Yingting Shih Taiwan 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Aquarium" It is a lotus farm.

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Miguel Barreira Portugal 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Ticker Than Water" Big Waves at Praia do Norte , Nazaré

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Sebastian Copeland Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Cube Iceberg" In the bay of Qaanaaq in Northern Greenland, icebergs are trapped by the onset of the winter freeze. Spring releases them to the ocean.

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David Winegar USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Gods Paintbrush" First snow on fall colors - Park City, Utah

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Lee Scott USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "When Conditions Are Right (Wheel of Life)" A giant wave jumps along Kauai's Napali Coast as a bird flies in the warmth of evening light. Life all around.

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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Amphitheater" Atacama, Chile

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Nicolae Cosniceru Romania Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Svartifoss Waterfall - Iceland"

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Giovanni Presutti Italy Honorable Mention Nature Professional "satori # 6" Through the concept of Wabi- sabi I carried out my research focusing it on the development of the aspects of impermanence in nature

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Cynthia Hedgecock USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Storm Wave at Sunset" This photograph was taken at the northwest corner of the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i during a winter storm. The wave is about 50 feet high, and its shape caused by an outgoing wave slamming into an oncoming wave -- the color provided by the translucence of the wave lit by the sunset. I was far up the beach and photographed the storm for a couple of hours. This happened only once.

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Todd Beltz Singapore Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Taking Flight" Arctic Terns taking flight. Fraser Island, Australia

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Bobby Wheat USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Emergence" 3200 feet above the Big Sur coast, life seems to emerge from a thick haze. Just beyond the ridge lies the horizon of the Pacific, an infinite shade of blue shrouded in mystery.

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G Sharad Haksar India Honorable Mention Nature Professional "River of Red"

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Colin McRae USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Jelly 32" From a series on small jellyfish

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Alexander Vershinin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "North Aurora" Jokursarlon, Iceland. www.vershinin.biz

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Alexander Varvarin Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Between Heaven and Earth" Praslin Island, Seychelles. Linhof 617 III S.

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Andre Wagner Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Glacier Lagoon 1"

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Antonio Busiello Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Anacapa " Anacapa is part of the channel Islands National Park, With this image I show in one single shoot the beauty of the Channel islands above and below water.

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Cath Evans UK Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Ice" As the weather closed in, the vivid, surreal blue ice stood out against the monochromatic landscape of the glacial lagoon.

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Chiara Grioni UK Nominee Nature Professional "Stromboli" Full Moon over the erupting Stromboli volcano; Sicily, August 2014. The Stromboli is a very active volcano but it is rare for the lava to reach all the way down into the sea.

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Chris Becker USA Nominee Nature Professional "Water Lilies 7771" No computer manipulation. Photographed using long exposure, tripod and lights

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Clayton Hairs Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Wombeyan Caves" A sliver of light punctuates the darkness in the Wombeyan Cave System in Australia's Southern Highlands

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Colin McRae USA Nominee Nature Professional "Jelly 09" From a series on small jellyfish

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tidal Trees"

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stargate"

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Into the Blue"

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Earthly Embrace"

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Scorpion Cove"

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Daniel Beltra USA Nominee Nature Professional "Iceland #13" Meltwater from the Vatnajökull Glacier is pulled by gravity towards the Atlantic Ocean, July 7th 2014. The Vatnajökull Glacier is Europe's largest icecap and loses an average of 40m a year.

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David Winegar USA Nominee Nature Professional "Inspiration Sunrise" Bryce Canyon Utah

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David Winegar USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Enchanted Forest" Bristlecone Pine Southern Utah

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David Winegar USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monumental" Monument Valley - Utah

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Equinox"

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Dick Busher USA Nominee Nature Professional "Kelp" Kelp on a Washington beach, taken with a Sinar 4x5 view camera, then drum scanned at 5000 dpi. Limited edition exhibition prints up to 44x55 inches.

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Dick Busher USA Nominee Nature Professional "Low Tide" Rocks and sea weed at low tide on the Washington coast, taken with a Sinar 4x5 view camera, then drum scanned at 5000 dpi. Limited edition exhibition prints up to 44x55 inches.

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Dick Busher USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rain Forest" Moss, ferns and fungi in the Olympic Rain Forest, taken with a Sinar 4x5 camera, then drum scanned at 5000 dpi. Limited edition exhibition prints up to 44x55 inches.

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Douglas Walker Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Rainbow" Stormy weather moving out.

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Spring in the Dolomites" ALMOST FIFTEEN FEET OF SNOW TAKE THEIR GOOD TIME TO MELT BUT SPRING IS APPROACHING...

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Easter Monday" EASTER MONDAY IN THE DOLOMITES IMPLIED A REFRESHING SNOW STORM ON TOP OF SOME FIFTEEN FEET OF SNOW...

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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Find A Way" Big swells brought crashing waves over this crack along the rocky coastline. The shapes and textures the water created as it retreated were beautiful.

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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lead Me To The Light" Water rushing back down of the rocky coastline and out to the stormy sea in the direction of light shafts on the horizon.

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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cherish These Moments" Sunrise captured through Nature's Window overlooking the Murchison River winding its way through Kalbarri National Park of Western Australia.

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Morning Glory"

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Brooding"

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Prairie Thunder"

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Eric Loh Yong Kim Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Clouds"

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Gaby Sommer Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Glowing" Raindrops and sunset over Germany

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Garry You Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Beauty & Beast" The beauty and the beast for one moment

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Genaro Palacios Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "Bark Tree" Bark of a tree in the Amazon

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Gerard Luthi Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Paysage écossais"

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Gilles Poitras Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Out of this World" Meduses, are strange creatures ! It is kind of gost of ocean

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Light Beneath The Waves" As if underwater, I was shooting through waves as the Atlantic breakers rolled up alongside me up the beach, before the back surge swept back over me at chest height, freaky!

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Gunnar Stroem Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Landscape"

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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Nature Professional "Botrylloides Leachi"

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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stichodactyla Haddoni"

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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tubastrea sp."

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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee Nature Professional "Nature Dewdrops" The symmetry of the three dewdrops is unusual, I often go out in the morning with the macro lens looking for the beauty that nature can create, and often ignored by people passing by. I am fascinated by images captured in a split second of time never to be repeated.

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James Fox USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stick Forest" Trees killed by thermal activity.

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Jay Staton USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Inevitable" The last piling trying to fight its inevitable fate.

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Jeff Stasney USA Nominee Nature Professional "Big Sur Milky Way" Milky Way over the cliffs of the Big Sur Coastline, CA

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Joanne Scherf USA Nominee Nature Professional "Wildwood 2" Immersion experience of trees from a new perspective

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Joseph Romeo USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dust Devil, New Mexico"

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Joseph Cogliandro USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ablaze"

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Julie Wajs Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Outback 1"

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Julie Wajs Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Outback 2"

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Relics I" Sculpted by water and fire

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Relics II" Sculpted by water and fire

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Peace and Calm" Waves converge and energy jumps to life in a moment that brings me peace and calm while I stand along Kauai's magnificent Napali Coast.

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cotton Candy Waves (Things Unseen)" On this particular morning I was drawn to the lines in the sand, made from sediment deposits from a little river flowing onto the beach. When the surf came in, the lines were erased, but would be draw

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Delicious Fruit" The sun rises in a tropical almond tree at moloa'a bay on the island of kauai.

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stillness and Motion" The nature of observation, change and solidity.

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Set Sail" A driftwood tree lies on the shore as the clouds above sail on by.

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mudcrack" Badlands, South Dakota

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Liyun Yu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Carolina Sunrise"

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Lon Casler Bixby USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mojave Aster" Title: Mojave Aster - Photo: Lon Casler Bixby - Web: www.neoichi.com

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Madeleine Maria Weber Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Mountains in the Sea" Little Skellig and Skellig Michael, County Kerry, Ireland

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Malissia Simpson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Streaming Tentacles" Lions Mane Jellyfish

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pure Beauty" Good light over iconic Jordan Pond, Maine.

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Divine Light" Got lucky after being rained on. Spectacular light gifted.

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Last Breath" Hiking through northern New Jersey nature, I ended my day here

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Navajo Wonder" One only has to let their imagination run wild in order to discover wonders created by nature;s flash floods

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Grooves" Layered carvings created from years of flowing water at the Gorge in upstate New York

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Man-O-War Bay Sunrise"

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Black White and Red"

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Twist"

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Zion's Watchman" Morning moments in the mountains of Zion as Autumn peaks and another day begins.

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mesa Moments" Canyonlands in the morning moments as the light erupts around Mesa Arch

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Matt Stock USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mother and Child" Light painting was used to illuminate this mangrove pair juxtaposed against a 30 second exposure of the Milky Way on a clear Florida night. All elements of this photograph were captured on location.

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Max Seigal USA Nominee Nature Professional "Night at the Wave" I spent the night running around the wave with a flashlight, illuminating this amazing rock formation with the milky way shining bright in the background.

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Michael Pliskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Nectar of Life" Hummingbird zeros in for a snack

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Michael Pliskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Esplanade" Decorative grasses and flowers near the Esplanade in Redondo Beach, CA.

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Reflections (1)"

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Michael Stoklos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Devil's Lightning" Rare Red Devil's Lightning in the Desert of Tucson Arizona

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Michael Stoklos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Arizona Sunset" one of the blazing Sunsets from the Tucson Arizona desert

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Pam Walker USA Nominee Nature Professional "Midnight Light" Two photograph transfers onto canvas

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Pascal Curtil France Nominee Nature Professional "Northern Lights above the Arctic Circle" Amazing Northern Light over a lodge, north of Finland, above the arctic circle

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Pascale Delevaux Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "The Mystery Of The Infinite And Absolute"

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Paul Foley Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Blur" A wave breaks across a rock shelf, East Coast Australia

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Paul Marcellini USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eleocharis Sunrise" Sunrise is reflected through reeds in the Everglades.

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Paul Marcellini USA Nominee Nature Professional "Celestial Cypress" The milky Way over an old lone cypress in Florida.

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Paul Marcellini USA Nominee Nature Professional "Guardian of the Spring" An old oak watches over a freshwater spring in north Florida.

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctica Portal"

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctica Rising"

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Nebraska" Flat tires can be a blessing.

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Smoke On the Water" Smoke from a bush fire moving out across the sea into the sun

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Preston Haskell Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Silence (1)" Silence in the Swamp

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Nature Professional "Insect" Insect child

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Rhona Wise USA Nominee Nature Professional "Milky Way" The other side of Nature, the Milky Way on top of a mountain in Colorado

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Robert Carmichael USA Nominee Nature Professional "Headwaters " Hasselblad H1 Film Back Velvia 50 in the Sierra Headwaters

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Horizonte" Mountains of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil

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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "2nd Beach Sunset"

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Rodney Lough Jr. USA Nominee Nature Professional "Face Rock - Study 2"

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Roland Maria Reininger Austria Nominee Nature Professional "SnowGlow" warming seconds on a cold winters day somewhere in Austria.

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Ruud Peters France Nominee Nature Professional "Catching the Sun"

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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Desolation" In the East Fjords, Iceland

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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Vessel" In Yosemite, USA

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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Convergence" Ice melting in the Ocean, Iceland

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Sascha Unger Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cloud Formation"

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Sascha Unger Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Layers" Ancient layers of rock at Karijini National Park/Western Australia

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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Flame Tree" Milky way across the south pacific Islands of Tonga bright and low in the sky.

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Sebastian Copeland Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Ice Reflections" Salt and near freeze temperature gives the northern Greenland water its high density. Less susceptible to wind disruption, the result is near mirror-like reflection in the 24 hour daylight.

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Sharon Packer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Interlude" Young Luna with his purpose in life ahead of him.

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Stefan Zuerrer Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Engadin Switzerland" Switzerland, Mountain, Engadin, Graubünden

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Stephen Perry Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Flash Snow"

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Moods Australia"

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Steve Young Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Mother Nature over Great Slave Lake" Words cannot adequately describe the majesty of Mother Natures dance.

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Suzan Meldonian USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ray of Sunshine" Sunkissed Anemone mouth

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Tom Lindboe Denmark Nominee Nature Professional "Isle of Skye Mist" A small harbour in mist, Isle of skye

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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Greta Oto" Papillon series by Tom D. Jones - www.tomdjones.com

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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Anteoschlorinde" Papillon series by Tom D. Jones - www.tomdjones.com

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Vikram Patwardhan India Nominee Nature Professional "Dominance" We often refer sea for infinity, for the fact that its a highest scale of dominance. But in Monsoon its time for the grey sky to dominate sea. may be its a natur

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Weizhong Deng Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Dawn" Waking up to a misty morning in the deep mountain regions of Northern Thailand.

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Werner Beetschen Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Bambutopia"

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Wilma Roesch Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Icelake" what beauty winter brought; no ice-art last x-mas - there was no winter. I had not to change the foto by fotoshop, this is always my purpose.

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Wilma Roesch Germany Nominee Nature Professional "BubblICE" WHEN we have winter, all lakes are icy; only that one had these frozen air-coins. No use of photoshop afterwards. Only very sometimes + for foto-collages I use it.

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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee Nature Professional "Untitled 12" 2013, Yellowstone NP, WY USA

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