Wildlife - Professional

Rolf Walther Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Ape hands and feet"

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Ruud Peters France 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Royalty"

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Emperor Penguins #2" Emperor Penguins, one of the species most endangered by global warming. West Antarctica 2008

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Serana Hunt Hughes Australia Honorable Mention "Andalusian"

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Cristobal Serrano Spain Honorable Mention "Pride of the Night" A pride of lions finally came down to drink. The light of the camera flash rebounded from their retinas and reflected their gaze on the water. Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

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Andrey Gudkov Russia Honorable Mention "Face to face"

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Heidi and Hans-Juergen Koch Germany Honorable Mention "Bison Bull" Bison or American buffalo (Bison bison), adult bull shows his broadside, in the moult and lose the thick winter coat, Bad River Ranch (ranch of Ted Turner), Fort Pierre, South Dakota, USA. This image

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Honorable Mention "Elephant watering hole" A lrge breeding herd of elephants gather around a watering hole in Botswana, Africa.

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Gregor Törzs Germany Honorable Mention "Barracudas" Medium Format Analog * Platinum Print on Arches Paper

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achille bigliardi USA Nominee "Alamoso" Alamoso photographer duringa shoot for Point of Change-Equine Guided Education

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achille bigliardi USA Nominee "Cari_in_Action" Cari getting excited druing a shoot for Point of Change-Equine Guided Education

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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee "Crowd" Pelicans awaiting to be fed. Photo taken on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia

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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee "Who's calling?" This gorilla from Taronga Zoo Sydney is imitating visitors talking on their mobile phones. He does it constantly, even while eating, sometimes both hands.

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Andrea Kornfeld Hungary Nominee "Jinjang" Shagya Arabian horses

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Andrew Kemp Brazil Nominee "Farm life" Morning Mist

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Antonio Busiello Italy Nominee "Storm gathering" I followed these giraffes for few days, at one point they stopped and looked like they were aiting for the storm to come.

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Barb Young USA Nominee "Hawk II"

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Bev Pettit USA Nominee "Grace" A frisky stallion

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bobbie goodrich USA Nominee "SKY HIGH" Image taken in Sanbone private reserve South Africa December 2012

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bobbie goodrich USA Nominee "Wild horses" Image taken in Camargue France of the White wild horses May 2012

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Carolyn Brown USA Nominee "Brown-Carolyn Flying Ibis" Ibis Disagreement Over Limb

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Cemhan Biricik USA Nominee "Eye of the beast" Close up shot of a Wild Large Iguana. With the barrel of my lens in the reflection of his eye.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Elephants on the move" A breeding herd of elephants on the move. The low shooting angle helps demonstrate their size.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Hippos" A pair of Hippos giving a warning snort, Pafuri, South Africa.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Leopard and prey, Botswana" A large male leopard stands over his prey, Botswana.

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chrystina geagan USA Nominee "Free" Female brown elephant, East Africa, Tanzania

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Chuck Nakell USA Nominee "Awaiting Release"

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Cristobal Serrano Spain Nominee "Close to Lemon" I shot this Lemon Shark image during a night dive. The light interacting at certain depths can give them a tanned and yellow, pitted appearance, much like the surface of a lemon. Tiger Beach, Bahamas.

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Cristobal Serrano Spain Nominee "Eternal Love" The clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris), forever faithful to the bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor), seems reluctant to leave its protective tentacles. Port Moresby, Papua Nueva Guinea.

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Cristobal Serrano Spain Nominee "Red Passion" This Hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) came to sip nectar from a Heliconia. After taking over a thousand frames, I managed to capture the bird just as it reached the flower. Bajos del Toro, Costa Rica.

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Cristobal Serrano Spain Nominee "The Eye of the Baitball" The image captures the frantic pursuit of a cormorant as it dives, bullet like, in its attempt to catch one of these grunts (Haemulidae) that constitute its diet. Sea of Cortez, Mexico.

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Damon Clarke Canada Nominee "Luna" Filtered evening light dapples this magnificent Luna Moth.

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Francine Filsinger USA Nominee "Majestic" "Silent Sentinel stands mute. No voice sings in the Serengeti as each day brings an endless struggle for survival. "What we must face, all of us, poachers, tourists, farmers, conservationists,...

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Gary Roberts UK Nominee "King in snare." A wire snare cuts deep into a wild African lions neck. Following discovery this lion was located and treated by park authorities. Poaching by snaring has dramatically increased in recent years.

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Giordano Cipriani Italy Nominee "shape" an alligator photographed from underwater

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Giordano Cipriani Italy Nominee "streaks" a tiger in the water

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Gregor Törzs Germany Nominee "Groopers" Medium Format Analog * Platinum Print on Arches Paper

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Gregor Törzs Germany Nominee "Jellyfish dancing" Medium Format Analog * Platinum Print on Arches Paper

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Standing Room Only" Bird on ship railing next to "No Reserved Seating" sign

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Heather Aitken USA Nominee "zebras" taken in 2008, Zimbabwe, the group of zebras positioned themselves in such a graphic formation.

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Jason Arundell Australia Nominee "Wild Dog"

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Jayne Silberman USA Nominee "Camargue Horses"

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Jeff Widener USA Nominee "Tailgaiting" A buffalo leads a convy of cars inside the Yosemite National Park. Taken with Trii-X film and Leica R8 body with 180mm lens

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Jeff Widener USA Nominee "Monkey Business (2)" A monkey takes liberty at a tourist restroom in the British Territory of Gibraltar. Taken with Tri-X film with a Leica M7 camera and 28mm lens.

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Jerry Whitty USA Nominee "Reflection"

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Jim Fenwick UK Nominee "Fragment" Dead bird in the rain, East Sussex, UK

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joSon USA Nominee "Two elephants in the field" image the serengeti migration project

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Justin Fabian Canada Nominee "Hide and Seek (1)"

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Kentaro Sekine Japan Nominee "Encounter" Cow encountered in northern Thailand at the sunset time

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Kristi Elias USA Nominee "The_Magnificent"

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Kurt Brown Canada Nominee "A Mother's Watch" The colt was 6 hours old, and his mother kept a close watch as he peacefully sleeps

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Lenka Cizkova Netherlands Nominee "Wild geese"

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "HOOT Hoot"

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee "Buffalo in Mud" Buffalo enjoy mud baths to remove annoying ticks.

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Lynne Glazer USA Nominee "Post Storm Roll" Nothing beats a good roll in the mud after a spring storm for my snow-white mare..

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Malcolm Schuyl UK Nominee "Hide and Seek (2)" Frilled Lizard hiding on tree trunk, Australia

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Goats in Tree"

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Mike Hollman New Zealand Nominee "Contemplating" Baboon, Beijing.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Expecting"

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Shadow Me"

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "The Great Migration"

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Olwen Evans New Zealand Nominee "Hwange" Green season, Hwange National Park. Zimbabwe.

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Paul Kennedy USA Nominee "Morning Drink" Zebras drink, just after dawn, in Etosha National Park, Namibia

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Paul Coghlin UK Nominee "Watching" From the "Behind the Eyes" animal portrait series, which aims to encourage you to consider animal consciousness and what an animal may “think” or feel as it looks straight back into your...

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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee "Lion and Zebra"

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Phyllis Burchett USA Nominee "Siesta Time" Siesta after the Fiesta...Coastal Brown Bear Sow, Lake Clark NP, Alaska

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Pierre Perrault Canada Nominee "The King of the pond" Bullfrog captured through cattails in a pond at La Minerve, Quebec, Canada.

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R.D.Wayne Holloway Australia Nominee "Red Hartebeest Dance" I love serendipity

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Radics Zoltan Romania Nominee "One step into the light"

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Radics Zoltan Romania Nominee "the mother" snow leopard and his cub

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Rafael Rojas Switzerland Nominee "Giraffes Symphony" During a brief moment, 7 giraffes become a graphical study of texture, shape and rhythm, floating in the limbo of the African night. Okaukuejo waterhole, Etosha, Namibia.

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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee "Wildebeest Stampede" Migrating Blue Wildebeest in the southern Serengeti in Tanzania

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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee "Homeless" This image taken in Borneo truly expresses the plight of the orang-utans.

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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Nominee "A Tender Moment" Elephants in Etosha National Park in Namibia.

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Roberta Murray Canada Nominee "Froggy Went A Courting"

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Roberta Murray Canada Nominee "Wild Eyes"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "White Swan"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Friends"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Kiss"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Baby Gorilla"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Lunch"

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Romy John USA Nominee "Hungry Eyes" After a food fight.

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Ruud Peters France Nominee "Grumpy"

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Scott Hoyle USA Nominee "Black Horse" I couldn't believe how beautiful this horse was. I had only a moment to take this low-light photograph, and my goal was to keep the whiskers and eyes in focus while letting the rest fade out.

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Sergey Gorshkov Russia Nominee "Arctic fox and egg" Russia. Wrangel Island. Arctic fox and egg.

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Sreesailam Pasupula India Nominee "Romance in the Lake" One summer sunny day,Long Necked Cranes are performing romantic,rhythmic dance,before mating,in the lake.

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Susan Burns USA Nominee "Mystico" An Iberian stallion with fire in his eyes.

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Tina Thuell Bermuda Nominee "The Crossing" They moved as if they were of one mind and one body. Crossing the Hop River, Northern Iceland

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "First lesson of killing" Young cheetahs have no predatory instinct. They must be trained to hunt their prey. Kenya 1999

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Paradise Crossing #1" Wildbeests crossing the Mara River. Kenya 1999

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Paradise Crossing #5" Wildbeests crossing the Mara River. Kenya 1999

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Emperor Penguins #3" Emperor Penguins, one of the species most endangered by global warming. West Antarctica 2008

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Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Emperor Penguins #4" Emperor Penguins, one of the species most endangered by global warming. West Antarctica 2008

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Victoria Hillman UK Nominee "The Yawn" Male Atlantic grey seal during mating season on the east cost of the UK, emerged from the sea making his presence on the beach. I wanted a different angle on the seal, yawning he showed his teeth and...

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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee "untitled 13" 2012. Bolsa Chica, CA

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