Wildlife - Amateur

Bill Allen UK 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Rhino" Black & White study of the endangered black rhino.

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Evan McBride New Zealand 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Japanese Macaque"

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Nikolai Endegor France 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Catometry" At the roof of Galerie Vivienne, Paris

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Lynn Tait Canada Honorable Mention "Feeding Time" Our King Snake sometimes ate is food butt first.

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Honorable Mention "Touché" Sword-billed hummingbird fighting with a colored Inca in Equador

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Daniel Kencke USA Honorable Mention "Serenade" Stellar sea lions rest in the sun on the coast of Oregon

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Walter Caterina Italy Honorable Mention "Egretta Garzetta"

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Jefflin Ling Malaysia Honorable Mention "ALLIGATOR" I was capture the couple of alligators in the cage. The photo intention to show how small of life space of alligator stay when they catch by the human.

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Lynn Tait Canada Honorable Mention "Piglets"

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Stefano Coltelli Italy Honorable Mention "Reflection"

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Marcel Krueger Germany Honorable Mention "Beauty Is Relative"

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Madhavi Swarup India Honorable Mention "Catch of the day"

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Aleksandr Romanov Russia Nominee "White deer" This deer is sacred at the Nenets people

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Bald Eagle (1)"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Peacock"

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Arja Redel Switzerland Nominee "Medusen"

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Arlene Stanger USA Nominee "Poetry in Motion"

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BASIL STATHOULIS South Africa Nominee "Kalahari Springbok" I took this group as they were running down the Nossob River Bank in the Kalagadi Transfrontier National Park,Botswana

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "love" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "crossing" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "chasing" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "alarm" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "hunting back" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "hurry" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "notes" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bencai Gong USA Nominee "drinking babies" taken in Kenya in year 2013

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Bernard Sim Singapore Nominee "The Longest Cat" Cat playing hide and seek. This perspective makes the cat seems to be a very long cat

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Giraffe Flower" Curious Masai Mara Giraffes

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "On the Run" Areial of an Elephant running in the Okavango Delta Botswana

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Twisted Trunk" Elephant taking mud bath in Botswana

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Wave Action" Hippo charging thru the water

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Wildebeest Stampede" Herd of Widlebeest got spoked near and watering hole and stampeded to escape

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Black Rhino (1)" Black Rhino and Zebras in the Masai Mara Kenya

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Bald Eagle (2)" Stretching

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Got an itch. " Mountain Gorilla in Rwanda Virunga Volcanos National Park

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Borja Bouza Spain Nominee "Frozen lunch" a brown bear during the firsts spring days in Finland

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Riflebird" Riflebird at Lake Barrine, Queensland

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Black-shouldered Kite" Black-shouldered Kite, Broome, Western Australia

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Charles Daviet USA Nominee "Lurking Evil"

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Charles Daviet USA Nominee "Blackbirds singin' in a tall oak tree"

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Charlotte Rush Bailey Bailey USA Nominee "Crooked Tusker" Male lions napping, Maasai Mara, Kenya 2013

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Charlotte Rush Bailey Bailey USA Nominee "Nap Time" Western Lowland Gorilla, Republic of Congo, 2013

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Charlotte Rush Bailey Bailey USA Nominee "Thinking" Western Lowland Gorilla, Republic of Congo, 2013

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Christine Spring New Zealand Nominee "Scolding" Manners discussion mother and child

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christopher mcleod UK Nominee "Intelligence within" Image of a chimpanzee taken at a zoo in Rome.

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Chuck Powell USA Nominee "The Stalk"

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Colleen Sternberger USA Nominee "Fight at McCullough Peaks" Wild horse stallions at McCullough Peaks

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Colleen Sternberger USA Nominee "Winter's Chill"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Churchyard Crows"

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Dana Redick USA Nominee "Impish" Image capture at Weston Beach in Point Lobos National Park

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David Rennie Australia Nominee "Dancing Egret"

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Honu Cruising" A Green Sea Turtle making his way around the point at Honolua Bay, Maui

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Sparkling Honu" A Green Sea Turtle (Honu) after getting a breath of air at Honolua Bay, Maui

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Don Holman USA Nominee "I've Got A BIG Itch " Buffalo in The Badlands National Park

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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Wolfie"

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Evan McBride New Zealand Nominee "Paired for Life" Malbar Pied Hornbill Couple - Sri Lanka

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Evan McBride New Zealand Nominee "Waiting for Mum " Sri Lankan Leopard

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Evan McBride New Zealand Nominee "Water Monitor "

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Ezra Safra Brazil Nominee "Untitled"

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Flor Liliana Vega Varela Canada Nominee "The sweet gaze of the gorilla" Canada, 2014

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Frederick van Heerden South Africa Nominee "Glory" The King was mating at the Masai Mara. The facial expression depicts his dominance & reign. The omnipotence of this magnificent animal while fulfilling the call of nature filled my emotions with...

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Frederick van Heerden South Africa Nominee "Evacuation" Giraffes fleeing from Lions in the letaba riverbed Kruger Nat Park South Africa

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Geoffrey Agrons USA Nominee "Election Day Across the Universe"

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George Grubb USA Nominee "King Penguins on Island of South Georgia" Captured at the onset of spring, these King Penguins have just returned from the sea.

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George Grubb USA Nominee "Two Faces Of A Cow" Deconstructing the Concept that a Photo Should Have a Singular Focal Point

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Reindeers" Padjelanta National park, Lapland, Sweden

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Hanlin Goh Singapore Nominee "Curiosity (1)" A sunbird peers out of the bushes

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Ionut Cirja Romania Nominee "Autumn morning" Ciurbesti village, Iasi, Romania

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Ionut Cirja Romania Nominee "Swan" Hadambu, Iasi, Romania, swan on a frozen lake

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Battle of the Beaks" Dalmatian pelicans fighting for fish in Greece

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Desperate Escape" Wildebeest attacked by Cheetah's in Masai Mara in Kenia

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Arctic Eyes" Polar fox in the snow in Norway

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Gannet Alien" Gannet close-up at Bonaventure island in Canada

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Glimpse into the Future" Leopard in a tree in Botswana

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "Serenity" Two whooper swans in Sweden

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Jan van der Greef Netherlands Nominee "The Thinker" Capibara in Argentina scratching his face.

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Janice Tieken USA Nominee "Tieken-Janice_CrowPassing.jpg" The Tides is a series that chronicles the daily drama and ever-changing story of the landscape at the ocean’s edge: its denizens, their life pursuits, inevitable demise, a microcosm of all life.

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee "Courting" A spring display.

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Karen Michaels USA Nominee "Reaching New Heights" starfish climbing glass in aquarium

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "fighter" July 2013, Kenya, Maasai Mara National Park

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "fisherman" May 2013, Uganda, Murchison Falls National Park

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "old king" July 2013, Kenya, Maasai Mara National Park

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "petite bugler" January 2012, Kenya, National Park Ambosseli

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Patience" Laying still and waiting in the Florida marsh waters. Sometimes several demands patience.

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Lea Foster USA Nominee "Calling of the Cowbird" A male Cowbird

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Leonardo Sebasti Italy Nominee "Mother and Son" Namibia, August 2011

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Love and Happiness" This wonderful pair shared a very special moment with a strong show of human like emotion.

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Still Moment" Powerful animals but in their still moments have a very tranquil presence.

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "The Eyes Have It" It never ceases to amaze me how true the saying "the eyes are the windows to the soul" is.

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Lloyd Bayer United Arab Emirates Nominee "Melting Real Estate" A seal tries to find land amongst disintegrating icebergs at Glacier Bay National Park, Alsaka.

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Mark Wade USA Nominee "Grackle" Ascending grackle...single frame multilple exposure impression

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Mark Darlington UK Nominee "Fallow Stag" A solitary Fallow stag views the Derwent valley on a misty September morning.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "The Guardian"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Easter's Newborn Gift"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "The Love Dance"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "The Circle Of Life"

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Martin Alpert USA Nominee "Territorial Dispute"

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Martin Alpert USA Nominee "Water Buffalo"

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Mary Jane Foster Australia Nominee "Foster Mary Jane Percy Peacock." Percy a (white) Peacock roosting in a tree a daybreak.

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee "Facing the wind"

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Merete Wiken Dees Norway Nominee "Reindeer" Reindeer in Norway

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Michele Taras Canada Nominee "Running Baboons" Running baboons

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Michele Taras Canada Nominee "Zebra family" Zebra family

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Michele Taras Canada Nominee "Jelly Fish portrait" Portrait of a jelly fish at the Toronto aquarium

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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee "Lnding"

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Patricia Vazquez Bahamas Nominee "In the sea" Max & Dylan cooling off in the ocean in the Bahamas

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Troop Leader, an Official Portrait" A dominant baboon had taken an unscheduled break during a busy mating season to patiently pose for the stunned photographer. The resulting image shows a leader with wisdom and determination.

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Another Day in Paradise"

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Petra Theilemann Germany Nominee "honey bee in early spring" honey bee in early and warm spring in Germany

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Pongsatorn Sukhum Thailand Nominee "Mola Mola"

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Ying & Yang " A ghost in the shadows , the tiger is the Ying and the shadow is the Yang

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Roar " A Tigress lets out a roar in the jungles of Tadoba India .

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Radu Popescu Romania Nominee "Night Diving" Birds racing each other near to the ground

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Robert Ferd Frank USA Nominee "Bird in Paradise" Blue Heron in flight on the Beach

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Pelicans" South Carolina, USA

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Birds." UP, India

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Rodger Overholser USA Nominee "The King"

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Sarah Corbin USA Nominee "Galloping Through the Water" "Galloping Through the Water" is part of an ongoing project called "Crin Blanc" (White Mane). This series of photos focuses on the indigenous white horses of the Camargue in Southern France. This...

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Sarah Corbin USA Nominee "Sparring Stallions" "Sparring Stallions" is part of an ongoing project called "Crin Blanc" (White Mane). This photo depicts two of these beautiful horses playfully sparring in the shallow waters of a marsh.

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Siegfried Hansen Germany Nominee "Dove (1)" seen in Hamburg / Germany

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Stefano Coltelli Italy Nominee "Spider"

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Ballerina" A northern Gannet in motion at Ile de Bonaventure, Quebec

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Hippocampus & Decapod" A seahorse and its buddy, a tiny shrimp

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Shunned, Santa Fe, NM" A bird which obviously violated certain bird codes

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Timofey Tararin Russia Nominee "Swirl" Dubai, UAE

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Tomasz Dziubinski Poland Nominee "Raven of Death Valley"

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Virgil Lambert USA Nominee "Alaska Eagle" Mother feeding her young

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Virgil Lambert USA Nominee "Diving Grizzly" Alaska Grizzly Diving for Salmon

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Virgil Lambert USA Nominee "Cheetah Stretching" Cheetah Stretching before the Hunt

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Virgil Lambert USA Nominee "Leopard (1)" Portrait of Leopard in So Africa

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