Abstract - Professional

Discontent Dianne Yudelson
USA

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Discontent"



lost in abstraction Alexandre Manuel
Portugal

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"lost in abstraction"
taken in China, the strucrure is so big, locals seen like lost in this bamboo labyrinth



Chilton_MaryAnne_Tonal2 Mary Anne Chilton
USA

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Chilton_MaryAnne_Tonal2"
Tonality and Light Study No. 2



Dawn Run Barb Young
USA

Honorable Mention

"Dawn Run"
Horses galloping at sunrise



AFRICA Peter Schafrick
Canada

Honorable Mention

"AFRICA"
Powdered Explosions



Cars Adolfo Enriquez Calo
Spain

Honorable Mention

"Cars"
Aerial image of a car factory parking



Flying House Yingting Shih
Taiwan

Honorable Mention

"Flying House"
Water stains



VISUAL SHAPE Damian Wojcik
UK

Honorable Mention

"VISUAL SHAPE"
2015



Bird's eye or spiral stairs Stefanos Kouratzis
Cyprus

Honorable Mention

"Bird's eye or spiral stairs"
At the The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Nicosia Cyprus



Spoons Andre Boto
Portugal

Honorable Mention

"Spoons"
Two spoons over circular lines.



The Line_01 KYOUNGTAE PARK
Korea (South)

Honorable Mention

"The Line_01"
2010, The artist creates an image of illusion using the streamlined curves of human body.



Dialectics 9 Ralph Mercer
USA

Honorable Mention

"Dialectics 9"



Aerial View of Ghost Town Viral Padiya
India

Honorable Mention

"Aerial View of Ghost Town"
Aerial View of Ghost Town, Nevada



Badii Manuel Correia
Portugal

Honorable Mention

"Badii"
Marraquexe, november, 2016



Siberian cypress Anna Kadykova
Russia

Honorable Mention

"Siberian cypress "
Icicles in Sheregesh village, Siberia, Russia



Our world Kentaro Sekine
Japan

Honorable Mention

"Our world"



Dharavi, Mumbai, India Torsten Andreas Hoffmann
Germany

Honorable Mention

"Dharavi, Mumbai, India "
Mumbai slum houses are very ruinous but the children are very lively in spite of that



Cloak Danielle Austen
USA

Honorable Mention

"Cloak"



Lines Mahfuzul Hasan Bhuiyan
USA

Honorable Mention

"Lines"
Shadow of home furniture



Flight of Descending Shadows Bruce Warren
USA

Honorable Mention

"Flight of Descending Shadows"



A Narrow Escape Marg Navratil
USA

Honorable Mention

"A Narrow Escape"



scrawl Alexandre Manuel
Portugal

Honorable Mention

"scrawl"
bamboos remains in a seaweed farm, vietnam



Street Dance 05 Elliott Kaufman
USA

Honorable Mention

"Street Dance 05"
Part of series exploring the constant movement of the city broken down into sequential compositions.



Eye in Hand Peter Ingrasselino
USA

Honorable Mention

"Eye in Hand"



CHICAGO BEAN REFLECTIONS Lynn Clayton
New Zealand

Honorable Mention

"CHICAGO BEAN REFLECTIONS "
ANISH KAPOOR SCULPTOR IS CALLED 'THE BEAN'



Delta Adolfo Enriquez Calo
Spain

Nominee

"Delta"



Iced rivers Alexandre Manuel
Portugal

Nominee

"Iced rivers"
aerial pictures taken from a plane, in Icelend



quintella-ana_above my head 3 ana quintella
Brazil

Nominee

"quintella-ana_above my head 3"
concrete art inspiration, 2016, ceilings from everywhere



quintella-ana_above my head 6 ana quintella
Brazil

Nominee

"quintella-ana_above my head 6"
concrete art inspiration, 2016, ceilings from everywhere



Multiple stars Andre Melo-Andrade
Brazil

Nominee

"Multiple stars"
Here, we are so close to a cactus that its dangerous sharp spines become great bright stars



Border Cross Andrew Schwartz
USA

Nominee

"Border Cross"



Broken Hope Andrew Schwartz
USA

Nominee

"Broken Hope"



Brain imagination Anna Kovalenko
Russia

Nominee

"Brain imagination"
As the brain plays with the imagination, the music plays with the water.



Alexanderplatz Annette Willis
Australia

Nominee

"Alexanderplatz"



Lamp Light Annette Willis
Australia

Nominee

"Lamp Light"



Apache Plume Carol Horigan
USA

Nominee

"Apache Plume"
used in sacred ceremonies and for healing



Connected XVII - Lamium album Carol Sharp
UK

Nominee

"Connected XVII - Lamium album"



Berrima Weir Clayton Hairs
Australia

Nominee

"Berrima Weir"
Single capture of a Weir just after a month of torrential rain



Calgary Bell Center Denis Gadbois
Canada

Nominee

"Calgary Bell Center"
Bell Center Calgary new Music Center, Abstract rendering



Tomic_Duschan_Chestnut Abstraction Duschan Tomic
Italy

Nominee

"Tomic_Duschan_Chestnut Abstraction"
Old technique with new means.



Tomic_Duschan_Heumarkt Station Abstract Detail Duschan Tomic
Italy

Nominee

"Tomic_Duschan_Heumarkt Station Abstract Detail"
Heumarkt is one of Cologne's decidedly more modern and sober subway stations.



Tomic-Duschan_Morgan's Smile Duschan Tomic
Italy

Nominee

"Tomic-Duschan_Morgan's Smile"
An abstract image of the Morgan EV3 presented at the 2017 Geneva Auto Salon



Delaware River At Night Dwight Hiscano
USA

Nominee

"Delaware River At Night"
LED's reflected on the nighttime waters of the Delaware River, Philadelphia, PA



Luna_0997 Edoardo Romagnoli
Italy

Nominee

"Luna_0997"
Edoardo Romagnoli, one shot, no post production



Vortex Elisabeth Egon Viebre
Switzerland

Nominee

"Vortex"
Urban Nature – Water – 2016 Autumn



Street Dance 04 Elliott Kaufman
USA

Nominee

"Street Dance 04"
Part of series exploring the constant movement of the city broken down into sequential compositions.



Wall 3 Francisco Mata Rosas
Mexico

Nominee

"Wall 3"
In this overhead view we see the absurdity of a border wall in the middle of the desert.



Metal Stone Abstract Franz Messenbaeck
Austria

Nominee

"Metal Stone Abstract"
Westward Pass, California



TWISTED WINTER Garry Wapshott
Australia

Nominee

"TWISTED WINTER"
PLAYING WITH SLOW SHUTTER EFFECT ON LEICA M



Eve Gillian Lindsay
Canada

Nominee

"Eve"
Light Imitating Art series - playing with light



Doodle Gjertrud Hustad
Norway

Nominee

"Doodle"



Abstract Sky Heiko Hellwig
Germany

Nominee

"Abstract Sky"
How architecture should be.... moving!



Abstract 01 Heiko Hellwig
Germany

Nominee

"Abstract 01"
Nobody home!



notation#003 Hironori Nakamura
Japan

Nominee

"notation#003"



St. Francis Buttress James Fox
USA

Nominee

"St. Francis Buttress"
Rancho de Taos New Mexico



Over The Dam Jeff Saxman
USA

Nominee

"Over The Dam"
Water spills over a James River dam, Richmond, Virginia



Through The Looking Glass Jeff Saxman
USA

Nominee

"Through The Looking Glass"
Reflected clouds seem to lie beneath the asphalt



The Last Stand Jos Verhoogen
Belgium

Nominee

"The Last Stand"
Way out of the water



Constellation Juan Vindel
Nicaragua

Nominee

"Constellation"
Experimental Photography using a film and photogram procedure.



My World/Self Portrait Karen Cohen
USA

Nominee

"My World/Self Portrait"
This is what I do everyday



dancers Karen Steenwinkel
Netherlands

Nominee

"dancers"
dancers creating an abstract image by movement



Fragments_02 Kaylee Cataldo-Perry
USA

Nominee

"Fragments_02"
The Image is constructed out of glass and photographed in the studio with a 4x5 camera.



fairchild, fl. Laird
USA

Nominee

"fairchild, fl."
manipulated lush infrared nature images



Sand and Water Liz Keeler
USA

Nominee

"Sand and Water"



Light and shadow Madiha Abdo
UK

Nominee

"Light and shadow"



Wall Of Silence Marg Navratil
USA

Nominee

"Wall Of Silence"



crossing_over Mark Kelly
Australia

Nominee

"crossing_over"



brushstrokes_I Mark Kelly
Australia

Nominee

"brushstrokes_I"



Darkness Creeping Martin Miller
USA

Nominee

"Darkness Creeping"



Fluctuation World #p1 Masahiro Ito
Japan

Nominee

"Fluctuation World #p1"
A new photograph that deliberately added fluctuation is the scenery itself that we've someday seen.



Fluctuation World #p2 Masahiro Ito
Japan

Nominee

"Fluctuation World #p2"
A new photograph that deliberately added fluctuation is the scenery itself that we've someday seen.



Dancing Arrowheads Melissa Woodward
Canada

Nominee

"Dancing Arrowheads"



Molekular Michael Streckbein
Germany

Nominee

"Molekular"
Abstract captures of design lamps



Oculus Waves Michael Streckbein
Germany

Nominee

"Oculus Waves"
Detail from the Oculus train station in New York



To Loved Ones Michael Streckbein
Germany

Nominee

"To Loved Ones"
Abstraction of the Staten Island Memorial



Nymph Michael Shapiro
USA

Nominee

"Nymph"
Oosterpark, Amsterdam



Chantal-Abstract Butterfly Michel Merce
Canada

Nominee

"Chantal-Abstract Butterfly"



Pierre-The Wood Face Michel Merce
Canada

Nominee

"Pierre-The Wood Face"



FORD mike Mike Ford
UK

Nominee

"FORD mike"
Abbot Kinney Boulevard LA chain link fence



Spoon Oksana Moroziuk
Russia

Nominee

"Spoon"



Gas chamber Orjan Henriksson
Sweden

Nominee

"Gas chamber"
Auschwitz. Gas chamber Zyklon-B



Alien personality Pal Hermansen
Norway

Nominee

"Alien personality"
Open water at hydoelectric dam, Norway, aerial



burning the lamps at both ends Pallon Daruwala
India

Nominee

"burning the lamps at both ends"
Lamp posts on a highway... or are they?!



USA Peter Schafrick
Canada

Nominee

"USA"
Powder Explosions



Microcosm Richard Wood
New Zealand

Nominee

"Microcosm"



A Language in Black and White Roger Coulam
UK

Nominee

"A Language in Black and White"
A Language in Black and White



Spore Print Roger Coulam
UK

Nominee

"Spore Print"
Spore Print



Dark Matters No.1 Roger Coulam
UK

Nominee

"Dark Matters No.1"
Unique Photogram



Take a seat Roos Hobe
Netherlands

Nominee

"Take a seat"



The Heavens open up Ross Thompson
Australia

Nominee

"The Heavens open up"



Buttons Sergey Varaksin
Russia

Nominee

"Buttons"
The photo "Buttons" from the Square series. Film camera "Kiev-6С", lens Biometar 2.8/80.



Recursion Sharon Packer
USA

Nominee

"Recursion"
Aspen Winter



Balestra Silvio_Mind Scans_serie Exchanges Silvio Balestra
Italy

Nominee

"Balestra Silvio_Mind Scans_serie Exchanges"



synapsi Stefano Lunardi
Austria

Nominee

"synapsi"



Interstellar Steve Zmak
USA

Nominee

"Interstellar"
Part of the science fiction B&W nature portfolio, Expressions of Infinity. See it at SteveZmak.com.



Bride of the Pale Man Thomas Izaguirre
USA

Nominee

"Bride of the Pale Man"



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