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Sandy Scott USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Bringing Home Breakfast" I know this osprey quite well. This osprey has made his nest with his mate in the same spot in a very large county park in St. Petersburg, FL adjacent to a parking lot where I often park when I do a training session on my bike. The regulars call him "Fleck" due to a fleck at the 7 o'clock position of his right eye. I often photograph him and on this day, I was photographing an owls nest about a mile away and stopped by to see if there was any action at the osprey nest. I found him sitting on a power line with a fish and knowing that he is uncomfortable around people and other birds when he has caught a fish, I readied my camera for action. He did not disappoint and took off towards his adjacent nest and I started firing my camera. I filmed a complete sequence in which the bird landed on the nest and fed the fish to his waiting mate which the locals have named Jewel. When I got home and was uploading my images, I almost fell off my chair when I saw that I had made this amazing capture of the bird with his wings in the so-called angel wing position, making direct eye contact t with me and clutching a fish in one talon - a one in a million capture!! It is my favorite image of all time and I started shooting in the early 1950's! |
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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Bloody Cheetah" Side bloody face close-up of a wild cheetah after eating its prey. Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). |
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Jefflin Ling Malaysia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Penguin" This is Penguin shooting at Hokkaido, Japan 2015. It crowded among a penguins, stand and take a rest |
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Patrick Heinscher Sweden Honorable Mention "Urban Wildlife Corridor" Under the bridges of Stockholm |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention "Jump" This is jump of whale the near coast of Madagascar |
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Petra Theilemann Germany Honorable Mention "Canine Ballet Dancer" dynamic balance on four legs trying to avoid the breaking wave |
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Helen McFadden Australia Honorable Mention "Jaguar" A wild jaguar hunts in the water, Pantanal, Brazil |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Honorable Mention "Curious" Baby Capuchin Monkey, Costa Rica |
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Offer Goldfarb Israel Honorable Mention "Birds" Lofoten islands, norway. |
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Oliver Raschka Germany Honorable Mention "Eye Contact" On a rainy day I discovered by chance this pelican lying beneath a wall at a pond. For just a second he looked me straight in the eye before he went away. |
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Robin Greenbaum USA Honorable Mention "Chimp" Chimp |
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Christine Ody New Zealand Honorable Mention "Window to the Soul" |
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Offer Goldfarb Israel Honorable Mention "The Gaze" |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Honorable Mention "Paso Fino Stallion" Portrait of Everest, my stallion. |
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Rona Schwarz USA Honorable Mention "Aerial Abstract" Two Juvenile Bald Eagles displaying courting behavior |
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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy Honorable Mention "Piercing The Veils Of Darkness" Closeup of a magnificent lion with an intense stare showing bright eyes. Serengeti National Park(TZ) |
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Abdulaziz Alasousi Kuwait Nominee "Kenya91" masai mara lion |
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Amardeep Singh India Nominee "Antlers" Reindeers, Mongoliaaah! |
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Amardeep Singh India Nominee "Reindeer" Mongolia |
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Angela C. Brown USA Nominee "Howler Monkey" Howler Monkey mother and child, pause for a portrait in the Belize River Valley in January 2015. |
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Barry Cheeseman Australia Nominee "Egret Preening" |
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Barry Cheeseman Australia Nominee "Eye on the Prey" |
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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "Henrietta" a young female fox less than a year old |
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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Cliff Palace" Iceland 2014 |
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Bettina Montavon Switzerland Nominee "Sadness in the Water" What interests me in photography is the face, the body and the animal. The prints, the bonds, the ab |
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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "On the Move" While on safari in the Okavango Delta of Botswana we came across a small goup of impalas grazing near a creek. I was hoping to try some motion blur shots and was all set hoping they would do what impa |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Moose Maligne Lake 2658" Moose Maligne Lake 2658 |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Aerial Ballet" Arctic Terns Courtship |
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Bruce Dear USA Nominee "EYE OF THE WILD" |
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Bruno Bravo Brazil Nominee "Ocean 2" Birds in the centre of the ocean. |
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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee "Ruffled Feathers" Sandhill Crane |
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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Welcome Cow" |
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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "The Rebel" A lion looking at the viewer with the expression of a rebel: Proud, bold, reproachful |
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Christine Ody New Zealand Nominee "Family Tree" The Maori name for these birds is kotuku. They were photographed at New Zealand's only breeding site, the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve. |
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Christine Ody New Zealand Nominee "Portrait of a Royal Spoonbill" Royal spoonbills are very rare in New Zealand. This one was photographed in the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve. |
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Claude Valon Germany Nominee "Warthog!" |
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Dalia Fichmann Switzerland Nominee "The Queen\'s" Indian lioness |
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David Rennie Australia Nominee "Lone Eagle" Juvinile Sea Eagle learning to fly |
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David Rennie Australia Nominee "Mystical Flight" Spoonbill in flight through a mist |
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David Rennie Australia Nominee "Solitude" Little Egret resting of 14 days of Courtship |
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David Rennie Australia Nominee "We Three" Three Pelicans at rest early morning |
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David Collett Australia Nominee "The Dragon King" The image of this green Iguana was captured in the Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal, Costa Rica. |
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Debra Kail USA Nominee "Whimisical Bob" Movie star, Odd Job Bob, on the farm. |
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Dimuthu Jayawickrama USA Nominee "Dew Covered Butterfly" A dew covered butterfly back lit with rising sun in early morning |
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Dmitry Arkhipov Russia Nominee "Dream of Bigger" South Georgia |
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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Five-Lined Skink" |
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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "Out of Line" One Black Vulture stands out from the crowd |
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Eduardo Fujii USA Nominee "Pensive" |
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Eleanor Kerr USA Nominee "Flight in Fog" Mississippi River, Louisiana USA 2015, silver gelatin print |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "Camels Mating" |
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Evan McBride New Zealand Nominee "New Zealand Spotted Shag" |
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Evan McBride New Zealand Nominee "Scandinavian Wolf" |
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Faisal Hamadah Kuwait Nominee "Four" Four giraffes |
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Frederick van Heerden South Africa Nominee "Mr" Mythical |
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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy Nominee "Lioness In The Swamp" A solitary lioness looking for her two cubs hidden in the swamp (Serengeti, Tanzania). |
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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy Nominee "Wildlife Art - Giraffe Impressions #2" Giraffe Impressions #2. Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). |
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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee "Red-Tailed Kite" A red-tailed kite comes in to land, Colorado |
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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee "Sentry" A giraffe maintains a lookout for anything that could prove to be a danger |
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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee "Shade is a-coming" Giraffes hide under a tree until an afternoon cloud can bring welcoming shade |
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Henry Jager Switzerland Nominee "Coral Shrimp" A natural black and white commensal shrimp on its natural black and white host, a feather star. |
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Henry Jager Switzerland Nominee "Mother and Baby Macaque" Breast feeding Macaque. In Bali, Macaque are seen as the follower of the hindu god Hanuman. |
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Henry Jager Switzerland Nominee "Manta Silhouette" The giant against the sun: Manta ray taken at Nusa Penida, Bali (Indonesia) |
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Henry Jager Switzerland Nominee "Lion Baby with Mother" Early in the morning, the baby lion cuddles up to its mother before it leaves to discover the world. |
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Hmoud Alshayji Germany Nominee "The Guide" I took this Photo in Hokkaido Japan for this wild species "Whooper swan" |
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Hmoud Alshayji Germany Nominee "The Prisoner of Freedom" I took this photo in Kuwait , was in birdwatching trip |
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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Pied Kingfisher with Meal" Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa |
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Ionut Cirja Romania Nominee "Daring Goose" Daring goose in Regents park, London |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee "Condor Dolly" Dolly, young injured California Condor, of the endangered species saved from extinction. |
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Jason Lee Potter Canada Nominee "We All Have Wings" |
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Jay Bransfield USA Nominee "Happy Tail" |
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Jazan Kozma USA Nominee "The Call" California Sea Lions, Point Dume Natural Reserve, Malibu. |
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Jefflin Ling Malaysia Nominee "The Lone Congestion of Swan Lake" This beautiful swan with lake captured at Northern Hokkaido, Japan 2015. The silent lake brought me |
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Joanne Collins USA Nominee "Dawn's Early Light" |
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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Up Close and Personal" |
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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "The Vanquished" At the Zoo - The eyes are open but there is no sign of 'life'. |
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Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee "A Look" taken with lensbaby |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "Mom\'s Assistant" Baby elephant tries to learn to use the proboscis |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "Light Touch" Big elephant touches the little elephant very gently and carefully. |
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Larry Colby USA Nominee "Anhinga Beak" Florida Everglades, watching the bird preening its feathers |
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Leon Petrinos Greece Nominee "Zebras Lost in Pattern" Zebras. Masai Mara, Kenya, August 2012 |
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Lesley Ackman USA Nominee "Taking Flight" Heron taking flight in Everglades National Park, Florida |
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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Nosy Finch" |
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Lynne Wilde UK Nominee "In Mom's shade" Wild elephant in Kruger National Park |
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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Untitled (1)" |
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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Have a Hearty Laugh " Indian tiger |
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Marcel Krueger Germany Nominee "Dolce&Pelicana" Two times the same sunbathing pelican from a different perspective cobined into one picture |
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Marco Diaz Costa Rica Nominee "Hummingbird" 2014, one of the jewels among the Tropical Forest of Costa Rica |
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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "The Double Helix Perfected" |
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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "First Drink" |
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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "A Living Breathing Statue" |
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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee "Sandpiper 2" |
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Mihai Chebac USA Nominee "Lake Tashmoo, Solitude #3" |
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Nigel Bullers Canada Nominee "Heron" Heron in flight |
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Nigel Kenny Australia Nominee "Australian Seal Pup" |
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Nils Schultze-Scharnhorst Germany Nominee "Two of a Kind" Two rungs, two smokestack, two nuts, two magpies, two personalities |
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Paul Crampton Canada Nominee "Meadow at the Window" Meadow loved when people would come to visit. Like a statue at the window until you came to the door |
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pekka Järventaus Finland Nominee "Young Lion" |
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pekka Järventaus Finland Nominee "Nomad lion" |
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pekka Järventaus Finland Nominee "Brothers" |
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Petra Theilemann Germany Nominee "Flying Dog " a kind of free floating dog on the beach trying to catch the dog biscuit |
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Petra Theilemann Germany Nominee "Dancing Wolfdog" a wolfdog in a playful mood early morning on the beach |
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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Tusks" A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A BULL ELEPHANT |
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Raffaele Tuzio Italy Nominee "Manta" A manta between the reflections of light on the waters of Lhaviyani atoll (Maldives) |
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Raffi Bashlian USA Nominee "Backlit Leopard at Night in the African Wilderness" Light shining on Leopard from the other side at night in the South African wilderness |
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Rebecca Shellhamer USA Nominee "Primal" Mini Troop |
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Remi Joseph d'Argent Australia Nominee "Last Feed Before Sunset" Continuous Grazing |
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Remi Joseph d'Argent Australia Nominee "Preening Time" White Swan Preening late Afternoon |
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Rene Wouters Netherlands Nominee "Air Traffic" |
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Rob Hunt UK Nominee "The Three Little Pigs" Three piglets enjoy a snooze in the warm pigsty. |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Landing" New Delhi, India |
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Robin Greenbaum USA Nominee "Zebra" Zebra |
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Ron Hewit UK Nominee "Ducks in a Row" Six ducks on the river Teviot in the Sottish borders |
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Rupert Horst Portugaller Austria Nominee "November Brunch" |
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Sarah Pembroke Australia Nominee "Creeper" |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "Hallo!" |
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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Butterfly" |
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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Sisters" |
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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Spider Mom" |
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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Tiny Buttefly" |
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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee "Wild Horses" |
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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee "Lusitano" Lusitano at ancient stables in Meknes, Morocco |
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Susan Greeff South Africa Nominee "Leopard & Zebra" Leopard and Zebra Kill in a Tree |
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Susan Perry USA Nominee "Rumpled Pigskin" |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "el caballo" |
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