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Adrian Davis USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Sensual Stone" Red Feather Lakes, Colorado |
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Annie Katz USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "Iceberg (2)" An iceberg in Northern Svalbard, backlit & iridescent against the sky. |
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Pallon Daruwala India 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "the veil" The stem and husk of a palm tree ...or a veiled, windswept face? |
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Andre Boto Portugal Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Hole" The nature provides some really interesting shapes and textures like this hole near a beach. |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mite Peak" A setting sun causes Mitre Peak to cast a reflection in a tidal pool. |
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Tom D. Jones Belgium Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Drought 1" Many species are suffering because of drought. We need to cherish our water supplies... |
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Gio Alma USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Antelope Skeleton / Leaf" Antelope Canyon Utah USA, dreary day, Jan 2017 |
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Pamela Pauline Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Under the Weather" Storm over Sydney, Anzac Day 2015, a fitting end to the 100th commemoration of the Anzac Experience. |
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Jessica Cardelucci USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ripples" A wave crashes along the California coast |
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Patricia Jarvis USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Franz Josef" Early morning decision at the Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. |
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Terri Gold USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mysterious Sossusvlei Dunes" The word Sossusvlei literally translates to “dead end. |
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Lou Fischer USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Cedar Pass Badlands" Badland sunset |
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Anastasia Woolmington Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "At the end of the world" Strong winds from Antarctica cause trees to grow in unusual shapes at Southern New Zealand |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Just One Tree" Early morning mist shrouds the lone tree growing in the lake |
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Dylan Fox Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Resting Place" A large boulder, resting peacefully in between to cliff faces on the West Australian Coastline. |
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Steve Turner Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Storm Front" Start of the wet season tropical far North Queensland Australia. |
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Harry Koester Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional ""Wadden Sea #1"" Free project "Wadden Sea" - The Wadden Sea National Park from above. |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "mist avenue" |
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Jano Stovka Slovak Republic Honorable Mention Nature Professional "supermoon" |
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David Gubernick USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional " Wings of Light" Oceano Dunes, California. Image was taken during daylight and made into B&W to look like nighttime. |
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Andrea Jones USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Glorious" Skógafoss waterfall is one of the biggest and most beautiful waterfalls in Iceland. |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "SaltPilesBolivia" Salt Piles are illuminated by the moon at 4am |
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Matthew James Smith USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "The Good Land" Hasselblad 503CW |
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Charles Bush USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Foggy Cypress Stumps" Cypress Stumps in the Atchafalaya Basin on a Foggy Morning |
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Carol Horigan USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Silence / Blizzard" A lone tree visible during a blizzard at 12,000 ft in the New Mexico Rockies |
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Pedro Noel da Luz Guerreiro Portugal Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Into the Sky" After a large fire that hit the Monchique mountain range, Algarve region in Portugal last summer, the trees that survived try to recover, always towards the sky. |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Abstraction" A study of how light affects the forms of running water. |
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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "dancer" |
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Ruud Peters France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Water sculpture" |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Celestial Chase" Northern California |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee Nature Professional "Morning Mists" Yosemite National Park, California |
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Ady Kerry UK Nominee Nature Professional "Winchelsea Beach" A wave breaks on the groynes at Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex. |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Shrine study : the island" Shrine in build in a sacred island taken in Japan |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "mystic mountain" i try to take a diferent picture that it was done before, of huanshan mountain |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "tribute to Huangshan" Taken in China, one peak among thousands |
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Ali Ihtiyar Canada Nominee Nature Professional "ihtiyar-ali_isolated" This photo present about isolation in the human space and how these moments are understood and felt in nature. These moments allude to isolation with the texture of trees, with the context of time and |
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Aman Chotani India Nominee Nature Professional "Ladakh Stars" Ladakh Night Landscape, India |
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Andre Boto Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Rocks" A long exposure of 180 seconds it´s enough to show the shapes of the rocks. |
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Andre Boto Portugal Nominee Nature Professional "Shapes" The nature, shapes and lines. |
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Anna Kadykova Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Pinhole" Up in the mountains near Sheregesh village, Siberia, Russia |
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Barbara Zanon Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Switzerland iced Lake" |
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Barry Schein USA Nominee Nature Professional "Devils Tower" |
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Brett Howard Nelson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Walkway" Mukilteo, Washington, USA. February 6, 2017. Leica photography. |
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Brian Tobin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Morning Fog (1)" Distant tree hidden amongst the fog . |
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Burt Crapo USA Nominee Nature Professional "Tenaya Canyon from Glacier Point" The view from Glacier Point is incredible. In this shot you can see Tenaya Canyon, North Dome (left |
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Celeste McKenzie South Africa Nominee Nature Professional "!Xaus Salt Pan Southern Kalahari, South Africa" !Xaus Salt Pan grows 1cm a year, !Xaus means ‘heart’: a symbol of reconciliation between the traditional San and Mier communities. |
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Charles Bush USA Nominee Nature Professional "Swamp Ghosts" Cypress Stumps in the Atchafalaya Basin on a Foggy Morning |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gibb_Charlotte_Stand_Together" These trees stood in solidarity again the onslaught of Spring runoff. |
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Chris Sattlberger USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Estuary" mudflats on the Severn estuary, UK |
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Christopher Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "On the Road" |
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Christopher Brown USA Nominee Nature Professional "Steps through Ice" |
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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Wing of Stone" A solitary stone wing flys in badlands of New Mexico. |
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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hidden Oak" Winter patterns in branch and trunk that in summer are hidden by a green canopy. Growing in the bot |
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David Gubernick USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cathedral Spires" Foggy, wet morning in Yosemite Valley created a prehistoric feeling of the mountains |
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Dawn Benko USA Nominee Nature Professional "Seeing the Forest for the Bubbles" The forest is reflected in bubbles on a small stream in High Point State Park in New Jersey. |
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Dawn Benko USA Nominee Nature Professional "Snow Trees" Snow sticks to the sides of trees after an early November Storm in Stokes State Forest, Montague, NJ. |
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Denis Gadbois Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Molokai Sole tree 2" Right time right cloud |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monster Wave" Off shore wind blowing tops of waves. As seen from Hookalpa Lookout. Maui, Hawaii |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bobby Socks" Bobby Socks trees, fog and sunrise in Fountain Paint Pots. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee Nature Professional "Birch Cubism I" Dahurian Birch Tree Study I |
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Dimitri Kouznetsov Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Touch of light" Ilford Delta 4x5". This shot is possible a very limited number days in a year, because it requires (i) position of sun to make selective illumination and (ii) exceptionally dry weather to avoid evenin |
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Dimitri Kouznetsov Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Moonset at mountain lake" Ilford Delta 100 4x5". On-film multi exposure at and after moonset, multi flash |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mountains and Mist" |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Fairy Tree" |
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Francesco Bosso Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Diamond 4" A dramatic beauty hides behind these gigantic “fragments†of glaciers†melting fast |
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Gabrielle Robinson USA Nominee Nature Professional "No title" Contrasting Massif |
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Gabrielle Robinson USA Nominee Nature Professional "In My Glory" |
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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee Nature Professional "T HE DELIGHTFUL TREES CLOSE TO PIZA" |
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George Tsimbouksis Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Meteora 01" Meteora Rocks , Greece |
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George Tsimbouksis Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Meteora 03" Meteora Rocks , Greece |
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George Kavanagh Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "bird on cliff face" |
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Glen McClure USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Wave, Dunmanus Bay, Ireland" Monster wave at Kilcrohane, Dunmanus Bay, County Cork, Ireland |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Silver Lining" Through the ominous blanket burst incredible light ladders reflected in an isolated sand pool |
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Harry Koester Germany Nominee Nature Professional ""Wadden Sea #2"" Free project "Wadden Sea" - The Wadden Sea National Park from above. |
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Helen Trenerry Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Power" Power of Nature - Bombo Quarry, NSW |
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Iain Morton Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lending Support" Dip Falls, Tasmania, Australia |
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Ilva Beretta Italy Nominee Nature Professional "The Salt of the Earth" |
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Jack Clark Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Jack Clark December Sky" |
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Jamie Leasure USA Nominee Nature Professional "Canyon Moon" The moon rises over the Grand Canyon in the early evening sky |
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Jane Gottlieb USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pink Oaks" How I see! |
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Jeff Stasney USA Nominee Nature Professional "724978" Maroon Bells, CO-2016 |
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Jens Honore USA Nominee Nature Professional "Norcia, Italy" A misty morning in the mountains outside Norcia in Italy. |
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Jessica Cardelucci USA Nominee Nature Professional "Wind and Sea" Patterns in the sea along Point Reyes National Seashore, CA |
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Jiri Jiroutek Czech Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Ohre" |
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JoAnn Sieburg-Baker USA Nominee Nature Professional "My Backyard" |
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JoAnn Sieburg-Baker USA Nominee Nature Professional "Pine Tree Cathedral" |
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Joe Patronite USA Nominee Nature Professional "Meteor night" Full moon, milky way and trail across the sky during meteor shower, Sonoran desert, Arizona 2016. |
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Joel Simpson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mud Mosaic Mixed Media" The floor of Bisti Wilderness is a vast canvas of provocative forms, all from mud mosaics. |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Foggy Lake" Branch reflected in the lake with fog arising |
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John Orcutt USA Nominee Nature Professional "Blanchard mountain with Sympathetic Rock-MHTsp153" |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "Shadows Secluded" Located in Arizona, this slot canyon was a spectacular change from the normal one you see in Antelop |
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Jon Glaser USA Nominee Nature Professional "Patterns in the Sand" Photographed in 2013, but only processed recently because I didnt know what it wanted to be.. |
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Jung-Chan Liao Taiwan Nominee Nature Professional "Feathers of The Wind" |
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Katarina Premfors United Arab Emirates Nominee Nature Professional "New Year" 1/1/2017: Dubai. UAE. The first sunrise of the new year 2017. Photographed in the desert outside Dub |
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Kirsten Heer Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Slate Hill in front of Easdale Island" West Coast of Scotland |
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Kris Chappell Canada Nominee Nature Professional "DeLiveraNce " |
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Lance Carter USA Nominee Nature Professional "Yellowstone Quills" Dead trees in Yellowstone NP. |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Starry Night and Yosemite Flow" Upper Yosemite Falls flows full under a starry sky of light clouds. |
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Liyun Yu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Forming of Cloud System" |
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Liz Keeler USA Nominee Nature Professional "Canyonlands Summer Landscape" Canyonlands National Park |
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Louis Montrose USA Nominee Nature Professional "Arbol de Piedra" In the Bolivian Altiplano |
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Louis Gaillard France Nominee Nature Professional "Low tide" |
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Louis Gaillard France Nominee Nature Professional "Pine and rhododendrons" Image taken from a work on the parks in winter |
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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cloud Of Light" |
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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hope" |
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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Light and Darkness" |
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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Moment Of Choice" |
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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee Nature Professional "Rolling Clouds" |
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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Crescent Cave" Crescent Head Sea Cave |
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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Nominee Nature Professional "Blowin' in the Wind" |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Devils Garden" A very special place in the Utah desert, the Devils Garden and the Metake Arch formed after millions of years of erosion. |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Desert Lines" The Valley of Fire and lines in the desert |
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Mark Kelly Australia Nominee Nature Professional "mr_squiggle" |
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Markku Lahdesmaki USA Nominee Nature Professional "Under the Supermoon_6" Image of the passing train in the desert during the Supermoon November 2016. |
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Markku Lahdesmaki USA Nominee Nature Professional "Under the Supermoon_2" Image of a passing car in the desert during the Supermoon November 2016. |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "Divine Lights" Fantastic light after a thunderstorm in Spain |
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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gobi Desert Detail" Detail of Gobi Desert Sands, Inner Mongolia, China |
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Melanie-Jane Frey France Nominee Nature Professional "The rock" California, USA - Hand made coated with brushes Platinum Palladium prints on Arches Platine Paper |
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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee Nature Professional "Natures Folds" Zabriskie Point, Death Valley,California |
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Michael Stoklos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Puffy Clouds over Tucson AZ" Puffy clouds over teh Santa Catalina Mnts in Tucson AZ from the infrared camera |
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Nico Garstman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Stormwaves" Feb 2017 Port of Rotterdam |
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Pamela Pauline Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lone Surfer" A lone surfer leaves the surf just before the storm hits, Sydney Australia. |
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Patricia Dinu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Roaring Earth" |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Nominee Nature Professional "A Study Of Trees" A study of trees and abstract motion. |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Nature's Shapes" A study of the shapes water make in long exposure. |
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Paul Edmundson Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Spirit Of Life" A study of how light affects the forms of running water. |
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Pete McCutchen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Denali Two" |
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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Nature Professional "The Wave (1)" Blown by the prevailing South Easterly winds, a sandblow slowly engulfs any vegetation in its path. |
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Petros Nikolaides Cyprus Nominee Nature Professional "MARS" Iceland, March 2017 |
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Petros Nikolaides Cyprus Nominee Nature Professional "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA" Faroe Islands, March 2017 |
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Robert Pearson New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Isabela CA 2016 #1" |
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Robert Pearson New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Isabela CA 2106 #3" |
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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Black Forest " |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Nerrie-Sam_Trees_In_Mist" The mist on cold mornings gives the landscape an ethereal appearance. |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Falling Stars" An Aurora Borealis in Iceland, February 2017, with two falling stars occurring during the shoot. |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "River 1" |
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Seth Mayer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Eye of the Sea" Low tide on the San Diego coast expose wonderful elements. |
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Silvio Balestra Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Balestra silvio_Fortuitous intrusion_serie nature Black Fore" Germany Black Forest |
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Simon Puschmann Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Crossing the Andes Mountains" Shot on a flight from Santiago de Chile to Paris somewhere over the Andes Mountains |
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Stavros Charisopoulos Greece Nominee Nature Professional "Haifoss" |
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Stefan Kuhn Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Paris St. Germain" |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "inverno a Barcis F" |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Il Casel nella vigna a Versutta di Pasolini" |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "inverno a Barcis E" |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Dragons Teeth" Photographed at Clogher Head on the west coast of Ireland |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Hanging On" A fallen tree clings on to life at the side of Derwentwater |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Llynau Mymbyr Dawn" The view towards Snowdon, North Wales |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Standing Proud" A lone tree at Llyn Padarn, North Wales |
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Stone Peng USA Nominee Nature Professional "Black and White" right place at right time |
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Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Kloentalersee" Montainlake in Switzerland |
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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "in the forest lll" |
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Terri Gold USA Nominee Nature Professional "Deadvlei in Namibia" The Scorched Tree Skeletons of the Namib Desert |
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Theresa Scarbrough USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mashland" |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Nature Professional "AuroraAndWaterfall" RareNorthernLightsoverWaterfall |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Nature Professional "Iceberg (1)" Dramatic Iceberg Shape in Antarctica |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Nature Professional "MilkyWay" Milky Way and Quiver Tree in Namibia |
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Toni Sergio Carbone Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Drive past barriers" Tanaro the river overflows, flooding a forest of poplars. |
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Valerii Tkachenko Ukraine Nominee Nature Professional "Sunrise in France Alps" This photo was taken in La Cluaze France in the morning before skiing. |
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Vasiliy Ryabovol Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Trees" |
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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Nominee Nature Professional "SOUTH ETNA: Phreatic explosion " South Etna, 2500 meters high. Spectacular and violent, phreatomagmatic explosion within the Bove Val |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lily Pads II" States of Grace: Flora - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lily Pads" States of Grace: Flora - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee Nature Professional "Locust" States of Grace: Flora - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. Old Fort, NC |
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