Abstract - Amateur

Patrick Ems Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Merging Memories"

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Milad Safabakhsh Iran 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Separation" Melody lines of separation

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Joshua Sarinana USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Beyond City Limits" Clouds reflect off of glass as a man ascends onto a subway platform.

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Luca Izzo France Honorable Mention "ESSENCE 22" A dialogue of infinite combinations of light and space. A silence that takes us in a fantasy world..

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Mihai Florea Australia Honorable Mention "Abstraction"

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Patricia Turo USA Honorable Mention "Black Hole" Disappearance

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Christian Meermann Germany Honorable Mention "Flux" Nothing is certain, everything is in motion.

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Chris Stimson Australia Honorable Mention "Early morning, Hill End" Early morning light through a fence

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Penelope Clute USA Honorable Mention "Restroom" floor reflection on wastebasket in ladies room

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Tim Mulcahy USA Honorable Mention "Escheresque"

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Willa Davis USA Honorable Mention "Beach Flames"

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Honorable Mention "Land Bridge" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Natalya Trotsevich Russia Honorable Mention "Meditation"

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Jim Sterne USA Honorable Mention "Lab Juno"

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Diane Kaye USA Honorable Mention "Spontaneous Dance"

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Soren Harbel Spain Honorable Mention "A Glove after the Thaw" A Kid's Glove after the Thaw - Vera Fotografia

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Louis Agius Malta Honorable Mention "Wild Waves"

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Joseph O'Neill USA Honorable Mention "Awning 2"

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Ian Shand New Zealand Honorable Mention "Bold" Strong ice patterns on an early winter's morning on Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand

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Margo Kessler Cook USA Honorable Mention "Branching Out II"

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Bernard Werner USA Honorable Mention "Growth"

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Chris McCann USA Honorable Mention "Stucco" In a cookie cutter world of commonplace existence, it's nice to see someone who cares.

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention "abstract"

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention "Walk!"

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Adam Felde USA Nominee "Canal Reflections" Buildings reflected in San Antonio, Tx Canal. Taken with iPhone 6s

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "Sacrifice Of Isaac" series [impossible worlds][impossible architectures][surreal manipulations]

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Andrea e Silva Brazil Nominee "2EaS1" It was the final moment of a photography workshop and I had my camera in hand, searching for images. I was a little tired from the exercise, when I noticed this plate hanging on the electric wire. I...

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee ""Spaceworld""

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee ""The gate to Soria Moria""

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee ""Twisted""

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "The Tree of Life" Stresa - Lago Maggiore - Italy 2015

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Bee Burke Australia Nominee "creatures of the beach" Creatures

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Brice Goldberg USA Nominee "Midnight Sunrise" Created using a tube television set, long exposure and black sumi ink

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C E Morse USA Nominee "Jonesport #596" Detail of boat hull

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee "What Lies Beneath?" Stream flowing under winter ice.

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Chad Routhier USA Nominee "Notion" First light presenting an abstract and reflective take between shadows and light

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Chih Yu Tsai Taiwan Nominee "Faker-1" Its an ice cube faked ink painting with the melting water.

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Chih Yu Tsai Taiwan Nominee "Implosion" Drop

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Chih Yu Tsai Taiwan Nominee "Faker-3" Its an ice cube faked ink painting with the melting water.

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Chris McCann USA Nominee "Akan" An aerial view of Lake Akan in Hokkaido during the beginning stages of the freezing process.

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Christoph Oberenzer Germany Nominee "Three Black Squares"

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Christoph Oberenzer Germany Nominee "Plates Composition"

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Daniel Dencescu Germany Nominee "Dancing starlings" Thousands of starlings flying over Rome formed this dancer in the sky

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Dave Johns USA Nominee "Circle Rock 6" Circle Rock 6, Clark Cove, Maine Coast

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David Reilly USA Nominee "Single Exposure II, Tokyo" A single exposure of a window reflection in Tokyo's Asakusa district

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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee "Untitled with Water"

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Molton"

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Devon Crosby Canada Nominee "Scarred" Bottom of an old cast iron frying pan

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Diane Kaye USA Nominee "Raindrops on Lumen Print" During the long exposure of a lumen print of 3 bottles, it rained on the project.

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Highway Rivulet Ice Reflected" Highway Rivulet Ice Reflected

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Wahkeena Creek Ice Reflected" Wahkeena Creek Ice Reflected

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Frank Burgers Netherlands Nominee "Multiverse"

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Gillian Hunt UK Nominee "Alien" In the garden no one can hear you sream!!!

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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee "Lines and curves" This photograph is a detail of an architectural structure created for EXPO 2015 in Milan

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Down Pipe" A quiet corner, Knox Church, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Iveta Butler USA Nominee "Me?" Gelatin Silver Print made in the darkroom as a part of my recent B&W project SUPER(NATURAL) WOMAN.

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Shade Sail"

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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee "Film Strip" A different view of New York City

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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee "Circle of Light"

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John Eaton USA Nominee "Abstract Reflection"

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Juan Fernando Franco Colombia Nominee "MADERAS"

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "The Bridge" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "A Shadow In The Middle Distance" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "At The Edge" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "Rise and Fall" Multiplexities - delving deeply into nature's many layers and complexities

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee "Bridge to Sky" Ongoing contemplations of found geometry

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Kit Snider USA Nominee "Beach Visitor"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "The wall-2"

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Kwa Weiling Malaysia Nominee "The Liberation"

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Larry Colby USA Nominee "Marina city towers" Circular views of Marina city towers

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Leah Lallier USA Nominee "Still Water"

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Lilyan Aloma USA Nominee "Guardian" Portrait of Philip, Film Image-Holga,Double Exposure, Chelsea, New York City, 2016

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Linda Jarrett New Zealand Nominee "Beach Huts" St James, Cape Town

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "When Time Stood Still"

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Maciej Szemelowski Poland Nominee "V" 2016, Italy

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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Nominee "Glacier melt"

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Manss Aval USA Nominee "Dupligen "

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee "Black and White Spider" Spider in front of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao

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Maria Dorn Germany Nominee "crooked universe" abstraction of Mischa Kuballs Planets, Exhibition Germany 2016

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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee "Paper " newspaper waves

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Mark Chen USA Nominee "Tears of Ramona" Following an isolating a singular path of the numerous water cascades of Ramona Falls.

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee "land etching" Aerial photo of dried river bed

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Listening to Vivaldi" Very dark, tenebrous and mysterious abstract work. As a mostly of my works this is a pure state of vision through my surreal worlds. Whatever it is on the image is thanks to Vivaldi who I was listenin

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee "Digging" The image featured a character,distort end embedded with something not yet known to human eyes. He escape He escape from a dream pushing along a rubber canvas like.He is digging for the unrelieved ans

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Mathew Oldershaw UK Nominee "Moving light" Camera set on a long exposure while the hallway light was moving.

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Natalia Polomina Russia Nominee "Dance" In-Camera Digital Double Exposure

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Nirzhar Pradhan USA Nominee "Orchestra" Multi exposure, in-camera shot of children's school orchestra.

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Nola Sumner Australia Nominee "Meeting Point" Open House Perth - an event in WA showcases homes and buildings.

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Patrick Sampson UK Nominee "untitled 4"

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Staircase On Wall" Santa Fe, late afternoon light

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Whirlwind" remarkable abstract created by mineral deposits in rock

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Paul Wainwright USA Nominee "Pendulum Light Painting 164T" From the series: The Pendulum Project

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Paul Wainwright USA Nominee "Pendulum Light Painting 153P" From the series: The Pendulum Project

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Rhonda Dubin USA Nominee "Sky Arrow"

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Richard Armstrong USA Nominee "Between the Trees a River Runs" After photographing waterfalls for several hours, I decided to experiment with abstract imaging.

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Robert Hewgley USA Nominee "Building and Wall II" Both structures and shadows make fixed tonal forms in harmony. Captured on film in Austin, Texas.

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Bottom" ribs of an old wooden canoe

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Whipped" An old wire whisk from my grandmother's kitchen

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Ron Hewit UK Nominee "reflecting on hampstead "

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Rosario Civello Italy Nominee "Signs #21"

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Sebastian Geithner Germany Nominee "Clouds and Rooftops"

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Soren Harbel Spain Nominee "Disolving Car" Disloving Car - Vera Fotografia

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Sleet Storm 56"

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Swarup Chatterjee India Nominee "Shades of grey"

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Tami B. Sojka USA Nominee "Bridge to Nature"

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Alice" The blinding light at the top of the rabbit hole.

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Tony Gorham New Zealand Nominee "Clouds"

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Uwe Langmann Germany Nominee "White Works V" Architectural detail (smoke detector on a white ceiling).

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Wes Pettus USA Nominee "Tidepool, Point Lobos, Ca." Shot in Point Lobos State Park, California.

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Yousef Alkhamees USA Nominee "CONNECT"

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Zahra Tarkhan Iran Nominee "This!" This is here!

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