Still Life - Professional

Two Spoons Simon Brown
UK

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Two Spoons"
Two Spoons



Oyster Mushroom 41 Dale M Reid
Canada

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Oyster Mushroom 41"
Silver Gelatin. 2016. Image reminiscent of Blossfeldt's & Weston's work, founding fathers of photographic still life studies of natural forms. I have personalized the image through lighting technique.



Obscura Phone Alan Kent
UK

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Obscura Phone"



Pins and Needle Dianne Yudelson
USA

Honorable Mention

"Pins and Needle"



Kitchen Still Life, Wiloughby House Simon Brown
UK

Honorable Mention

"Kitchen Still Life, Wiloughby House"
Kitchen Still Life, Wiloughby House



Oyster Mushroom 43 Dale M Reid
Canada

Honorable Mention

"Oyster Mushroom 43"
Silver Gelatin. 2017. Image reminiscent of Blossfeldt's & Weston's work, founding fathers of photographic still life studies of natural forms. I have personalized the image through lighting technique.



Cacti Jeff Eden
UK

Honorable Mention

"Cacti"
Cacti



Guns Jason Knott
UK

Honorable Mention

"Guns"
Water Pistols



Four Bar Stools Chris Kirby
UK

Honorable Mention

"Four Bar Stools"
Four Bar Stools in odd alignment creates an interesting abstraction



Dead Animals Joerg Barkholz
Germany

Honorable Mention

"Dead Animals"



Into the woods Marina Tennefoss
Norway

Honorable Mention

"Into the woods"



Even oak furniture will not last for ever Bas van der Poel
Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"Even oak furniture will not last for ever"
This shot is taken in Portugal in an completely abandoned villa.



Puffballs Ron Schwager
USA

Honorable Mention

"Puffballs"
The seed pods from the Purple Salsify plant



Cash Register Tape Ron Schwager
USA

Honorable Mention

"Cash Register Tape"
The integrity of an image sometimes lies in a mere elegant shape bathed in light.



Water Lily Xray Allan Gill
Canada

Honorable Mention

"Water Lily Xray"
Floral Xray image with texture



Non Sequitur #63 Chris Roche
USA

Honorable Mention

"Non Sequitur #63"



Wooden Legs Rohn Meijer
Italy

Honorable Mention

"Wooden Legs"
December 2017, COPE, Vientiane, Laos, provider of prosthetic, orthotic and rehabilitation.



Game Over Catherine Roberts Leach
USA

Honorable Mention

"Game Over"



Phone with Flowers Alan Kent
UK

Honorable Mention

"Phone with Flowers"



Strung Out Emanuel Dale
USA

Honorable Mention

"Strung Out"



Brooms Steven Edson
USA

Honorable Mention

"Brooms"
Handmade brooms hanging in a barn at the County Fair



Glass Tea Cups Steven Edson
USA

Honorable Mention

"Glass Tea Cups"
Glass tea cups sitting on a shelf



Flower Tom Epperson
Philippines

Honorable Mention

"Flower"
I was working on a commercial assignment when I was captivated by this flower. It was shot in open shade.



fern Simon Puschmann
Germany

Honorable Mention

"fern"



143 Ken Loyst
USA

Honorable Mention

"143"
Open 143



A L O N E Edwin Loyola
Philippines

Honorable Mention

"A L O N E"



Twist and Turn Adrian Davis
USA

Nominee

"Twist and Turn"
Antique Fire Truck Valves



Autumn Leaves Ady Kerry
UK

Nominee

"Autumn Leaves"
Autumn leaves on the ground, Blean Woods, Kent.



SILENTIO ALEC WOLVEC
USA

Nominee

"SILENTIO"



Elegant Lily Xray Allan Gill
Canada

Nominee

"Elegant Lily Xray"
Floral Xray image



Cutlery Andre Melo-Andrade
Brazil

Nominee

"Cutlery"
Light and shadow turn different the same thing. It depends the way we use to look at the things.



Skull Ann Elliott Cutting
USA

Nominee

"Skull"



Tulips Annie Katz
USA

Nominee

"Tulips"
Tulips in a garden in Aspen, Colorado. USA.



Salted Chandelier Bobby Dong
Singapore

Nominee

"Salted Chandelier"
Delicate chandelier made of salt and wood hanging in the Wieliczka Salt Mine



Cyclops Burt Crapo
USA

Nominee

"Cyclops"
This shell looked like the eye of a cyclops that met its match with a seagull on the beach.



fish Cees Rijnen
Netherlands

Nominee

"fish"



MaxMara_34 Cesare Di Liborio
Italy

Nominee

"MaxMara_34"



Portraits of Nature Christian Klant
Germany

Nominee

"Portraits of Nature"
Wet Plate Collodion Tintype



Window View Christina Schmidhofer
USA

Nominee

"Window View"
Garden shack's Window View



Kapok blossom Claude Ka Kit Tsang
Hong Kong

Nominee

"Kapok blossom"
Blossom of Kapok in the spring.



Arrow, Phoenix Mountain, China Deborah Gray Mitchell
USA

Nominee

"Arrow, Phoenix Mountain, China"
Boardwalk arrow, Phoenix Mountain, near Harbin, China, October 2017



Pot Luck Debra Ledsinger
USA

Nominee

"Pot Luck"
Preston Castle - Ione, CA



Do Re Mi Fa So... Dianne Yudelson
USA

Nominee

"Do Re Mi Fa So..."



New Light Felipe Abraham
Chile

Nominee

"New Light"
Light Painting



Scarpa Francesco De Leonardis
Italy

Nominee

"Scarpa"



leaf Frank Bevans
USA

Nominee

"leaf"
autumn leaf with a slice of orange - Sticks and Stones series



Ying Yang Spaghetti Gareth Morgans
UK

Nominee

"Ying Yang Spaghetti"



Swing, Frya, Norway Geir Jordahl
USA

Nominee

"Swing, Frya, Norway"
From the project "Sorg: Norway"



Easter Lilly Close-up Harvey Duze
USA

Nominee

"Easter Lilly Close-up"
Closeup of the stigma, style, stamens, and filament of an Easter Lily.



Magic Butterfly Heiko Hellwig
Germany

Nominee

"Magic Butterfly"
Arrangement of 6 Morpho Butterflies



buds Hemali Acharya
USA

Nominee

"buds"



Three Chairs Paris Jack Dzamba (Dziamba)
USA

Nominee

"Three Chairs Paris"
Three Chairs Paris



Windy Seddon - NZ Jackie Ranken
New Zealand

Nominee

"Windy Seddon - NZ"
I photograph Household Utensils in the landscape as a way of communicating how I feel about where I



Leaf 3 Jeff Saxman
USA

Nominee

"Leaf 3"



Explosion Jeff Johnson
USA

Nominee

"Explosion"



Milkweed, Maine, USA John Orcutt
USA

Nominee

"Milkweed, Maine, USA"
Home of the Monarch Butterfly



Frozen Fish John Sylvester
Canada

Nominee

"Frozen Fish"
I discovered this image in the ice surface of a pond while skating.



Dying For A Cup Jonathan Brooks
USA

Nominee

"Dying For A Cup"
A skeleton holding a coffee cup



Bone Kunio Nakaoka
Japan

Nominee

"Bone"



Torn Face Leland Bobbe
USA

Nominee

"Torn Face"
6th Ave 32nd Street NYC



The Bishop's Bookshelf Martin Miller
USA

Nominee

"The Bishop's Bookshelf"



Vase Martina Herz
Austria

Nominee

"Vase"
This visual illusion points to the perception of the body as an empty vessel.



Vintage bottles Mauro Boiteux
Brazil

Nominee

"Vintage bottles"



Eyespiration in Paris Melanie E. Rijkers
Netherlands

Nominee

"Eyespiration in Paris"
Place de la Concorde, Mindfulness in Paris France



Faceless Buddha. Michelle Chaplow
Spain

Nominee

"Faceless Buddha."
Marble Buddha manufacturing in The Republic of the Union of Myanmar and formerly known as Burma.A work in progress, as only the highest grade of craftsman are allowed to work on the face of the Buddh



white food structure Nando Esteva
Spain

Nominee

"white food structure"



Space Walk Narinder Sall
USA

Nominee

"Space Walk"
Space Ship Seeking New LIfe in a Faraway Galaxie



Iris Professor Blaauw Nils Gunnebro
Sweden

Nominee

"Iris Professor Blaauw"
My flowers are like prima donnas!



protection Paul Sanders
UK

Nominee

"protection"



Sea of Umbrellas Rohn Meijer
Italy

Nominee

"Sea of Umbrellas"
January 2018 under a sea of umbrellas on a Pattaya beach, Thailand.



Window Rolf Walther
Germany

Nominee

"Window"



Insect Trap Sacha Ineichen
Switzerland

Nominee

"Insect Trap"



And They're Off Scott Barrow
USA

Nominee

"And They're Off"
Riders ready in the gate for a carnival's next race.



See Clamp Seth Mayer
USA

Nominee

"See Clamp"
The character of old tools I find have an interesting personality



Elegant (1) Sidney Cheung
Hong Kong

Nominee

"Elegant (1)"



Moose Was Here Steve Zmak
USA

Nominee

"Moose Was Here"
Denali National Park – From the portfolio, Alaskan Autumn, 2017



Ephemere Sue Vo-Ho
Canada

Nominee

"Ephemere"
Flowers are full of beauty and ephemeral delicacy.



Glowing Eggs Susan Brunner
Switzerland

Nominee

"Glowing Eggs"



Where Have All The Children Gone? Suzanne Sennhenn
USA

Nominee

"Where Have All The Children Gone?"
Taken at a memorial service for my friend's son, who died of unknown causes, too young.



Renaissance Theresa Tarara
USA

Nominee

"Renaissance"
Looking Glass Dreams



Shrimpy TM Reymond
Netherlands

Nominee

"Shrimpy"



grassland Ursula Stiglitz
Austria

Nominee

"grassland"
grow grew grown



Vintage pocket watches - Notting Hill London Val Kelly
UK

Nominee

"Vintage pocket watches - Notting Hill London"
Part of my ongoing 'Vintage London' collection



Madr-Vit_Pair Vit Madr
Czech Republic

Nominee

"Madr-Vit_Pair"
Life and Pairs



HIPPOCAMPES Viviane Basquine
France

Nominee

"HIPPOCAMPES"
This photo is taken from a series of photo reports I made in the Rungis warehouse.



Elegant (2) Wen Teng Yang
Taiwan

Nominee

"Elegant (2)"



Wilma´s Wolpertynger Wilma Roesch
Germany

Nominee

"Wilma´s Wolpertynger"
my "made hided parc-animal"



Preen  SS18 Yolanda Chiaramello
UK

Nominee

"Preen SS18"
Documenting Preen SS18 Catwalk installation For Flora Starkey



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