Nature - Amateur , 7th Spider Awards | Black & White Spider Photography Awards™

Dianne Yudelson

USA

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Springtime Jublilee"

Don Whitebread

USA

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Dragon's Blood Grove, Socotra"
A grove of fabled Dragon's Blood Trees on the island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen.

Marius Rustad

Norway

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"The Forest (2)"

Wajid Drabu

USA

Honorable Mention

"Eurythmics"
Jellyfish

Giorgio Bisetti

Italy

Honorable Mention

"The Spectacle Of Nature"

Kerry Maxwell

USA

Honorable Mention

"Roots"
Roots of the vanishing Everglades

Nancy Hill

Canada

Honorable Mention

"Boisé mystérieux"

Ronny Ritschel

Canada

Honorable Mention

"Dettifoss - Iceland 2011"

Aleta Cortes

USA

Nominee

"The Snows Came"
winter 2011

Andrea Nuvoloni

Italy

Nominee

"Waiting for Spring"
A lonely tree, lost in the winter snow in Lessinia mountains, in the north of Italy.

Anil Sud

Canada

Nominee

"Death Valley Dunes"
Patterns of light in Death Valley National Park

Anita Schiedeck

Spain

Nominee

"Snow"
Snow in a Landscape

Switzerland

Nominee

"Forest life"
A forest place at Albis Pass (Switzerland) I used to go for the last few years taking photos of the impressive beech trees in autumn. As a result of the strong storms some trees were uprooted and...

Barbara Dorota Karpowicz

Canada

Nominee

"Butterfly"
Crypt Lake, Canada

Bill Allen

UK

Nominee

"Coast"
Cow Gap, Beachy Head, on the UK's south coast.

Bob Neiman

USA

Nominee

"Haystacks & Waves Cannon Beach"

Bobby Chitrakar

USA

Nominee

"Chitrakar-Bobby_Sauvie Island Farm, OR"
Sauvie Island Farm. OR

Bryce Burnip

Canada

Nominee

"Plains"

Cesare Di Liborio

Italy

Nominee

"Labyrinthos II_1"

Daniel Kencke

USA

Nominee

"Sprague River Aspens"
A cold and clear morning accentuates the grove's reflection on the surface of California's Sprague River

David Thibodeaux

USA

Nominee

"1208991"

Denise Castro-Bran

USA

Nominee

"Corralled"
Bandon Beach, Oregon

dennis dunton

USA

Nominee

"Whale Head Rock"

Esmeralda Edenberg

Sweden

Nominee

"Footprints"
Footprints on the beach

Fernando Brito

Portugal

Nominee

"Balanced Forces 11"
These images are part of a project titled " Balanced Forces" in wich I look at the meeting of two powerfull forces: land and water, imutability and fluid energy.

Frank Toepfer

Germany

Nominee

"Storm Study"
clouds of a severe thunderstorm near Neuss, Germany, 2011

Gerald Fleury

USA

Nominee

"Frosted"

Giang Le

Germany

Nominee

"laguna scape"

Greg Winston

USA

Nominee

"Winter winds"
Snow swirls in the Teton Range as a storm moves in.

Greg Holba

UK

Nominee

"Dunes rise"
A sandy path through Pembrokeshire dune grasses

Guy Gagnon

Belgium

Nominee

"The Thing"
Capture at the beach of Villers-Sur-Mer (France)

Hans Öhlin

Sweden

Nominee

"Tribute_Öhlin- Hans"
20010-05-16/ The bird

Heinrich LingnauSchneider

France

Nominee

"sky"
view to the skies, Versailles, France

Ignacio Romero Naves

Spain

Nominee

"Glacies"
Baltic Sea- Helsinki, Finland.

Jason Jilg

USA

Nominee

"Prairie Duster"
Badlands National Park

Johnny Stevens

USA

Nominee

"Hay Bails"
Straw Bails

Kay Tetzlaff

USA

Nominee

"The first light"
After a stormy night I was lucky to be the only photographer for a while at this iconic landmark. The first sunlight was touching Arches while.the storm was just clearing.

Lee Chee Wai

Malaysia

Nominee

"Beach Drama"
the Yin and Yang natural phenomenon of the water in this beautiful beach

Linda Cutche

New Zealand

Nominee

"The Journey"
These fragile vines caught my eye and started me thinking how we all start off on a journey never knowing where we will end up.

Maciej Leszczynski

Poland

Nominee

"Cumulus"
Sky over south Baltic Sea, Poland

Manuel Abella

USA

Nominee

"Alaska"
Alaska The Last Frontier

Maria Dorn

Germany

Nominee

"Beach Trees"
natural shapes formed by water at the beach, Thailand

Mark Kelly

Australia

Nominee

"Curves"

Martyn Lucas

USA

Nominee

"Antarctica II"

Martyn Lucas

USA

Nominee

"Antarctica IV"

Mauricio Villahermosa

Venezuela

Nominee

"Metheoric Drops"
Suddenly the sky became black and the drops arrived fast.

Maximilian Baeuchle

Germany

Nominee

"white curtain"

Michael Flicek

USA

Nominee

"Old Faithful Greets a New Day"
Old Faithful Greets a New Day

Mike Shea

USA

Nominee

"Jelly Jelly"
Jelly Fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Minny Lee

USA

Nominee

"Sea, Montauk, New York 2011"
The sea is double versed. It is powerful yet comforting. Walking along the seashore, the traces of the sea are visible all over. Sand and pebbles survive the powerful waves. The reflection of the sky...

Nenad Saljic

Croatia

Nominee

"Matterhorn: Night Clouds #3"
Matterhorn 4478 m, Switzerland

Otakar Hevler

Switzerland

Nominee

"Ice and Sea"
Iceland, 2010

Pascal Blanchet

Netherlands

Nominee

"winter fog"
Foggy morning along the canal

Peter Kurdulija

New Zealand

Nominee

" Leap Into the Underworld"
Bridal Veil Falls, New Zealand

Peter Aitken

USA

Nominee

"Reeds and reflected trees"
Near Denali, Alaska

Peter Leask

New Zealand

Nominee

"Cordyline Australis"
The sole survivor of a fire that decimated a grove of New Zealand Cabbage Trees, Wairarapa, New Zealand.

Pierre Pellegrini

Switzerland

Nominee

"Water And Wind, The Force Of Nature"
Hasselbad 503CW, Phase One P20+, Lens: Hasselblad Distangon 4/40mm, ISO 100, f/16, sec 1"