Olivia Zimmerman USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Amateur "Untitled" Morning fog making its way over the mountain on top of the world’s tallest single drop waterfall Kaieteur Falls, located in Central Guyana.

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Hisao Matsui Canada 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Amateur "Still" I took this photograph in Senneville, Quebec when there was hardly a ripple on Lake of Two Mountains on this late fall day.

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Volker Birke Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Amateur "To The Sea" Nikon D800, driftwood caught inside the Rhinefalls at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, by night

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Timothy Poulton Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Golden Valley" Sugar Pine Forest

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Morning New"

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Jefflin Ling Malaysia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Parallelism" This shot is taken in East Java, Indonesia 2014. I pleased to shoot this wild bamboo when I on the way to my next destination of the trip. The attractive parallel pattern of bamboo draw me to stop the

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Cathy Pilkin USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Mid Life" Tree in a cemetery in Millerton NY

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Carla Maloco UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Winter Morning Mist" Near Mt St Helens Washington State U.S.A.

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Lee Grossman USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Palm" Berkeley, California

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Dmitry Arkhipov Russia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Forms"

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Aldeyjarfoss" Alderyjarfoss can be heard way before you actually see it. The roaring water is the first part you see then as you get closer you are in front of one of the most beautiful waterfalls around. With ro

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Andrea Evans Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Out Of The Blue" Lightning Storm at Night

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Anna Pisemskaya Canada Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Time Capsule"

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Steven P. Moreno USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Cloudy" Before a storm is my favorite time to photograpy over water and trees.

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Greg Holba UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Childhood Visions 2" A vibrant poppy field remembered from a carefree childhood

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Alexandra Nemeth USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Punk Caterpillar" Early morning at sunrise I photographed this dew covered caterpillar on a barbwire fence at Chappell Hill, TX. The dewdrops showed the surrounding land upside down.

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Amr El-shafei USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blue Storm"

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Andrea Evans Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Wild Night" Wild night of Storms

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Andrea Evans Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Violent Storm" Storm coming

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Double Ice" Iceberg reflections at the Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflecting Hill" Reflections in Western Iceland

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "The Turquoise Wave" The Turquoise wave is captured in the west coast of Norway in place called Øygarden outside the city of Bergen,

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Lonely"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Summer Time"

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Arturo Lasso Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflections of Fire" Stunning colors and shapes are formed in the bed of the river Tinto in Andalucia (Spain)

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Earth and Sky" Parco dell' Etna - Sicilia - Italia 2011

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Leech Lake Sunset" sun is almost set on a somber evening

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Bill HARBIN USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Haywood Co"

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Bobby Samuels USA Nominee Nature Amateur "VASQUEZ ROCKS: OMINOUS #2" ANOTHER IMAGE TAKEN AT VASQUEZ ROCKS COUNTY PARK ON AN OVERCAST DAY.

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Christian Baeuchle Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Downwards"

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Christian Baeuchle Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Floating"

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Christian Schweiger Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Lapland Kiilopää" The wonderful region Kiilopää with minus 36 degrees.

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Cindy Bosveld Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Alone" I travelled with a group of friends to this wonderful place “The Twelve Aoostle” at the Great Ocean Road in Melbourne. The weather wasn’t that great in the morning but it has stopped for about 2 hours for us to explore the beauty of each Apostles - and this is the Smallest among all of them.

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Evening Light" Riessersee, Bavaria, october 2014

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Daniel Kencke USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Drought" The aftermath of a fish kill, Salton Sea, California

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David Tomek Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Silence (2)" Hinze Dam, Gold Coast - Australia

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Autumn On The Lake" I walked down the steps of my friend's home and was awestruck at this magnificent explosion of colors. What a treat it was to view this twice--one above and one mirrored in the lake.

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Donna Thompson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Beneath the Surface"

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Eunju Choi USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Rockaway Beach, New York, 2014" New York, United States (2014)

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Felix Inden Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "And She Danced" Aurora borealis dancing above the Reynisdrangar rock needles. Legends say these are petrified trolls that came to Iceland with bad intensions. Vik i Myrdal, Iceland

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George Kaczmarek USA Nominee Nature Amateur "African Sunset" Everywhere the Light Touches

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Aurora 1" nearby Gällivare, Lapland, Sweden

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflection" Dundret nature reserve, Gällivare, Lapland, Sweden

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Ian Good UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Strokkur"

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James Black USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Stairway to Heaven" Late afternoon sun transforms the red rocks of Arches NP and sky into a "stairway to heaven."

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Janusz Gorgon Poland Nominee Nature Amateur "Lonely Pirogue" My image titled "Lonely Pirogue" have done on Tahiti Nui, at September 22th, 2015 where I spent my dreaming time with my wife. We have visitited 4 French Polynesian islands: Thaiti Nui, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Moorea. It was a lucky time for us because we met friendly people living there and could admire fantastic landscapes of these places. I was dreaming about 42 years to show this wonderful region of the globe.

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Jeff Wild USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Deep Valley" At the Great Smoky Mountains National Forest

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John H Hughey USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Searching Epiphany" Morning with mesquite at the Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California

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JP Terlizzi USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Awakening - Forest Tales" Exploring the landscape of my childhood

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Kah-Wai Lin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Manasquan Reservoir County Park" Dramatic cloud formation before the sunrise at Manasquan Reservoir County Park, New Jersey

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Karl Franger Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "KF Nature" Fresh snow at Namtso

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Kartik Rawal India Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunset taken by Peacock\'s Feather" The Golden feather is of Peacock, shoot at the time of sunset from the heights of Aravali

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Kartik Rawal India Nominee Nature Amateur "Thorny Cut" The Thorn tree which cutted by nature's play as similar to a Triangle. Shooted at Evening time

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Kylie Garner Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "The Forest" A cluster of sickly trees, remnants of a forest that once was.

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Lance Carter USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Cathedral" Fresh autumn snow blankets the autumn foliage.

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Laura Rossi USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Standing Out" Swamp environments are particularly fascinating to me....I like the fine details of the bald cypress trees with the Spanish moss hanging from the branches, since they create a painterly atmosphere. This photo was taken during a cloudy day, when a sudden ray of light hit a small and lonely bald cypress. I tried to convey that magical moment of light, when the small bald cypress was really standing out against the bigger trees in the background.

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Lea Foster USA Nominee Nature Amateur "The Hoverfly" A hoverfly pollinating a Sweet Alyssum

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflections of Sunset"

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunset on the Rocks"

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Lizy Manola Greece Nominee Nature Amateur "The River" Omo Valley

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Louisa Kelland Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Shipwreck Coast" Limestone stacks on the Victorian coast of Australia eroded by the sea

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Louisa Kelland Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Horsehead Rock" Taken on the Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, Australia. A likeness of a horse taking a drink from the ocean.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee Nature Amateur "Paradise Stillness" The reflextion and geometrical stillness of an iceberg in Paradise Bay when the wind finally takes a break and the waters become calm.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee Nature Amateur "Paradise Above Below" It isn't often that all the perfect conditions come together in Antarctica but they did for this beautiful magical iceberg. Seen above and below water, its detail is impressive.

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Maciej Duczynski Poland Nominee Nature Amateur "Iceland 1" Iceland, Jokulsarlon

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Maciej Duczynski Poland Nominee Nature Amateur "Ieland 2" Iceland, Interior

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Manfred Voss Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Beim Kleinen Hobbit" Republic of Iceland

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Salt Marsh " A storm clearing over the salt marshes on Block Island RI.

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Mathew Oldershaw UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Sunlight" Taken while out on a walk.

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Michael Wicks USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Star Trails" 550 images shot over 3 1/2 hours. Perseids meteors can be seen as well.

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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Fire and Rain" Rain catches the setting sun in Sedona, Arizona, USA

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Michael Pekasa Indonesia Nominee Nature Amateur "Blues"

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Path to the Unknown" Melbourne, Australia

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Min Tan Malaysia Nominee Nature Amateur "Icebergs"

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Neal Panton Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Little Pyramid" British Columbia Canada

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Neil Frederick Sharpe Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Even This Time Never Long Enough"

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Nick Green UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Warrior" GREEN-NICHOLAS_WARRIOR

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Norbert Boeckmann Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Magical Moment 2" a gentle and soft moment in the evening twilight at the danish north sea coast

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Olivia Zimmerman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Victoria Amazonica" The back of a Victoria amazonica lily pad found on the Rupununi River located in Yupukari, Guyana.

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Partha Roy Singapore Nominee Nature Amateur "Dubai Milkyway" Beautiful milkyway taken in Dubai

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Night Sky " Chopta, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Boar\'s Head" Nubra Valley Landscape, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflections (2)" Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India

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Ronny Ritschel Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "China State Park - San Francisco, USA, 2013" Taken with a 4x5 inch large format camera on slide film...

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Amateur "Landmannalaugar "

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Amateur "The Sligachan River"

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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Butterfly" This little butterfly was photographed on early morning on the hills of Tuscany

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Just a Chance of Clouds" A serendipitous cloud, as seen from the bottom of Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Evening Seastacks" Seastacks take on an early evening glow at Second Beach on Oregon's Olympic Peninsula

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Church Rock" The midnight sun finally begins to set behind Church Rock on the Snaefellsjokull Peninsula of Iceland

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blue Ice, Black Sand" The remnants of a crystal-blue iceberg, calved from a glacier into the Jokulsarlon Lagoon of Iceland, and then cast onto the shore to die a slow, dripping death on volcanic sands

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Susanne Eftevand Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Like a Dream..." On a water in the forrest ...

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Thomas Hornett UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Hope"

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Bower"

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Timofey Tararin Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Araucaria" Thailand

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Timothy Poulton Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Steller" Plateau Hut Mt Cook

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Timothy Poulton Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Evergreen" Lake Wanaka

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Uri Mahlev Israel Nominee Nature Amateur "P.O.V."

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Ecstatic Vision" Nikon D800, remnants of an abandoned jetty at Lake Steinhude (Steinhuder Meer) at Mardorf / Neue Moorhütte after sunset

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Icarus" Nikon D800, driftwood at Sassnitz, Baltic Sea, Island of Rügen, by night

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William Vinegrad UK Nominee Nature Amateur "The Secret Life of Plants Pt.1"

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Jellyfish" Ibiza

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Ying Cai Japan Nominee Nature Amateur "Angel's Tears" Morning dew

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