David Skernick USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Seavers Road" I just about crashed my truck when I rounded a curve and spotted this perfect cloud. |
Glen McClure USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Six Thirty AM Shapes Strong City Kansas" From the series Grasslands |
Marc Koegel Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Braided River Study #1" |
Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention "alberino" a lonely tree in Tuscany before the storm |
Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Honorable Mention "Majestic Waters of the lake" Avery nice Display of natures fury of the Lake Erie |
Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention "Misty Tuscany" a mistic foggy morning in San Quirico D'Orcia |
Bob Canepa USA Honorable Mention "DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #33" Canepa-Bob_DUNEWORK ! TRANQUILITY #33 |
Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention "Glory in the shadows" The earth gesture in hidden places...glory in the shadows |
Jason Joyce UK Honorable Mention "LADY DUNE" Mother Nature at her best. |
Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Monterey Pine 5" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California. |
Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Antarctic Scene 1" A wide shot in the the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Cactus 1" A saguaro cactus outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process. |
Gio Fleming France Honorable Mention "the haunted forest" The Dark Edges in Northern Ireland, a stretch of road winding through twisted trees |
Alys Williams Canada Honorable Mention "Trampled" The chaos of the human footprint upon the intricate beauty of nature. |
Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention "sand dune" |
Justin Pumfrey UK Honorable Mention "Ham Lands" |
Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Dune Shapes at Silver Strand" From the continuing series, The West of ireland |
Gabriella Giannini USA Honorable Mention "Saguaro Bloom" Native to Arizona, finding a California 90+ yr old Saguaro is not common.. |
Mirek Weichsel Canada Honorable Mention "Aftermath" Red River after flood. Winnipeg, Canada. |
Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention "Collision" When an incoming wave meets the outgoing wave. |
Edoardo Romagnoli Italy Honorable Mention "Panarea Elian Island, Sicily_3223, 2022" Picture taken in Panarea during a storm, the 21st of August 2022 at 9.15 p.m. |
Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Evening Magic" Sometimes the the wind let up and the snowfall was gentle. |
Robert Coates Canada Honorable Mention "SKY LINE" Near the Saskatchewan-Alberta border in Canada, and was a sign of a former prairie homestead. |
Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Iceberg 4" An iceberg in the Iceberg Graveyard in the the Antarctic Peninsula. |
David Frutos Egea Spain Honorable Mention "Life & Death" This nature scene is an oxymoron where life and death are presented together. |
Matt Sievers USA Honorable Mention "At Surf's Edge, Cannon Beach, Oregon" Where sea ends and land begins is an unceasing ballet. Here the sea draws a line in the sand as to where it reigns supreme. |
Joel Simpson USA Honorable Mention "Ice Poles" Ice stalagmites that form every winter in the Viðgelmir Lave Tube Cave, Iceland |
Layne Kennedy USA Honorable Mention "Ice Field, Alaska" A broken ice field in Central Alaska takes on the look of melting meringue. |
Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Honorable Mention "Tree tunnel" - |
Alfonso Calero Australia Honorable Mention "Ripple Effect" Our actions move things like a ripple in a pond. |
Jason Joyce UK Honorable Mention "HEAVENS MIRROR" I almost crashed my car as I turned the corner and was presented with this Scottish Highlands vista. |
Adam Regan UK Nominee "Stormchasers" Kite surfers catching the winds on the tail of a storm as it heads out to sea. |
Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Cardiac Canyon #2" Erosion in wave form in Cardiac Canyon |
Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Dunes #3" Dune Abstract |
Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Dunes #2" First light on a dune. |
Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "small antarctic island" Photo is taken in Antarctica with analog middle format |
Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "Antarctica 1" iceberg, photo taken with analog middle format |
Bob Canepa USA Nominee "DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #96" Canepa-Bob_DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #96 |
Brian LaCas Canada Nominee "Paris Storm" Storm viewed from Eiffel Tower |
Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Sea Mist rolling in to the Estuary" The mist rolled into the estuary from the sea |
Cameron Davidson USA Nominee "Tidal Basin" Tree alongside the Tidal Basin in DC, dying due to extreme high tides overflowing the tidal basin. |
Charles Bush USA Nominee "Lone Tupelo" A B;acl amd White Infrared photograph of a Tupelo Tree in the waters of Miller's Lake |
Christos Aggelidis Greece Nominee "lightning strike" Sudden summer storm over Parga |
Clark James Mishler USA Nominee "Lone Pine" Lone Pine, El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park, 2023 |
Daniel Mansur Brazil Nominee "Minas Gerais" Nikon D810 |
Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "Brushed by light" The last rays of the evening light brushes across the patterns of this desert dune. |
Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Hemlock Falls" Hemlock Falls, South Mountain Reservation, NJ. |
David Gubernick USA Nominee "Lightening Strikes" Lightening Storm Over The Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur, California |
Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Aladdin's Moon" Half moon and summer cloud formations over Lake Kalliojärvi, 2022 |
Doc Uwe Winkler Germany Nominee "The day awakens." A foggy morning in the Alps. |
Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Alone " Its a long journey to be alone but we will make it someday never give-up |
Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "The Brain " Under water for million years water has carved this awesome rock formations |
Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Last Light " And when I thought was done the nature give me one more opportunity to paint with light and shadows |
Fausto Fontana Italy Nominee "THE COLOR OF A GOOD DAY" The color of a sad and boring melancholy day When I see that there is a particular light or clouds, |
Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee "Jelly" Jellyfishes. Dance like nobody's watching... |
Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "early morning fog" the Tuscany country |
Gio Fleming France Nominee "Solitude's Radiance" Ireland. Amidst the vast emptiness, a solitary tree on a cliff receives a gentle embrace from the su |
Gio Fleming France Nominee "the dantesque lift" Is this chairlift transporting people or souls? |
Glen McClure USA Nominee "Dugort Light" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland |
Glen McClure USA Nominee "Falling Cloud Texture" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland |
Glen McClure USA Nominee "White House on the Hill, Ardmalin, County Donegal" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland |
Glen McClure USA Nominee "Hazy Light Minaun Cliffs Achill Island" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland |
Grant Stirton Canada Nominee "Barrel Sponge" Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia |
Hal Tearse USA Nominee "Lenticular Cloud " Lenticular cloud over Torres del Paine NP - Chile |
Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Almost Dark" The beauty of black. |
Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Lightfall" There is always light somewhere, even in the darkest places. |
Jay Watson USA Nominee "Pescadero Fog" Morning fog over Pescadero, CA |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg 2" An iceberg in Niko Harbour located in the the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg 3" Early morning light on and iceberg in the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg Detaail 1" A detail of an iceberg in the the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Antarctic Scene 2" A wide shot in the the Antarctic Peninsula. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Cactus 2" Saguaro cactus outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Cactus in the Snow" Saguaro cactus in the snow outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Monterey Pine 1" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California. |
Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Monterey Pine 4" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California. |
Joan Grabel USA Nominee "ABOVE 1" Flying above the San Juan Islands |
Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Ice Bubbles, Kerið Crater" The water in Kerið Crater, Iceland, freezes hard, trapping Miro-like bubble patterns. |
Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Ice Embeddings, Kerið Crater" Kerið Crater ice also freezes wave forms, with intermittent pocket populations of bubbles. |
Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Watzmann" Mount Watzmann |
John Siskin USA Nominee "Sunset Spot #7" |
Julian Elliott UK Nominee "Latrigg Cloudscape" Morning light across the snow covered fells of the Lake District national park from Latrigg |
Julian Elliott UK Nominee "The Queen's Castle" Looking down on the Queen's castle near to Lo Manthang, Nepal |
Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Bruton" |
Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Levels" |
Karel Mus Belgium Nominee "In the deepest area of your soul you will find a landscape" Landscapes are an unconditional dialogue, a conversion without rules, obligations and restrictions. |
Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee "Dry Rain" Afternoon rain shower at White Sands, New Mexico. |
Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Ancient Cove" An ancient cove on the SE coast of Scotland, on the North Sea |
Kirsten Heer Germany Nominee "Waves of Mammatus-Clouds" Kirsten_Heer |
Klaus Fengler Germany Nominee "Cerro Torre" Cerro Torre and Torre Egger with the Torre Valley, Patagonian, Argentinien. |
Lily Solmssen Moureaux USA Nominee "Magic Moments: Blind Skiers on Tour in the Swiss Alps" Magic Moments: Blind Skiers on tour in the Swiss Alps |
Luciano Monti Italy Nominee "Akakus Desert" meditation |
Lynne Eodice USA Nominee "Cloud Over Morro Rock" A cloud forming over Morro Rock, Morro Bay, CA |
Marie-Pascale Vandewalle Belgium Nominee "SCENIC LUNCH BREAK AT INDUS RIVER" Wherever you go in Ladakh, the scenic Himalaya mountains and prayerflags are always with you. |
Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Whiteout Coming" A family vacation in Joshua Tree, California, began with the most wonderful blizzard. |
Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Respite" Eventually the storm let up. |
Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Between Light and Darkness" Antelope Island somewhere between light and darkness |
Mark Seawell USA Nominee "From the shore" I witness nature spinning its web of wonder as a funnel cloud seems to erupt from the sky. I take it all in..from the shore. |
Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Eagle Head" The light pours through the walls of a remote slot canyon and I capture the moment...eagle head |
Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Cloud breaking" National Park Low Tatras, Slovakia |
Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "In the spruce forest" IR Photography |
Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "He needs the rain" |
Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Mounga Evening" Evening at the Mounga, Rapa Nui |
Michelle Ranee Johnson USA Nominee "Existing" The beautiful Yayan Waterfall (Ahwahnechee name for Cascade Falls). Yosemite National Park, CA. |
Mike DeCesare USA Nominee "Desert Sunset" |
Nathalie Lauzon Canada Nominee "Ominous" Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean |
Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Boneyard Wish" |
Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee "BACKLIT RIDGE" Ridgeline of Craggy Pines at Roaring Meg, Queenstown NZ. |
PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Morning Grace" |
Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Brays Reef" |
Paul A Wright UK Nominee "as above so is below" an aerial drone image captured at 300 feet during a brief moment without rain during fierce storms |
Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Vlei" |
Paulo Olivier Hanshing Chile Nominee "Un Momento Soñado" Los primeros rayos del sol, combinados con la niebla, regalaron un momento de ensueño. |
Paulo Pampolin UK Nominee "The Tree" Tree by the river in Espirito Santo, Brazil |
Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "Maelstrom" When an incoming wave meets the outgoing wave. |
Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee "Anatomy of a Tree" |
Richard Oakland UK Nominee "Fly fishing" Spiders threads caught in the late winter sunrise in an ancient woodland |
Robert DeRosa USA Nominee "The Firmament" A clearing storm captured before sunrise over the Great Salt Lake |
Robert DeRosa USA Nominee "The Clearing Storm" Snow continues to fall in the South over the Great Salt Lake as the storm clears in the North |
Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Lines in the Sand" Patterns in the sand, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado |
Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Sun Stream" Clearing storm on Combers Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada |
Robert Coates Canada Nominee "TIL OUR PATHS CROSS AGAIN" The long shadows stretching across my morning walking path complimented the streaking sky, and presented a compelling image. |
Rotem Pushinsky USA Nominee "asphalt fall" |
Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Landscape" - |
Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Farmland" Spain |
Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Duplication" Spain |
Scott Wurzel USA Nominee "The Maelstrom" The original Maelstrom in the Lofoten Archipelago, Norway |
Shinji Ichikawa Japan Nominee "Pine Trees" An artwork created by photographing pine trees from various angles and arranging them into a single |
Stanislaw Chomicki Germany Nominee "Italy_Dolomiti" |
Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee "Stay" This image was captured during blue hour at the amazing Copper Coast in Waterford, Ireland. |
Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Where Sea meets Shore, Magic Happens" Watching the tide layer itself upon the shore...mesmerizing. |
Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Industrial Light & Magic" August 16, 2020-This rare thunderstorm set off some of the largest fires in California history. |
Steve Turner Australia Nominee "South Swell" Massive swell East Coast Sydney Australia May 2023 |
Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Woodland Impressionism2" ICM Impressionism |
Susanna Patras USA Nominee "Stillness" Morning light in the Algarve, Portugal |
Timothy Cotter USA Nominee "Sedona Canyon" |
Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Fujimi Lake Mother Tree" The mother tree that always watches over |
Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "swamp of fog" My favorite forests and swamps were swallowed up by fog, exuding immense beauty. |
Victor Elias USA Nominee "Iguazu" The sheer power of mother nature displayed at Iguazu Falls |
Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Nominee "Volcan Road" |
Werner Branz Austria Nominee "Ibiza 2" |
Will Enos USA Nominee "Intimate Aspens" A small clump of Aspens in late fall. Winter and Snow are about to begin. |
William Lulow USA Nominee "Grand Teton" Grand Teton, Grand Teton, NP Wyoming, USA |
Zach Miller USA Nominee "Desert Scales" The desert has no shortage of stories - just take a look at all the cracks in the rocks. |
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