Abstract - Amateur

Judit Pap USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Starry Night" My tribute to Vincent Van Gogh.

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Lee Grossman USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "vegescape"

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Steven Stanger USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Light from Above"

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Mayda Rumberg USA Honorable Mention "Bananas in Miami"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Honorable Mention "Two strokes of brush" two shadows. two strokes of brush. and if de rain hurts you, I will cry for you.

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Osvaldo Rima Switzerland Honorable Mention "Marble quarry (1)" Abandoned marble quarry, Arzo, Switzerland

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Tom O Scott USA Honorable Mention "Bonfires in the Sand" Patterns in the sand made by the receding tides

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Robin Ward USA Honorable Mention "Intersecting Trajectories 2" From the series Submerged

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Steven Stanger USA Honorable Mention "Sunrise Through the Trees"

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Mats Anda Norway Honorable Mention "Dimensions" Found this tree that branched out in 6 trunks. Put my 14 mm in there and ducked.. My best shot till this day.. Take some steps back..

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Donald Cameron UK Honorable Mention "Quietus" A close-up long exposure of the 'Dolos' (vast concrete blocks) which form the sea defence wall at Torness Power Station, Scotland.

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Sheila P Morrison Canada Honorable Mention "Wall of Illusion" Exploratorium Museum of Science, San Francisco, California

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Lilyan Aloma USA Honorable Mention "© Cityscape Chelsea" 24" X 22" Pigment Print - Holga

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Federico Bianchi USA Honorable Mention "body-mandala KL24-8" body-mandala KL24-8

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Alexander Kamakaev Russia Nominee "Sunflower seeds. #3" ducks

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Andrew Hough UK Nominee "A Dragon Stops To Drink" A small waterfall in a brook took my attention, as I set up the shot I was amazes to see the dragon in the rock.

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Antelope Canyon"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Evening lake"

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Floating Stone" Porto Venere (La Spezia) - Italy (2013

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Goldfield Broken Window 1673" Goldfield Broken Window 1673

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Traffic Jam" Gramado, Brazil

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Observer" San Francisco, USA

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Dissonance" Gramado, Brazil

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Gare St-Lazare" Paris, France

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Compulsion" New York City, USA

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Chester Ng USA Nominee "Incandescence"

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Christina Czybik Germany Nominee "Abstract Staircase" I was immediately drawn to this staircase. The architecture has a beautiful futuristic aesthetic that I had not seen before in a stairwell.

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Christina Czybik Germany Nominee "Hollywood Geisha" Double Exposure Hollywood Boulevard - This is how I see my old neighborhood in Hollywood - a melting pot of celebrity culture, entertainment and proud heritage of thousands of people from all over...

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Christina Czybik Germany Nominee "Abstract Elbtunnel Stairs" Abstract Old Elbtunnel Stairs, Hamburg, Germany I returned to my hometown Hamburg after almost 5 years and started to discover the beauty of this Hanseatic city again. Walking down the stairs of...

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Fantasy Tree"

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Daniel Schwabe Brazil Nominee "Shade abstraction" A photo of a Klimt lamp taken with a cell phone.

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Daniel Groneberg Australia Nominee "Crying Man"

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David Reilly USA Nominee "Atama, Yokohama" Part of the series, "In Borrowed Light" of single exposures blending remnant subjects with fleeting reflections to create a dated atmosphere betrayed by hints of the modern, to subvert...

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David Reilly USA Nominee "Empires in the Sun" Part of the series, "In Borrowed Light" of single exposures blending remnant subjects with fleeting reflections to create a dated atmosphere betrayed by hints of the modern, to subvert...

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David Reilly USA Nominee "14th Streets" Part of the series, "In Borrowed Light" of single exposures blending remnant subjects with fleeting reflections to create a dated atmosphere betrayed by hints of the modern, to subvert...

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David Reilly USA Nominee "Intimate Fold #9" From the series, Intimate Folds--photographs of photographs transformed by a simple fold

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Nameless"

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Diane Kaye USA Nominee "Apple Peelings, 2013"

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Diane Kaye USA Nominee "Lift Off!"

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Diane Kaye USA Nominee "Untitled (1)" Hand Made Lumen Print

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Elena Bolshakova Russia Nominee "Symbols on the water" Mirror of the lake's surface reflected grass as some kind of strange symbols

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "Pollachek-Ellin_A Soldier's Legs"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Seven"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Almost Licorice"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Overgrown Mission" Double exposure on a single frame.

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Car Window" Building reflection in car window.

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Working a Double Shift" Double exposure on a single frame.

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Pulled Apart"

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Eis" die Natur malt ein Bild auf die Eisfläche des Sees

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Wasserspiel (Created in workshop of Daniel Nimmervoll)" Wassertropfen in High-speed-Technik aufgenommen und mit Luftdruck verbogen

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Wassertropfen (Created in workshop of Daniel Nimmervoll)" mehrere Wassertropfen wurden in High-Speed-Technik fotografiert

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Fa-Hsiang Hu Taiwan Nominee "Leaf Vein " Electrical energy to bring us life more convenient, but green leaves able to bring a richer life for us.

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Federico Bianchi USA Nominee "body-mandala KF32" body-mandala KF32

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "A flutterbye of Fairies" Magic in Macro - from fact to Fantasy 1

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "When Dragons Snap" Magic in Macro - from fact to Fantasy 2

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "Medusa" Magic in Macro - from fact to Fantasy 3

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Hugh Jones USA Nominee "Escape From Dantes Inferno"

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Hugh Jones USA Nominee "Frida Lost and Found"

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Ingo Hecker Germany Nominee "Frank O Gehry" Building at Bad Oeynhausen

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "TURBULENCE"

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Jesmen Wong Singapore Nominee "Busy Streets" Busy Mind

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Jung-Chan Liao Taiwan Nominee "Puppet" Who controls our fate? The God? Or ourselves? (This picture was taken one shot, with nearly none of embellishment or modification by using graphic software.)

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Ascend"

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Universe"

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Klas Anders Sweden Nominee "Untitled (2)"

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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee "Tracks & Traces" Wet sand as witness to recent activity on the beach.

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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee "Floating grass on dark water" Irwin Lake, Colorado, dusk, 4x5 film camera. After sunset, the wind just stopped and I was able to photograph the fine floating grass on the Lake as an uncombed hair.

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Lauren Golden USA Nominee "After Thanksgiving 1" East Harlem, New York, the morning after Thanksgiving

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Lauren Golden USA Nominee "After Thanksgiving 2"

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Leah Lallier USA Nominee "Spiral"

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Lorraine Castillo USA Nominee "Illusion"

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Luan Cox New Zealand Nominee "Arial River" The abstract beauty of a river from the air.

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Harley Heaven"

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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Leaving a mark"

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Marcia Getto USA Nominee "Memories-1" Remembering days gone by….

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "old iron-y" moving image: let it move once more, with fears; Bolivia 2012

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "out of the woods" moving image: old barn captured back by nature; Italy 2012

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "gallery alive I" moving image: dropped gallery string (accidentally figurative); Jaroslawl/Russia, 2013

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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee "armata-marianna_Piano" abstract of piano wires

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee "Maze"

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee "Tubular"

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Markku Saijets Finland Nominee "Abstract 2012 011"

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Markku Saijets Finland Nominee "Abstract 2012 010"

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Markku Saijets Finland Nominee "Digital landscape 2012-2014 002"

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee "You too are broken"

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Fashion Water" While my mother was drinking from the fountain I took a series of photos trying to freeze the action of the water creating an abstract.

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Mats Anda Norway Nominee "We are gonna need a lot of windows I guess.." The Statoil Hydro office in Oslo, Norway.

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Mats Anda Norway Nominee "to all my X`es out there.." Turned a bit to the side. Nothing else is new..

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Mats Anda Norway Nominee "Matin Arton" Shot into the hood of an Aston Matin in Østermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. 14 mm Canon lens.

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Mauro Boiteux Brazil Nominee "Arrow" Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee "The Edge" taken in Melbourne

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Nikolai Endegor France Nominee "The House" Upside-down view from Tour Montparnasse, Paris

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Osvaldo Rima Switzerland Nominee "Marble quarry (2)" Abandoned marble quarry, Arzo, Switzerland

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Solarized View Eiffel Tower "

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Two Bridges New York"

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Paul Crampton Canada Nominee "Pearl Jam 1" Shadows of Pink Pearl erasers in a simulated "traffic" jam

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Paul Crampton Canada Nominee "Pearl Jam 2" Shadows of Pink Pearl erasers in a simulated "traffic" jam

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Paul Wainwright USA Nominee "Untitled (143F)" From The Pendulum Project - long exposures of an LED attached to a pendulum

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Lightplay"

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Petr Travkin Canada Nominee "Dogs Playground" Tribute to Brassai

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philip metcalf USA Nominee "New Petroglyphs"

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Richard Douglas Canada Nominee "Pyramid Lake #2"

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Robert Pendleton USA Nominee "Escher's Place"

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Robi Ganguli India Nominee "Perspective"

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Rodger Overholser USA Nominee "Shadow on the Rocks" Photo of the photographer's Shadow

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Rodger Overholser USA Nominee "Gone Forever"

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Untitled (4)" The light and shadows on cement support beams of a massive structure.

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee "Strange Bird"

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Ron Hewit UK Nominee "london skyline" multiple exposure of the city's skyline on a wet windy day

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Samantha Combs USA Nominee "Ascent" illuminated discarded paper

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Samantha Combs USA Nominee "Dovetail" ripped bolt hole in tin siding

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Sebahat Ersoy Turkey Nominee "transcendental"

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Sebahat Ersoy Turkey Nominee "myth of sea"

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Shawn Mcbride USA Nominee "Prickly Pear Texture" Part of a series of images exploring the ubiquitous (in Texas) prickly pear cactus.

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Siegfried Hansen Germany Nominee "the mask" seen in Hamburg / Germany

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Soren Harbel Spain Nominee "Three Bulls" Three Bulls in a Courtyard

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Road to nowhere" A tale told by a tail. Grevy's zebra at Cabarceno parc Santander, Cantabria, Spain

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Ascending Stairs"

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Crazy Horse Model"

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Hanging Jewelry"

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Grasses"

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Interference #100" Direct capture disrupted by ambient interference, 645 PRO for iPhone

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Tanja Kuic USA Nominee "Shoot To Kill"

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Tom O Scott USA Nominee "Tree of Life" Patterns in the sand made by the receding tides

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Tom O Scott USA Nominee "Stork Watching Her Eggs" Patterns in the sand made by the receding tides.

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Tony DeSantis USA Nominee "Irony of My Own Little World" All the windows are open in a room where there is no roof.

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "stacked chairs"

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Ursi Maesing-Camenzind Switzerland Nominee "speed"

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee "Rocket Man" Nikon D800, long exposure. Lake Steinhude at "Badeinsel" with light trails of several aircraft approaching Hanover Airport (Langenhagen), HAJ, during the long exposure.

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee "Cabin Crew Prepare For Landing" Canon EOS 5D MKII, long exposure. Henley Beach, Torrens estuary / mouth, Adelaide, South Australia -- an aircraft was approaching Adelaide Airport, ADL, while taking this night shot.

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Yasuteru Kasano Japan Nominee "A Burn" I am interested in what people do and the nature. So I capture them through the viewfinder. Then I can find that there are many surprises and something special in our daily life. Why are the people th

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