Fine Art - Professional

le gré Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Ukraine

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"le gré"
Ukrainian Ballerina



Chiesina Gianluca Federighi
Italy

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Chiesina"
mistic" chiesina "in Tuscany



Back Road Norm Diamond
USA

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Back Road"



Birds of a Feather Elaine Klein
Israel

Honorable Mention

"Birds of a Feather"



Seaside Werner Branz
Austria

Honorable Mention

"Seaside"



Doubt #15 Misha Gordin
USA

Honorable Mention

"Doubt #15"
1994. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Doubt #6 Misha Gordin
USA

Honorable Mention

"Doubt #6"
1994. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



A Cloudy Mind Karen Steenwinkel
Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"A Cloudy Mind"
Multi exposure by night with textile objects with light



Contemplation Jack Savage
UK

Honorable Mention

"Contemplation"
A classically inspired piece of photography, inspired by the 20th century maestros



Palm Tree Claudia Cebrian
USA

Honorable Mention

"Palm Tree"
Digital capture



Curtain in tas sun Nina Reistad
Norway

Honorable Mention

"Curtain in tas sun"
A window with a very worn curtain



crossing the gulfstream Laird
USA

Honorable Mention

"crossing the gulfstream"



Cheetahs Lennette Newell
USA

Honorable Mention

"Cheetahs"
Cheetah + body-painted female photographed in one capture. The cheetah is an educational animal, thus accustomed to people; however, this creature felt vulnerable by the expressive female lookalike



Giant Ferris Wheel Elizabeth Holmes
USA

Honorable Mention

"Giant Ferris Wheel"
Giant Ferris Wheel, Cardiff, Wales



Water Ballerina Katherine Hershey
USA

Honorable Mention

"Water Ballerina"
Vintage Looking sepia image...



Djaxx Pieter Clicteur
Belgium

Honorable Mention

"Djaxx"
Djaxx, the sphynx cat.



Random Thoughts #292 Edward Savaria
USA

Honorable Mention

"Random Thoughts #292"
Cat in a Window



Awareness Franklin Neto
Portugal

Honorable Mention

"Awareness"
Ílhavo Art Center



Cliffs & Lighthouse Jacqueline Da Costa
UK

Honorable Mention

"Cliffs & Lighthouse"
The balance of Cliffs & Lighthouse capture the eye and show the magic of the coastline!



Crowd #8 Misha Gordin
USA

Honorable Mention

"Crowd #8"
1988. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Frecce Tricolori Alberto Cicchini
Italy

Honorable Mention

"Frecce Tricolori"
le frecce tricolori in ricordo del numero 5



Leap Seth Mayer
USA

Honorable Mention

"Leap"
A moment of peace and solitude



Keeping The Heat Out Vince Kehn
Canada

Honorable Mention

"Keeping The Heat Out"
Wires, shadows lead to a window and you wonder.



Four Thirty P.M. Brian Ach
USA

Honorable Mention

"Four Thirty P.M."
...And I miss you I'm goin' back home to the west coast



Ireland 2023 Ian Spanier
USA

Honorable Mention

"Ireland 2023"
While visiting a castle ruins in the Irish countryside I made a new friend.



April's Umbrella Moment Pete Saloutos
USA

Honorable Mention

"April's Umbrella Moment"
Whimsical day on the Lake



Positive Negative Winter John Rees
USA

Honorable Mention

"Positive Negative Winter "
Artificial reflection juxtaposed against a natural environment



Yuhui & Sung Yiu Alexander Gouletas
USA

Honorable Mention

"Yuhui & Sung Yiu "



Spring in Japan Cain Shimizu
Japan

Honorable Mention

"Spring in Japan"
Cherry blossoms bloom in spring in Japan. People are intoxicated by its appearance.



East African Crowned Cranes Dianne Yudelson
USA

Honorable Mention

"East African Crowned Cranes"



Landed and stranded Bas van der Poel
Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"Landed and stranded"
Somewhere in Poland this plane stranded on a small island in the middle of a frozen lake.



Congenital Pollution John Sassen
Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"Congenital Pollution"
Darkroom Analog Image Editing



Anni's Hands Andrew Robert Fox
UK

Honorable Mention

"Anni's Hands"



Homage to Meret Oppenheim Mirjam Lorek
Switzerland

Honorable Mention

"Homage to Meret Oppenheim"



Moonlight over St Thomas Ruben Buhagiar
Malta

Honorable Mention

"Moonlight over St Thomas"
Hilltop Chapel in Moonlight at Gorenji Vrsnik, Slovenia



ALPHABET Christian Lionel-Dupont
Switzerland

Honorable Mention

"ALPHABET"
Zebra Crossing



Crowd #1 Misha Gordin
USA

Honorable Mention

"Crowd #1"
1987. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Pole Dancer 4 Mike Narciso
USA

Honorable Mention

"Pole Dancer 4"
Pole Dancer 4



New Crowd #62 Misha Gordin
USA

Honorable Mention

"New Crowd #62"
2002. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Door and Shadows Neil L. Johnson
USA

Honorable Mention

"Door and Shadows"
Sunlight on door within my home. Wonderful subjects can be right there in front of us.



Foggy night in Luxembourg Vio Dudau
Luxembourg

Nominee

"Foggy night in Luxembourg"
Foggy night on the streets of Luxembourg



The Door Stefano Lunardi
Austria

Nominee

"The Door"
a swimming pool at the lake



Time Out Leo Fellner
Austria

Nominee

"Time Out "
The end of the pandemic



Atmospheric River Clark James Mishler
USA

Nominee

"Atmospheric River"
East of San Jose, California, an atmospheric river approaches Interstate 5 during the spring of 2023.



Swamp Creature Adrienne Villar
USA

Nominee

"Swamp Creature"



Transformation Alan Kent
UK

Nominee

"Transformation"



Sophie Test Shoot Alexander Gouletas
USA

Nominee

"Sophie Test Shoot"



Half-Bench Axel Breutigam
Canada

Nominee

"Half-Bench"
Santa Fe, NM 2022



Portrait Lore 2 Bart Boodts
Belgium

Nominee

"Portrait Lore 2"



Windborne Bowman Ashe
USA

Nominee

"Windborne"



Palm Springs Brian Ach
USA

Nominee

"Palm Springs"
Palm Springs in the afternoon, a lovely lady observes the scene before her. Like a mirage in the desert, we now question what is real...?



Parking Party Brian Ach
USA

Nominee

"Parking Party"
Parking garage, lower Manhattan, Canon F1, 35mm F2, TriX



JEDER MENSCH / EVERYONE Caspar Arnhold
Germany

Nominee

"JEDER MENSCH / EVERYONE"
Do we need additional human rights before we deal with AI? Ferdinand von Schirach explains in his booklet JEDER MENSCH.



Ethereal Cheraine Collette
Netherlands

Nominee

"Ethereal"
Represents the beauty of sisterhood and the resilience of the albino community.



Venice Clarence Lin
USA

Nominee

"Venice"
Venice, Italy.



Lights in Jiufen Clarence Lin
USA

Nominee

"Lights in Jiufen"
Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.



Barbershop Claude Ka Kit Tsang
Hong Kong

Nominee

"Barbershop"
A client is sitting inside a barbershop, the head is covered by a hairstyle avatar idisplaying outside on the glass partition



Self Portrait- Memory at 5 Daphne Youree
USA

Nominee

"Self Portrait- Memory at 5"
Memory Mask Project - Self portrait of me at five years old always wearing a towel for hair



Tawaoc Dave Hanson
USA

Nominee

"Tawaoc"



Silver Farm David Skernick
USA

Nominee

"Silver Farm"
I found this perfect farm scene along Montana State Highway 2. I love that road!



Storm David Stewart
Canada

Nominee

"Storm"



Street Wall David Moore
USA

Nominee

"Street Wall"



Liquid Clouds At Dusk David Jordan Williams
USA

Nominee

"Liquid Clouds At Dusk"



Bedtime Story Dianne Yudelson
USA

Nominee

"Bedtime Story"



Embracing Race Elizabeth Opalenik
USA

Nominee

"Embracing Race"
FYI that was model's name



Classic Profile Ellen Denuto
USA

Nominee

"Classic Profile"



Marathon Man Evan Siegel
USA

Nominee

"Marathon Man"
This image was captured in late afternoon natural light in CA



Crossing passenger FABRICE BEAUVOIS
France

Nominee

"Crossing passenger"
Crossing passenger like a ghost draped in light swirls



Time FABRICE BEAUVOIS
France

Nominee

"Time"
The time that escapes us



Escape from Reality Frank Peters
Netherlands

Nominee

"Escape from Reality"
Interpretation of a moment that never existed before it disappeared



stadtbaum#36 Frank Machalowski
Germany

Nominee

"stadtbaum#36"
Series 'stadtbaum' It's about urban trees and their resistance against the high urbanization level.



Aero I Gabriella Giannini
USA

Nominee

"Aero I"
Engineering and Nature



36.5 New York Estuary, 2 Geoff Green
USA

Nominee

"36.5 New York Estuary, 2"
Sarah Cameron-Sunde during her durational performance with the sea, 12+ hours, full tidal cycle



36.5 New York Estuary, 1 Geoff Green
USA

Nominee

"36.5 New York Estuary, 1"
Sarah Cameron-Sunde during her durational performance with the sea, 12+ hours, full tidal cycle



DREAMS Giorgio Bormida
Italy

Nominee

"DREAMS"



Silver Balls Glenn Goldman
USA

Nominee

"Silver Balls"
Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama (1966/2021) in the New York Botanical Gardens.



Memorial Ring Grant Stirton
Canada

Nominee

"Memorial Ring"
Underwater Statue Park, Brockville, ON, CA



Future... Gunnar Stroem
Norway

Nominee

"Future..."



Black Light Dancers 4 H. Allen Benowitz
USA

Nominee

"Black Light Dancers 4"
A Cirque du Soleil supper- night club scene, exotic and sensual dancers; Design District, Miami, FL



Points Estate (06) Hamish Robertson
USA

Nominee

"Points Estate (06)"
From a series documenting the previously-unseen brutalist sculptures of two reclusive UK artists.



Sunset-High Tension Wires-East Windsor NJ Harvey Duze
USA

Nominee

"Sunset-High Tension Wires-East Windsor NJ"
Sunset with clouds and high-tension electrical lines along road in central New Jersey..



Edge_North Atlantic Ocean #17 Hsuan Chung
USA

Nominee

"Edge_North Atlantic Ocean #17"



3 Surfers Jamie Leasure
USA

Nominee

"3 Surfers"



Controlled Burn 13 Jason Robinette
USA

Nominee

"Controlled Burn 13"
Image from the ongoing series Controlled Burn



Controlled Burn 08 Jason Robinette
USA

Nominee

"Controlled Burn 08"
Image from the ongoing series Controlled Burn



UK Summer Jeff Eden
UK

Nominee

"UK Summer"
View of Cornish coast from Tate St Ives



Spirits in Sedona Jeff Zaruba
USA

Nominee

"Spirits in Sedona"
From a series of Southwest studies



Mono No Aware Joann Carney
USA

Nominee

"Mono No Aware"



Night Out Joao de Castro
Portugal

Nominee

"Night Out"



The Seventh Seal Johan Siggesson
Malta

Nominee

"The Seventh Seal"



civil war Johanna Siegmann
USA

Nominee

"civil war"



Follow Me Karen Steenwinkel
Netherlands

Nominee

"Follow Me"
Multi exposure by night



Days Gone By Kimara Wilhite
USA

Nominee

"Days Gone By"
Old fishermen's shacks on the Holy Island, England. With Lindisfarne Castle in the distance.



Snow Angel Kimberly Butler
USA

Nominee

"Snow Angel"
Angel lands on the steps of NYPL to join fight against book banning



IT'S RAINING CATS AND LIONS Kyriakos Kaziras
France

Nominee

"IT'S RAINING CATS AND LIONS"
Torrential rains in the Masai Mara create an unreal atmosphere.



wall flower Laurent Girard
USA

Nominee

"wall flower"
Ubatuba, Brazil



Into The Beyond Linda Sandow
USA

Nominee

"Into The Beyond"
Having the vision to see beyond the moment and into the future is a gift that can be enhanced and used to reach a better solution.



Walking Away Lisa Powers
New Zealand

Nominee

"Walking Away"
Photographed in New York City.



Hawaiian Petroglyph 5 Lou Fischer
USA

Nominee

"Hawaiian Petroglyph 5"



Leaning Shed Single Cloud Marc Koegel
Canada

Nominee

"Leaning Shed Single Cloud"



photosynthesis Marjolein Vinkenoog
Netherlands

Nominee

"photosynthesis"
from the series: the new place



Project Double Exposure 24 Martin Agius
Malta

Nominee

"Project Double Exposure 24"
This is a project that I started during covid-19



Cloistered View of the Heavens Martin Miller
USA

Nominee

"Cloistered View of the Heavens"
Clonmacnoise, Contending Realities Series



What a human 3.6 Masaaki Toyoyoshi
Japan

Nominee

"What a human 3.6"
I can hardly see out of my left eye,this art work multipul explosure photo at ginza,Japan.



HMORPHSES_01 Matt Beard
USA

Nominee

"HMORPHSES_01"
Unconventional horse portraits. Ecuador, 2019 / Digital



Apocalypse Matthew Pace
USA

Nominee

"Apocalypse"



Freedom Mia Segaert
Belgium

Nominee

"Freedom"



Fine Art Michael Creedon
USA

Nominee

"Fine Art"
Mission Bay 1 San Francisco CA 1984



Nightmare Mickey Strider
USA

Nominee

"Nightmare"
Alone on a desolate back road in the middle of the night.



Homestead Mike DeCesare
USA

Nominee

"Homestead"



Crowd #2 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Crowd #2"
1988. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Crowd #16 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Crowd #16"
1989. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Crowd #26 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Crowd #26"
1990. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Crowd #29 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Crowd #29"
1990. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Inspiration in Black Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Inspiration in Black"
1976. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Prophecy Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Prophecy"
1979. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Saturation Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Saturation"
1977. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



The Fifth Column Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"The Fifth Column"
1982. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



New Crowd #50 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"New Crowd #50"
2000. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Shout #20 Misha Gordin
USA

Nominee

"Shout #20"
1985. Analog, manually manipulated and printed on silver-gelatin in a traditional darkroom



Las Sirenas (The Mermaids) Monica Pronk
Australia

Nominee

"Las Sirenas (The Mermaids)"
Captured as part of my photo series Dear Earth, exploring women's intrinsic connection to nature.



Foggy morning Morten Saele
Norway

Nominee

"Foggy morning"
Early morning in rural Norway



Sand Hermes Elements of Life Natascha Auenhammer
Austria

Nominee

"Sand Hermes Elements of Life"



Survive Nicholas Freeman
USA

Nominee

"Survive"
Survive from Skin Deep. Los Angeles, 2023.



the balloony skirt Petra Angela Imhof
Switzerland

Nominee

"the balloony skirt"
Model: Tindra; selfportrait in the studio



Water Hotel Rainer Thrum
Germany

Nominee

"Water Hotel"



Beware Rainer Thrum
Germany

Nominee

"Beware"



grazo Raul Vega
USA

Nominee

"grazo"



Texture and Velvet Renata Vale
Brazil

Nominee

"Texture and Velvet"
Egypt



Texture and Velvet Renata Vale
Brazil

Nominee

"Texture and Velvet"
Egypt



Madonna with Roses Renata Dutree
Netherlands

Nominee

"Madonna with Roses"
I wanted to shoot a male Black Madonna, reverse things that are told to us through scripture.



Shadows of my Mind I Renata Dutree
Netherlands

Nominee

"Shadows of my Mind I"
We seem to be disconnected to our environment and ourselves at this moment in time.



Shadows of my Mind V Renata Dutree
Netherlands

Nominee

"Shadows of my Mind V"
We seem to be disconnected to our environment and ourselves at this moment in time



Las Vegas, New Mexico. Robert Pearson
Czech Republic

Nominee

"Las Vegas, New Mexico."
Las Vegas, New Mexico. Gathering Storm



Mexico City, Zocalo Robert Pearson
Czech Republic

Nominee

"Mexico City, Zocalo"
Mexico City, Zocalo



Lake Isabela, Spinning laser light paint Robert Pearson
Czech Republic

Nominee

"Lake Isabela, Spinning laser light paint"
Lake Isabela, CA. Spinning laser light_paint.



Gypsy camp Robi Chakraborty
USA

Nominee

"Gypsy camp"
Rajasthan, India



Cheetahs Rod Spark
Australia

Nominee

"Cheetahs"



Looking at you Rohn Meijer
Italy

Nominee

"Looking at you"
Studio shoot with wet clay applied to the body and through the hair ...



Journey through the Valley of Silence Ronny Behnert
Germany

Nominee

"Journey through the Valley of Silence"
Taken during a wonderful winter season next to my hometown Berlin.



the view Rotem Pushinsky
USA

Nominee

"the view"



man + hat Rotem Pushinsky
USA

Nominee

"man + hat"



Blind Ruslan Morozov
Ukraine

Nominee

"Blind"
Morozov Ruslan



the gate Stefano Lunardi
Austria

Nominee

"the gate"
swimming pool at the lake



The Deepest Well Steve Sorensen
USA

Nominee

"The Deepest Well"
The Deepest Well, Makes for the Sweetest Water, Italy



The Phantom Steve Gosling
UK

Nominee

"The Phantom"
A sinister figure walks the alleyways of Venice at night



Lasting Lily Theresa Tarara
USA

Nominee

"Lasting Lily"
Worn but no less beautiful.



River #25 Thomas Brummett
USA

Nominee

"River #25"
The River becomes a portal to our planets possible future... (straight documentary image)



River #29 Thomas Brummett
USA

Nominee

"River #29"
The River becomes a portal to our planets possible future... (straight documentary image)



I know why the caged bird sings Thomas Francisco
USA

Nominee

"I know why the caged bird sings"
Inspired by the poem "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou



Barcelona Alley Timothy Cotter
USA

Nominee

"Barcelona Alley"



Refraction Tina Sejbjerg
Netherlands

Nominee

"Refraction"
A study of light and form



Lost Todor Tilev
Ireland

Nominee

"Lost"
The picture was taken at hidden cove at Copper Coast drive in Ireland



On the road again Tom McInvaille
USA

Nominee

"On the road again"
Point and Shoot Pentax, Kodacolor, through the windshield, scanned to digital file.



descending stairs Tomoki Yamaya
Japan

Nominee

"descending stairs"
It was like the entrance to another world



no hesitation Tomoki Yamaya
Japan

Nominee

"no hesitation"
Climbers walking on snowy mountains. Visibility was poor due to cloud cover. But I don't feel hesita



On canvas Ton Dirven
Netherlands

Nominee

"On canvas"



Earth and water Toni Sergio Carbone
Italy

Nominee

"Earth and water"
Whe are the same composition of the Earth.



Blurry Salvation Towanda Hannah
USA

Nominee

"Blurry Salvation "
A stunning photograph of a cloudy sky casting an image of a face hovering above a graveyard



The metamorphosis of an artist Valentina Benigni
France

Nominee

"The metamorphosis of an artist"
An artist at a live show changing clothes: a metaphor for metamorphosis that resonates in the soul and will make her a different artist.



Feelings Werner Branz
Austria

Nominee

"Feelings"



Infinity Squared Ximena Echeverria
USA

Nominee

"Infinity Squared"
Inspiration photo of limitless possibilities. White Sands, New Mexico.



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