Nature - Amateur

James Peterson USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Half Moon over The Cockscomb, Arizona" The moon flirts with fast moving clouds and iconic Arizona spires.

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jayanta roy India 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Indus" River indus is the mother of Indus Valley Civilization,one of the oldest ancient civilization.

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Manish Mamtani USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Moonrise" Moon rising in Yosemite Valley

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Pierre-Bernard Cognein France Honorable Mention "The Mask" I want to capture animals differently

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Bob Neiman USA Honorable Mention "Milky Way Stars 2822" Milky Way Stars 2822

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Giulia Furlan France Honorable Mention "Aurora Borealis (1)" Northern lights in Henningsvær, Lofoten Islands, Norway.

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Felix Inden Germany Honorable Mention "Lofoten Flow" The famous cabins (Rorbuer) of Lofoten islands in their stormy and wild environment.

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yusup yogaswara Australia Honorable Mention "Rage" wave is creature of ocean

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francesco paoli Italy Honorable Mention "Secret Light" Secret Light is an intimate,peacefull and silent interpretationof the Antelope Canyon, Arizona. USA

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Stephen Weaver USA Honorable Mention "Mammatus Clouds" Mammatus clouds developingfrom a large thunderstorm in Eastern El Paso County, Colorado

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Daniel Castilloux Canada Honorable Mention "Beaten by the Wind" My 9 month trip in New Zealand took me to Slope Point, the most southerly point of the South island in New Zealand. Facing the Southern Ocean it receives the full brunt of the extreme weather coming...

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Glenn Haworth UK Honorable Mention "Clam Shell"

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Don Whitebread USA Honorable Mention "Mesquite Dunes and Beyond" Complimentary curves of dunes and stars in Death Valley National Park, California

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention "Winter Joins" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+, ISO 100, f/22, 124sec

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Shankar Subramanian India Honorable Mention "Masai Mara Landscape" A scenic evening sunset by the Mara- Africa

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Peter K.C. Ho Canada Honorable Mention "Icon of Elegance" Jellyfish - an icon of elegance & art form. Photographed in spring 2015.

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Nathan Wirth USA Honorable Mention "Oak II" Hills of Marin County, CA. USA

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Adam Felde USA Nominee "Death Valley Sunset Dunes"

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Alison Sargent USA Nominee "Hoopers Trees" taken on the Southern Outer Banks, NC

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Eyes in the Trees" I took this photo as I was being followed around Tashkent by the SNB (Uzbek KGB).

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Andrea Jones USA Nominee "Pure"

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Argo Argel Estonia Nominee "Trees (2)" lightpainting in forest

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Arlene Stanger USA Nominee "Exposed"

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Atchyut Sappa USA Nominee "A Different Perspective" A different perspective of the break water

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Los Cuernos" High winds creating phenomal cloud formations over Los Cuernos in Torres del Paine

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "The Unknown" Lac de l'Oronaye - Parc National du Mercantour - France 2014

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Ethereal" Italy 2015

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "On the Rocks" Iceland 2014

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Discovery Bay Star Trails" In anticipation of the Geminid meteor shower I set up my camera in my backyard to take some star trail photos. I started shooting a little after midnight and to create this image I took several hundr

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Bill Newcott USA Nominee "Sunset Crater National Monument" The stark light of midday fall evokes Ansel Adams by way of Salvador Dali

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Athabasca Falls 2439" Athabasca Falls 2439

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Coral Cover Park 0312" Coral Cove Park 0312

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Iceberg Prospect Point"

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Brian Schneider USA Nominee "Bristlecone Remnent" The ancient bristlecone pine forest in California

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Brian Schneider USA Nominee "The Ancient One" The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forrest.

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Caleb Asch USA Nominee "Moro Mist" Mists rolling into the Sequoia Valley

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Caleb Asch USA Nominee "Almond Grove"

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Black Sea Rocks" Seascape near 2 Mai

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "Into The Light" California coastal fog and morning sun compete for attention in this ancient redwood grove.

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "Winter\'s Bone" An elegant old bone still standing strong among young Cottonwoods

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "Balance" Art and nature in perfect balance.

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Chris Clinton Canada Nominee "Click Reflection" Wood Buffalo NP in thick smoke due to forest fires last summer. After development I noticed the >s

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Claude Valon Germany Nominee "Namib"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Beach 1"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Beach 2"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Oblivion"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Before Breakfast"

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David Flueckiger Switzerland Nominee "Misty Morning"

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Denis Grzetic Croatia Nominee "Highlands Lake"

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Denise Castro-Bran USA Nominee "Rock Triad" Oregon Coast, USA

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Wintry Woodland #1"

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Wintry Woodland #2"

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Dmitry Arkhipov Russia Nominee "Spring Ice"

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Dominic Martello USA Nominee "El Capitan, Yosemite"

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Dominique BONNET France Nominee "Trees (1)"

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Vanishing Glacier" Alaska

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Swirl Valley" Whitepocket, AZ

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Wakeena Creek 1" Columbia River Gorge, OR

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Multnomah Falls" Columbia River Gorge, OR

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "True North" Polaris and the other northern stars spin over a granite outcrop in Joshua Tree National Park, California

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Starlight on Shark Tooth Cove" Starlight illuminating the waves in Shark Tooth Cove on the California coast.

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Orion Over Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley" A bright section of the winter sky over Death Valley National Park, California

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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "Alien Planet " Ominous clouds roll over the alien landscape of White Pocket

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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "Bridges in the Sky " The sun goes behind Double Arch in Arches National Park

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Eleanor Kerr USA Nominee "Grasses at Sunrise" ,Mississippi River, Louisiana USA 2015, silver gelatin print

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Elena Bolshakova Russia Nominee "Troll\'s Pantry" Those carefully packed sacks of grass in the fog looked like huge cheeseheads from the troll's house

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Eric Spence Canada Nominee "The Perfect Storm" Fate finds you at the right place at the right time.

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Gletscherfluss" Luftaufnahme eines Gletscherabflusses vom Vatnajökul

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Frank Hoefs Germany Nominee "Agricultural Seascape" Acre

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Frank Hoefs Germany Nominee "Sleeping Rock" sleep well

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Frank Hoefs Germany Nominee "Sinking"

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Frank Hoefs Germany Nominee "Lost Traces"

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Nominee "Wait for You Downstairs" Misty road in Mt. Huangshan / China

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Nominee "Ice Diamond" Clear ice cube at black lava beach of Breiðamerkursandur.

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Fumio Yamaguchi Japan Nominee "Snowhills 1"

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Fumio Yamaguchi Japan Nominee "Snowhills 3"

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "The Watcher" A rock that watches the rising sun and thumping waves every single day

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "McCarrs Creek" This is the upper section of the falls before it drops to a ten metre wide pool

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Giannis Gogos Greece Nominee "Heart of Ice" Detail on ice

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Giannis Gogos Greece Nominee "Echoes of the Forest" A misty morning in the black pine forest,situated in northeastern Greece

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Giulia Furlan France Nominee "Morning Rainbow" Rainbow over Reine bay, Lofoten Islands, Norway

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Glenn Haworth UK Nominee "Glen Etive Light"

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Glenn Haworth UK Nominee "Loch Maree"

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grace pundyk Australia Nominee "Spiral Brood" Inside the spherical comb of the stingless Tetragonula carbonaria, aka 'sugarbag bees', Australia

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Gregor Borwig Germany Nominee "Ending Places 4"

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Beeches" Beeches and clouds, Rhön, Germany

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Birch Trunks" birches in snow, Lapland, Sweden

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Mountain Light" Kebnekaise mountains, Lapland, Sweden

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Reflected" reed reflecting in a lake, Dundret nature reserve, Lapland, Sweden

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Dunes in the Early Morning Sun" Wahiba Sands Desert, Oman

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Igor Svibilsky USA Nominee "Harvest Moon"

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James Peterson USA Nominee "Ponderosa on Volcanic Field, Arizona" A lone pine tree prevails against harsh conditions near the Sunset Crater volcano in Arizona.

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Alone" Infrared Mangroves

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jayanta roy India Nominee "Moonrise over Himalayas " Moonrise over Himalayas , Mount Dronagiri ,Indian Himalayas

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "Cascade"

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "Original 1"

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John Romie USA Nominee "Advancing" Sonoma Coast, California, 2012

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "CopperCoast2"

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Iceland 1"

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Iceland 2"

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Jukka Laitila UK Nominee "Silent Tree"

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Kelsey Walsh Australia Nominee "Old Growth" Old Growth Forests, South West Tasmania

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Kristoffer Vaikla Estonia Nominee "Three Boulders" Three Boulders standing in a stormy Baltic Sea.

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Granite at Bubble Pond" Acadia National Park's Bubble Pond on a calm morning.

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Lesley Ackman USA Nominee "Baobob Tree" Baobob tree at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Bridal Falls"

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Linus Bergman Sweden Nominee "Iceland - Skogafoss"

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Linus Bergman Sweden Nominee "Norway, Lofoten" Lofoten, Norway - 2014

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "The Pineries"

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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Nominee "Cima de Jazzi" come summer in the mountains and the overshadowed

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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Nominee "Glacier (2)" The last glacier in the Alps?

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Manish Mamtani USA Nominee "River of Mist" Fog in Yosemite valley appears like River of mist. This is a common view from Tunnel view.

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Manss Aval USA Nominee "Wagner Moment"

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May Haukas Norway Nominee "The Wave (1)"

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Michael de Guzman Philippines Nominee "Ampere Rocks" Baler, Aurora, Philippines @ 2014

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Michael Salmela USA Nominee "Wishful Thinking " Sea stacks of La Push, Washington

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Michael Salmela USA Nominee "Clairvoyance " Pass Lake, Fidalgo Island, Washington

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Michael Gard USA Nominee "Reflected Verticality at Sunrise" Image made at the Great Marsh within Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee "The Calm before the Storm"

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Mike Shea USA Nominee "Racing the Wind" Taken at Point Lobos State Reserve, California

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Mike Walker UK Nominee "Ice Shelf" Riverside iceshelf and running water, River Derwent, North Yorkshire

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Min Tan Malaysia Nominee "Before Typhoon " Taken before storm at Batanes Philipines

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Morden O'Hare Australia Nominee "Centuries Stand" Taken at dawn in Deadvlei, Namibia.

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Nick Green UK Nominee "I Stand Alone" Taken just after dawn,a lone tree at milarrochy bay,loch lomond scotland

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Small World" Iceland, 2014, Part of Small World project

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Taken" Iceland, 2014

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Patricia Galagan USA Nominee "Undisturbed 3"

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Patricia Galagan USA Nominee "Undisturbed 4"

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Patrick Opierzynski Germany Nominee "Breath of Eternity 2014, #03" This photo was taken on a foggy morning in Zeeland, Netherlands in September 2014.

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "One Path That Connect Us All"

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "Day Of Rain III" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+, ISO 100, f/22, 240sec

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "Slipping On The Snow" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+, ISO 100, f/22, 240sec

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "And After The Hill?" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+, ISO 100, f/22, 239sec

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pilar valenzuela Chile Nominee "Willow" Willow reflection in a foggy day, Valdivia, Chile

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Richard Zaldivar USA Nominee "Antipodean" This was taken in Miami, Florida on a boat. The aim was the capture the misty appearance of the sky.

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Robert Reglinski UK Nominee "Hunter" These modern hunters are now departed however, the true owners of the African Coast still thrive.

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Robert Reglinski UK Nominee "The Elements" Deep in the Namibian Desert, Earth, Air and Water fight for control over the landscape.

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Robert Weston USA Nominee "Smoky Mountain Morning"

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Boar's Head" The play of light and shade on the mountains of Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India makes the dark side of the mountain resemble a boar's head. The long shadows cast strange images on the tall rocks.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Heaven Meets The Earth" A roll of clouds seems to descend on the horizons of Ladakh, India. It seems to cover the grassland with its huge expanse.

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Sabastien Castillo France Nominee "Crazy Horse"

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Sabastien Castillo France Nominee "Lenticular Spots over Col San Stefano"

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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee "Storm and Stillness (Terra Ceia Bay, Florida)" Long exposure of a Florida mangrove tree taken during an approaching storm.

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The Wave (2)"

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "Godafoss" Waterfall of the Gods - Iceland

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Stephen Weaver USA Nominee "Summer Storm" A Summer Thunderstorm on the Medano Ranch in the San Luis Valley, Colorado

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Susan Asato USA Nominee "Starry, Starry Seas"

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Sylvia Gardner USA Nominee "Swamp Tree" A tree Grows in the Swamp

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theron mays USA Nominee "Going Home" Old Grave Site

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "Disguise"

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Tim Harvey UK Nominee "Les Hanois - Study 3" Les Hanois reef and lighthouse off the south west corner of Guernsey.

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Tina Kim USA Nominee "Departing Spirits"

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Tina Kim USA Nominee "Slithering Shade"

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Toby Trueman UK Nominee "Ben's Teeth" Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain, lurks over the mainland's sharpest ridge, Aonach Eagach

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Impending"

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Ulla Cornelius Germany Nominee "Without Words"

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Wes Pettus USA Nominee "Clouds"

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yusup yogaswara Australia Nominee "The Opening" my imagination in this image is about tranquility and quitness early in the morning

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Zoe Macerollo USA Nominee "Volcanic Region of Kamchatka, Russia"

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