Nature - Amateur

Jeremy Senior New Zealand 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Cathedral Cove" Coromandel, New Zealand, 2013

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Marco Crupi USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Emerging Beauties Reflected" Leafless trees reflecting on water

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John DuBois USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Clearing Storm, Yuma" Supercell storm moving away near Yuma, Colorado, USA

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Gunar Streu Norway Honorable Mention "Northern lights" Lapland, Sweden

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James Black USA Honorable Mention "Niagra Winter" There is more to Niagara Falls than the summer tourist rush.

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Honorable Mention "van Hoogstraten-Frans-Veil of Mist" Huangshan Mountain from the Beginning to believe peak, Anhui/ China

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Charles Daviet USA Honorable Mention "Bee in the Phlox"

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Arlene Stanger USA Honorable Mention "Garden Wall"

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Alain Baumgarten France Honorable Mention "The First Sun"

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Marco Crupi USA Honorable Mention "Night guardian of the Valley" Spotted this gem early in the day, returned for the moon shot.

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Kurt Westbrook USA Honorable Mention "Winter's Grip" The freezing and thawing of winter shown on a fallen leaf.

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Sally Phillips New Zealand Honorable Mention "Koru"

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Steve Burkett USA Honorable Mention "Icy Byway" Rural Tennessee, 2014

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Jeremy Senior New Zealand Honorable Mention "Bridal Veil Falls" Raglan, New Zealand, 2013

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Gerd Kirchner Germany Honorable Mention "Frosty Forest" Trees covered with hoarfrost on a cold, foggy winter's day in the Hunsrueck hills, Germany

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Abhishek Dasgupta USA Nominee "Without leaves" Pinhole picture taken with a 6X6 camera to depict the tree, leafless yet determined enough to face the approaching storm.

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Abhishek Dasgupta USA Nominee "Good Old Minnesota" Pinhole photography is an echo of my dreams into the real world.. The way i see the world in my dreams. There are glimpses to reality but its not definitive ..

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Adrian Per Romania Nominee "Red Poppies With Blue sky and White Clouds" In the West Romanian fields.near my home town Timisoara

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Ajit Menon USA Nominee "Elgol" A rainy day in Elgol, Skye

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Ajit Menon USA Nominee "Genesis" Bamburgh Beach, England

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Alain Baumgarten France Nominee "Cezallier" Infrared 720nm

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Alain Baumgarten France Nominee "Le Pacte" Infrared 720nm

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Alexander Rocco Canada Nominee "Jokulsarlon - Levitating Ice"

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Black swell" Sagres-Portugal 01/06/2014 in the "hercules storm", Cliffs are around 150 feets, we can see the energy displayed by the nature. "Black Swell" is called by the surfer because they...

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Happy tree" it was a fogy day in France. for this one i study the relation between spaces, grounds and forms

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "conjonction" i try to create a dialogue between the horizontality and the verticality, the rocks and the trees, the forground and background,...

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Touch me" a study about abstract and disordered forms of mere coincidence. I try to connect thoses branch together to create something human in inanimate item

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "Strange Reflection Between Water And Sky" [my romania] [waterscape] oltenia.mehedinti.orsova.romania.2013

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Alexei Krasnikov Russia Nominee "Refusing To Die" Montemassi, Italy

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Amr El-shafei USA Nominee "salt and pepper"

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Andrew Hough UK Nominee "Bejewlled" Water drops caught on a Purple Sage plant.

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Angela Vicedomini Germany Nominee "Infinity"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Badlands"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Waterfall@Yellowstone"

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Arlene Stanger USA Nominee "Foggy Orchard"

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "It's a Hard Life" Trekking "Sentiero degli Dei" - Costiera Amalfitana - Italy (2009)

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Silent Trees" Parco del Beigua (Sv-Ge) - Italy (2013)

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Radici" Bormida river - Altare (SV) - 2014 - Italy

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avelino dinis France Nominee "Hiden tree" Nine trees in the snow,8 seen and one hidden..

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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee "Bristlecone Pines" The bristlecone pines are the oldest living things on earth. I have recently fulfilled a dream of many decades to travel to the high altitude in the Sierra Nevada's where they can be found.

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Bhawna Gulab South Africa Nominee "Deadvlei Namibia" Death - A Landscape - Visited

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Bhawna Gulab South Africa Nominee "Dunes (1)" Dunes Sossusvlei Namibia

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Bill HARBIN USA Nominee "Black Sand Dunes" black sand dunes Iceland

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Lower Antelope Canyon 2 7968"

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Lower Merced River 0820"

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Bob Tetro USA Nominee "Infrared White Sands Yucca"

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Candace Casey USA Nominee "First Light (2)" The first light touches the edge of a sand dune in the Namib Desert, Sossus Vlei, Namibia

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Candace Casey USA Nominee "Black Pine" A Japanese Black Pine faces the oncoming weather. Tokyo, Japan

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Christopher Houghton Australia Nominee "Eternal Sea" Aboriginal creation story tells us that Ngurunderi ascended from these rocks to become a star in the milky way. The salt formation on rock reveals the unity between earth, sea and sky.

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Chuck Turner USA Nominee "Dune Ridge"

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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee "Paesaggio collinare"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Tranquil Shores" Lofoten, Norway

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Daniel Cook UK Nominee "Spacing" A sparse line of trees against the bright sky. Taken in Sheffield to capture the wonderful open farmland landscape.

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Daniel Cook UK Nominee "Mountain Trail" The path up Cat Bells in the English Lake District. A very popular route that conveys the beauty of this mountain landscape.

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Darren Moore UK Nominee "Essence "

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Darren Moore UK Nominee "The Path"

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Dave Rudin USA Nominee "Shadows and Peaks, Alaska, 2011"

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "Fish Eating Creek" I was standing hip deep in the overflowing creek before dawn when I captured this glorious tree with its magnificent reflection. i hope that the viewer can feel transported to that moment as well.

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Trail"

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Bear Grass" Mt. Hood National Forest, OR

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Climbing Under the Milky Way" Climbers on Half Dome and Royal Arches at Yosemite, California

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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Stardust"

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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Stars Over Low Tide" St Simons Island

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Eduardo Almeida Spain Nominee "Castrograviotas" N.0245 - Villahormes, Llanes, Asturias, Spain. 2013 - Silver Toned

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Eduardo Almeida Spain Nominee "Whispering Waters" N.0234 - Sanabria Lake, Zamora, Spain. 2013 - Platinum Toned

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "The Ant"

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Eric Spence Canada Nominee "Lonely But Not Alone" No one is an island unto themselves. We're all connected even by the thinnest of threads. It's natural to sometimes feel lonely, but we're never alone.

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "eisige Zeiten" ein zugefrorener See lässt noch ein Loch zum Atmen offen

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Federico Giovannini Italy Nominee "Escape Routes" Vik, Iceland

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Fouchet Frederic France Nominee "Iceland 2 " winter landscape in Iceland

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Frang Dushaj Sweden Nominee "Autumn Mist"

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Frank Brubakken Norway Nominee "Drama"

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Nominee "van Hoogstraten / Frans / Chinese Silhouette" Huangshan Mountain, Anhui/ China

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Fumio Yamaguchi Japan Nominee "a airship cloud" Finland, 2013

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Gail Taylor USA Nominee "Taylor_Gail_Bandon Dream" A double exposure of the forms on Bandon Beach

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Gail Taylor USA Nominee "Taylor_Gail_Bandon Beach at Sunset" Tidal pool at Bandon Beach

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "River Rock"

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Gavin Dunbar UK Nominee "Survivor"

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George Grubb USA Nominee "Nemuro Straits" By the Nemuro Straits in the Hokkaido Prefecture of Japan

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George Tsimbouksis Greece Nominee "Trees in the mist" Italy 2013

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Greg Holba UK Nominee "Blackened poppy fields" A memory, a childhood nightmare or blackened poppy fields

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Gregor Borwig Germany Nominee "faded_72"

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Evening" Lapland, Sweden

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Horizons" Dalarna, Sweden

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "View" Lapland, Sweden

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Hanlin Goh Singapore Nominee "The Dance of Life" Water is life

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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee "Coastal strip, Island"

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Heiner Pflug Brazil Nominee "A new forest growing " Taken in Mato Grosso, Brazil -

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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee "Khongoryn Els" The longest sand dune in the world in the middle of the Gobi, Mongolia

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Helena Taelor Australia Nominee "Ninian Stick" Spectral signature of salt - Lake Ninian, Wongan Hills, South Western Australia

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Helena Taelor Australia Nominee "Just Sticks" Spectral Signature of salt - Lake Martinup, Beaufort River, South Western Australia

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Helena Taelor Australia Nominee "Forever Stick" Spectral signature of salt - White Water Lake, Yealering, South Western Australia

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee "Cape of Storms" Sunlight filters through an explosion of clouds over the sea at Cape Town

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Hugh Jones USA Nominee "Lago Viedma Patagonia"

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Igor Svibilsky USA Nominee "Kallisto"

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Ingo Hecker Germany Nominee "Before the thunderstorm"

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Iwona Knorr Germany Nominee "Pack ice " After the storm at the Baltic Sea

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James Warren USA Nominee "Dune"

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James Peterson USA Nominee "Hoodoo Ridge, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico" An otherworldly vision from Northwestern New Mexico

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Janice Tieken USA Nominee "Tieken-Janice_ZenIlusion" The Tides is a series that chronicles the ever-changing story of the landscape at the ocean’s edge. Rocks, boulders, bones, shells, waves, sunsets, a carcass or a carapace, and gleaming silvered sand.

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Jasper Resari Philippines Nominee "Mt Mayon " The beauty of the Majestic Mt Mayon at dawn

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jayanta roy India Nominee "Ladakh,india" Water Cycle ,the soul of our mother nature

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jayanta roy India Nominee "kanchenjunga" kanchenjunga,the crown above the clouds

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jayanta roy India Nominee "SkyFall" Rain of star over Kanchenjunga,world 3rd highest peak

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Jayne Dennis UK Nominee "H20"

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Jayne Dennis UK Nominee "The Guardian"

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "SMOKE UNDER THE WATER"

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Jesmen Wong Singapore Nominee "Spilt Edges" Edges of the sand

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Jesmen Wong Singapore Nominee "Crack" Land of crack

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John Eaton USA Nominee "First Light (1)"

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Connemara"

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Glenbeg Lake"

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Killarney Lakes"

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Joseph P. Smith Malta Nominee "Parched" Dead twigs on the sun-scorched dunes of the Al Hatta desert in Dubai

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Kah-Wai Lin USA Nominee "Fire Wave, Valley of Fire State Park"

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Kah-Wai Lin USA Nominee "Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park"

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Karim Carella Italy Nominee "Rocks in the clouds (studio 16)"

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Karim Carella Italy Nominee "Totem"

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "Frog Pond"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "in Ticino Switzerland"

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Standing Tall" Georgia cypress trees standing high above the swamp waters.

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Lawrence O'Donoghue New Zealand Nominee "Goðafoss (2)"

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Lawrence O'Donoghue New Zealand Nominee "Milford Sounds"

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Movement"

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Lorraine Castillo USA Nominee "Exposed"

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Lorraine Castillo USA Nominee "Clearing"

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Louisa Kelland Australia Nominee "Boneyard" An abandoned basalt quarry by the sea on the east coast of Australia now looks like an alien landscape.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee "Vestrahorn" Vestrahorn is not only beautiful but one of those locations that captures many elements. Black volcanic sand, incredible light, clouds that intensify and this stunning treesless mountain range that

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee "El Puma" "El Puma" really does exist. He lives hidden in the shadows of Torres Del Paine. Many come to see him but few know where he lives. Patagonia, Chile.

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Luidger Weyers Germany Nominee "arctic summernight"

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Luidger Weyers Germany Nominee "monster of the sea"

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Luidger Weyers Germany Nominee "Dettifoss"

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Luidger Weyers Germany Nominee "fading diamonds"

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee "Body in the Wood"

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Marc Ward USA Nominee "Air & Water No.82"

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee "Reaching Out" Nature and stars in Joshua National Park

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Mark Roberts USA Nominee "Barren Lands" Yellowstone national park. Early morning snow

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Quiet Light Series (1)" Taken in the woods next to Steinwend a tree stands alone glowing with a..quiet light.

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Quiet Light Series (3)" Hills of Haschbach, Germany...field of vision

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Audience of One" Morning in the Steinwenden meadow I visit. So quiet as I captured this image. I was an audience of one.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Pat's Clouds"

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Mary Jane Foster Australia Nominee "Foster Mary Jane Boab Tree" Boab Tree along a track on the Derby Marsh.

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Mary Jane Foster Australia Nominee "Foster Mary Jane Giant Ant Hill" Giant Ant Hills are prolific in the Kimberleys, you see a man to the left in the grass.

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Mary Jane Foster Australia Nominee "Foster Mary Jane Lightning Over Duck Lake" Lightning at Sunset over Duck Lake.

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Mary Jane Foster Australia Nominee "Foster Mary Jane Meda Boabs" Skyward view of a family of Boab Trees.

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Mats Anda Norway Nominee "One step back and the tiger will see you!" Overexposed at purpose. Oslo, Norway. You have to view this shot from a distance..

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Shadow & Light" Sunrise in the Sahara

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Lake & Tree" Evening at a high country lake

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Michael Hynes USA Nominee "After the Storm"

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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee "December Fog" Trees emerging from an early Winter fog

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Neal Panton Canada Nominee "Mause Creek Tarn" Southern Canadian Rockies near Cranbrook, British Columbia

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Nicole Reid USA Nominee "Kaleidoscope lake"

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Swallow" Iceland, 2013

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Ice and Sun" Iceland, 2013

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Almost There" Harris, Scotland, 2014

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Bay of Laig" Eigg, Scotland, 2013

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Otakar Hevler Switzerland Nominee "Imbalance" Harris, Scotland, 2014

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Paolo Romani Italy Nominee "Karakumy2" Karakumy desert,Turkmenistan

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Visions Of Mars"

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Nature’s Epic Tale" One of the best places to get deep into the heart of the Southern Alps is the road to Aoraki National Park, New Zealand. The road meandering below imposing mountains is hugged by magnificent skies.

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "The Mirage Of Winter" A mirage in the middle of winter. An isolated tree shrouded in fog, like a mirage. Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P20+

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Dragonfly Island" Dragonfly island makes a surreal sight in the middle of a still pond

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Regula Seiler Switzerland Nominee "Wald" Wald

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Richard Smukler USA Nominee "Swamp's Edge" I was able to capture an image representing the confluence of South Florida's swampland and the verdant abundance produced in its nearby farmland.

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Robert Pendleton USA Nominee "Baltic Archipelago"

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Sculptures in the sand" South Carolina, USA

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee "Look in the Sky"

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Rudy Ranke Netherlands Nominee "Black Beach, Iceland"

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Rudy Ranke Netherlands Nominee "Seven Sisters, UK"

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sankar sridhar India Nominee "haloed steam" Illuminated by the light of a headlamp steam and water shooting up from a geyser at 15,200 feet above sea level in India's Ladakh. The temperature was minus 23C when the image was shot.

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sankar sridhar India Nominee "lake's diamond shadow" A volcanic lake at 16,000 feet above sea level in Ladakh in peak winter. Temperatures as low as minus 40C is capable of freezing waves in mid motion. Light streams through one such translucent wave

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Stavros Lambrakis Greece Nominee "Alter Ego" The dark reflection of the tree, reminded me peoples' dark ego...

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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "The Wave (1)"

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "The Dune" The perfect dune - taken with an infrared camera

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Stephen Weaver USA Nominee "Ice Bound" Dead Tree Snag in Frozen Lake, Kansas

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Stephen Weaver USA Nominee "Fallen Trees" Fallen trees from shore erosion on the beach of Big Talbot Island, Florida

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Black Rocks, Oregon" Black rocks on Oregon coast

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Illumination, Valley of Fire, Nevada"

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Tuscan Soil, Italy" A field awaits it's planting in Tuscany

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Holeyland" Erosion in Valley of Fire, Nevada, 2011

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Sea Washed" Second Beach, Oregon, 2013

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Tamas Ambrits Hungary Nominee "Fork" Fork

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "distance"

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "struggle"

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "serpent"

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "puff" Yucca Rostrata and friends... in the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "bluster"

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Tim Harvey UK Nominee "Le Petite Herpin - Study 1" Reefs off the south coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands.

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Tim Harvey UK Nominee "Prevailing - Study 1" Tree at Pleinmont on the south west coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands.

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tom Benoit USA Nominee "Trees in Maui"

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Tormod Raen Norway Nominee "Nuphar"

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Vahe Peroomian USA Nominee "United in Death" Two Ancient Bristlecone Pines intertwine thousands of years after their death..

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Vahe Peroomian USA Nominee "Mono Lake Sunrise" The sun rises over the tufa formations at Mono Lake, California

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Beach" Sunrise in a beach (Ibiza, Spain).

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Xose Casal Spain Nominee "Alone (3)" A surviving lonely tree in spanish Brave Coast

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