Wildlife - Amateur

Lynette Jonson Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Flamingo Art"

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Celia Kujala USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "My New Toy" A Steller sea lion swims toward me with her beautiful starfish toy. Norris Rocks, BC, Canada.

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Robert Vogt USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Allen's taking off" Allen's hummingbird preparing for liftoff.

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "Polar bear" polar bear

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Jill Snyder USA Honorable Mention "Batwall"

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "Funny duck" Funny duck

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Franck Rouzes France Honorable Mention "4 lovers" Love duel of damselfly!

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Cindy Poulin Canada Honorable Mention "Beautiful but Deadly" Snow Leopard, early morning.

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Daniel Dencescu Germany Honorable Mention "Murmurations" This is not a man with a pipe.

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Nick Green UK Honorable Mention "Twelve Geese"

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Thomas Kane Australia Honorable Mention "Orca" So beautiful, so dangerous...

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Nicola Bolton UK Honorable Mention "Lion King"

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Derek Chiang Singapore Honorable Mention "Kong" Kong

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Norman Soskel USA Honorable Mention "Bookends" Roma & Bella waiting not so patiently at the door with nosemarks & Roma fashionably w/ French ear.

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Ann Quinn USA Honorable Mention "engagement" a small lesson in mindfulness

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Honorable Mention "Initiation to life" Cabárceno, Spain

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Pei Chun Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention "Goat who wants to dive" When a goat looks towards the sea, he still wants to try diving.

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Andrew Upton USA Honorable Mention "A Delicate Balance " Before entering hot springs Japanese macaque, will test temperature with their hands. Nagano, Japan.

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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Honorable Mention "Heading Back to Nature"

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Brian Jones Australia Honorable Mention "Arctic Terns 2"

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Alex Politis France Honorable Mention "Disco birds"

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention "Savannah's demon" The hyena is caring a leg of wildebeest. Serengeti national park, Tanzania (Serengeti district), February, 2020

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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "Fox cliff" This was taken in August 2020, and shows an artic fox mum looking down at her two cubs below.

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Hilda Champion USA Honorable Mention "Elegance in Motion"

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Akira Yoshizawa Japan Nominee "Family" Location: Masai Mara National Park Kenya

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Anne Readel USA Nominee "Basking in the Sun" Painted turtle basking on a log in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Annie Low Malaysia Nominee "Nobility on the prairie" Cheetahs like to dance their figure in the sunset, leaving a lot of beautiful pictures in the world.

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "La catena" Greenland 2011

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "King Penguins" King Penguins On South Georgia Island

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Bindu Chandan India Nominee "Hoopoe Flyby" Can I come in please?

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Brian Clopp USA Nominee "The Scuffle" Wild stallions battle dramatically for hierarchy, sending young foals scattering from the melee.

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brian valente USA Nominee "Phoebe Hawking" A Black Phoebe fishing for mosquito Larvae

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C. Brianne Rockey USA Nominee "Moe & Marquee " 2021 Galloway calf with mother.

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Catherine Clifford Australia Nominee "Grey-headed Flying-fox, Australia"

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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Nominee "Mother's love" This little cygnet decided to sleep tucked under one of mum's feathers instead of her wing.

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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Nominee "Hippo with friend" Taken July 2018 in Masai Mara

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Celia Kujala USA Nominee "Descending from Above" A group of curious juvenile Steller sea lions descend toward me. Norris Rocks, BC, Canada.

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Celia Kujala USA Nominee "The Magician" A playful California sea lion pup appears to light up the ocean. Coronado Islands, Mexico.

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "The Call at my widnow" A sparrow in search of friendship knocks at my window

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Bongo #5" This image is part of my ongoing series of b&w animal portraits.

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Watusi #4" This image is part of an ongoing series of b&w animal portraits.

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Claudia Daniels USA Nominee "Floating" Nest building time for egrets

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Nominee "dilemma" The contrast created by the luxury buildings side by side with the slums of the city where I live

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "Skimming" This guy was amazing in his speed, agility and ability to run on water.

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Don Hooper UK Nominee "Snow Deer" A Red Deer Stag during snow fall in a Scottish woodland.

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Donald Wilson USA Nominee "A Shy Egret" A Great Egret hids its head but shows off its breeding season plumage.

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Edie Swift USA Nominee "The Praying Monkey" Nature includes the structures humans have built and others learn to adapt.

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Frank Proost Luxembourg Nominee "Out of the blue" 2019, Wale watching, Cape Town, Got lucky to shot this dolphin isolated from his family

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Gautam Kamat Bambolkar India Nominee "Dust Bath" At dusk, this massive bison wallowed through the hot sand and rose above the ground, making a cloud of dirt.

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee "Light-footed" Grace of the Butterfly

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee "Sprucing Up" A pelican spruces itself early in the morning at the Monte Casino Avery Sandton South Africa

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Bird Hotel"

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James Patrick Conway Brazil Nominee "Ods birds flock"

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Jan Gyllensten Sweden Nominee "Parental Pride" Ural owl with chick just having left the nest, sitting close with lots of parental pride shining...

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Jesse Mechling USA Nominee "Preening Peacock" Peacock, Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Dazzle"

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Jo Van Rossem Belgium Nominee "Eye CU" Safari vehicle reflected in the eye of a zebra, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

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John Petro USA Nominee "Pre-sunrise gathering" They met in a barren tree under a waning moon as the sun neared the horizon.

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Joseph Smith USA Nominee "Crows in Flight" Four crows launch into a foggy Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, CA

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Karin De Winter Belgium Nominee "You Talking To Me?" Face to face with a hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) on land, Serengeti, Tanzania.

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Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee "Silent flight" Highlands,Scotland

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Kartik Rawal India Nominee "Peeping Squirrel" A peeping squirrel - Thinking where's the photographer

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Katerina Muchova Czech Republic Nominee "jellyfish"

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Katerina Muchova Czech Republic Nominee "world of jellyfish"

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Mutual Trust" The complete trust between a wild animal in Kruger National Park and a stranger

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Kevin Lohman USA Nominee "Silverback 'Maraya'" Maraya, a silverback Mountain Gorilla with the Mubare group. What is he thinking?

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "Morning take off" Takeoff of the gray heron. Pantanal, Brazil. October, 2019

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Larry Bean USA Nominee "Bison Spa"

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Lee Chee Wai Malaysia Nominee "new kid in town" oriental honey buzzard sun bathing at lamp post after a heavy rainfall.

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Les Bentley USA Nominee "Floating Pelican" A Pelican floats by showing off its intricate design of feathers.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "Centrochelys sulcata mating"

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Lori S USA Nominee "the protector "

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "On the Flip Side"

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Martta Kelly USA Nominee "Birds on a Wire" Birds perch on a telephone wire

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Michael McKinney USA Nominee "Together Again" Elephant Seals enjoying close contact.

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Mok Hoe Singapore Nominee "Manta rays and sunburst" A pair of manta rays at a cleaning station under the noon sun. Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Neil Williams USA Nominee "One In The Bush"

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Nelson Rudiak USA Nominee "Cow #50" An inqusitive cow with great personality.

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "The Exam"

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Oyvind Pedersen Norway Nominee "Into The Light" Elephant in a rain storm

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Pascal Dorothee France Nominee "The king of animals"

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Pat Maycroft UK Nominee "Confused" taken on Ilford HP5 plus film

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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee "Southern Ground Hornbills, Kenya" Juvenile stay with their parents for a year, and this mother thinks that time has come!

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Patrick Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "Looking for the light"

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Patrick O'Brien USA Nominee "Sammie"

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Paula Price USA Nominee "Taking Flight" On Green Lake in Wisconsin – With a beautiful tree presenting such a powerful image, one might miss the geese taking to the sky in the background.

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Poul Helt Denmark Nominee "See what Moom can do"

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Robert Ruble USA Nominee "Storm Coming" Severe weather approaching fast - infrared photo

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Robert Vogt USA Nominee "Allen's hummingbird in flight" Allen's hummingbird in flight

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee "Bad Hair Day" Wild horse of Sundre Alberta

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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee "Humming Bird in Flight" Hummingbird flying from flower to flower of Chihuly Gardens, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee "Symmetry in Flight" A cormorant in flight, along Florida's coast.

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Stefan Neagu Romania Nominee "Encounters" Wild indian elephant coming out from the bushes. Film photography.

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Susan Hillyard USA Nominee "Sibling Rivalry"

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Susan Perry USA Nominee "The Art of Preening"

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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee "Tiny Feet" A hummingbird delicately balances on a petal while drinking nectar.

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee "Tiger" Tiger

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Tim Owen USA Nominee "3 Amigos" These 3 friends must enjoy having their photo taken, as they posed perfectly for the group portrait.

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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee "Gannets at Saltee Island" I went to Saltee Island in County Wexford in Ireland, where I took this picture.

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Solitary Reflection" Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, 2017

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Vitaliy Plyaka Ukraine Nominee "Whats up man?" DR Congo, Bukavu, Kahuzi-Biéga National Park

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Wong Kum Loon Malaysia Nominee "Line Up"

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Stingray" A stingray on a beach in Menorca.

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Yaron Schmid USA Nominee "Grevy's Illusion " A Grevy's zebra with an illusion of one head and two bodies.

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