Wildlife - Amateur

TL Khong Malaysia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Pole Dancer"

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Bernard Werner USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Endangered!"

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Christian Meermann Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Giraffe (2)" Eye to eye with a Giraffe.

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David Poplawski USA Honorable Mention "Night Heron" The immature Night Heron tends to stand in the hunched " no-neck " Green heron type posture

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Kent Burkhardsmeier USA Honorable Mention "Black Birds"

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Richard Murai USA Honorable Mention "Bound Elephant, Laos, 2016" Bound elephant, Laos, 2016

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Bernard Werner USA Honorable Mention "Movin' Out"

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Sarah Corbin USA Honorable Mention "The Fight" Camargue Horses, France

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Dmitry Arkhipov Russia Honorable Mention "Pretty mono" Pretty bear

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Honorable Mention "Nino" American Crocodile, shot in Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. Locals affectionately call them 'Nino'

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TL Khong Malaysia Honorable Mention "The First Explorers" Two ants entering the funnel of a flower to reach the pollen within

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Amardeep Singh India Honorable Mention "Horn power" Reindeers in taiga, Mongolia

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Lynn Jenkin Australia Honorable Mention "Weightless" Enjoying the freedon of turnout in Tuscant 2015

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Marg Wood USA Honorable Mention "Big Thirst" Botswana Africa

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Porus Khareghat India Honorable Mention "GHOST " THE GHOST OF THE JUNGLE , RARELY REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE SUNLIGHT

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Donn Dobkin USA Honorable Mention "Sealfoam" Harbor seal in seafoam, along the rocky shore, Shelter Cove, CA

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Luke Gordon Canada Honorable Mention "Caught" Chum Salmon are caught in a BC river, these fish will supply the next batch of eggs for the hatchery

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Anna Barber USA Honorable Mention "Zebra Illusions in BW"

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Partha Roy Singapore Honorable Mention "Innocent Beast"

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Lynn Tait Canada Honorable Mention "Mug Shot" Taken at a Raptor Conservancy in Ontario. Raptors have incredible personalities!

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Carolyn Knorr USA Honorable Mention "Young Loaghton Ram" Young male Loaghton sheep acting silly.

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Adam Felde USA Nominee "Snow Geese Blast Off" Snow Geese taking off, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico

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Adi Khindaria USA Nominee "Gangs of Mumbai" Crows on Marine Drive

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Adi Khindaria USA Nominee "Nobody's Pet" Street Dogs and Man - Daily conflict - India

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee "Fathomless look" Fathomless look

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee "Feelings" Mutual Feelings

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Amit Jung KC France Nominee "The Eye." Taken in Park Floral,Paris.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Threatened Fruit Bats" These African bats are often viewed as pests but play a crucial role in conservation efforts when looking at (w)holistic ecosystems. Hunting & habitat pressures disturb their roosts.

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Andrea e Silva Brazil Nominee "The liberation of the doves" Santos’ harbor - Brazil

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee "Blowing in the Wind" Photographed at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee "African Martial Eagle" Captured in South Africa

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Annie Low Malaysia Nominee "Zebra at the Masai Mara"

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Annie Low Malaysia Nominee "Family Portrait"

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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee "Pigeon in the rain"

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Barbara Krieger USA Nominee "An Afternoon Stroll" An Afternoon Stroll

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "WNDOW TO THE SOUL" YNP

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "BISON STILL LIFE" YNP

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "IMMERSION CLEARING " YNP - KEINEN BLASSEN DUNST von Einsamkeit und Überleben

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "PHANTOM-END" YNP

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "Fish Tree" Taken in Raja Empat, Indonesia, in year 2017

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Benjamin Zander USA Nominee "Glacier Dogs" Sled Dogs on a Glacier in Juneau, Alaska

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Bernard Ng Malaysia Nominee "Equal" It was captured during the stork cleaning its feathers and form a vertical equal sign

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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee "Diving Pelican" This was one of a series of images I made in Aruba. This particular pelican was showing me his best

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Bill HARBIN USA Nominee "Honey Bee"

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Cheetah"

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Brian Rivera USA Nominee "Wolf Clash" Wolves clash, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - display of wildlife emotion and movement

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Brian Rivera USA Nominee "Tenderness" Wolves display a moment of wildlife tenderness and affection, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Flight of a Butterfly" A Butterfly in Flight

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Tiger" Portrait of a tiger

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Dalia Fichmann Switzerland Nominee "Black Power" Powerful Friesian horse in the snow.

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David Poplawski USA Nominee "The Need To Moisturize" Taken at high noon on a bright sunny day

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David Roditi France Nominee "RODITI-DAVID_Mr" Bird on a branch

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Debra Kail USA Nominee "Focused" Harris Hawk working with handler at beautiful Bovey Castle, UK

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Dimo Dimov Bulgaria Nominee "Swans at rest"

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Dmitry Arkhipov Russia Nominee "Face to face mono" Face to face with polar bear

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Turtle Eclipse" A threatened Green Sea Turtle, or Honu in Hawaiian, on the surface off the coast of Maui.

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Gliding off the Sand" A threatened Green Sea Turtle, or Honu in Hawaiian, coming up for air off the coast of Maui.

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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Fritillary"

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Doris Ferrarese Canada Nominee "The Dunes, The Sun and The Wind Lover" This photograph captures a moment of relief and total silence shared only by this wind lover and myself. The early morning temps hit 14 degrees fahrenheit, with a howling wind but when the sun poked...

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Dr. Ulrich M. Ratschker Germany Nominee "Swallowtail" There are many butterfly pictures, mostly taken from above or as a side view. I found it all the more interesting to catch this moth, a swallowtail, which sat between two plant stems, from below. Colo

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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "The Witcher " A Bald Eagle takes a branch off a dead tree for it's nest

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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "Swimming In Sagegrass" A male Bison chaces after a mate

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Felix Shparberg Australia Nominee "Kindred"

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Gail Foster Canada Nominee "At Attention"

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Gautam Kamat Bambolkar India Nominee "Growing Grey" As I kept looking this Gorilla , a rep standing near me said “He is growing old & grey. He doesn’t do any work in the day. He is near to his end.”

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Georgette Aleiferi Greece Nominee "Waiting lady" Pindos mountain.wild horses in Tymfi

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Gregoris Mentzas Greece Nominee "Giraffe (1)" Baringo giraffe. From my series "Animal Kingdom".

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Gregoris Mentzas Greece Nominee "Sumatran Tiger II" Sumatran Tiger II. From my series "Animal Kingdom".

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Australasian Gannets"

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Jesse Mechling USA Nominee "Hawksbill rising" Hawksbill Turtle, Gili Air, Indonesia

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Jesse Mechling USA Nominee "Dancing Dolphin" Spinner dolphin, Kona Hawaii

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Blizzard Moose" Moose making its way through a blizzard in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Prehistoric" African Spurred Tortoise

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John Galbreath USA Nominee "Lone Runner" A lone stallion running across the vast meadow of northern New Mexico.

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Jose Javier Delgado Esteban Spain Nominee "Mantee Calf Portrait" Portrait of a West Indies Manatee at King's Bay, Crystal River, Florida, USA.

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "The Flock 2" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee "Alone" lensbaby

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Appaloosa Baby" Spotted foal

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "Giraffe In The Mist"

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "Jumping swimmers" South Africa, dolphins jumping

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "One plus two" South Africa, dolphins jumping

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Lea Foster USA Nominee "Safe in Momma's Wings" A one week old Mute Swan cygnet nestled into its mother's wings

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Leah Lallier USA Nominee "Flight" A seagull takes off above three others

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Leonardo Tonin Brazil Nominee "Grace.Don't let it get away! " Fusiliers' Arch in St Stephens Green Park, Dublin.

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Les Bentley USA Nominee "Calling The Harem" A Bull Elk is calling his harem of females as he walks through the forest in Jasper National Park.

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Les Bentley USA Nominee "Stare Of The Ram" A Bighorn Sheep Ram stares intently as he walks through the streets of Radium Hot Springs, Canada.

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Two Lions"

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Lubos Stepanek USA Nominee "Ogling Mantis"

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Luke Gordon Canada Nominee "Aquatic Beanstalk" A sea slug climbs perilously high

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Luke Gordon Canada Nominee "Miniature" Juvenile frogfish being measured during a research dive, grains of sand give a perspective...

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Luke Gordon Canada Nominee "Next Generation" The developing embryo of a Coho Salmon

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Marg Wood USA Nominee "the world is right" Rwanda mountain gorillas

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Marg Wood USA Nominee "little thinker" Rwanda mountain gorilla

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Marg Wood USA Nominee "The Gang" Botswana Africa

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Marg Wood USA Nominee "Mom and Me" Amboseli Kenya

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Marg Wood USA Nominee "Moving Day" Maasai Mara Kenya

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "the feeling of relief" Tanzania

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Mark Coatsworth USA Nominee "Ravens Atop Diesel Tank"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Buckskin Next Gen"

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Mary Aiu USA Nominee "Danca do Cavalo Lusitano"

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee "preening egret"

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee "chasing minnows"

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee "Basking in the sun"

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Michael Pachis USA Nominee "Pillow Talk"

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Ning Mosberger-Tang USA Nominee "Giraffe (3)" Giraffe in Kenya

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Paul Denbow USA Nominee "Morning Passage" Snow Geese take flight before dawn

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee "Equus- 1" When I was a kid, I had a passion for horses. Detail of forehead.

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PoHua Lin Taiwan Nominee "Dinner time"

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PoHua Lin Taiwan Nominee "Danger keep off"

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PoHua Lin Taiwan Nominee " grimace"

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Ravikumar Jambunathan Singapore Nominee "Angry Birds" Angry Flamingoes..

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Roberto Alessandrini Italy Nominee "Icelands" Skogafoss

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Sandy Scott USA Nominee "Portrait of a screech owl" A close-up of a screech owl perched in a tree

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Sarah Corbin USA Nominee "Run at Sunset" Camargue Horses, France

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Simon Chien Taiwan Nominee "Heating" The Monkey standing in the snow, They heating each other

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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Norwegian Deer"

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "Gibbon" A Gibbon in the Borneo Jungle

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Stephen Weaver USA Nominee "Bison" early morning mist on backlit bison at the Medano Ranch, Colorado

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Steven Greenbaum USA Nominee "The Contemplative Gorilla" Gorilla, Miami Zoo, Jan 2015

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Steven Greenbaum USA Nominee "Wood Stork" Wakodahatchee Preserve

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Susan Perry USA Nominee "Follow Me!"

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Tom Rutherfoord USA Nominee "Elephants I" Elephants in the Mara I, June 2016

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Tom Rutherfoord USA Nominee "Elephants II" Elephants in the Mara II, June 2016

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Vera Frei Switzerland Nominee "the insidious potential of being weightlessly in love"

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Veronica de Bruyn South Africa Nominee "Sibling Interaction" Early morning in the Kalahari,South Africa after a good meal fun and games started when the young li

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "Hair-Raiser" Hairy Frogfish portrait taken at Lembeh Straits, Indonesia

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "Peduncle Throw" This is a powerful manoeuvre by humpback whale where thrusts its lower body into the water

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "On the Brink" Humpback whale in Tonga, on the brink of breaking the water surface.

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "Silky Silhouette" With a slender and streamlined body, silky sharks are so named for the smooth texture of its skin.

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Under the light" Mantis religiosa

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Zuie Lo Hong Kong Nominee "An Eternal Dreamland"

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