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Eric Kanigan USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Born to Lead" A Kwitonda family silverback on the fringe of Volcanoes National Park and cultivated land. |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Hunter" Mexico - Isla Magdalena - we encounter a school of mackerel in the middle of the Pacific Ocean |
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Graeme Purdy UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Mega stag" Up close and personal with a wild Red stag, UK |
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Salvatore Valente Italy Honorable Mention "Elefanti" Namibia elefante madre con il piccolo che lo segue |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention "Paradise" This image aims to capture the exquisite moments of Great Egrets in their natural Florida habitat, showcasing their beauty in all its splendor. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Honorable Mention "Dreamers" Some of the most recognizable sleepers, sperm whales rest vertically for just a few minutes each day |
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Julien Regamey Switzerland Honorable Mention "Giraffe" Giraffe / Kruger National Park |
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Jason Knott UK Honorable Mention "TREE 01" TREE IN THE SNOW AND MIST 01 |
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Robin Scholte Netherlands Honorable Mention "Just Love" The affection between this mother giraffe and her young, tender moments in nature |
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Johan Siggesson Malta Honorable Mention "At the Foot of the Mountain" After 8 days of waiting and trying with various groups of elephants things finally fell into place. |
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Michiel Poodt Netherlands Honorable Mention "Bull" Bull in Drenthe |
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Andrew B Church USA Honorable Mention "Grackles" Grackles flock en masse to wires strung between telephone poles in Waco, Texas, USA. |
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Graeme Purdy UK Honorable Mention "Raw Nature" Up close and personal with a wild lion just moments after he had eaten a buffalo |
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Graeme Purdy UK Honorable Mention "The Great Hammerhead" One of the most elegant animals on the planet, the Great Hammerhead shark |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention "Showtime" During the breeding season, Great Egrets grow long, wavy plumes on their backs. This Great Egret eagerly started his courtship displays before completing his nest. |
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Lennette Newell USA Honorable Mention "Camelus dromedarius" Adolescent camel itching leg |
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John Rees USA Honorable Mention "Blanco" Horse in a pastoral setting |
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Roie Galitz Israel Honorable Mention "Adelie Penguin" Adelie Penguin in Antarctica |
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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Honorable Mention "Malaci" Malaci |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention "Intimidation" |
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Graeme Purdy UK Honorable Mention "The Hunt" A Striped Marlin hunts a bait ball of mackerel, Pacific Ocean, 50 miles offshore |
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Preeti and Prashant Chacko United Arab Emirates Honorable Mention "Innocence" A baby peers out from the safety of its mother's arms. |
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Jan-Tore Oevrevik USA Honorable Mention "Majestic Flight at Clearwater Beach #1" Majestic Flight at Clearwater Beach |
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Pete Saloutos USA Honorable Mention "Great Blue Heron" Wings Up, Great Blue Heron |
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Ami Nachoum USA Nominee "Family affaris " young Polar bear cubs stay close to thier mom up to two years, depending on her nursing and hunting skill |
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Ami Nachoum USA Nominee "Light, camera action" Great white shark impressed me arriving under the most powerful "movie" light |
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Ami Nachoum USA Nominee "Lean on me" Polar bear mom, supporting her cub for safety. Bears today have to swim longer distance to find food |
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Andrea Ivor Hungary Nominee "Greetings" This was the moment when the foal stood up and the mum looked back and greeted eachother |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "White-tailed Eagle" |
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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee "Alert" European cranes fly out from their night roosting place before dawn. |
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Bernard Ng Malaysia Nominee "White Tiger" The white tiger was caught yawning while unwinding in the water. |
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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Arctic fox" |
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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Nominee "Excuse me?" A Common murre stands out of the crowd by flapping its wings. |
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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Nominee "Screech" The Eurasian goshawk screeches as it tries to protect its food from the two other goshawks. |
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Denis Grudet France Nominee "The flying fox" Auvergne, FRANCE |
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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "The Lookout " This tender moment with mother and cub was in stark contrast to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. |
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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Dazzle" In the Maasai Mara in Kenya, I captured this elusive image of a zebra I’ve long dreamt of creating. |
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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee "Fly High" |
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Eleszabeth McNeel USA Nominee "My Den" |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "Apex" An orca pod traversing Norway's fjords in search of its next meal. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "Come Dive with Me" A pair of sperm whales on their descent to hunt for squid in the darkness |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "How Deep is Your Love" In the great expanse of the sea, sperm whales remain close, as this pair sleeps together vertically. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "Coast" Manatees seem a simple species. They are simply shaped, and quietly roam Florida's coastal waterways. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "Social Hour" Touch is important for sperm whales. Families will socialize, rubbing their giant bodies together. |
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Eric Kanigan USA Nominee "The Twilight Zone" Sperm whales spend 80% of their lives in darkness in the pelagic zone known as the twilight zone |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Moon Spirit" During the breeding season, Great Egrets build their nests in trees to avoid predator attacks. These elevated positions present an opportunity for me to photograph them with the moon in the background |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Wings of Life" After observing this Great Egret’s flight pattern, I chose an ideal camera position and snapped the shot as it flew between me and the tree, carrying a twig to build its nest. |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Under the Moon" It was a privilege to witness the beauty of nature and the remarkable behavior of these incredible Great Egrets during their breeding season and to capture these exquisite moments through my lens. |
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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "The Conversation" A dialogue between a Great Egret and Spanish moss captured in a fleeting moment in natural Florida. |
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Frank Machalowski Germany Nominee "Tierwald" |
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Glenn Goldman USA Nominee "Resting Spot" Rome, Italy |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "Manatee Family" A rare manatee mother and calf arrive at their wintering warm water spring |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "The Stag Rut" A magical morning mist shrouds the red stag as he roars to his rivals during the annual rut |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "Wild Nature" Lions mate, visceral and raw as they mate for hours and days |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "The walk" A herd of elephants on the long walk for food and water during drought times in Kenya |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "One in a thousand" Literally, this baby mountain gorilla is one in a thousand left on the planet. Precious |
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Graeme Purdy UK Nominee "Spray" A Grizzly sprays after a successful salmon hunt |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Checking Out The Neighbor" House Sparrow looking in on an Osprey sitting in a nest at Sandy Point State Park, Maryland. |
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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Brown Lipped Snail #4" Brown-lipped snail, also known as a grove snail. |
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Ian Spanier USA Nominee "Keeper of the Castle, Ireland 2023" Horse found randomly at a castle ruins in Ireland |
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Jan-Tore Oevrevik USA Nominee "Majestic Flight at Clearwater Beach #2" Majestic Flight at Clearwater Beach |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee "At dawn" |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "ICU TOO Opera Siamangs" ICU TOO Opera Siamangs, (Symphalangus syndactylus) resonate loud calls throughout the bush. |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" Little monkey hopes that the stars will always be visible |
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Jessica Davis USA Nominee "In The Dust" A herd of Elephants racing to a watering hole. Amboseli, Kenya |
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Jessica Davis USA Nominee "Mothers Of The Masai" Lionesses guarding their cubs in the bushes. Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya |
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Jessica Davis USA Nominee "Walk The Line" A heard of Elephants crossing the dry lake bed of Amboseli, Kenya |
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Jessica Davis USA Nominee "Craig" Amboseli, Kenya. The gentle Giant Craig. Each Tusk weighs about 100lbs |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Racoon second" little Racoon on a Tree |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Kestrel" Kestrel 19:26 |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Heron" Two Herons on frozen Lake |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Parakeet" Parakeet in Hole |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Tough in the Pan" Black Back Jackal Namibia desert |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Zebra Crossing " Namibian Desert |
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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Indian Elephant" Dust & Food. |
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Julien Regamey Switzerland Nominee "Lion" Lion / Kruger National Park |
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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee "Frozen Bison" Yellowstone Frozen Bison |
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Kevin Lohman USA Nominee "Marine Iguana Steps into the Bay" A Marine Iguana leaves Santiago Island to enter the cold waters of the Galápagos Islands. |
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Kristen Warning USA Nominee "Blink" In the blink of an eye...or two...and the moment is captured. |
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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Happiness" Baby elephant takes a pause after nursing from the mother. |
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Leigh Ann Pincus USA Nominee "Baaaa" A newborn sheep with it's mother in Italy. |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Murmuration 23" Redwinged black birds photographed at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Giraffe Herd" Giraffe herd photographed in Uganda, presented as a negative black & white print. |
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Liyun Yu USA Nominee "Y" |
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Liyun Yu USA Nominee "Tough Path Survival" A Lizard chosen the tough path for survival. |
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Madhur Shroff India Nominee "Quench together" A mother & her baby together Quench their thirst at the forest waterhole. Shot in the wild just before sunset. |
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Magnus Laupa Sweden Nominee "Partners for Life" The swan didn´t let anyone close to the flake of ice. |
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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Nominee "Bathfish" Indonesia - Lembeh Strait - On a sandy bottom at 15mt depth I encounter in young batfish that I phot |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee "Red Bullet" Coming in for a landing on my deck, this cardinal spread his wings so fast to slow himself down. I was ecstatic with my capture of this beautiful male cardinal |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee "The Eagle Has Landed" The Mara, Kenya |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee "Splash" Photographed at Wokodahatchee Wetlands. Tricolored Heron fishing. |
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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "The catch" Bird trying to catch a butterfly being a plexiglass wall, Costa Rica |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee "Machozi" “Tear” in Swahili- A single tear runs across the crevasses surrounding the eye of a white rhino. |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee "Kuwinda" A young male leopard uses a fallen tree to search for prey. |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Fish Eagle Call" |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Youngster At Play" |
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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee "Cabron" Cabron, the mean looking dog with a good heart |
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Preeti and Prashant Chacko United Arab Emirates Nominee "Guardian of the Mount" An iconic white rhino seemingly stands guard in the shadow of the even more iconic Mt Kenya. |
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Preeti and Prashant Chacko United Arab Emirates Nominee "The Last Stand" A scene like this is a testament to the game reserves that fight for the survival of rhinos |
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Preeti and Prashant Chacko United Arab Emirates Nominee "Smell the Roses" A magnificent white rhino pauses to inspect a tiny shrub in its path. |
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Randall Ball USA Nominee "Elephant Matriarch" The elephant matriarch of the herd stands her ground between our game vehicle and her herd. |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee "Alone In The Abyss" A shark alone in the abyss |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee "Bubble Bath" A graceful silky shark glides effortlessly through a sea of effervescent bubbles. |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee "I See You" A curious Nurse Shark peaks above water to get a different view. |
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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee "The ghost" Suddenly he's sitting there in the middle of the night |
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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee "Sunday feeling" The grazing African buffalo in the last sunlight of the day |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee "Dune Wongari" A wild dingo searches the K'gari dunes for her pup |
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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee "Stalking" A wild Wongari (Dingo) on the beach of K'gari - world's largest sand island |
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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee "Walking Proud" Polar Bear mother and her two cubs walking on the sea ice together |
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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee "Motherhood" Mother Polar Bear breastfeeding her twins |
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Ross Deverson Canada Nominee "Sorrow" Location: Laos, South East Asia. A rescued elephant weeps slightly after it's mud bath. |
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Scott Barrow USA Nominee "The Committee" A group of curious sheep focusing their attention on you. |
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Selena Malone USA Nominee "Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park" Snow monkeys, known as Japanese macaques, are a species of primates native to Japan. |
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Seth Mayer USA Nominee "Serenity" Mythical, magical and in touch with the universe. |
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Sheena Jolley Ireland Nominee "Hovering with Intent" Several hunting techniques are used by kestrels, but the most well-known is the hover. |
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Sheena Jolley Ireland Nominee "Hare Alert" The Irish Mountain Hare is one of Ireland’s longest established indigenous species of mammal . |
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Sheena Jolley Ireland Nominee "Nose for Nectar" The underside of the Common Blue butterfly has orange crescents and black spots |
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Sheena Jolley Ireland Nominee "Cautiously Drinking" Gray Langur cautiously came out of the forest as a group to drink. |
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Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya India Nominee "Patterns in the sand" A scorpion photographed in the wind swept sand patterns of the dunes of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Into the Wind" An American Bison sets pace into the wind in Yellowstone. |
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Stuart Vesty USA Nominee "Avatar" Stepping in to the light. |
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Stuart Vesty USA Nominee "Storm warrior" Bold & Determined |
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Theo Di Pascual France Nominee "The gorilla" One of the biggest primates |
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Thierry Schut Netherlands Nominee "Birds" Birds at sea, analogue photo. |
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Todd Williams USA Nominee "Winter Raven" Winter Raven Grand Teton National Park |
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Tom Schandy Norway Nominee "Vulture heads" Vultures heads, backlight early morning in Catalonia, Spain. |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee "Attention" out of my series ANIMALS |
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Ximena Echeverria USA Nominee "Wild & Free" Experiencing wild horses running through the vastness of the desert that they call home was an unfor |
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Ximena Echeverria USA Nominee "Dust and Silence" Two loud stallions reared up, a scuffle, dust flying everywhere and the clicking sound of the camera |
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Ziesook You USA Nominee "Look 2024" |
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