Abstract - Amateur

Mihai Florea Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Abstract Tower" taken in Melbourne, Australia

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Karen Lawton New Zealand 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Bristling"

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Massimiliano Balo' UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction " L'Intellettuale" My brother was sitting next to a tree on the bank of the Danube in Bratislava. He thought of the mysteries of the life like a true intellectual.

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Lorraine Adams New Zealand Honorable Mention "Black Dahlia" Love the structure of pompom dahlias and wanted to show that to its best advantage.

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Oliver Raschka Germany Honorable Mention "Dancing Stones" The image shows a long time exposure of an abstract sculpture (~ 7 metres tall) called "Kinetisches Objekt". The top two segments are powered by an engine and always move in opposite...

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Louis Agius Malta Honorable Mention "Underground Lines" Torino metro; motion.

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Jefflin Ling Malaysia Honorable Mention "Parallelism" This shot is taken in East Java, Indonesia 2014. I was pleased to shoot this wild bamboo when I on t

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Laszlo Perlaky USA Honorable Mention "Floating Door to the Darkness" Damped floating door in water grass covered lake, 4x5 film

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Eduardo Fujii USA Honorable Mention "Auto Erotica n. 36"

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Don Jacobson USA Honorable Mention "Dendritic Pattern" Alaska

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Offer Goldfarb Israel Honorable Mention "Duet" photographed in the streets of Tel Aviv

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention "Abstract (2)"

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Brian Schneider USA Honorable Mention "Ice-olation7" Winter wonders of ice abstractions

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Louis Agius Malta Honorable Mention "Eye Matter"

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Bill HARBIN USA Honorable Mention "Ice 7"

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Terry Ogden USA Honorable Mention "From the Inside Out" A woman staring out through a broken window in the Mojave Desert - March 2015

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Kwa Weiling Malaysia Honorable Mention "Trapped"

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Gillian Hunt UK Honorable Mention "Pearl Dragon" An image of a flower captured in camera and ‘grown on’ in photoshop to transplant it from Botany into Fantasy!

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "Fluidity" maxxi museum.architect zaha hadid.flaminio.rome.italy © alexandru crisan 2014

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "The Kiss" series [impossible worlds] [metropolis] [architecture] concrete walls. © Alexandru Crisan 2015

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "Blurry Dizziness" marchesi antinori winery.architect archea associati.firenze.italy © alexandru crisan 2014

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Allan Borebor Philippines Nominee "Dancing in the Sea" It was taken last May 1, 2015 in Pangasinan, PH.The beauty reflects when vision presents itself.

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Andrea Csepregi Hungary Nominee "And the Winner is..." on the wall, shadows and reflections of a standing lamp with a plate of glass forming two birds on the wire, camera turned to the left, the light from the roof-top window serving as movie screen

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Andreea Chiru Romania Nominee "Touching The Void"

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Andrew Ilachinski USA Nominee "Swirls, Whorls, and Tendrils"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "The Internett"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Bring It On"

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Arlene Vidor USA Nominee "Inside Henry Miller"

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Asher Milgate Australia Nominee "Untitled (1)" After seeing a performance by Johannes S Sistermanns titled SoundPlastic during a photographic group

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Asher Milgate Australia Nominee "Untitled (5)" After seeing a performance by Johannes S Sistermanns titled SoundPlastic during a photographic group

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Ben Gasser USA Nominee "Untitled (9)"

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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee "Into The Light" Follow the light into your imagination.

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Bill HARBIN USA Nominee "Ice 5"

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Bob St-Cyr Canada Nominee "Breakfast" Pinhole photo made during breakfast

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Brian Rope Australia Nominee "Popcorn Reflection" The popcorn explosion in the window display becomes like blossoms on the bare tree branches reflected in the window.

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Brian Rope Australia Nominee "Sculpture Contrast" The sculpture becomes a new artwork with this treatment.

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Brian Schneider USA Nominee "Ice-olation11" From the quiet light of morning and ice formations.

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Brian Schneider USA Nominee "Ice-olation52" Ice formations during the freeze up season.

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CARLOS SAPA Mexico Nominee "The Angel and the Child" THE OTHER CHILHOOD. CAP I. Mexico. This series represents intimate moments of my childhood. "Child who looks like me, come with me to heaven, down here we can´t trust any one".

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Untitled (7)" This image is part of the series entitled Projections.

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Untitled (6)" This image is part of the series entitled Projections.

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CARLOS JORDAO USA Nominee "Untitled (10)" This image is part of the series entitled Projections.

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Carlos Cabral Portugal Nominee "Dizziness in the Royal Mast"

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Carol Schiraldi USA Nominee "House on the Hill" noir style black and white

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Carole Usdan USA Nominee "self#39"

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee "Dying Embers" The end of the evening, the fire dying out, occasional pops of sparks illuminated the area.

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Catalin Sandu Canada Nominee "Entangled"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Band on Break" A reflection in a musical instrument of members of a band on the break

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Christine Spring New Zealand Nominee "Relocation" ... Earth to Mars..... relocation of earth and sky with just one droplet of water!

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Christine Spring New Zealand Nominee "Refreshed" ... waiting for the car wash to finish.

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CHRISTOPHER HILL USA Nominee "Untitled (2)" PAPER TOWEL MAGNIFIED

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Nominee "Tuscan Fields"

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Dan Yang Wu Taiwan Nominee "Fancy View of City" Fancy View of City

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Dan Yang Wu Taiwan Nominee "Fancy Cloud" Fancy Cloud

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Dave Johns USA Nominee "City Life"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee "Fork"

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Denis Bourg UK Nominee "D.e.a.d"

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Devika Swarup India Nominee "Jagged Symphony "

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Dry Lake 2" Nevada

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Dry Lake 1" Nevada

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Donna Rosser USA Nominee "Tree of Life"

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Donna Thompson USA Nominee "Concrete Impressions"

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EJ Ray An Canada Nominee "Longing I"

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EJ Ray An Canada Nominee "Longing II"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Blinded"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Handled"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "One Eye Open"

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Together Yet Separate"

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Emre Turan Turkey Nominee "Bubbles" soap bubbles at plaza de catalunya

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Erik Olson USA Nominee "Lines, Block " ISOLATING A PART OF EXISTING TO CREATE SOMETHING ENTIRELY IT'S OWN

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Erik Olson USA Nominee "OOO" FACE ABSTRACTION IN LAYERS OF ROADWORK

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Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee "Losing the head"

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "The Hanging Gardens " An image of a flower captured in camera and ‘grown on’ in photoshop to transplant it from Botany into Fantasy!

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "From the Deep" An image of a flower captured in camera and ‘grown on’ in photoshop to transplant it from Botany into Fantasy!

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "Unknown Flower" This unknown alien looking wall flower was caught in camera and transplanted into an enchanted land.

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Gloria Pereyra USA Nominee "Pages"

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "The Enchanted Forest" Near Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand 2014

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Ioannis Karavelis Greece Nominee "Methexis i " Photographs were made as a Meditation on Details from original artworks by Ioannis Karavelis.

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Ioannis Karavelis Greece Nominee "Methexis ii" Photographs were made as a Meditation on Details from original artworks by Ioannis Karavelis.

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Ioannis Karavelis Greece Nominee "Methexis vi" Photographs were made as a Meditation on Details from original artworks by Ioannis Karavelis.

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Bejewelled"

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Jay Bransfield USA Nominee "Abstract of Light"

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Jean-Marc Felix Switzerland Nominee "Breaking Walls" Abandoned glass factory in the Bavarian Woods

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Jefflin Ling Malaysia Nominee "Shaking" The vase shaking under sharp lighting. Physics attempts a systematic description of fundamental and

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Jonathan Graf Switzerland Nominee "Diamond Pose 3"

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Jonathan Graf Switzerland Nominee "Waitomo Caves"

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Te Uru"

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee "Working Late"

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Kirill Kozmin Sweden Nominee "Bambino 2" Family Circus Bambino

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Klas Anders Sweden Nominee "Reflection (1)"

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Kobi Walsh USA Nominee "Self-Portrait" Releasing your inner personality.

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Lesley Ackman USA Nominee "St. Augustine Lighthouse" View of the lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida through the branches of an oak tree.

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Libby Meland USA Nominee "A Crown of Water" Studio lit water drop shot

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Linda Sandow USA Nominee "Untitled (4)"

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Llewellyn Douglas Jamaica Nominee "Dance"

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Louis Agius Malta Nominee "My Reflections" Torino metro; motion.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee "Paradise Underwater Upside Down" Icebergs underwater take on a whole new life and vision. You are captured by the detail and size of an iceberg underwater. Taken with a GoPro.

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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Dancing in the Dark"

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Marcia Getto USA Nominee "Tentacles"

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "Berlin Alexanderplatz" New Years Eve 2013, Berlin

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "Soil in my Sink" soil in kitchen sink, after washing potatoes/abstract, 2015

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee "Spine"

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Sunset" Abstract Sunset taken in Sicily

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Sensa Te" I remember place visited together with a background of piano. To my father.

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Smarrito" Lost in the unconscious existential.

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Mathew Oldershaw UK Nominee "Need a Light"

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Mauro Boiteux Brazil Nominee "Dobras "

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Michael J Locke UK Nominee "Chicago Alien"

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Mihai Chebac USA Nominee "Frank Gehry Impressions #3"

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Mimmi Moretti Italy Nominee "Three Adults and Three Children" didascalia3

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Offer Goldfarb Israel Nominee "Song for my City 1" Edge of high-tech building near Tel Aviv

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Offer Goldfarb Israel Nominee "Milk Can" empty milk can rotated on old phonograph

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Olena Sullivan Canada Nominee "Deco Double" The gorgeous Art Deco gem - the RC Harris filtration plant in Toronto.

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Olena Sullivan Canada Nominee "Manhattan Double" The gorgeous grand dames along Central Park in NY.

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Urban Basalt"

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Paul Crampton Canada Nominee "Is Anybody Out There" At one time or another we all have been caught short in a public restroom?

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Pedro Farias-Nardi Dominican Republic Nominee "Shady Grove"

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Petros Nikolaides Cyprus Nominee "Escaping from the Underworld" Budapest, Hungary

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Raffi Bashlian USA Nominee "Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong Inspired by Bamboo" The construction was inspired by bamboo, its sectioned trunk reaching higher with each growth

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Richard Murai USA Nominee "Cirumnambulation, Butter Lamps, Lhasa, Tibet 2008" Pilgrims carrying butter lamps while circumnambulating the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa Tibet

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Robert Petric Australia Nominee "Sealed Bearing"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "Untitled (11)"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "Untitled (12)"

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Eternal Light" reflections of light created the vague image of a flame with a person inside

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Ron Hewit UK Nominee "London Skyline" Chaotic captivating London

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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee "The Lost"

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Sandro Tedde Italy Nominee "AbstrActure 21"

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Sergey Majorov Russia Nominee "Snow Cat" Snow cat

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Seta Karabadjian Canada Nominee "Canvas on Wall" Shot in Burano, Italy, 2015

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "Folds"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "Motion"

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simon evans Australia Nominee "Diver"

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simon evans Australia Nominee "Divers"

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "Toro!"

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Soren Harbel Spain Nominee "Back from Mecca" Back from Mecca

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Soren Harbel Spain Nominee "Peace Demonstration" Peace Demonstration - the Next Day

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Recession" The last vestiges of a wave as it washes out over the black pebbled beach in Iceland

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Into the Vortex"

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Naissance"

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Steven Stanger USA Nominee "Bloom"

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Surinder Singh UK Nominee "Illuminati" Vanishing point: the convergence of thoughts (Roof lighting at Odenplan Station - Stockholm, Sweden).

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "Vital"

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Tina Kim USA Nominee "Falling Angel"

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Ulla Cornelius Germany Nominee "The Honesty Box" seen in Mousehole, UK

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Ulla Cornelius Germany Nominee "Wiggly Lines"

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Vadim Linetskiy UK Nominee "EmptyFlask*4" Study of the flask has not yielded a single drop out of it. Emptiness. Quadrupling. Framed.

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Vadim Linetskiy UK Nominee "Selfie" Reflections. Reflection. Kensington, London

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Valerie Chauffour France Nominee "Abstract (3)" Home studio

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Valerie Franc-Houge USA Nominee "Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water" La Conner, Washington State, USA

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Viola Michaelis Switzerland Nominee "Oldtimer" Oldtimer

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "Hip (1)"

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee "Rungenberg #2" Nikon D800, rear of a floodlight on top of the overburden of a former coal mine called "Rungenberg" in Gelsenkirchen-Buer

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Wes Pettus USA Nominee "Droplets"

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