate. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Liquid Flames 2" A Bush Fire reflected in a freshwater lake |
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Peter Lik USA Nominee Nature Professional "Temple of the Sun" |
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Phil Cook UK Nominee Nature Professional "Caught" This is part of a series on spiders on their webs |
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Rafael Rojas Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Alone" A lonely tree stands proud against the highest dunes of the planet. Namib-Naukluft NP, Namibia |
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Rafael Rojas Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Desert ghosts" In Deadvlei, Namibia, dead acacia trees seem to dance under the light of the full moon. |
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Rafael Rojas Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "a_Green Seas" A perfect convergence of landscape, northern lights and moon takes place during a short instant. Lofoten islands, Norway. |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Nature Professional "Nature" Water Drop |
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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee Nature Professional "Another Planet?" Scenery in the Namib Rand reserve of Namibia |
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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Sandfall" "Sandfall" at the Upper Antelope Canyon, Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, AZ, USA |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Passing Through" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Mammoth Sunset" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "At the Dawn of Creation" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Breathless" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "t_Cathedral Forest" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Vortex" |
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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Wisdom" |
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Sascha Unger Australia Nominee Nature Professional "El Questro Gorge" One of the jewels on the Gibb River Road in the Kimberley/Western Australia |
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Scott Forsyth Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Creation" The glow of lava light from Mauna Loa reaches the light of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Big Island, Hawaii. |
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Scott Forsyth Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Hapuna Beach Sunset" The setting sun over the lava rock jutting out of the sea, at Hapuna Beach, The Big Island, Hawaii. |
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Sonia Guerreiro Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Braveheart" A natural rock seems like a heart between the flowing water of Riotinto, Spain. Riotinto is a unique river in the world due to the color or its waters: RED. Photo without any manipulation in photoshop |
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Stefan Hefele Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Creature" It looks like if it would rise from the sand. This rock is located on the beautiful Source D´Argent. I spot this motive during the day and waited for the incoming night to get a more mystic light. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Flow Of Contrasts." Natures display of elements. |
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Steve Hansen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Needle in a Haystack " This image of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach takes advantage of beautiful early evening reflections and a cooler color palate than you typically see in this iconic scene. |
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Steve Hansen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mesa Arch Sunrise" The sun being in the perfect spot, along with the dusting of snow and the tight composition, elevates this iconic scene to new heights. |
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Steven Friedman Canada Nominee Nature Professional "t_Dreaming" |
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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Beach" |
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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Ancient tree " |
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Theo Bosboom Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Graphic grass" Close up of floating sweet grass captured in the ice on a small fen in the Netherlands. I liked the contrast between the green leaves and the cold white ice and snow. |
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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Evoke 3" Series for Hasselblad master book vol.3 |
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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Evoke 4" Series for Hasselblad master book vol.3 |
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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Evoke 15" Series for Hasselblad master book vol.3 |
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Walter Luttenberger Austria Nominee Nature Professional "treesideVIII" trees in a row in a small wood next to portogruaro |
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Weizhong Deng Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Illumination" A streak of iilumination brought life upon a quiet morning |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "EIVISSA" |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "RIED" |
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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee Nature Professional "Harmony" |