Nature - Professional

Dylan Fox Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Resting Place" I had set out this particular evening planning to explore and photograph the Wylie Bay sand dunes. However, when I arrived, heavy cloud had settled on the horizon blocking any strong light from...

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Luke Tscharke Australia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Barossa Bolt" A large storm rolls over Moculta in the Barossa Valley, South Australia

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Ed Cooley USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Enchanted"

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Mark Goebel USA Honorable Mention "Chew Sculpted Pinon" Small animals chewed this Pinon tree to create this sculpture, New Mexico, March 4, 2016

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Dianne Yudelson USA Honorable Mention "Carpenter Bees"

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention "Candlestick"

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Sverker Johansson Sweden Honorable Mention "September" Bear country. September sun rises to clear the mist from the forest stream - Finnmark, Sweden.

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Edmond Terakopian UK Honorable Mention "Murmurations" A murmuration of starlings at dusk, just after the sunset at the beach in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK

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Matthew James Smith USA Honorable Mention "Skógafoss" Skógafoss, Iceland Waterfall

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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention "Graphical Contemplation " When it is snowy and foggy, it is interesting to look for minimalistic composition

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Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Honorable Mention "White Out"

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Lee Gordon USA Honorable Mention "Apple Tree Naked Dance" apple tree dancing naked in winter fog

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Transcendence " Transcendence was captured in Yosemite National Park, CA.

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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention "Dune" Beautiful sunrise on the sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley

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Iain Morton Australia Honorable Mention "Dead Forrest" Burnt forrest at Mt Hotham, Victoria, Australia

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Pal Hermansen Norway Honorable Mention "Glacier Front" Glacier fornt, Austfonna, Svalbard

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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention "Black Hills (2)" the light effect was possible thanks to the diffusion on the dust scattered by the wind

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention "Flying Butterfly" Flowers

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Paul Abbitt New Zealand Honorable Mention "White Horses" Urban Surf Project, Portugal

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Jiri Jiroutek Czech Republic Honorable Mention "Landscape 01"

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Mabry Campbell USA Honorable Mention "Above North Blvd No. 5"

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Jonathan Dann USA Honorable Mention "Alaskan Sunrise" alaskan cove sunrise

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John E. Kelly USA Honorable Mention "Bent Tree Over Road"

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Akkarawin Krairiksh Thailand Nominee "The Cavern" The cave reveal those movement as time goes by.

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Alessandro Puccinelli Italy Nominee "Mare 280" A huge wave in Nazarè, Portugal

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Between Sky and Earth" volcano taken in Iceland on a plane, i was amazed by the textures created by the clouds

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Chinese Painting" Top of the Zhangjiagjie mountains

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alun crockford UK Nominee "Garrofera 2"

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Amit Verma India Nominee "Winter Morning" Beas River at its best on a winter morning...

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Andre Boto Portugal Nominee "Dark Nature" The lines and textures of nature.

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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee "Jökulsarlon, Iceland"

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Andy McRory USA Nominee "Cleaved in Two" Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in early spring, California, 2016

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Art Gallegos USA Nominee "Timberline" View from Timberline Hotel, Mt Hood OR

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Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee "Uluru" Uluru, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Astralia

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Brett Birdsong USA Nominee "Skyline Fog" Fog along Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "A Winter's Tale I"

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "Those Foggy Days"

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Charles Davis Smith USA Nominee "Great Sand Dunes (1)" Sand Boarding at Great Sand Dunes National Park

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Charles Davis Smith USA Nominee "Rocky Mountain Grass Spikes"

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Christina Czybik Germany Nominee "Abstract Iceland" Double Exposure of the Nature in Iceland

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Christopher Brown USA Nominee "Snake River" Palladium Print 11" x 8" on Platine

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Christopher Brown USA Nominee "Ice Grotto" 4x5 Large Format Film

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Cody Brothers USA Nominee "Great Sand Dunes (2)" Analog infrared capture with a 4x5 camera

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "On The Edge" A solitary juniper clings to the edge of a broken cliff.

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David Gubernick USA Nominee "Storm Over Half Dome"

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David J. West USA Nominee "Sandstone Layers" Takien on June 29 2016 in Zion National Park, Utah

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Dawn Benko USA Nominee "Renewal" The bottom of Dutchman Falls in Loyalsock State Forest, Pennsylvania

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Reflection (2)" Summer sky reflection at lake Luutalammi, Finland

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Don Hall USA Nominee "Van Gogh Sky" Dramatic backlit clouds formed over Washington's Destruction Island near sunset.

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Ice on Cotton"

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Fluenta Vitae 03M"

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Ice on the Water"

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Dwight Hiscano USA Nominee "Sand and Surf #8667"

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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee "Trail Blazing" Strong winds blow sand across the dunes and off the edges of the s-bend.

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Dylan Collard UK Nominee "Life and Death 01" A series shot in my local park where I noticed a group of plants dying back last autumn.

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Dylan Collard UK Nominee "Life and Death 02" A series shot in my local park where I noticed a group of plants dying back last autumn.

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee "Tree and Sky"

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Emmanuel Zouboulis Germany Nominee "The Giving Tree" We don't know where our path might lead us. It will be dark sometimes but there will always be light

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Felicia Tausig USA Nominee "Ripple Effect" Mono Lake, California - Where seagulls go to have their young

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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee "JellyBelly #3" From my "JellyBelly" seires. An Aurelia Jellyfish.

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Frances Suter Australia Nominee "Winter Scene"

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Francesco Bosso Italy Nominee "Bubble" Iceland in 2013, a magical moment where the heart of the earth turns into a water bubble

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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee "Lines And Dust" Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee "Dunes And Aragosa Range" Death Valley National Park, California

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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee "Above Earth"

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "The Gathering, Snowdonia" Fleeting sunshine bursts through heavy cloud cover on Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "A Gentle Push, Anglesey" At dusk, gentle waves push up the beach, cleansing the sand for the next day

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "Explosions Softened" Fuerteventura - White Sahara sands cover vast sheets of black volcanic stone on this Canary Island

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "A Curved Arrangement" Incredible sand formations caused by rapid outgoing tide on Anglesey, Wales

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "Last Light on an Ancient Volcano" Subtle evening light on this ancient and heavily eroded Fuerteventura volcano

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H Henthorne USA Nominee "Iceland #37" Ocean & Earth - Iceland

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Hans Strand Sweden Nominee "Craterland" An aerial of the river Skaftá and some volcanic craters in the highlands of Iceland.

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Hiromichi Endo Japan Nominee "The Stillness of Silence" This project is an attempt to perceive the existence that produces “life” which transcends human intellect.

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Iain Morton Australia Nominee "Determination" Adelaide Hills, South Australia

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James Fox USA Nominee "Sands"

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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee "Power of Water" An homage to 100 years of national parks and their greatness.

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Jessica Cardelucci USA Nominee "Blown Away" The Wedge in Newport Beach, California, 2014

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Jiri Tondl Czech Republic Nominee "Morning at the River"

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Joe Patronite USA Nominee "Rainbow in the Storms" As a huge thunderstorm makes it's way over Arches National Park, the late afternoon sun reveals a ra

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Joe Patronite USA Nominee "Moonset over Sonoran Desert Arizona" The full moon heads to the horizon at Sunrise over the Saguro Cactus in the Sonoran Desert in Arizon

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John Orcutt USA Nominee "Stand of Maples at Mosher Hill" Isolated grove of majestic maple trees on a snowy day.

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John Orcutt USA Nominee "Ghost Maples in Snow Storm" Howling wind and swirling snow obscure tree trunks at ground level.

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John E. Kelly USA Nominee "Dead Tree With Crows"

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Natures Bath" Lake Louisa, Florida

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "A Window to the Sky" Arches National Park, Utah

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Earth" Palouse, Washington State

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Ancient Storyteller" Maui

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Joseph Romeo USA Nominee "Ice, Burke Lake, Virginia" Broken Ice forms on Burke Lake

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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee "Avalanche Control" Pedaling my bike around Canmore, AB I came to a road of stopped traffic. Funny to me considering there wasn't a traffic signal for miles. Controlled avalanches are the prescribed method for avoiding d

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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee "Mountains in the Mist" Breaking out of the tree line for a quick glimpse up at Ha Ling peak above me. There was fog in the air, the ground was already covered in snow with more weather on the way.

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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee "Sunrise, Angeles National Forest" Bikepacking through the Angeles National Forest, looking east to the sunrise as The City of Los Angeles sleeps to the south. The fingerlike ridges of the San Gabriel mountains play with the clouds, ke

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Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram India Nominee "Mystic Sea" I traveled to this particular place kovalam beach(india)to take seascape pictures and during sunset i took this shot at the beach, in black & white i achieved this scenic effect.

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Kerry Wilson Australia Nominee "Horizon #04" From a series titled Horizon, which studies the clouds over the ocean from the Sydney cliffs. The series took three years of sunrises and is still ongoing.

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KIRK GITTINGS USA Nominee "Walking Rain, Petrified Forest AZ 2013" An extraordinary historic landscape along Rt. 66 in AZ.

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Kris Chappell Canada Nominee "HooDooYouDo" Analog Capture

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Larry Louie Canada Nominee "Mountains of Upper Mustang" The mountains in Upper Mustang

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Larry Louie Canada Nominee "Beauty of Upper Mustang" Upper Mustang Scenery

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Lee Gordon USA Nominee "Poplar Trees Winter Fog" winter fog framing a stand of poplar trees

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Lee Scott USA Nominee "Homage to the Sun and Moon" The monoliths of The Temple of the Sun and Moon dominate the magnificent Cathedral Valley, Utah.

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "East Mitten Glow"

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Sunset Bonneville Salt Flats"

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Twinn Peaks Badlands SD"

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Lucy A Kennedy USA Nominee "Race Track Death Valley" Racetrack is a playa - a dry lake bed-known for its strange moving rocks. Taken in light full moon.

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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "Monsoons Over Mui La" The sense of oppression along as a consequence of being helpless in between the elements, the sense of impotence of a grain of sand smashed against the majesty of the mountains and against the incomin

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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee "Geryon Awakens" Early morning mist parts revealing the three peaks of Mount Geryon

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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee "The Pool of Memories" Mount Geryon relfected in the calm waters of the Pool of Memories

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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee "Lake Oberon" The summit of Mount Pegasus casts a shadow over Lake Oberon in the early morning light

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Marc Cartwright USA Nominee "Alien Tree" Pacific Palisades, CA

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee "Ice on the Rocks" Jokulsarlon's beach, Iceland

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Marion Faria USA Nominee "Mittens Rush" The effect of a l0 stop ND filter on moving clouds in Monument valley

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Mark Goebel USA Nominee "Snow Hummocks, Illuminated by the Full Moon" Snow Hummocks, illuminated by the full moon, New Mexico, November 25, 2015

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Moonrise (1)" An ancient bristle pine tree as the moon looms above in the morning light

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Martin Zurmuhle Switzerland Nominee "Moon meets Matterhorn"

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "From Here To There" A tidal stream winds it's way to the sea.

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Shelter From the Storm" Resting in the face of an oncoming storm

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Time & Tide" Low tide in the Fiord

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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee "The Tree (1)"

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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee "Fog"

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Gap Of Dunloe, Ireland" Gap Of Dunlop, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Bearna an Choimín meaning "gap of the common-land"

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Last Light On El Capitan" Last Light On El Capitan, Yosemite National Park. CA

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "Tse Bi dahi or the Rock with Wings" Shiprock - huge volcanic plug sacred to Navajo People, The charismatic power of monolith is stunning.

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "The Chronicles of Amber" Shiprock - the 1700-foot eroded volcanic plug in northwestern New Mexico. Aerial.

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "Balck Falls" Svartifoss (Black Falls) is a waterfall in Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland.

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Neal Panton Canada Nominee "Godafoss" Iceland

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Nico Garstman Netherlands Nominee "Waterfall" Waterfall Schotland 2016

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Nila Onda USA Nominee "Lone Tree's Blues" Late at night I ventured out to photograph the blizzard. That lone tree, fragile yet resilient, sang to me.

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Nirzhar Pradhan USA Nominee "Storm Over Sedona" Pulled over on the side of the road to capture the storm brewing on my way to Sedona.

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Dreamy Valley - The Desert Of Souls"

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Patrick Desvergnes France Nominee "Tree II"

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Paul Sanders UK Nominee "Lost in the Drift" Seven shot stitched panorma of fir trees during a blizzard

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee "Misty Falls At Vik" These misty falls near Vik, Iceland, are beautiful in their simplicity and force.

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee "Dunes 1"

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee "Jagged 1"

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee "Snow Dune"

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "The Giant" A rare Satinay tree that managed to escape the shadows of the forest floor and make it to the sky.

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "Hammerstone Dune 1" The multiple patterns found when wind and water run across the surface of a sand dune

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Phil Hawkins USA Nominee "Half Dome in Yosemite" After a winter storm in Yosemite National Park. Half Dome over Cook's Meadow.

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Phil Hawkins USA Nominee "Lightning near Brevard NC" A double lightning strike near Brevard, NC from Jump Off Rock.

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "Nature " water drop

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Reece Donihi USA Nominee "Beach Grass" Grass on Sand Dunes at Cape Hatteras

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Reece Donihi USA Nominee "Natures Heart" Natures Heart, Birds rising in Mississippi

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Richard Mack USA Nominee "Waves #6" Great Lakes Waves caught in the moment.

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Desert" The Salar do Uyuni, Bolivia (Andes altiplan)

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Ron Schwager USA Nominee "Bandon Oregon 1" The beach at Bandon Oregon

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Ron Schwager USA Nominee "Bandon Oregon 2" The beach at Bandon Oregon

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Ross Thompson Australia Nominee "Arrangement #3" A sand-blown natural sculpture, in Bunjalung National Park, Australia.

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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee "Ice After the Fire" In 2003 there were extensive fires in the Snowy Mountains of Australia and many of the snow gums have not regenerated.

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Aurora" I used this fence in the foreground to echo the form of the Northern light

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Twist" The curve of the road seems to echo to the curve of the clouds

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Where?" A simple road to give deepness and perspective

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Shinsuke Yoshida Japan Nominee "A Piece of Wood" A piece of wood in the lake

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Simon Puschmann Germany Nominee "Tree, Rain"

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "White Patches #03" Landmannalaugar, Iceland

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "Icelandic Aerial #081" Aerial image of volcanic rivers in Iceland photographed from the open window of Cessna aircraft.

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "Zante" Zakynthos, Greece

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Above And Below" I saw the clouds building in the south so having local knowledge and radar i set up on a low rock position and waited for the storm that turned out to be one of the biggest in many years

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Pure Dune" Part of a new B&W nature & landscape portfolio in development. See it at SteveZmak.com.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Sand Flats Study" Sand flats far north Queensland crocodile infested area.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Incoming Gale" Moments before a 100 k gale hit.

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Pastel Dawn " A tranquil dawn at Loch Leven in the Scottish Highlands

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Storm Approaching" An evening storm rolls in over the Sangre di Cristo Mountains

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Wild Surf Australia"

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Steven Massart Belgium Nominee "Seascape"

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Steven Begleiter USA Nominee "Storm Brewing" Photographed looking at Beacon Point near Yellowstone Park in Montana

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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee "In the Forest 2"

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Szymon Brodziak Poland Nominee "The Tree (3)"

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Tatyana Bessmertnaya USA Nominee "Rain over Davis Mountains"

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Theresa Tarara USA Nominee "June Leaf 16"

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TM Reymond Netherlands Nominee "Rush 3"

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Tom Lowe USA Nominee "Cinder Cone " Caged River - Owens Valley, CA

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Tom Lowe USA Nominee "Snaking Along the Foothills" Caged River - Owens Valley, CA

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Toni Sergio Carbone Italy Nominee "Look at Me" The photo was taken in the studio with a lot of patience .

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Trees in Exchange" A triptych - left and right images are identical while the middle image is identical but inverted.

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Two Aspens" Two aspen trees in morning light in the California Eastern Sierras.

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Tracy Ryan Australia Nominee "Devils Marbles" Karlu, Karlu (Devils Marbles), Northern Territory, Australia.

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Tracy Ryan Australia Nominee "Cloud Burst, Karlu Karlu Conservation Reserve, NT" Cloud Burst, Karlu, Karlu (Devils Marbles), Northern Territory, Australia.

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Valerio Bellone Italy Nominee "Etna Volcano" Strange cloud formations are mixed with the smoke of the volcano.

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Wilhelm Scholz USA Nominee "Lonely Cloud" Cloud Drifting

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Salmon" Water Waves

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Rolling Ball"

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