Nature - Professional

Steve Zmak USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement " Super Mega Bolt Hits The Monterey Bay" August 16, 2020-This rare thunderstorm set off some of the largest fires in California history.

---

Glen McClure USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Flying Saucer Cloud, County Mayo, Ireland" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

Murielle Etc France 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Inky Sea" A black Sea, black as ink. I try to show the dark and mysterious part of the Sea, but also and always its prodigious beauty that bewitches us.

---

Aaron Citti Australia Honorable Mention "Canyon X" USA Canyon

---

Caesar Lima USA Honorable Mention "Chernobyl forest" Chernobyl forest

---

Brian Eastwood New Zealand Honorable Mention "Leaning Wood"

---

Peter Schulte Germany Honorable Mention "'Moor'" »Moor«

---

Alys Williams Canada Honorable Mention "Gray Matter" Lobes of the Saharan brain.

---

Clarence Lin USA Honorable Mention "Dragonflies Caught In Spider Web" Jeju Island, South Korea.

---

Liyun Yu USA Honorable Mention "Mountain View of US-Mexico Border" Aerial photograph captured from air space of US-Mexico Border.

---

David Frutos Egea Spain Honorable Mention "Vegetal Symphony" This plant formation reminded me of a musical score full of rhythm.

---

Gaudenz Danuser Switzerland Honorable Mention "Dent d'Herens" swiss alps, mountain, winter

---

Mike DeCesare USA Honorable Mention "Fenced In"

---

Luciano Monti Italy Honorable Mention "sand dune"

---

Carol Horigan USA Honorable Mention "Guided by Moonlight" Canyons on Navajo Lands in the enchanted SW US

---

Aleksander Myklebust Norway Honorable Mention "Antarctic Landscape" This photo was taken in Mikkelsen Harbour, Antarctica in november 2019.

---

Hilda Champion USA Honorable Mention "Beginning" Thin rhizomes are leading out of the darkness of the water and anchor the first thin leaves.

---

Leeanne Mason Australia Honorable Mention "Balance" Balancing Rocks

---

Rie Asada Japan Honorable Mention " Light contrast" The morning sun illuminated only the trees, and a beautiful monotone gradation appeared.

---

Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Natures Patterns at Silver Strand" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

Thomas Margrave USA Honorable Mention "Milky Way Skynight with Meteor shower" I captured beautiful skynight during Milky way with meteor shower!

---

John W. McDermott USA Honorable Mention "Dawn Over the Hills at Inle Lake - Myanmar" Sunlight breaks through the clouds and sets the fog aglow over the hills at Inle Lake.

---

Dietmar Tallroth Finland Honorable Mention "The Wave" From the series "Silence in Movement - Nature's Force"

---

Aaron Citti Australia Nominee "Journey " Flinders Ranges, Australia

---

Alain Ernoult France Nominee "Face of the Rock" FACE OF THE ROCK CALLED EL CAPITAN, IN THE PAST TUTOKANULA, IN THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (usa)

---

Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "autumn"

---

Amit Verma India Nominee "Nuranang Falls" Arunachal Pradesh, India.

---

Amy Arbus USA Nominee "Cinderella" Atlanta, GA 2019

---

Amy Arbus USA Nominee "The Hug" Provincetown, MA 2019

---

Andrew B Church USA Nominee "Tree. Hill. Snow. Sun." The late afternoon shadow of a tree falls on newly fallen snow near Stephens College in Columbia, MO

---

Annette Willis Australia Nominee "Big Sky"

---

Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Reach for the Sky"

---

Cain Shimizu Japan Nominee "Stand in the fog" The two trees in the fog were like paintings.

---

Cain Shimizu Japan Nominee "Wandering fog" I like the foggy landscape.

---

Carol Horigan USA Nominee "Guided by Starlight" Canyons on Navajo Lands in the SW US

---

Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "The Great Fountain Geyser" The very Earth seems to exhale steamy breath in Yellowstone National Park.

---

Clarence Lin USA Nominee "Moonlight"

---

Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Storm Waves" Passing Storm through the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.

---

David Collier New Zealand Nominee "Veil"

---

David Gubernick USA Nominee "The Wave"

---

Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Endurance" From the series "Water Stories"

---

Dragomir Vukovic USA Nominee "Standing One" One quiet being strong...

---

Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee "Resilience." I choose to capture this tree because it has an ability that we need more than ever: resilience.

---

Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Moment Of Magic" The Magic behind a good sunset at White Pockets AZ

---

Felipe Abraham Chile Nominee "Birth"

---

Gary Browne Spain Nominee "Spider" A dead tree photographed in the Spanish campo. From a low perspective it seems to be very much alive and takes on the appearance of a giant spider emerging from the undergrowth

---

Gary Latham UK Nominee "Storm Euctice, Ramsgate" Storm Euctice hits Ramsgate

---

Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Canyon In Winter"

---

Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Cool Cool Water"

---

Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Snowy Forest"

---

Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Upon This Rock"

---

Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Prairie Storm"

---

George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee "skeena snow mountains" skeena snow mountains

---

Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "terre di toscana" The way of the soul is a way to walk and turn around just to look at our footprints 🖤👣

---

Glen McClure USA Nominee "Lough Cullen Shapes, County Mayo, Ireland" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

Glen McClure USA Nominee "Sand Patterns at Silver Strand County Mayo Ireland" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

Glen McClure USA Nominee "Blowing Sand at Silver Strand" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

Glen McClure USA Nominee "Cloud Cap Sky, Doo Lough, County Mayo, Ireland" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

---

H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee "Florida Lagoon" A virgin place, untouched, where nature originated before development, Miami Shores Golf Course.

---

Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Elements" Wind, sun, and water are powerful forces and can destroy human card houses any time.

---

Jeff Johnson USA Nominee "A Morning to Remember" Early morning surprise at the Great Sand Dunes in south-central Colorado

---

Joel Simpson USA Nominee "5-Million-Year-Old Kiss" Detail of the formation at Red Rock Canyon State Park, California

---

Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Beach Serie 1" Way to the Beach.

---

John Marshall USA Nominee "Road Trip" Summer Trip Through The Big Cypress Swamp

---

Juergen Lechner Germany Nominee "Grove II"

---

Karel Mus Belgium Nominee "Lost in Minds" The landscape in my Mind

---

Ken Loyst USA Nominee "Perch" A solo gull overlooks his perch

---

Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Still Standing" A tree still standing at the boneyard on Hunting Island, SC

---

Kunio Nakaoka Japan Nominee "Japanese cedar "

---

Lee Gordon USA Nominee "Hurricane Dorian" Hurricane Dorian building offshore

---

Leo Pelletier Canada Nominee "River flow"

---

Lisa F. Fleischmann Canada Nominee "Uprooted" This is just one of many, giant, ancient forest remnants found in Cathedral Grove, Vancover Island, B.C. The biggest trees in the Grove are about 800 years old and measure 75 m (250 ft) in height.

---

Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Okefenokkee Treees"

---

Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Badlands Spires "

---

Luciano Freaza Brazil Nominee "Morning Meditations" Sunrise at Itacimirim´s estuary.

---

Lynne Eodice USA Nominee "Moon Over Capitol Reef" A full moon rising over Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

---

Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Autumn floats" The leaves float above the waterfall with a life of their own...autumn floats

---

Mark Seawell USA Nominee "End song" Though it is still autumn, the snows of winter arrive in the Wasatch mountains...end song.

---

Mark Duffy Canada Nominee "Turbine Storm" Major Storm over Wind Turbine

---

Mauro Zorer Italy Nominee "In the fog" The trees on a foggy morning in Val d'Orcia

---

Michael Hart USA Nominee "Reeds and Water" Reeds and Water, Acadia National Park

---

Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Tra na mBo - Strand Of The Cow" Devonian age monolith is part of a complex of sites along the Copper Coast

---

Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Marsh Kiss"

---

Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Lowcountry CLassic"

---

Odette Sugerman USA Nominee "Antarctica " The Bottom of the world

---

Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Raven's View"

---

Oliver Klink USA Nominee "The Wonder of Winter"

---

Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Across the Lake" 4.30am fog rolls through the distant hills across the lake.

---

Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "Dune Face, Tukkee Sandblow" Wind lines on the face of a dune

---

Peter Rodger USA Nominee "Arabian Desert" kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Sense of Scale

---

Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee "autumn-landscape"

---

Ramiro Salazar USA Nominee "Soledad" I felt alone like the tree and the stone

---

Renata Vale Brazil Nominee "Black beach #2" Black beach - Iceland - 10/21

---

Richard Dweck USA Nominee "Exultation"

---

Rie Asada Japan Nominee "Winter Shadow" The winter light cast a shadow on the snow surface.

---

Rie Asada Japan Nominee "Suspicious Mt. Fuji" Surrounded by suspiciously shaped trees, Mt. Fuji looked particularly shining.

---

Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Ghost Falls" Lupin Falls, Strathcona Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

---

Robert Tardio USA Nominee "Spring Island Trees 4" Spring Island Trees 4

---

Robert Tardio USA Nominee "Spring Island Trees 5" Spring Island Trees 5

---

Rod Spark Australia Nominee "Rough Patch" Ben Lomond Tasmania

---

Ruud Peters France Nominee "up"

---

Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Glacial Landscape" Iceland

---

Scott Wurzel USA Nominee "Mist on Porte d'Aval" A Mist on the English Channel rolls in over Porte d'Aval in Étretat

---

Sergio Bruno Italy Nominee "PO" Kallitype from film's negative

---

Shinya Itahana Japan Nominee "Holy Stream" Water falls like a ray of light on a rugged cliff (Tottori Prefecture)

---

Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee "Millennium Tree" This image is of an evergreen oak tree planted on New Year's Day in the year 2000.

---

Stone Peng USA Nominee "Crash-Grand Haven lighthouse" Big Crash at Grand Haven Lighthouse

---

Stuart Chape Australia Nominee "Columnar"

---

Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Surreal" Floating rock shelf with icicles

---

Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee "Little Iceberg" At Glacier Bay in Iceland, Icebergs float to the Ocean and get washed ashore with the tide

---

Terry Wild USA Nominee "Pylon Study" West Warf, Madison, CT. Middle Beach area.

---

Victor S. Brigola Germany Nominee "Lofoten" Reduce to the Max.

---

Virgilijus Usinavicius Lithuania Nominee "Wind"

---

Warren Keelan Australia Nominee "Ephemeral" A waterspout captured from the ocean's surface on the South East Coast of Australia.

---

Wieneke de Leeuw Netherlands Nominee " Shan Shui in Dutch landscape #1" Fog is related to my two-sided sudden deafness. fog muffles the sound.

---

Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee "Mt RobsonRoad" Mr. Robson Road

---

Zach Miller USA Nominee "Carved Canyon" Narrow passageways carved from red sandstone, seasonal flood rains, and wind.

---

< back