Fine Art - Amateur

Philip McKay UK 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "vertigo"

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Kerry Maxwell USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Escape the Merry Go Round"

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Sasa Prizmic Croatia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "3 shades of grey"

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Richard Murai USA Honorable Mention "Billowing Cape, Paro Dzong, Bhutan 2009" Monk's Billowing Cape, Paro Dzong, Bhutan 2009

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Hermann Einbinder Russia Honorable Mention "Life on Pointes"

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Felicia Simion Romania Honorable Mention "The doppelganger" Self-portrait questioning my own identity.

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Honorable Mention "van Hoogstraten-Frans-Ilheus da Janela" Vulcanic Sea stacks on the Atlantic coast, Ribeira da Janela, Madeira

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Lynn Jenkin Australia Honorable Mention "Celestial Music" The carrier of dreams

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Darren Moore UK Honorable Mention "Within" Ruins of a 15th century Church. Local myth has it that the nun who lived here was a witch with a woo

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Honorable Mention "There Can No Outer Wine"

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Petter Rustad Norway Honorable Mention "Climbing" London, The UK

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Ryn Clarke USA Honorable Mention "Meadow ridge Drive-in" This image is part of a project on vanishing drive-in theaters.

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Robb Johnson USA Honorable Mention "A Chair by Her Bed"

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Jim Graham UK Honorable Mention "Morning Flight" Captured as fog rolled in from nearby fields

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Terry Strayn USA Honorable Mention "Stormy Barn" Rural Indiana

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Oscar Manso Spain Honorable Mention "Angel"

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Donna Feldman Davis USA Honorable Mention "3 Ladies" wood & human sculpture

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Berry Bingel UK Honorable Mention "On the wall # 1" On the wall # 1

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Michael Knapstein USA Honorable Mention "Fenceline"

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A M Clark USA Nominee "Patterns"

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Adele Spencer Ireland Nominee "Venetian Reverie"

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Adrian Per Romania Nominee "Ships Package" During my Job travel in China , Itzeng Shipyards . The Ships ready were packed for transport

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Alexandru Crisan Romania Nominee "Birds Tree" series [impossible worlds] [marine remains][impossible objects] romania.

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Allan Borebor Philippines Nominee "ASIA-Singapore"

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee "Yesteryear" Photographed in Sandy Hook, CT

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Antonio Gouveia UK Nominee "Beacon" Taken in Burnham-on-sea Somerset U.K

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Asher Moyal Israel Nominee "classic 356" the classic porsche 356 in the porsche museum

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "On Golden Pold" Place: Cannero Riviera - Lago Maggiore - Italy 2017

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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee "SONOMA BARN WITH PERECT SKY" PERFECT SKY, LIGHT AND TEXTURE

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Please Do Not Touch"

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C E Morse USA Nominee "Terraplane" Detail of vintage1936 terraplane

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Candy Delaney USA Nominee "Descendant" Enjoy Passionate Perspective Photography. Conceptual Self-Portrait. Detroit, 2016.

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Candy Delaney USA Nominee "Divine" Enjoy Passionate Perspective Photography. Conceptual Self-Portrait. Detroit, 2016.

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Candy Delaney USA Nominee "Poetry" Enjoy Passionate Perspective Photography. Conceptual Self-Portrait. Lee Plaza, Detroit, 2016

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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee "Rusting in Peace"

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Distant Brothers"

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "/ /"

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "The Barrier"

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Chiara Boschi Italy Nominee "the room" portrait of Lica - samsung gx10 pentax 50mm f1.7

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Chris Stimson Australia Nominee "Newcastle Beach Pool"

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Cindy Bosveld Australia Nominee "Kwinana Jetty 1" Before demolishing of this beautiful Jetty for my Sunset and Sunrise.

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Cindy Bosveld Australia Nominee "Kwinana Jetty 2" Am waiting for some clear sky to capture a set of long exposure for black and white of this Jetty

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Cindy Bosveld Australia Nominee "Line On Sand" Line On Sand just on time

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Colmar Wocke Switzerland Nominee "Morning Frost" An alpine hut, with frost and snow.

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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee "Lunch" Lunch. April 2017. Montauk, NY.

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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee "On The Playa" On The Playa. December, 2016. Isla Holbox, Mexico.

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee "Freedom" That feeling.

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Debra Achen USA Nominee "Mixed Vantage #5, Continuity" Perceived continuity of line and form between what is ahead and what is behind.

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Debra Achen USA Nominee "Ripple #5" Circular waves set in motion by raindrops falling in a pool softly distort reflected clouds.

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Diane Kravetz USA Nominee "Carried Away"

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Dietmar Sorgatz Germany Nominee "The Star is the Beach" Life Scenery at Cannes, 2017

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Dvornik Gabor Hungary Nominee "Melancholy Mon Amour"

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Elisabeth Murray Portugal Nominee "Itanhanga" Sunrise before a golf competition at the Itanhanga GC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Gavin Dunbar UK Nominee "Last Sapce" Gondolas in Venice

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George Mantu Romania Nominee "Electricity" ilford delta 400/ hasselblad 500cm

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "Eternity" An abandoned boat at Church Point

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Gloria Pereyra USA Nominee "Riddles and Whispers 1"

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Gregoris Mentzas Greece Nominee "Nocturnal" Nightscape with star trails captured with more than 100 consecutive shots during 1 hour.

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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee "Alone"

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How Pin Tang Malaysia Nominee "Piano Man"

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James Meldrum USA Nominee "Solitary"

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James Boice USA Nominee "Early Morning Along The LoyalHanna Gorge" Sinar-x 210mm HP5+ f45@1/4sec

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Between the Lines"

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Jim Sterne USA Nominee "Wheel of Fortune"

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Jimmy Lok Hong Kong Nominee "Living Like a Log"

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Jo Cripps Australia Nominee "Untitled (2)" Now or then

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Joe Crumley USA Nominee "Lead Chat Field / Tar Creek" Pitcher, Quapaw Territory

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Johannes Bosgra Netherlands Nominee "Moules de bouchot - Wissant, Côte d'Opale,France, 2017" Clean mussel piles on the beach of Wissant on the Opal Coast of France

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John Eaton USA Nominee "Sky Glider" Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

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John Eaton USA Nominee "The Cobb #2" The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Skelligs"

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John Barnard USA Nominee "Junkyard Nude Ser 16, No5" Nature offers formal structures. Junkyards offer manufactured structures.

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Jon Meyer USA Nominee "Passageway" The sign says walk and the man strides into the scene.

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Jun Epifanio Pagalilauan Philippines Nominee "LYN" A underwater maternity shoot.

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Kanishka Mukherji India Nominee "Vague Dreams" A white horse emerging out of a midnight's darkness

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Karim Carella Italy Nominee "Fortytwo cypress trees" From my new project "Tyrsenoi (their land)"

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Karim Carella Italy Nominee "Four buoys" From my new project "Tyrsenoi (their land)"

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Keith Ellul Malta Nominee "One man's trash...." One man's trash is another man's art.

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Keith Ellul Malta Nominee "Slippery surface" Slippery surface sign in Sliema Malta

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Keith Ellul Malta Nominee "Diver's Cover"

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Konstantinos Oikonomou Greece Nominee "Vessel of Hope and Despair"

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Larry Alford USA Nominee "Evening Shadows" Shadows after and evening rain.

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Leonid Goldin Israel Nominee "Serenade"

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Linda Treleaven Canada Nominee "Piano in the Woods" The piano is in the woods by an old monastery abandoned in the 1950's.

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Linda Sandow USA Nominee "Hiding In Plain Sight #1" We make decisions every day about what to hide and what to reveal.

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Liza Hennessey Botkin USA Nominee "Going Up"

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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Nominee "Dream" This is a fantastic place, like a dream like a fairyland

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Manolis Smalios Greece Nominee "Black cross" an unusal cemetery in iceland

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Marc Meyer Switzerland Nominee "the mistress wipping her slave"

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Marcia Getto USA Nominee "All That Remains"

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee "Clothes line"

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Mark Rivera USA Nominee "Staredown" Menacing stare-down of black wolf, Alaska

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Mark Coatsworth USA Nominee "Broken Fence and Barren Fields"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Flying Away"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Wraith In the Woods"

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Mats Reslow Sweden Nominee "An Ocean Between" From coast of Bjärred, Sweden

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Mats Reslow Sweden Nominee "Elements" Ystad coast Sweden

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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee "After the Storm" A small farm house surrounded by heavy clouds.

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Michael Greig USA Nominee "greig-michael_Jesus"

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Michael Troop USA Nominee "Wayward East" Taken during the moon rise on Tybee Island at 0230, iso 100, f11, 21sec

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Michael Koester Germany Nominee "Michael-Koester_Atmosphere"

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Michael O.A. Klapper Germany Nominee "Stiftsruine" Ist die größte romanische Kirchenruine der Welt in Bad Hersfeld - Germany

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee "Genie"

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Narcis Mursa Romania Nominee "Curse of shadow" Baile Herculane- Mehedinti Mountains-Romania

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Nathan Wirth USA Nominee "self & stories " Olympic Coast in the Winter

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Nathannael Frias USA Nominee "Endless Waves" St. Augustine Beach, FL

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Neil Frederick Sharpe Canada Nominee "Faith"

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Neil Frederick Sharpe Canada Nominee "For A While I Was Protected By What I Pretended To Be"

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Niall Hastie UK Nominee "Where does it go.." Long exposure of coastal rocks. Taken in Cyprus.

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Nicolas Blaiotta Spain Nominee "Mis orillas" At the edge of our emotions...

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Oscar Lopez Germany Nominee "Poggio Covili - Road of Candles"

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Patricia Ackerman Argentina Nominee "fragments"

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Patricia Ackerman Argentina Nominee "between the earth and the sky"

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Patrick Opierzynski Germany Nominee "Lago di Garda, Porto Nuovo"

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Sinister Shadow" Something about this scene was eerie

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Rent-A-Bike" Get on this bike and you will take a trip

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Paul Denbow USA Nominee "Mosquito" WW II bomber flying overhead

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Pedro Diaz Molins Spain Nominee "Rail"

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Pedro Diaz Molins Spain Nominee "The World Turned Upside Down"

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Peter Ydeen USA Nominee "Moonlit Uhaul" A scene outside of Bangor, Pennsylvania

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Philip McKay UK Nominee "fear of loneliness"

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Raj Padia India Nominee "Buddhist College for Nuns" Buddhist College for Nuns, BHUTAN

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Richard Greene USA Nominee "Cisco, Texas 2016" 16x20 100% Cotton Rag Archival Pigment Print

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Richard Murai USA Nominee "Strangler Fig, Preah Khan, Cambodia 2015" Strangler Fig, Preah Khan, Cambodia 2015

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Ricky Knowles Australia Nominee "Calm" A calm still morning at St Helens, Tasmania

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Robb Johnson USA Nominee "Ole' Laughin Lady"

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Robb Johnson USA Nominee "Within the Mirror"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "I Hide Myself Within My Flower"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "I Must Go In, The Fog Is Rising"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "Nostalghia"

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Roberto Alessandrini Italy Nominee "Planewreck" Vik, Iceland

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Roberto Messina Italy Nominee "Sunrise" Sunrise in Ferrara (italy), 2017, mars camera: Hasselblad 500 cm Film:ilford Xp2 400 f8-1/15sec. A strange light in the first morning

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Ron Quick USA Nominee "shop alone "

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RW Hawkins USA Nominee "When I Light a Torch" Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

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RW Hawkins USA Nominee "Onacho" Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

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RW Hawkins USA Nominee "Hope" Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

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Ryn Clarke USA Nominee "Elm Rd. Drive-in" This image is part of a project on vanishing drive-in theaters.

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Salvo Bombara Italy Nominee "Close Encounter" Underwater photography. Sea of Milazzo, Sicily.

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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee "Silence (1)" Not a whisper of wind, No sound by human device No view through the fog Just intermittent bird song

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Selvy Ngantung Indonesia Nominee "Bent Tree of Morotai" From a desolates coast in Morotai Island of Indonesia, taken from January 2017

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "No title (3)"

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Stephanie Kirk USA Nominee "Forty Two Degrees"

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Steve Ricketts Canada Nominee "Against the wind"

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Steven Greenbaum USA Nominee "Pier To Nowhere" Long Exposure, Sunny Isles, Florida

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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee "Alone at the end of the Jetty" Calming the rough waters of Hawaii through long exposure.

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Cape Liptrap Rocks" Afternoon serenity in Waratah Bay.

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Peace, after the cattle have gone" The dust has settled, silence reigns and the birds call. Summer is over.

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Prince's Pier, Refugees no longer welcome here..." Post war refugees came here, now the naked piles are symbolic of Australia's harsh policies

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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee "Remnants" Once upon a time an active jetty, but the relentless ocean and time had other ideas...

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Tom Rutherfoord USA Nominee "Walking Tree" Outer Banks, North Carolina

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Tom Rutherfoord USA Nominee "Bodie Light in Fog" Shot at f/16, ISO 3200, 98 seconds

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Uri Mahlev Israel Nominee "before or after" before or after

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Vlasis Rafailidis Greece Nominee " Urban Meta physic 4"

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William Gleeson Ireland Nominee "Gleeson William A line of Thought" Plastic Plastic Lines of Plastic

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William Gleeson Ireland Nominee "Gleeson William Storm Breach" After the Storm will there be Calm

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Wong Kum Loon Malaysia Nominee "Peaceful"

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Young Choi Korea (South) Nominee "BABEL #11" 120x80cm, Archival Pigment Print, 2013

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Yucel Basoglu Turkey Nominee "Dark Beauty 2" Dark Beauty Series ©2016 Black Sea / Turkey.

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Yucel Basoglu Turkey Nominee " Dark Beauty" Dark Beauty Series ©2017 Black Sea / Turkey.

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Zahra Tarkhan Iran Nominee "Give that to me." Behind the wall.

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