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Shairon Paterson Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "What!" Snow monkey in Japan looking disconcerted! |
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Wendi Schneider USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Tri-Colored Heron" From "the Aviary" in the "States of Grace" series, comprising Figura, Flora and Fauna images inspired by a quest to balance the real and the imagined and illuminate the grace of the natural world. |
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Michael Boyny Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Zebras in Serengeti National Park, Tansania" A group of zebras escapes from a crocodile attack in a waterhole. |
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Maroesjka Lavigne Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "White Rhino" An encounter with this colossal mamal in Etosha National Park |
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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "1-Red Fox" A Red Fox sitting on a snowbank in a snow storm in Aspen, Colorado. |
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Deborah Roffel Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Owl" a portrait of a owl (thanks to DoeZoo) |
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Michael Boyny Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Yawning Lion in Serengeti National Park, Tansania" A lion lets out a mighty yawn to shake away the sleep and be ready for the wildebeests which were headed in the direction of the pride. |
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Deborah Roffel Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Nina & Lucky II (1)" Nina & Lucky, two tigers who are raised by hand, because the mother didn't accepted them (almost one year old) |
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Roos Hobe Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "No Milk Today" |
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Jean Francois Seguin Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Beach Aircraft" Seagull practising turns, take-offs and landings in Nye Beach, Oregon. |
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Jeffrey Vanhoutte Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Cow at Home" |
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Ron Schwager USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Egret with Reflection" This is a Great White Egret in the flooded rice fields of northern California. |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Emperor Penguins and Chick" Perfect Symmetry with 2 adult emperor penguins and a chick |
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Lennette Newell USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Slow Loris" Detail of slow loris eyes. |
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TOM A Japan Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Today is Holiday" King of beasts also sleeping face is cute |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Holding Tight" There's is no safer place to nap than on mum's back. |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "EmperorSilhouette" Direct sunlight silhouettes an emperor penguin in Antarctica. |
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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Blue-tailed Damselfly" The turquoise eyes of a male Blue-tailed Damselfly settled on a reed. |
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Barb Young USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Into The Light" Horses Moving Into the Sun |
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Georgina Goodwin Kenya Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Pink Perfection" Flamingoes flying across Lake Logipi, a saline lake lying at the northern end of the arid Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift near Lake Turkana. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Close Encounters" Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Gorillas Mother's Care" One of many bonding moments the gorilla mother devotes to her young child. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Our Impact" What initially looks like fun, it may actually make a lot of harm to our flying friends, starting with eating the label and ending with breaking the glass. |
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Adam Regan UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Old Bull and Bush" Utorda Village, Goa - from an ongoing documentation. |
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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Order of Things" The Order of Things was taken during the annual "Sardine Run" of the wild coast of the Transkei, South Africa. Sharks, Dolphins, Cape Gannets and game fish compete for the spoils of a bait ball!!! |
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Andrzej Bochenski Poland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Frill" underwater creature |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wildebeest Crossing" Wildebeests running down a dusty embankment at the Mara River in Kenya, East Africa during the wildebeest migration in August. |
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Anthony Barr UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Puffin in Flight" Taken on a trip to the Farne Islands on the north east coast of England on one of my rare sunny outings |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Impala at Sunrise" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephants Under Skies of Thunder" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Lioness and the Ostrich Kill" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Male Lion in Evening Light" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fighting Topis at Sunrise" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Choir" Dalmatian pelicans are shy, but they keep following fishermens’ boats. For capturing them, we constructed a catamaran with a built in camera. Out of 1,000s, the best ones came out of the last captures |
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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mom's Blissful Moment" |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sea Turtle in Cleaning Station" Mexico, Guerrero, Ixtapa. A sea turtle being cleaned near the surface some 10 miles off the coast. |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bull Shark at Playa" Mexico, Quintana Roo, Playa del Carmen. A female bull shark swimming near a sandy bottom some 75 ft deep with fishes swimming around. |
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Christian Vizl Mexico Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spotted Eagle Ray at Cozumel" Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cozumel. A Spotted Eagle Ray swimming above a coral reef. |
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Cindy Goeddel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Chasing His Shadow" A Red Fox performs his classic mousing jump. This is five separate captures stitched into an action sequence panorama in Photoshop. |
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Cindy Goeddel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "An Otter Runs Through It" During the 2012 annual summer spawn of native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii), a female North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) caught four Cutthroat Trout in the span of jus |
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Craig Moodie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flock of the Year" Study of the best sheep farms in Gippsland, Victoria. |
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Deborah Roffel Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Nina & Lucky II (2)" Nina & Lucky, two tigers who are raised by hand, because the mother didn't accepted them (almost one year old) |
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Donald Brown USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Night Hunter" Bigfin Reef Squid, Sepioteuthis lessoniana at night. Sulawesi, Indonesia. The colorful skin of a squid contains pigment-filled sacs called chromatophores, and reflecting cells called iridiphores, |
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Edmond Terakopian UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Murmuration 01" A murmuration of starlings at dusk, just after the sunset at the beach in Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wheelchair Turtle" From the serie: Handicapped, but not pathetic! |
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Federico Janni USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Free Spirit" An eagle flying above the Colorado River in Arizona |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Friendly Gull" Friendly Gull |
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Georgina Goodwin Kenya Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamingoes" Aerial of flamingoes in flight over Lake Logipe in Kenya's north Rift Valley |
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Henk Pasman Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Swan" a photo about beauty, dead and the passage of time, shot on january2016 |
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Jacqueline M. Koh USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Single File" These tall beauties gracefully galavant across the Serengeti |
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Jacqueline M. Koh USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kiss & Tell" Serengeti surprise of sweet tenderness |
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Jayne Silberman USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Unbridled" A Camargue horse on the run. |
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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elk" Felt rimmed antlers glimmer at dusk as an elk enjoys the short lived summer in the Yellowstone National Park wilderness. |
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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Uprising" Sea nettles rise from the depths below in increasing numbers, a silent reminder of our influence beyond the realm we can see. |
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Joan Davis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Day's Last Light" A group of ranch horses race down the hill for dinner at days end. |
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Joan Davis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "In The Lupine" This lovely Icelandic horse gallops through the lupine in the soft spring light. |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Raphicerus Campestris" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spiny Moth Caterpillar" |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Necked Jacobin Hummingbird" |
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Jordan Junck Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hunting Blue Footed Booby" A school of bait fish drew in a number of preditors including blue footed boobies that dove to catch the fish, Galapagos 2015 |
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Judy Davis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Electric Jellyfish" |
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Kerri-Jo Stewart Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Clyde" Gentle Giant |
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Lance Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kisses and Misses" Red fox pups surround their mother for feeding time and kisses. |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Brown Capuchin" young brown capuchin |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Slow Loris Portrait" From my primate series, slow loris primate population is suffering due to the illegal pet trade. |
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Leora Eger-Dreyfuss Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ghost Elephants" |
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Leora Eger-Dreyfuss Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Lions" |
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Lyne Raff USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fireback Pheasant" |
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Lyne Raff USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamingo In Repose" |
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Marion Vollborn Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wave" King penguins in South Georgia on the way into the water. Taken with long exposure. |
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Marion Vollborn Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hot Water" Snow Monkey in Japan in hotspring |
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Matthew Gillooley USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lions Fighting" After the lions had finished mating, the lioness turned around and took a swing at the male lion. The male retaliated and the female stood up quickly and left. |
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Michael Moenning USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamingo Eye" A flamingo takes a drink in a pond in the Dominican Republic. |
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Michael Boyny Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wilderbeests Crossing Mara River, Kenya" Herds of migrating wildebeest cross the Mara River in Kenya. On their enormous loop following seasonal rains, more than 1.5 million animals encounter deadly crossings like this one at the Mara. |
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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional "Jag Instinct" We imagine a big wild jaguar hunting large prey such as capybaras or caimans; finally they are opportunistic animals that will prey any victim. |
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Michael Moenning USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Barracuda Bite" A barracuda shows it's teeth while battling a fisherman in the waters off the coast of Curacao. |
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Michel Allen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fishing Without a Web" Dolomedes tenebrosus is the Dark Fishing Spider found in northeastern North America |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Nap Time" A sleeping bear in the rain in Khutzeymateen British Columbia Canada opens his eye to take a look at us. |
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Michelle Valberg Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Underwater Rollover" A juvenile humpback whale rolls over underwater in Silver Bank in Dominican Republic. It is amazing to swim with these amazing creatures. |
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Milan Radisics Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Beewolf - The Bee Killer Wasp" Bewolf wasps are peaceful creatures that live on pollen. But when reproduce, they become mighty miners and ruthless killers. All day they dig and hunt. Female beewolves can carry stones larger than th |
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Paul Fernandez USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Liquid Motion" from the "Koi Pond" series |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mother" Exhausted Green Turtle Mother returning to the ocean after laying eggs. |
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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Running On Water" A coot running across a mist-shrouded lake at dawn. |
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Ron Schwager USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Blue Heron with Crayfish" These usually shy birds can rarely be approached. Feeding opportunities sometimes make the difference. |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Intricate Life" Weedy Seadragon texture and detail of a male carrying eggs |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Incubation" Male Weedy Seadragon carrying a raft of eggs |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Aggregation" Cuttlefish Aggregation in whyalla South Australia |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dragons Lair" Rare Leafy Seadragon, endemic to Australia |
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Sharon Packer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Resurgance" Head of the cardinal family appears after being absent for weeks. Flat Rock, N.C. |
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Shinji Ichikawa Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bird" |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Polar Bear Family Play" PolarBearMomWrestlingCubs |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Emperor Penguins in Conference" Adult emperor penguins and a group of chicks |
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Tina Winkhaus Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wolfpak" Serie: 'It's my pleasure to serve you', 2014/2015, 120cm x 170cm, fine art print framed |
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Toni Sergio Carbone Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Boar and Ambient" A boar meets a man and are observed |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Egret, Reflected" From "the Aviary" in the "States of Grace" series, comprising Figura, Flora and Fauna images inspired by a quest to balance the real and the imagined and illuminate the grace of the natural world. |
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Werner Beetschen Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Huskies" |