Abstract - Amateur

Absentia Massimiliano Balo'
UK

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Absentia"



Shafts Through Shoji Judy M. King
USA

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Shafts Through Shoji"



Dancer Volker Kesting
Netherlands

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Dancer"



Martini Dream Dave Cohen
USA

Honorable Mention

"Martini Dream"



Vines Ruth Ball
Canada

Honorable Mention

"Vines"



Beach Posts Mitchell Anolik
USA

Honorable Mention

"Beach Posts"



triangulaated Judith A. Taylor
UK

Honorable Mention

"triangulaated"
Lakeside, Geneva (Switzerland).



Agony Mia Depaola
USA

Honorable Mention

"Agony"
Agony, aging in times of covid



black matter Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti
France

Honorable Mention

"black matter"
An opposition between black and white where an abstract landscape emerges.



Carrabassett Ripples C E Morse
USA

Honorable Mention

"Carrabassett Ripples"
Cross-current ripples in the crystal clear water of the Carrabassett River



Dancing Spirits Robin Zygelman
USA

Honorable Mention

"Dancing Spirits"



City Sledders Claudia Zeien
USA

Honorable Mention

"City Sledders"
Intentional Camera Movement - Children climb the snowy hill before the last ride of the day



Cool Jazz Arthur Jacoby
USA

Honorable Mention

"Cool Jazz"
Jazz Musician



Vibration Carolyn Knorr
USA

Honorable Mention

"Vibration"
Lost in the woods.



Normandy Arthur Jacoby
USA

Honorable Mention

"Normandy "
Memorial at Omaha Beach



das Eis wird immer duenner 1 Sepp Koeppel
Switzerland

Honorable Mention

"das Eis wird immer duenner 1"



Rushing Towards a Black Hole Cindy Poulin
Canada

Honorable Mention

"Rushing Towards a Black Hole"



Untitled #2 Howard Schwartz
USA

Honorable Mention

"Untitled #2"



Samson and the Lion Alexander George
USA

Nominee

"Samson and the Lion"
Cross section of a petrified hollow tree trunk that appears to depict a struggle



Reflections Through Prisms Anne Dignam
USA

Nominee

"Reflections Through Prisms"



No Exit Anne Eigen
USA

Nominee

"No Exit"



Time Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

Nominee

"Time"



Calador TT Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

Nominee

"Calador TT"



Obeisance Arthur Jacoby
USA

Nominee

"Obeisance"
Motion



Flight Arthur Jacoby
USA

Nominee

"Flight"
Anhinga



Grace Arthur Jacoby
USA

Nominee

"Grace"
Acrobat



Layers of the Sound Ashley & Zachary Vemwell
USA

Nominee

"Layers of the Sound"
Painting the moody coastal shores with Leica. Puget Sound, WA, USA



Floating Time Barbara Maker
USA

Nominee

"Floating Time"
Junk in Space



Life Creates Barbara Maker
USA

Nominee

"Life Creates"
This Came First



Window reflection Berry Bingel
UK

Nominee

"Window reflection"
Reflection in paint covered shop window



Time Travel Bo-Yuan Chuang
Taiwan

Nominee

"Time Travel"



PGA Sculpture Budd Parker
USA

Nominee

"PGA Sculpture"
Light Sculpture on PGA



Seguin #198 C E Morse
USA

Nominee

"Seguin #198"
Detail of a found object: school bus



Geometry Carlos Cabral
Portugal

Nominee

"Geometry"



Ebb and Flow Carolyn Edelstein
USA

Nominee

"Ebb and Flow"
Paper bags waiting to be filled with candy at a Chelsea Market shop in NYC.



Woven Light Christine Jacobson
New Zealand

Nominee

"Woven Light"



Abstract concrete Christoph Oberenzer
Germany

Nominee

"Abstract concrete"



Projection Christophe Matsacos
Cyprus

Nominee

"Projection"
Staircase Projection



Abstract #6 Dana Mikaelle
Canada

Nominee

"Abstract #6"
Abstract #6



Order and disorder Daniela Gobetti
Italy

Nominee

"Order and disorder"



Graphic Hangover Dave Cohen
USA

Nominee

"Graphic Hangover"



Winter Abstraction #220 David Verespy
USA

Nominee

"Winter Abstraction #220"
Abstraction of the branching structure of a European Weeping Beach tree



Winter Abstraction #222 David Verespy
USA

Nominee

"Winter Abstraction #222"
Abstraction of the branching structure of a European Weeping Beach tree



Due South Deb Tatonetti
USA

Nominee

"Due South"



Openings Debbie Scott-Queenin
USA

Nominee

"Openings"



Evaporating Demetrio Jereissati
Brazil

Nominee

"Evaporating"
Seen through the glass, the reflected image of the clouds seems that the foot evaporates, disappeari



Hands to Powkipse Denis Sivack
USA

Nominee

"Hands to Powkipse"



Locomotion Denis Grzetic
Croatia

Nominee

"Locomotion"



Shaken Diana Barker Price
USA

Nominee

"Shaken"
Photogram on Ilford B&W paper



Behind The Mask Dvornik Gabor
Hungary

Nominee

"Behind The Mask"
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses



Curves of Green in Black and White Ed Sancious
USA

Nominee

"Curves of Green in Black and White"
An agave made abstract in morning light



Convergence Elizabeth Schatz
Canada

Nominee

"Convergence"



Imagination with reality Emmanuel Ogundipe
Nigeria

Nominee

"Imagination with reality"
IMAGINATION WITH REALITY



Elena Enrica Ridolfi
Italy

Nominee

"Elena"
Mia figlia ritratta durante la pandemia



FF_1_A_E_0534 Frits Van de Reep
Netherlands

Nominee

"FF_1_A_E_0534"
FF_1_A_E_0534



EU where are you headed? Gabriela Landa
USA

Nominee

"EU where are you headed?"
The photograph questions Europe's path and future outlook. The continent finds itself in a historica



Feather Mandala Gail Foster
Canada

Nominee

"Feather Mandala"
A mandala created with a magpie feather.



Polished Metal Gail Taylor
USA

Nominee

"Polished Metal"
Seen from afar



Shades and Blades Gary Levy
USA

Nominee

"Shades and Blades"
Vertical Blinds With Ceiling Fan



Night Snake Gayle Pepper
USA

Nominee

"Night Snake"
Head and tail lights on Country Road in Southern California



Abstract No. 73, Haliburton, ON., 2021 Gerald Pisarzowski
Canada

Nominee

"Abstract No. 73, Haliburton, ON., 2021 "
Abstract No. 73



Abstract No. 43, Toronto, ON., 2021 Gerald Pisarzowski
Canada

Nominee

"Abstract No. 43, Toronto, ON., 2021 "
Abstract No. 43



Abstract No. 227, Trenton, ON., 2021 Gerald Pisarzowski
Canada

Nominee

"Abstract No. 227, Trenton, ON., 2021"
Abstract No. 227



Galaxy Gerd Kufner
Germany

Nominee

"Galaxy"



The Rose Gregory Hom
USA

Nominee

"The Rose"
A rose in afternoon light



Circles #1 Guy Llewellyn
USA

Nominee

"Circles #1"
Tee steeps, Buenos Aires



Artisan Whimsy: Tile Bench Heather Firth
USA

Nominee

"Artisan Whimsy: Tile Bench"
Coming soon!



Vertical Holger Goehler
Germany

Nominee

"Vertical"
visit to the factory owner villa Schminke in Löbau in Saxony in Germany



Untitled #4 Howard Schwartz
USA

Nominee

"Untitled #4"



Sad Predator Ian Shand
New Zealand

Nominee

"Sad Predator"
Weathered partly buried roots, appearing as an animal with its prey. Hihi New Zealand 2022



Deviation Ilya Trofimenko
Germany

Nominee

"Deviation"



Seat Back Ira Dwoskin
USA

Nominee

"Seat Back"



Wind Beach Walk Isbel Dias
Brazil

Nominee

"Wind Beach Walk"
Walking against the wind, beach yoke flies and the soul is happy!



Rusty Round Steel Plate w/ Bolts Jacqueline Spearly
USA

Nominee

"Rusty Round Steel Plate w/ Bolts"



Matrix of Life Jacqui Turner
USA

Nominee

"Matrix of Life"
From "Veiled in Light" series



Gate and Palings Jan Bellamy
New Zealand

Nominee

"Gate and Palings"



Winters Walk Jane Strisik
USA

Nominee

"Winters Walk"
Father & Daughter



To the Bend Jennifer Grant-Keene
USA

Nominee

"To the Bend"
Forward into the unknown.



Art Through Art Joan Caulfield
New Zealand

Nominee

"Art Through Art"



Pattern 508 Joseph O'Neill
USA

Nominee

"Pattern 508"



Night Abstract Kat DiStefano
USA

Nominee

"Night Abstract"



Elements Katherine Young
UK

Nominee

"Elements "
Part of a larger series called Elements focusing of various building facades



Primordial Pond Kathleen Fischer
USA

Nominee

"Primordial Pond"
While standing on a caldera .... in Yellowstone.



Cosmos Burst Kathryn McGarvey
Canada

Nominee

"Cosmos Burst"



Fenced In Kathryn McGarvey
Canada

Nominee

"Fenced In"



Nightshift Kerry Maxwell
USA

Nominee

"Nightshift"



Snail tracks on the greenhouse. Klas Anders
Sweden

Nominee

"Snail tracks on the greenhouse."



Im Flug 1 Klaus-Juergen Roericht
Switzerland

Nominee

"Im Flug 1"
Verblühte Walddistel



Facets Lana Williams
Canada

Nominee

"Facets"
Faceted Modular details, a play of shadow and light



CrissCrossed Lois Alexander-Mandel
USA

Nominee

"CrissCrossed"



The City Within Lucy Lasky
USA

Nominee

"The City Within "
New York



Where to Go? Lynne Mass
USA

Nominee

"Where to Go?"



Namibia in Black and White Madeleine Corbeil
USA

Nominee

"Namibia in Black and White"
Namibia Dunes of South Africa in Black and White



Study of a Wasp #1 Martijn Rijnberg
Netherlands

Nominee

"Study of a Wasp #1"
The unique and powerful features of a wasp.



Magical forest Martin Babarik
Slovakia

Nominee

"Magical forest"
Intentional Camera Movement Photography



Angry Cloud Mayda Rumberg
USA

Nominee

"Angry Cloud"



Bonfire Melinda Goodall
USA

Nominee

"Bonfire"
On a chilly autumn morning, I lit a small fire in the old iron stove to warm up the cabin.



Total Eclipse of the Sun Melissa Lackey
USA

Nominee

"Total Eclipse of the Sun"
Is it a lamp? Is it a wall? Is it a ceiling? Loved the radial lines made by the light and shadow.



Used Words Mike Eubanks
USA

Nominee

"Used Words"
Light Play on an unsigned contract



Ring of Fire Mike Shea
USA

Nominee

"Ring of Fire"
A ring of fire from a Burnal Equinox event, minus the traditional colors.



Loose Ends Neil Hunter
USA

Nominee

"Loose Ends"



Fast Nestor Novo
USA

Nominee

"Fast"
Fast



Komodo Nicolas Petit
Germany

Nominee

"Komodo"
The Life of Shapes



luminary Norbert Boeckmann
Germany

Nominee

"luminary"



Circles and corners Olha Pashkovska
UK

Nominee

"Circles and corners"
Pashkovska-Olha_Circles and corners



LIght Painting #12 Patrick O'Brien
USA

Nominee

"LIght Painting #12"
Light was the paint, camera the brush



Zebra Stripes Paul Hetzel
USA

Nominee

"Zebra Stripes"



Spellbound Paula Price
USA

Nominee

"Spellbound"
Mesmerizing...



Stages Peter Zarkob
Spain

Nominee

"Stages"
Interior of the Real Alcazar of Seville (Spain).



The Phone Call Remi Joseph d'Argent
Australia

Nominee

"The Phone Call"



Late March Robert Simpson
Canada

Nominee

"Late March"



C for City Robert Truran
USA

Nominee

"C for City"



Untitled Robin Downs
USA

Nominee

"Untitled"



Motion of Wings Sajeesh R
India

Nominee

"Motion of Wings"
The motion of wings as the egret fly captured with low shutterspeed. the elegance of it as they fly



Abstract Snoopy Sally Paterson
Australia

Nominee

"Abstract Snoopy"



The Bean Scott Oliver
USA

Nominee

"The Bean"
Chicago's finest from a new place



das Eis wird immer duenner 2 Sepp Koeppel
Switzerland

Nominee

"das Eis wird immer duenner 2"



das Eis wird immer duenner 3 Sepp Koeppel
Switzerland

Nominee

"das Eis wird immer duenner 3"



Street Lights Steffen Ebert
Germany

Nominee

"Street Lights"
streets lights of a public place



Abstract lost Stephen Mimms
USA

Nominee

"Abstract lost"



Under the Dubuffet Steve Majsak
USA

Nominee

"Under the Dubuffet"
Under the Dubuffet sculpture at the Thompson Center in Chicago



Crosswalk 2 Susan Jacobs
USA

Nominee

"Crosswalk 2"



Crosswalk 4 Susan Jacobs
USA

Nominee

"Crosswalk 4"



window into Sylvia Gardner
USA

Nominee

"window into"



Upwards Terry Self
Canada

Nominee

"Upwards"
Sunflowers reaching upwards



Cold warriors 4 Tom Sliter
USA

Nominee

"Cold warriors 4"



Living Room Lurch TR Smith
USA

Nominee

"Living Room Lurch"



Floating Lights Volker Kesting
Netherlands

Nominee

"Floating Lights"



Wakeform #1 Wes Pettus
USA

Nominee

"Wakeform #1"
Made while on a cruise to Alaska



Obscure Yin Tse Tseng
Taiwan

Nominee

"Obscure"
Your perspective is the particular way you perceive this scene.



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