Nature - Professional

Hans Strand Sweden 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Strand-Hans_River Flow" An aerial of the complex flow of an ice river in the Icelandic highlands. This was shot from a Cessna from about 400m altitude.

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Adam Tan Malaysia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Facing North 4500 Seconds" Star trail over the northern sky of Yuanyang County, China. Underneath the starry sky is the rice paddy terrace.

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Yingting Shih Taiwan 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Aquarium" It is a lotus farm.

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Aaron Feinberg USA Honorable Mention "Solitude" Wave breaking on the Na Pali Coast

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Don Hall USA Honorable Mention "Angel Wings" A temperature inversion on 1/14/14 contributed to the drama of the lenticular clouds above Mt. Rainier and at her feet.

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Carlos Crespo Switzerland Honorable Mention "Crespo-Carlos_Badain Jaran" The Waves of Sand at the Badain Jaran desert in China

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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention "cloud" cloud

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Rob Badger USA Honorable Mention "McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, Shasta Cnty, CA" Gray Scale (black & white) image of two waterfalls. Water is flowing out between layers of volcanic rock. McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, Shasta County, California

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Louis Wallach USA Honorable Mention "Winter Lake 1" light snow after heavy, Lake Mamanasco, Connecticut USA

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Steven Taylor UK Honorable Mention "forest ferns" Silver Gelatine print on fiber base

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Anna Wloch Poland Honorable Mention "Storm" Storm in Warsaw. Poland.

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Adam Tan Malaysia Nominee "The swan song" The slow decay trees in the forest of Surat Thani Province of Thailand, 2014.

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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee "Lightening" One of few hundred lightnings which hit Sydney that Summer night.

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Andrew Latreille Canada Nominee "Lake Mulwala 75 Years on" Damned in 1939 the remnants of the previous ecosystem are still evident and ethereal in their contrasting beauty

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bibbi fogelqvist Sweden Nominee "Vik" Black lava beach, Island

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Cameron Davidson USA Nominee "Chickahominy Marsh" Aerial of a marsh along the Chickahominy River in Virginia.

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Charles McKean Australia Nominee "Into the Forest" Queenstown

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Southern Storm" A stunning stormy evening over Lake Wanaka in the South island of New Zealand

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Christian Mushenko Australia Nominee "Storm clouds over Ukraine" Storm Clouds over Ukraine

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Clayton Hairs Australia Nominee "Where the Aliens come...." Fairy Rings run right along the spine of Namibia (around 300Km's) - with no discernible cause nor purpose. An anomaly made stranger by the unwillingness of Oryx to feed on the circle circumference.

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Craig Boyko Canada Nominee "Endless Winter" Looking deep into the Atlantic of the Coast of Cape Cod

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Danielle van der Schans Netherlands Nominee "Seeking Silence" "Seeking Silence" searching for silence. Neil island, Andaman and Nicobar islands, India, 2013

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Dave Bowman UK Nominee "Land of Fire" Volcanic steam belches from the earth at Reykjanes, Iceland

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Dave Bowman UK Nominee "Goðafoss (1)" Goðafoss falls, Iceland

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Dennis Boyer USA Nominee "Driftwood"

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Dennis Boyer USA Nominee "Ocean Study3"

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "Lazy River" Harris Creek and ocean with seagulls. Harris Beach State Park, Oregon

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Diane Smook USA Nominee "Reeds 1" I love the simplicity of the country landscape with a fresh coat of snow. The quiet is palpable. These simple images appear as etchings. But they are unmanipulated photographs, printed from black a

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "The Art to Survive" As beautiful as the Dolomites may appear in the winter, the environment is hostile and only the fittest will be green again in the spring when the big thaw begins...

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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee "Looking To The Edge" Water reaches towards me at the edge of the huge rocky coastline of Australia's South-west. A spectacular place!

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee "Fire in the Sky" Antarctica

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Frances Suter Australia Nominee "snowscape"

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "Moving Water" Early morning light on the river

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "West Carson Winter" Ice and snow at dusk

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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee "Dunes (2)" Mosquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park

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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee "butterfly" butterfly

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Giles Christopher UK Nominee "Cliffs of England" 'The Seven Sisters'- White Cliffs of England, Sussex - Early eve shot to capture low spring light hitting the cliffs

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Hiromichi Endo Japan Nominee "Silent Conversation" We are living in harmony with nature.

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Jano Stovka Slovak Republic Nominee "lakeboat"

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Jason Henthorne USA Nominee "Revelation" Pacifico Series

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Jason Henthorne USA Nominee "Rock Hatchery I" Pacifico Series

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Jason Henthorne USA Nominee "Too Late to Leave" Pacifico Series

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee "Molten road"

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Jeff Stasney USA Nominee "Incoming" Drifting Cloud crosses over the Tunnel View of Yosemite National Park

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Jim Tetro USA Nominee "The Stream" From series Outside My Window

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John Chapple USA Nominee "Storm Over St. Pete." St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Canyon Waters II" I photographed this waterfall from Iceland after trekking through ankle deep mud and water.

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Soul without Color" Along the coastline in Oregon, near a town called Manzanita

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Plant in a Stream" This photograph was taken along a river bank in Smokey Mountain National Park

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Joseph Bankowski USA Nominee "Alone (1)"

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Joseph Romeo USA Nominee "Frozen, Burke Lake, Virginia"

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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee "Water Lilies in Black River"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Iris"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Untitled"

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Kate Jordahl USA Nominee "Cloud Wave" From "Crystal Day"

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Kelly Fitzgerald USA Nominee "Sanctuary, Kauai" I set out to capture the untouched beauty of the Hawaiian Islands using Kodak HIE Infrared B&W Film.

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee "Alone (2)" A dead tree bleached by winters standing at the shores of lake Prespa in northern Greece

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee "Outcast" The odd one out. A fallen tree in Valia Calda national park, Greece.

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Larry Angier USA Nominee "Foothill Fogscape" Winter fog fills the hollows in the Sierra Foothills of Calif.

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Linda Wehler USA Nominee "Wehler-Linda_Solo Flight" Captured mid flight over lake

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Lonnie Duka USA Nominee "Duka_Lonnie_blackwater" black water puddle scan

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Channel Trees 1" standing in the tidal shallows, Cape Cod, USA

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Ice Falls 4" Ice on a cliff face in the depth of winter, Massachusetts, USA

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Water Plants 2" deep woods pond, New Brunswick, CA

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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "Himalayan Monsoons II" Mustang, Nepal

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Madiha Abdo UK Nominee "The Dream"

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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Nominee "Knife Ridge" I was drawn to the simplicity of this scene.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Rare Water Event #2" Climate Change,New Mexico Portfolio.

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee "Cape Bruny Lighthouse"

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Marthanna Yater USA Nominee "LATENT LEAVES IN SNOW" Solitary tree with latent leaves in snow.

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Massimo Margagnoni Italy Nominee "Ice in the sky, Iceland"

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Massimo Margagnoni Italy Nominee "Kjelfossen waterfall, Norway"

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Massimo Margagnoni Italy Nominee "Seljalandsfoss waterfall, Iceland"

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Rock Pool" Reflections in a Rock Pool

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Woodland Reflection 2"

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Niall Hastie UK Nominee "Breaking Water" Winter storm meets the harbour entrance at Aberdeen.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Mirage" Perfect Day in Antarctica. I blinked the scene keeps changing. I am in a Mirage.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "The Wave (2)" This was once in a lifetime experience. I was one with The Wave.

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Oysten Glenne Kristiansen Norway Nominee "Moonlit " Coastal landscape, Norway

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Oysten Glenne Kristiansen Norway Nominee "Trio" Bornholm. Denmark

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Paul J Harvey UK Nominee "Ice Shells" The chunks of ice lay like giant shell sculptures in the black volcanic sand. Backlit by the setting sun, the shells projected a surreal fluorescence, enhanced by the ever changing light conditions.

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Preston Haskell Canada Nominee "Power" Voice of God

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Rafael Rojas Switzerland Nominee "End of the valley" Trees braving the winter, Swiss Alps

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Robert Boesch Switzerland Nominee "Moving Rock" Racetrack Valley, California, USA

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Rohan Reilly Ireland Nominee "REILLY_ROHAN_Craobh_Na_Beatha" Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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SILVERFINEART Gerald Berghammer Austria Nominee "Farmland Study" Toyo Field 45 AII, Black and White Film

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SILVERFINEART Gerald Berghammer Austria Nominee "Dreamland" Fuji GX 617, Black and White Film

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Simona Poncia Italy Nominee "trees in the fog" trees in the fog

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Stefan Zuerrer Switzerland Nominee "Iceland" Volcanic area in Iceland

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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee "geometric crops" Sesto al Reghena italy

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Frozen" Taken at Loch n ha'Achlaise, Scotland

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Refuge from the Night" Taken at Glencoe, Scotland as the night and the weather closed in

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Tiny Worlds" Bean Hollow State Beach, July 2013 - Part of a portfolio in the works called Expressions of Infinity -

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Steve Bromberg USA Nominee "Basalt" A basalt outcropping at the bottom of the Grand Canyon worn smooth by the Colorado River.

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Ancient Stone" Limekiln State Park, Big Sur - February 2014 - Part of a portfolio in the works called Expressions of Infinity -

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Survival" Surviving in a desolate landscape.

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Sverre Hjornevik Norway Nominee "The fjord" Hjoerundfjorden in Sunnmore viewed from Skaarasalen - Norway

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teo chai guan Singapore Nominee "Man Make" I'm living in a cosmopolitan city in singapore. Most of the nature are man make.

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Tim Taylor UK Nominee "Lunar Landscape" Moon setting over the French Alps.

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Tim Taylor UK Nominee "Champagne" Sunlight turns the leaves of a lone Beech tree into flowing Champagne.

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Timo Lieber UK Nominee "Frozen Wave" Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway

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Timo Lieber UK Nominee "Stranded" Stranded blocks of ice on Jokulsarlon beach, Iceland

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Timo Lieber UK Nominee "Empty Quarter Dunes" Dunes at sunset, deep in the Empty Quarter, UAE

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Tom Woodward USA Nominee "The Icy Peaks of Antarctica" Shadow, Light and windswept ice meet in frosty exclaimation

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Tom Woodward USA Nominee "Icy Peaks of Antarctica" Shadow, Light and windswept ice meet in frosty exclamation

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Tom Putt Australia Nominee "Mountain Ash" Mount Hotham, Victoria, Australia

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Tom Woodward USA Nominee "White Side of the Moon" Moon and mountain shine brilliantly under a reflective lingering sun.

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Dogwood Branch" Dogwood blossoms over Tenaya Creek in Yosemite National Park

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Lithia Creek" Lithia Creek, Ashland, Oregon

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Vera Regina Bandeira Brazil Nominee "pingosd'água"

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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Nominee "Mystic tree"

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Wilco Dragt Netherlands Nominee "two rows of trees"

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Wilco Dragt Netherlands Nominee "Buachaille Etive Mor"

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William Chua Singapore Nominee "sand dune in namibia"

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Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee "Sea to Sky" Synergy

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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee "untitled 1"

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Youngsook Zhang USA Nominee "Untitled 9" around The North Coyote Buttes

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