Nature - Professional

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.

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Glen McClure USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Six Thirty AM Shapes Strong City Kansas" From the series Grasslands

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Marc Koegel Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Braided River Study #1"

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention "alberino" a lonely tree in Tuscany before the storm

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Honorable Mention "Majestic Waters of the lake" Avery nice Display of natures fury of the Lake Erie

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Honorable Mention "Misty Tuscany" a mistic foggy morning in San Quirico D'Orcia

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Bob Canepa USA Honorable Mention "DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #33" Canepa-Bob_DUNEWORK ! TRANQUILITY #33

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Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention "Glory in the shadows" The earth gesture in hidden places...glory in the shadows

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Jason Joyce UK Honorable Mention "LADY DUNE" Mother Nature at her best.

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Monterey Pine 5" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California.

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Antarctic Scene 1" A wide shot in the the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Cactus 1" A saguaro cactus outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process.

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Gio Fleming France Honorable Mention "the haunted forest" The Dark Edges in Northern Ireland, a stretch of road winding through twisted trees

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Claude Ka Kit Tsang Hong Kong Honorable Mention "Human being in Nature" On the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia, white clouds flutter in the endless blue sky, black land stretches to both sides, and a lhut stands on the field make people realise how small the Man is.

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Alys Williams Canada Honorable Mention "Trampled" The chaos of the human footprint upon the intricate beauty of nature.

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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention "sand dune"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Honorable Mention "Ham Lands"

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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Dune Shapes at Silver Strand" From the continuing series, The West of ireland

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Gabriella Giannini USA Honorable Mention "Saguaro Bloom" Native to Arizona, finding a California 90+ yr old Saguaro is not common..

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Mirek Weichsel Canada Honorable Mention "Aftermath" Red River after flood. Winnipeg, Canada.

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Peter Meyer Australia Honorable Mention "Collision" When an incoming wave meets the outgoing wave.

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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.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Evening Magic" Sometimes the the wind let up and the snowfall was gentle.

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Robert Coates Canada Honorable Mention "SKY LINE" Near the Saskatchewan-Alberta border in Canada, and was a sign of a former prairie homestead.

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Iceberg 4" An iceberg in the Iceberg Graveyard in the the Antarctic Peninsula.

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David Frutos Egea Spain Honorable Mention "Life & Death" This nature scene is an oxymoron where life and death are presented together.

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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.

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Joel Simpson USA Honorable Mention "Ice Poles" Ice stalagmites that form every winter in the Viðgelmir Lave Tube Cave, Iceland

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Layne Kennedy USA Honorable Mention "Ice Field, Alaska" A broken ice field in Central Alaska takes on the look of melting meringue.

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Honorable Mention "Tree tunnel" -

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Alfonso Calero Australia Honorable Mention "Ripple Effect" Our actions move things like a ripple in a pond.

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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.

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Adam Regan UK Nominee "Stormchasers" Kite surfers catching the winds on the tail of a storm as it heads out to sea.

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Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Cardiac Canyon #2" Erosion in wave form in Cardiac Canyon

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Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Dunes #3" Dune Abstract

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Alan Lemire USA Nominee "Dunes #2" First light on a dune.

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "small antarctic island" Photo is taken in Antarctica with analog middle format

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "Antarctica 1" iceberg, photo taken with analog middle format

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Bob Canepa USA Nominee "DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #96" Canepa-Bob_DUNEWORK ~ TRANQUILITY #96

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Brian LaCas Canada Nominee "Paris Storm" Storm viewed from Eiffel Tower

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Sea Mist rolling in to the Estuary" The mist rolled into the estuary from the sea

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Cameron Davidson USA Nominee "Tidal Basin" Tree alongside the Tidal Basin in DC, dying due to extreme high tides overflowing the tidal basin.

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Charles Bush USA Nominee "Lone Tupelo" A B;acl amd White Infrared photograph of a Tupelo Tree in the waters of Miller's Lake

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Christos Aggelidis Greece Nominee "lightning strike" Sudden summer storm over Parga

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Clark James Mishler USA Nominee "Lone Pine" Lone Pine, El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park, 2023

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Daniel Mansur Brazil Nominee "Minas Gerais" Nikon D810

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "Brushed by light" The last rays of the evening light brushes across the patterns of this desert dune.

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Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Hemlock Falls" Hemlock Falls, South Mountain Reservation, NJ.

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David Gubernick USA Nominee "Lightening Strikes" Lightening Storm Over The Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur, California

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Aladdin's Moon" Half moon and summer cloud formations over Lake Kalliojärvi, 2022

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Doc Uwe Winkler Germany Nominee "The day awakens." A foggy morning in the Alps.

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Alone " Its a long journey to be alone but we will make it someday never give-up

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "The Brain " Under water for million years water has carved this awesome rock formations

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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

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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,

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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee "Jelly" Jellyfishes. Dance like nobody's watching...

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "early morning fog" the Tuscany country

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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

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Gio Fleming France Nominee "the dantesque lift" Is this chairlift transporting people or souls?

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Dugort Light" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Falling Cloud Texture" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "White House on the Hill, Ardmalin, County Donegal" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Hazy Light Minaun Cliffs Achill Island" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Grant Stirton Canada Nominee "Barrel Sponge" Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia

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Hal Tearse USA Nominee "Lenticular Cloud " Lenticular cloud over Torres del Paine NP - Chile

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Almost Dark" The beauty of black.

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Lightfall" There is always light somewhere, even in the darkest places.

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Jay Watson USA Nominee "Pescadero Fog" Morning fog over Pescadero, CA

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg 2" An iceberg in Niko Harbour located in the the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg 3" Early morning light on and iceberg in the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Iceberg Detaail 1" A detail of an iceberg in the the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Antarctic Scene 2" A wide shot in the the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Cactus 2" Saguaro cactus outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Cactus in the Snow" Saguaro cactus in the snow outside of Tuscan, AZ using a digital tintype process.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Monterey Pine 1" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Monterey Pine 4" A Monterey Pine along the Pacific Coast of California.

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Joan Grabel USA Nominee "ABOVE 1" Flying above the San Juan Islands

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Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Ice Bubbles, Kerið Crater" The water in Kerið Crater, Iceland, freezes hard, trapping Miro-like bubble patterns.

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Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Ice Embeddings, Kerið Crater" Kerið Crater ice also freezes wave forms, with intermittent pocket populations of bubbles.

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Watzmann" Mount Watzmann

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John Siskin USA Nominee "Sunset Spot #7"

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Julian Elliott UK Nominee "Latrigg Cloudscape" Morning light across the snow covered fells of the Lake District national park from Latrigg

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Julian Elliott UK Nominee "The Queen's Castle" Looking down on the Queen's castle near to Lo Manthang, Nepal

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Bruton"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Levels"

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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.

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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee "Dry Rain" Afternoon rain shower at White Sands, New Mexico.

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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Ancient Cove" An ancient cove on the SE coast of Scotland, on the North Sea

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Kirsten Heer Germany Nominee "Waves of Mammatus-Clouds" Kirsten_Heer

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Klaus Fengler Germany Nominee "Cerro Torre" Cerro Torre and Torre Egger with the Torre Valley, Patagonian, Argentinien.

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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

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Luciano Monti Italy Nominee "Akakus Desert" meditation

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Lynne Eodice USA Nominee "Cloud Over Morro Rock" A cloud forming over Morro Rock, Morro Bay, CA

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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.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Whiteout Coming" A family vacation in Joshua Tree, California, began with the most wonderful blizzard.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Respite" Eventually the storm let up.

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Between Light and Darkness" Antelope Island somewhere between light and darkness

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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.

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Eagle Head" The light pours through the walls of a remote slot canyon and I capture the moment...eagle head

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Cloud breaking" National Park Low Tatras, Slovakia

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "In the spruce forest" IR Photography

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "He needs the rain"

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Mounga Evening" Evening at the Mounga, Rapa Nui

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Michelle Ranee Johnson USA Nominee "Existing" The beautiful Yayan Waterfall (Ahwahnechee name for Cascade Falls). Yosemite National Park, CA.

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Mike DeCesare USA Nominee "Desert Sunset"

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Nathalie Lauzon Canada Nominee "Ominous" Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean

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Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Boneyard Wish"

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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee "BACKLIT RIDGE" Ridgeline of Craggy Pines at Roaring Meg, Queenstown NZ.

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Morning Grace"

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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Brays Reef"

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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

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Vlei"

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Paulo Olivier Hanshing Chile Nominee "Un Momento Soñado" Los primeros rayos del sol, combinados con la niebla, regalaron un momento de ensueño.

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Paulo Pampolin UK Nominee "The Tree" Tree by the river in Espirito Santo, Brazil

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "Maelstrom" When an incoming wave meets the outgoing wave.

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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee "Anatomy of a Tree"

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Richard Oakland UK Nominee "Fly fishing" Spiders threads caught in the late winter sunrise in an ancient woodland

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Robert DeRosa USA Nominee "The Firmament" A clearing storm captured before sunrise over the Great Salt Lake

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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

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Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Lines in the Sand" Patterns in the sand, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

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Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Sun Stream" Clearing storm on Combers Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada

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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.

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Rotem Pushinsky USA Nominee "asphalt fall"

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Landscape" -

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Farmland" Spain

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Duplication" Spain

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Scott Wurzel USA Nominee "The Maelstrom" The original Maelstrom in the Lofoten Archipelago, Norway

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Shinji Ichikawa Japan Nominee "Pine Trees" An artwork created by photographing pine trees from various angles and arranging them into a single

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Stanislaw Chomicki Germany Nominee "Italy_Dolomiti"

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Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee "Stay" This image was captured during blue hour at the amazing Copper Coast in Waterford, Ireland.

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Where Sea meets Shore, Magic Happens" Watching the tide layer itself upon the shore...mesmerizing.

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Industrial Light & Magic" August 16, 2020-This rare thunderstorm set off some of the largest fires in California history.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "South Swell" Massive swell East Coast Sydney Australia May 2023

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Woodland Impressionism2" ICM Impressionism

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Susanna Patras USA Nominee "Stillness" Morning light in the Algarve, Portugal

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Timothy Cotter USA Nominee "Sedona Canyon"

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Fujimi Lake Mother Tree" The mother tree that always watches over

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "swamp of fog" My favorite forests and swamps were swallowed up by fog, exuding immense beauty.

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Victor Elias USA Nominee "Iguazu" The sheer power of mother nature displayed at Iguazu Falls

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Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Nominee "Volcan Road"

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee "Ibiza 2"

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Will Enos USA Nominee "Intimate Aspens" A small clump of Aspens in late fall. Winter and Snow are about to begin.

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William Lulow USA Nominee "Grand Teton" Grand Teton, Grand Teton, NP Wyoming, USA

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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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