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Dylan Fox Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Resting Place" I had set out this particular evening planning to explore and photograph the Wylie Bay sand dunes. However, when I arrived, heavy cloud had settled on the horizon blocking any strong light from breaking through at sunset. I found this scene along the coastline of a boulder looking to be held in perfect balance in this channel between to large sections of rock rising out of the land. The water let my eye right to the boulder and with a bit of wind about I was also able to capture some nice textured in the foreground water. Sometimes you have to be prepared to change your plans and be willing to pursue different possibilities when conditions are not what you had planned for. |
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Luke Tscharke Australia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Barossa Bolt" A large storm rolls over Moculta in the Barossa Valley, South Australia |
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Ed Cooley USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Enchanted" |
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Mark Goebel USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Chew Sculpted Pinon" Small animals chewed this Pinon tree to create this sculpture, New Mexico, March 4, 2016 |
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Dianne Yudelson USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Carpenter Bees" |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Candlestick" |
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Sverker Johansson Sweden Honorable Mention Nature Professional "September" Bear country. September sun rises to clear the mist from the forest stream - Finnmark, Sweden. |
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Edmond Terakopian UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Murmurations" A murmuration of starlings at dusk, just after the sunset at the beach in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK |
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Matthew James Smith USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Skógafoss" Skógafoss, Iceland Waterfall |
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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Graphical Contemplation " When it is snowy and foggy, it is interesting to look for minimalistic composition |
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Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "White Out" |
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Lee Gordon USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Apple Tree Naked Dance" apple tree dancing naked in winter fog |
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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Transcendence " Transcendence was captured in Yosemite National Park, CA. |
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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Dune" Beautiful sunrise on the sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley |
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Iain Morton Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Dead Forrest" Burnt forrest at Mt Hotham, Victoria, Australia |
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Pal Hermansen Norway Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Glacier Front" Glacier fornt, Austfonna, Svalbard |
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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Black Hills (2)" the light effect was possible thanks to the diffusion on the dust scattered by the wind |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Flying Butterfly" Flowers |
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Paul Abbitt New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "White Horses" Urban Surf Project, Portugal |
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Jiri Jiroutek Czech Republic Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Landscape 01" |
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Mabry Campbell USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Above North Blvd No. 5" |
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Jonathan Dann USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Alaskan Sunrise" alaskan cove sunrise |
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John E. Kelly USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Bent Tree Over Road" |
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Akkarawin Krairiksh Thailand Nominee Nature Professional "The Cavern" The cave reveal those movement as time goes by. |
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Alessandro Puccinelli Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Mare 280" A huge wave in Nazarè, Portugal |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Between Sky and Earth" volcano taken in Iceland on a plane, i was amazed by the textures created by the clouds |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Chinese Painting" Top of the Zhangjiagjie mountains |
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alun crockford UK Nominee Nature Professional "Garrofera 2" |
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Amit Verma India Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Morning" Beas River at its best on a winter morning... |
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Andre Boto Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Dark Nature" The lines and textures of nature. |
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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Jökulsarlon, Iceland" |
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Andy McRory USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cleaved in Two" Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in early spring, California, 2016 |
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Art Gallegos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Timberline" View from Timberline Hotel, Mt Hood OR |
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Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Uluru" Uluru, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Astralia |
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Brett Birdsong USA Nominee Nature Professional "Skyline Fog" Fog along Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park |
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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee Nature Professional "A Winter's Tale I" |
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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Those Foggy Days" |
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Charles Davis Smith USA Nominee Nature Professional "Great Sand Dunes (1)" Sand Boarding at Great Sand Dunes National Park |
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Charles Davis Smith USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rocky Mountain Grass Spikes" |
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Christina Czybik Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Abstract Iceland" Double Exposure of the Nature in Iceland |
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Christopher Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snake River" Palladium Print 11" x 8" on Platine |
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Christopher Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice Grotto" 4x5 Large Format Film |
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Cody Brothers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Great Sand Dunes (2)" Analog infrared capture with a 4x5 camera |
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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee Nature Professional "On The Edge" A solitary juniper clings to the edge of a broken cliff. |
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David Gubernick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Over Half Dome" |
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David J. West USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sandstone Layers" Takien on June 29 2016 in Zion National Park, Utah |
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Dawn Benko USA Nominee Nature Professional "Renewal" The bottom of Dutchman Falls in Loyalsock State Forest, Pennsylvania |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee Nature Professional "Reflection (2)" Summer sky reflection at lake Luutalammi, Finland |
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Don Hall USA Nominee Nature Professional "Van Gogh Sky" Dramatic backlit clouds formed over Washington's Destruction Island near sunset. |
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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Ice on Cotton" |
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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Fluenta Vitae 03M" |
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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Ice on the Water" |
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Dwight Hiscano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sand and Surf #8667" |
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Dylan Fox Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Trail Blazing" Strong winds blow sand across the dunes and off the edges of the s-bend. |
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Dylan Collard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Life and Death 01" A series shot in my local park where I noticed a group of plants dying back last autumn. |
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Dylan Collard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Life and Death 02" A series shot in my local park where I noticed a group of plants dying back last autumn. |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tree and Sky" |
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Emmanuel Zouboulis Germany Nominee Nature Professional "The Giving Tree" We don't know where our path might lead us. It will be dark sometimes but there will always be light |
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Felicia Tausig USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ripple Effect" Mono Lake, California - Where seagulls go to have their young |
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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee Nature Professional "JellyBelly #3" From my "JellyBelly" seires. An Aurelia Jellyfish. |
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Frances Suter Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Scene" |
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Francesco Bosso Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Bubble" Iceland in 2013, a magical moment where the heart of the earth turns into a water bubble |
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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Lines And Dust" Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California |
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Franz Messenbaeck Austria Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes And Aragosa Range" Death Valley National Park, California |
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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Above Earth" |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "The Gathering, Snowdonia" Fleeting sunshine bursts through heavy cloud cover on Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "A Gentle Push, Anglesey" At dusk, gentle waves push up the beach, cleansing the sand for the next day |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Explosions Softened" Fuerteventura - White Sahara sands cover vast sheets of black volcanic stone on this Canary Island |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "A Curved Arrangement" Incredible sand formations caused by rapid outgoing tide on Anglesey, Wales |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Last Light on an Ancient Volcano" Subtle evening light on this ancient and heavily eroded Fuerteventura volcano |
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H Henthorne USA Nominee Nature Professional "Iceland #37" Ocean & Earth - Iceland |
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Hans Strand Sweden Nominee Nature Professional "Craterland" An aerial of the river Skaftá and some volcanic craters in the highlands of Iceland. |
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Hiromichi Endo Japan Nominee Nature Professional "The Stillness of Silence" This project is an attempt to perceive the existence that produces “life†which transcends human intellect. |
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Iain Morton Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Determination" Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
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James Fox USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sands" |
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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee Nature Professional "Power of Water" An homage to 100 years of national parks and their greatness. |
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Jessica Cardelucci USA Nominee Nature Professional "Blown Away" The Wedge in Newport Beach, California, 2014 |
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Jiri Tondl Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Morning at the River" |
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Joe Patronite USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rainbow in the Storms" As a huge thunderstorm makes it's way over Arches National Park, the late afternoon sun reveals a ra |
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Joe Patronite USA Nominee Nature Professional "Moonset over Sonoran Desert Arizona" The full moon heads to the horizon at Sunrise over the Saguro Cactus in the Sonoran Desert in Arizon |
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John Orcutt USA Nominee Nature Professional "Stand of Maples at Mosher Hill" Isolated grove of majestic maple trees on a snowy day. |
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John Orcutt USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ghost Maples in Snow Storm" Howling wind and swirling snow obscure tree trunks at ground level. |
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John E. Kelly USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dead Tree With Crows" |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "Natures Bath" Lake Louisa, Florida |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Window to the Sky" Arches National Park, Utah |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "Earth" Palouse, Washington State |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ancient Storyteller" Maui |
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Joseph Romeo USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice, Burke Lake, Virginia" Broken Ice forms on Burke Lake |
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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee Nature Professional "Avalanche Control" Pedaling my bike around Canmore, AB I came to a road of stopped traffic. Funny to me considering there wasn't a traffic signal for miles. Controlled avalanches are the prescribed method for avoiding d |
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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mountains in the Mist" Breaking out of the tree line for a quick glimpse up at Ha Ling peak above me. There was fog in the air, the ground was already covered in snow with more weather on the way. |
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joshua weinfeld USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunrise, Angeles National Forest" Bikepacking through the Angeles National Forest, looking east to the sunrise as The City of Los Angeles sleeps to the south. The fingerlike ridges of the San Gabriel mountains play with the clouds, ke |
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Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram India Nominee Nature Professional "Mystic Sea" I traveled to this particular place kovalam beach(india)to take seascape pictures and during sunset i took this shot at the beach, in black & white i achieved this scenic effect. |
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Kerry Wilson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Horizon #04" From a series titled Horizon, which studies the clouds over the ocean from the Sydney cliffs. The series took three years of sunrises and is still ongoing. |
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KIRK GITTINGS USA Nominee Nature Professional "Walking Rain, Petrified Forest AZ 2013" An extraordinary historic landscape along Rt. 66 in AZ. |
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Kris Chappell Canada Nominee Nature Professional "HooDooYouDo" Analog Capture |
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Larry Louie Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Mountains of Upper Mustang" The mountains in Upper Mustang |
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Larry Louie Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Beauty of Upper Mustang" Upper Mustang Scenery |
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Lee Gordon USA Nominee Nature Professional "Poplar Trees Winter Fog" winter fog framing a stand of poplar trees |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Homage to the Sun and Moon" The monoliths of The Temple of the Sun and Moon dominate the magnificent Cathedral Valley, Utah. |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee Nature Professional "East Mitten Glow" |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sunset Bonneville Salt Flats" |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Twinn Peaks Badlands SD" |
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Lucy A Kennedy USA Nominee Nature Professional "Race Track Death Valley" Racetrack is a playa - a dry lake bed-known for its strange moving rocks. Taken in light full moon. |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Monsoons Over Mui La" The sense of oppression along as a consequence of being helpless in between the elements, the sense of impotence of a grain of sand smashed against the majesty of the mountains and against the incomin |
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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Geryon Awakens" Early morning mist parts revealing the three peaks of Mount Geryon |
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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee Nature Professional "The Pool of Memories" Mount Geryon relfected in the calm waters of the Pool of Memories |
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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Oberon" The summit of Mount Pegasus casts a shadow over Lake Oberon in the early morning light |
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Marc Cartwright USA Nominee Nature Professional "Alien Tree" Pacific Palisades, CA |
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Marco Crupi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ice on the Rocks" Jokulsarlon's beach, Iceland |
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Marion Faria USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mittens Rush" The effect of a l0 stop ND filter on moving clouds in Monument valley |
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Mark Goebel USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snow Hummocks, Illuminated by the Full Moon" Snow Hummocks, illuminated by the full moon, New Mexico, November 25, 2015 |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Moonrise (1)" An ancient bristle pine tree as the moon looms above in the morning light |
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Martin Zurmuhle Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Moon meets Matterhorn" |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "From Here To There" A tidal stream winds it's way to the sea. |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Shelter From the Storm" Resting in the face of an oncoming storm |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Time & Tide" Low tide in the Fiord |
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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee Nature Professional "The Tree (1)" |
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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Fog" |
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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Gap Of Dunloe, Ireland" Gap Of Dunlop, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Bearna an ChoimÃn meaning "gap of the common-land" |
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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Last Light On El Capitan" Last Light On El Capitan, Yosemite National Park. CA |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tse Bi dahi or the Rock with Wings" Shiprock - huge volcanic plug sacred to Navajo People, The charismatic power of monolith is stunning. |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Chronicles of Amber" Shiprock - the 1700-foot eroded volcanic plug in northwestern New Mexico. Aerial. |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Nature Professional "Balck Falls" Svartifoss (Black Falls) is a waterfall in Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland. |
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Neal Panton Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Godafoss" Iceland |
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Nico Garstman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Waterfall" Waterfall Schotland 2016 |
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Nila Onda USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lone Tree's Blues" Late at night I ventured out to photograph the blizzard. That lone tree, fragile yet resilient, sang to me. |
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Nirzhar Pradhan Nepal Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Over Sedona" Pulled over on the side of the road to capture the storm brewing on my way to Sedona. |
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Patricia Dinu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dreamy Valley - The Desert Of Souls" |
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Patrick Desvergnes France Nominee Nature Professional "Tree II" |
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Paul Sanders UK Nominee Nature Professional "Lost in the Drift" Seven shot stitched panorma of fir trees during a blizzard |
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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Nature Professional "Misty Falls At Vik" These misty falls near Vik, Iceland, are beautiful in their simplicity and force. |
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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes 1" |
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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Jagged 1" |
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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snow Dune" |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "The Giant" A rare Satinay tree that managed to escape the shadows of the forest floor and make it to the sky. |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Hammerstone Dune 1" The multiple patterns found when wind and water run across the surface of a sand dune |
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Phil Hawkins USA Nominee Nature Professional "Half Dome in Yosemite" After a winter storm in Yosemite National Park. Half Dome over Cook's Meadow. |
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Phil Hawkins USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lightning near Brevard NC" A double lightning strike near Brevard, NC from Jump Off Rock. |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Nature Professional "Nature " water drop |
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Reece Donihi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beach Grass" Grass on Sand Dunes at Cape Hatteras |
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Reece Donihi USA Nominee Nature Professional "Natures Heart" Natures Heart, Birds rising in Mississippi |
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Richard Mack USA Nominee Nature Professional "Waves #6" Great Lakes Waves caught in the moment. |
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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Desert" The Salar do Uyuni, Bolivia (Andes altiplan) |
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Ron Schwager USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bandon Oregon 1" The beach at Bandon Oregon |
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Ron Schwager USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bandon Oregon 2" The beach at Bandon Oregon |
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Ross Thompson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Arrangement #3" A sand-blown natural sculpture, in Bunjalung National Park, Australia. |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Ice After the Fire" In 2003 there were extensive fires in the Snowy Mountains of Australia and many of the snow gums have not regenerated. |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Aurora" I used this fence in the foreground to echo the form of the Northern light |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Twist" The curve of the road seems to echo to the curve of the clouds |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Where?" A simple road to give deepness and perspective |
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Shinsuke Yoshida Japan Nominee Nature Professional "A Piece of Wood" A piece of wood in the lake |
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Simon Puschmann Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Tree, Rain" |
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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Professional "White Patches #03" Landmannalaugar, Iceland |
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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Icelandic Aerial #081" Aerial image of volcanic rivers in Iceland photographed from the open window of Cessna aircraft. |
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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Zante" Zakynthos, Greece |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Above And Below" I saw the clouds building in the south so having local knowledge and radar i set up on a low rock position and waited for the storm that turned out to be one of the biggest in many years |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pure Dune" Part of a new B&W nature & landscape portfolio in development. See it at SteveZmak.com. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Sand Flats Study" Sand flats far north Queensland crocodile infested area. |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Incoming Gale" Moments before a 100 k gale hit. |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Pastel Dawn " A tranquil dawn at Loch Leven in the Scottish Highlands |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Approaching" An evening storm rolls in over the Sangre di Cristo Mountains |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Wild Surf Australia" |
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Steven Massart Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Seascape" |
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Steven Begleiter USA Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Brewing" Photographed looking at Beacon Point near Yellowstone Park in Montana |
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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "In the Forest 2" |
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Szymon Brodziak Poland Nominee Nature Professional "The Tree (3)" |
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Tatyana Bessmertnaya USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rain over Davis Mountains" |
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Theresa Tarara USA Nominee Nature Professional "June Leaf 16" |
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Tobias Reymond Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Rush 3" |
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Tom Lowe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cinder Cone " Caged River - Owens Valley, CA |
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Tom Lowe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snaking Along the Foothills" Caged River - Owens Valley, CA |
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Toni Sergio Carbone Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Look at Me" The photo was taken in the studio with a lot of patience . |
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Tony Hertz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Trees in Exchange" A triptych - left and right images are identical while the middle image is identical but inverted. |
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Tony Hertz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Two Aspens" Two aspen trees in morning light in the California Eastern Sierras. |
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Tracy Ryan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Devils Marbles" Karlu, Karlu (Devils Marbles), Northern Territory, Australia. |
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Tracy Ryan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cloud Burst, Karlu Karlu Conservation Reserve, NT" Cloud Burst, Karlu, Karlu (Devils Marbles), Northern Territory, Australia. |
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Valerio Bellone Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Etna Volcano" Strange cloud formations are mixed with the smoke of the volcano. |
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Wilhelm Scholz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lonely Cloud" Cloud Drifting |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Nature Professional "Salmon" Water Waves |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Nature Professional "Rolling Ball" |
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