Nature - Professional

Oysten Glenne Kristiansen Norway 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Arctic night" Captured during a journey on Spitsbergen, Svalbard in wintertime- still surrounded by darkness. I have created this photo by using analogue Hasselblad 501 and Ilford Xp-2 400 120 film (medium...

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Mark Seawell USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Autumn Moonset" The moon slowly sinks over the Wasatch Mountain range close to Snow Basin in northern Utah

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Kathleen T. Carr USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Palm Forest" Black and White Infrared Photograph

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Jon Glaser USA Honorable Mention "A Last Moment" Located in Death Valley, the sun shows its last glimmer of light at sunset.

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Jack Curran USA Honorable Mention "Haunted Forest" Haunted forest near Lecanto, Florida

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Seamus Travers Ireland Honorable Mention "Brod Kosovo" Early one morning outside the Village of Brod in Kosovo.

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Aaron Feinberg USA Honorable Mention "High Voltage" Great Sand Dunes National Park

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Arkadius Zagrabski Germany Honorable Mention "Milarrochy Tree, Scotland 2013"

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Honorable Mention "Intruder" Contrast study on bamboo forest, Kyoto Japan

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Georgina Goodwin Kenya Honorable Mention "Long Shadows" Mist and long shadows at dawn - aerial of Kenya's tea highlands

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Haven" Immense and majestic, the sand dunes of Namibia’s Sossusvlei desert are the largest in the world. These works capture the shapes, lines, and subtle tonal gradients of this beautiful environment.

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Yoong Wah Alex Wong Turkey Honorable Mention "Silence"

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Dennis Frates USA Honorable Mention "Beech Lined Road" The Dark Hedges. Rural Beech tree lined road in Ireland.

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Oliver Klink USA Honorable Mention "Parting Clouds" Traditional rice plantation in remote China

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Honorable Mention "Sopoaga Falls, Samoa" The beautiful Sopoaga waterfalls in Western Samoa.

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Arkadius Zagrabski Germany Honorable Mention "Broken Tree 2, Scotland 2013"

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Richard Mack USA Honorable Mention "The Power of Water and Ice, Niagara Falls" The Power of water and Ice, Niagara Falls. Part of a look at the nature of all of the Great Lakes.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Honorable Mention "Aurora Borealis (2)" Aurora Borealis over Wiseman, Alaska.

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Pierre Perrault Canada Honorable Mention "In Bloom"

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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee "Stepping Stones" Early morning in Acadia National Park

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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee "Last House on the Left" One of the handful houses on the Maria Island, Tasmania.

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Adri Berger Laos Nominee "Laos North"

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Alberto Cicchini Italy Nominee "Il Raggio" Raggio tra le nuvole sul mare Adriatico

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Alessandro Puccinelli Italy Nominee "Praia do Malhao" A big wave crashing on a beach in south portugal with someone standing in front of it taking a photo

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Island Shrine" raining day in the lake

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee "Meteo Iwa" Shrine on a rock. Japan

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Aloisi Gioia Gorini Monica Italy Nominee "Nature Paper"

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alun crockford UK Nominee "LL0301"

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Graphic" A stand of dead trees in Yellowstone from a past forest fire form a very graphic image during the stark winter.

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Arete Edmunds Canada Nominee "Swimmers" San Francisco

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Arkadius Zagrabski Germany Nominee "Submerging Trees, Scotland 2013"

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Arkadius Zagrabski Germany Nominee "Loch Lomond Study 3, Scotland 2013"

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Seven Seabirds" Place: Finale Ligure (Sv) - Italy 2013

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Aurora" Parc National du Mercantour - France 2014

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "White Silence" Colle del Melogno - Sv - Italy 2014

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "Winter IV"

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Milford Sound Storm" A very stormy day in Milford Sound, New Zealand.

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Clayton Bastiani UK Nominee "Bumblebee"

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Darcy Brown UK Nominee "Empty Seats" the seats sat bare, awaiting the day the magical folk returned

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David Morris UK Nominee "Richochet" Heavy seas erode the fragile Norfolk coast

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Debra Garside Canada Nominee "Lone Cloud at Bald Dune" A migrating dune at Sable Island National Park, Nova Scotia 300km off east coast

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Debra Garside Canada Nominee "Parhelion" A fog-bow created by ice crystals in the air - Antarctic Sound (infrared)

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Debra Garside Canada Nominee "Tabular Ice" Strong winds along the Antarctic Sound produce eerie clouds above a tabular iceberg

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "Bristlecone Gnarl" Gnarled exposed roots of Bristlecone Pine Tree. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Inyo county, Califo

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "Mounds" Silhouetted rock formations. Leslie Gultch, Malheur County, Oregon

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Don McCrae France Nominee "Fulbourn Storm"

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Dong Dong China (PRC) Nominee "Rock Garden No01" TianZhu Mountain, Anhui China. 2012

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Dong Dong China (PRC) Nominee "Rock Garden No10" Jiuxian Mountain, Shandong China. 2013

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Eternal Sands" Immense and majestic, the sand dunes of Namibia’s Sossusvlei desert are the largest in the world. These works capture the shapes, lines, and subtle tonal gradients of this beautiful environment.

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Grove" Dark and mysterious, the dead trees of Namibia’s Sossusvlei desert are both captivating and melancholy. Once fed by a local river, they now stand abandoned amongst massive sand dunes.

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Sanctuary" Immense and majestic, the sand dunes of Namibia’s Sossusvlei desert are the largest in the world. These works capture the shapes, lines, and subtle tonal gradients of this beautiful environment.

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Chaos in Paradise"

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Ice On The Rocks 03"

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Ice On The Rocks 11"

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee "Approaching Storm" Storm light over the Maroon Bells Wilderness

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee "Visitation" Alien hillside in western Iceland photographed in infrared

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Eli Dijkers UK Nominee "Resonance"

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erik hijweege Netherlands Nominee "Foz do Iguazu"

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FAHED ALSHAHMAN Kuwait Nominee "The Empty Quarter" United Arab Emirates

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FAHED ALSHAHMAN Kuwait Nominee "Dunes Study II" United Arab Emirates

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Francisco Maya Portugal Nominee "Lenticular Cloud" Praia Formosa_Madeira_Portugal_21_2_2015

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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee "The Light Of A Storm" Lofoten islands, Norway

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Gina Socrates UK Nominee "Apple Trees in the Mist"

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Sand Dune" Sand Dune at The Silver Strand, County Mayo, Ireland. Part of a years long project in County Mayo.

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Gregg Newton USA Nominee "Caribbean Sea" Cruise ships navigate through a storm in the Caribbean Sea at dusk.

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Hans Strand Sweden Nominee "Moody Mountains" An aerial of mountain ridges and snow fields. Shot over Fjallabak, Iceland.

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Hans Strand Sweden Nominee "Icy Coast" An image from the icy coast of Jökulsarlon, Iceland.

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Hiromichi Endo Japan Nominee "Trees Line"

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Hiromichi Endo Japan Nominee "Omijima Island Beach"

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Iain Morton Australia Nominee "Light the City" Summer electrical storm over Adelaide, South Australia.

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Istvan Vizner USA Nominee "Red Rocks"

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Jack Curran USA Nominee "Aspen in Light" Aspen in Light, west of Crested Butte, Colorado

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Jack Curran USA Nominee "Death Valley Zabrinski Point" Storm clouds, Zabrinski Point, Death Valley National Park

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Jack Curran USA Nominee "Brothers" Winter white trees in fresh snow

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James Fox USA Nominee "White Sands 1"

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Joanne Scherf USA Nominee "Winter Haiku 3" Barren solitude and grandeur of minimalist winter whiteness

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Climb the Clouds" This photograph was taken in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Two to the Left" I took this photograph at Dyer State Park in Florida

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Jon Glaser USA Nominee "Afternoon at the Museum" This scene is located at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, florida.

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Jonathan Dann USA Nominee "Alaskan Mist" alaskan bay 5 am june 2014

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Joseph Goh Meng Huat Singapore Nominee "He Huan Shan, Taiwan" View of He Huan Shan, located 3,416 metres high peak in Central Taiwan

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kent mathews UK Nominee "Canopy no.1"

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee "Dark Forest I" From my dark forest series

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Konstantinos Vasilakis Greece Nominee "Solitude" My resting place. My getaway from the world

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Kris Chappell Canada Nominee "Closer" Analog Film

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Lee Scott USA Nominee "Freight Train" A mass of volcanic rock seems to plow through the surf like an old time freight train.

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Serenity" White Sands, New Mexico USA

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Vapor" Cloud Formations.

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Liz Keeler USA Nominee "Apalachee WMA Landscape 5" The Apalachee WMA is located with the Chattachoochee and Flint Rivers meet to form Lake Seminole in Florida.

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Roots 7" a tree's struggle as sculpture, Adirondacks, NY USA

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Meadow Plants 1" rhythm, Connecticut, USA

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "Apple Trees 8" ancient and new, Connecticut, USA

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Malika Sqalli Austria Nominee "The Wall Tree" Marrakech, Morocco, 2013

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Marco Crupi USA Nominee "Navajo Wonder" Shapes sculpted by the many flash floods that pass through this wondrous region.

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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Nominee "Mud Pans" © 2014 Margo Taussig Pinkerton

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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Nominee "Along the Merced" © 2014 Margo Taussig Pinkerton

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee "40 Foot Falls"

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee "Wanganderry Storm"

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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee "Breaking Through"

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Martin Zurmuhle Switzerland Nominee "Wild Waves"

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matt stock USA Nominee "Zen Mangrove" A trio of Red Mangroves at sunrise in the Florida Keys, USA.

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "Badland Formations, Zabriskie Point, NV"

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Michael Philip Manheim USA Nominee "Breaking Wave"

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "Midnight in Iceland" First wave got me right away, so I didn't have to care about dry feet anymore.Reynisdrangar, Iceland

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Mike Hollman New Zealand Nominee "Slot Canyon" Slot Canyon, Arizona.

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Nilton Souza Brazil Nominee "Animalistic Root" I saw an animal root upon the earth.

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Oysten Glenne Kristiansen Norway Nominee "The Road" Southern Norway

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "Polar Landscape" Svalbard landscape, winter

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "Glacier (1)" Hanging glacier, Svalbard

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Blue Mesa"

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Paul Sanders UK Nominee "Chipstead Lake" Chipstead lake in kent a place I go to seek piece and space

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Paul Sanders UK Nominee "Bewl Water" Bewl Water, Kent

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Paul Sanders UK Nominee "Lakeland" Dawn breaks over Bassenthwaite Lake

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee "Fertilized With the Blood of Patriots" Antietam, Maryland. The site of the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War

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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee "Dunes 4"

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peter langone USA Nominee "Glades" GLADES

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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee "Exuberance"

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Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich Brazil Nominee "Ladybug"

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Richard Daley USA Nominee "Stream at Dawn" Taken just at daybreak, the sun’s reflection on the stream created a graphic that reminded me of a natural Chinese calligraphy drawing.

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Rob Badger USA Nominee "Backlit Alder leaves in fall foliage, Muir Woods Nat'l M, CA" Backlit Alder leaves in fall foliage, Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, California November 29, 2011

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Rob Badger USA Nominee "Sun\'s Rays Through Thunder Cloud at Sunset, Eastern New Mexi" Sun's rays through thunder cloud at sunset, eastern New Mexico, USA. An hour earlier the sky was fil

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Guanabara Bay" Guanabara's Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Sandfall" Upper Antelope Canyon, Navajo Nation, Page, AZ, USA.

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Scott Nadow USA Nominee "Solace" American Southwest, Great Sand Dunes

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Scott Nadow USA Nominee "The Beauty In Death" Joshua Tree NP

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Scott Hoyle USA Nominee "Wine Country"

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Sidde Gowda USA Nominee "Panther Beach Water Rush" Panther beach in Santa Cruz California

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "Rock Formations" Talisker Bay in Isle of Skye

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "Icelandic Aerial" Aerial image of volcanic rivers captured at 900 feet from the open window of a Cessna aircraft.

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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee "The Ice-land" Aerial image captured at 900 feet from the open window of a Cessna aircraft.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Flow Of Contrasts" i have been drawn to this location many times every element came together on this day.

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Steve Young Australia Nominee "The Whole of Mother Nature" Great Slave Lake north of Yellowknife, a confluence of solar and terrestrial energies

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Dusk at the Creek" A tranquil scene taken late one evening on the Northern Californian coast

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Reaction" Part of the portfolio “Expressions of Infinity”. See it at SteveZmak.com.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Stormy Morning." A display of natures elements on a warm summer morning East Coast Australia

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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee "Vavau"

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Eternal" Eternal

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Northern Jelly Fish" Ice caps on the rocks of Lake Superior

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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee "In the Forest"

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Thomas Brotzler Germany Nominee "Dead Wood, Study 1"

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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee "Dune 2" Tom D. Jones -

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Tom D. Jones Belgium Nominee "Dune 5" tom D. Jones -

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Sea Cave Splash Drip" Ocean water drips between waves crashing onto walls of a California sea cave.

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Aspen and Pine, Autumn, California Eastern Sierras"

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Wilfred Berthelsen Norway Nominee "My own El Capitan" This year 2014, close to my cabin up in the mountains outside Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Roses" Cabbages on the farm.

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Pearl" Water drops inside plants

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