Architectural - Amateur

cape cod Ron Quick
USA

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"cape cod"



Hongkong (1) Thomas Kokta
USA

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Hongkong (1)"
Looking up at apartments at night in Hong Kong



Hong Kong Polyu Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Hong Kong Polyu"
School of Design within Hong Kong's Polytechnical University. Architect Zaha Hadid.



Stucco Chris McCann
USA

Honorable Mention

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



Diamond In The Sky Swee Choo
USA

Honorable Mention

"Diamond In The Sky"
Geisel Library San Diego



Eureka! Adi Khindaria
USA

Honorable Mention

"Eureka!"
House of Black Madonna - Prague



Horseshoe Wolfgang Mothes
Germany

Honorable Mention

"Horseshoe"



Constructing the Shadows I CRYSTAL KWAN
France

Honorable Mention

"Constructing the Shadows I"



Freedom Dermot Russell
Ireland

Honorable Mention

"Freedom"
A study of the World Trade Center buildings 1 (the Freedom tower) and 7, with Oculus.



Destination David Hixon
UK

Honorable Mention

"Destination"



Futuristic Alien Hive Tower Rachel Choong M H
Malaysia

Honorable Mention

"Futuristic Alien Hive Tower"
Unique and contemporary condo design, create an illusion of futuristic alien hive headquarter tower. The structure also looks like giant UFO Mothership on earth.



Urban Series II Minas Stratigos
Qatar

Honorable Mention

"Urban Series II"
long exposure, Dubai - UAE



Monoliths: Part IV Anna Laudan
Germany

Honorable Mention

"Monoliths: Part IV"



Apparition Paul Byrne
Ireland

Honorable Mention

"Apparition"
Church of the Sacred Heart, Drežnica, Kobarid, Slovenia.



Houston Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

Honorable Mention

"Houston"



"Trandum" Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

Honorable Mention

""Trandum""



dense buildings of Hong Kong Pradeep Raja Kannaiah
Singapore

Honorable Mention

"dense buildings of Hong Kong"
dense buildings of Hong Kong



Escape Trevor Kerry
UK

Honorable Mention

"Escape"
The simple lines of the escape are set off by the strong and modern verticals of the steel wall in a way that almost hurts the eyes



A Little Bit of Heaven Dale Kirk
USA

Honorable Mention

"A Little Bit of Heaven"
I Love New York!



Battersea Giulio Zanni
Serbia

Honorable Mention

"Battersea"
Battersea power station London



Times Square S Train Alan Gaynor
USA

Nominee

"Times Square S Train"



Passage to L Alan Gaynor
USA

Nominee

"Passage to L"



London Alessandro Rogna
UK

Nominee

"London"
Lorn Road, UK



Continuous Flexibility Alexandru Crisan
Romania

Nominee

"Continuous Flexibility"
musei vaticani.rome



Inverted Pyramid Alexandru Crisan
Romania

Nominee

"Inverted Pyramid"
series [impossible worlds][impossible architectures][surreal manipulations] alien structures.



ESPLANADE Allan Borebor
Philippines

Nominee

"ESPLANADE"



JURONG Allan Borebor
Philippines

Nominee

"JURONG"



Chartres Andre Kurenbach
Germany

Nominee

"Chartres"
Suburbian tristesse in Chartres, France



RUB-2 Andre Kurenbach
Germany

Nominee

"RUB-2"
architectural abstract at RUB (Ruhr Universität Bochum), Germany



der Weihnachtsbaum Anita Schiedeck
Spain

Nominee

"der Weihnachtsbaum"



Monoliths: Part V Anna Laudan
Germany

Nominee

"Monoliths: Part V"



London: Part IX "The white whale" Anna Laudan
Germany

Nominee

"London: Part IX "The white whale""



Monoliths: Part VIII Anna Laudan
Germany

Nominee

"Monoliths: Part VIII"



"Akropolis Wall" Antero Wallinus-Rinne
Norway

Nominee

""Akropolis Wall""



Moment Balbi Manjon
Spain

Nominee

"Moment"



No title (2) Barry Brukoff
USA

Nominee

"No title (2)"



The Maze Track Bernard Ng
Malaysia

Nominee

"The Maze Track"
This hostel window design with a chinese character which is Happiness, in other perspective it looks



Zaha Hadid's Diamonds Ship Bertrand Chombart
France

Nominee

"Zaha Hadid's Diamonds Ship"
Antwerpen Nieuw Havenhuis By Zaha Hadid... Project was finished just after she passed....



Sousse Shadows Brian Jones
Australia

Nominee

"Sousse Shadows"



under the bridge Brian Hunt
Canada

Nominee

"under the bridge"



3 Corners Carol Rusinek
Canada

Nominee

"3 Corners"



Hole and Shadow Space Chan Kwok-Chung
Hong Kong

Nominee

"Hole and Shadow Space"
The bridge connect between citizen and government headquarter in Hong Kong.



Flying Phoenix ChanOnn Fong
Malaysia

Nominee

"Flying Phoenix"
The suspension pillars of a bridge at Putrajaya, Malaysia.



Stairs (1) Chris de Blank
Australia

Nominee

"Stairs (1)"
Maritime Museum Fremantle



Traces christine carey
Ireland

Nominee

"Traces"
Hard to Erase / Traces



Reflection and light Cindy Bosveld
Australia

Nominee

"Reflection and light"
Capture some images in the heart of Tokyo City of reflection and light of the day



Tokyo Tower Cindy Bosveld
Australia

Nominee

"Tokyo Tower"
Tokyo Tower where so many wanted to capture and some angles of this tower.



Tate Modern #10 Clare Louise Brashaw
UK

Nominee

"Tate Modern #10"
Places and Spaces for the Imagination



The stairway to heaven Claudius Oeggerli
Germany

Nominee

"The stairway to heaven"
Claudius Oeggerli



9-11 Memorial Daniel Schwabe
Brazil

Nominee

"9-11 Memorial"
A reflection on the 9/11 memorial and the Oculus, NYC



Rest Stop Dave Hanson
USA

Nominee

"Rest Stop"



House Denis Grzetic
Croatia

Nominee

"House"
Highlands,Scotland



Urban Pinnacle Denise Castro-Bran
USA

Nominee

"Urban Pinnacle"
Urban Sketches Series



Vanishing Point Denise Castro-Bran
USA

Nominee

"Vanishing Point"
Urban Sketches Series



Urban Mirror Denise Castro-Bran
USA

Nominee

"Urban Mirror"
Urban Sketches Series



Freedom I Dermot Russell
Ireland

Nominee

"Freedom I"
World Trade Center building 7



Attic Devin Campbell
USA

Nominee

"Attic"



Seclusion Dewi Puspasari
Indonesia

Nominee

"Seclusion"



Dark Ascent Dominic Martello
USA

Nominee

"Dark Ascent"



Tabo Monastery Dr.Samarendranath Mandal
India

Nominee

"Tabo Monastery "
Tabo monastery in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India



St.Michel Erika Tanzer
Austria

Nominee

"St.Michel"
St.Michel from Hamburg as mirror image and taken 2016



Arch Fabio Batocchi
Italy

Nominee

"Arch"
Castiglione del Lago - Umbria - Italy



Escalation Gary Wiesner
USA

Nominee

"Escalation"
The escalator rises to the reflected images of the surrounding buildings



Celebrating Architecture Gautam Kamat Bambolkar
India

Nominee

"Celebrating Architecture"
this image is a celebration of architecture; a celebration of process that goes into planning, designing, and constructing such physical structured marvels.



High Water Gavin Dunbar
UK

Nominee

"High Water"
Acqua Alta floods Piazza San Marco in Venice



The finger of God Gerd Kufner
Germany

Nominee

"The finger of God"



Northern Water Feature Gerry Ligon
Australia

Nominee

"Northern Water Feature"
A twelve-meter fountain at the northern end of Sydney Olympic Park



Pipe Dream Gerry Ligon
Australia

Nominee

"Pipe Dream"
Stormwater outlet at Collaroy Beach



One way (2) Giovanni Sonsini
Italy

Nominee

"One way (2)"
This image is a detail of an architectural structure created for EXPO 2015 in Milan



Building melting down Giovanni Sonsini
Italy

Nominee

"Building melting down"
This photo is a detail of Cultural Center of Baku (Azerbaijan). In this picture the building seems to melt down on itself



Sheikh Zayed Mosque Giulio Zanni
Serbia

Nominee

"Sheikh Zayed Mosque"
Abu Dhabi, UAE



Upstairs Hans Bauer
Germany

Nominee

"Upstairs"



Staircase Hans Bauer
Germany

Nominee

"Staircase"



Walking Hans Bauer
Germany

Nominee

"Walking"



blink of an eye Horst-Werner Sieben
Germany

Nominee

"blink of an eye"
Turning the photograph clockwise by 90 degrees in portrait format you can spot an eye with an arched eyebrow. This was the inspiration of the titel "blink of an eye". A wide variety of shades of grey



Calton Hill Ian Good
UK

Nominee

"Calton Hill"



Piazza San Marco Jim Graham
UK

Nominee

"Piazza San Marco"
San Marco Square, Venice during aqua alta.



Mirror Image Joan Caulfield
New Zealand

Nominee

"Mirror Image "
Grand Central Station, NYC



Corner John McGill
USA

Nominee

"Corner"
Corner in Noir Motif



Image of Structure, Form#1 Joshua Sarinana
USA

Nominee

"Image of Structure, Form#1"
Light bounces of neighboring buildings and highlights this Frank Gehry production.



Brutalism of PEI Jun Epifanio Pagalilauan
Philippines

Nominee

"Brutalism of PEI"
Designed by IM PEI, also known as the calculator building.



6 x 12 Karen Michaels
USA

Nominee

"6 x 12"
Whether physical or emotional, a 6 x 12 is a hard way to go.



Solitude Katherine Young
UK

Nominee

"Solitude"
The Walkie Talkie building in London



Theatre of Dreams Katherine Young
UK

Nominee

"Theatre of Dreams"
Brutalist architecture of the National Theatre in London



Mirror Play Kerstin Arnemann
Malta

Nominee

"Mirror Play"



City of god KIHEON SON
Korea (South)

Nominee

"City of god"
Duomo, Milano, Italy



Stripes Kiraly Laszlo Gyorgy
Hungary

Nominee

"Stripes"



Akranes Kiraly Laszlo Gyorgy
Hungary

Nominee

"Akranes"
Industral view in a small port-town in Iceland



Boardwalk Kishore Murthy
USA

Nominee

"Boardwalk"
Boardwalk at the Great Wenham Swamp on the Danvers-Wenham rail trail, MA (USA).



Church Klaus-Juergen Roericht
Switzerland

Nominee

"Church"
Mountain Church in Ticino (Switzerland), architect: Mario Botta



Shadow lines 1 Klaus-Juergen Roericht
Switzerland

Nominee

"Shadow lines 1"



Portal to the heavens ... Larisa Korzhenevskaya
Russia

Nominee

"Portal to the heavens ..."
Courtyard in St Petersburg.



Boathouse windows Larry Colby
USA

Nominee

"Boathouse windows"
Light reflected on the water through the windows of an old boathouse



Illusion Maciej Szemelowski
Poland

Nominee

"Illusion"
2016, Italy



Night Church Magnus Karlson
Sweden

Nominee

"Night Church"



Roof (2) Manfred Voss
Germany

Nominee

"Roof (2)"
Roff of the opera of Valencia , City of Arts and science Valencia



virgone-marco_Like_a_fish Marco Virgone
Italy

Nominee

"virgone-marco_Like_a_fish"
fish, architecture, dark



Let There Be Light Margo Kessler Cook
USA

Nominee

"Let There Be Light"



small abandoned church in Lombardia Margrieta Jeltema
Italy

Nominee

"small abandoned church in Lombardia"
la chiesetta di ss. Cosma e Damiano a Mendosio



Dubrovnik Marko Babic
Australia

Nominee

"Dubrovnik"
Dubrovnik, Croatia



Stan Tall Marshall Gould
USA

Nominee

"Stan Tall"



Up #1 Martin Schmidt
Germany

Nominee

"Up #1"
The Skyper building in Frankfurt, Germany



London Study IV Mats Reslow
Sweden

Nominee

"London Study IV"
London City



Light at the End of the Tunnel Matthew DeZee
USA

Nominee

"Light at the End of the Tunnel"



Stairway (2) Matthew DeZee
USA

Nominee

"Stairway (2)"



STEEL SNAKE Michael Paramonti
Germany

Nominee

"STEEL SNAKE"
Tiger and Turtle Object at Duisburg-Germany



Michael-Koester_Erasmus Bridge Michael Koester
Germany

Nominee

"Michael-Koester_Erasmus Bridge"
The Erasmus Bridge is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in Rotterdam / Netherland. www.KoesterArt.com



Moody Skies Michael Lucchese
Australia

Nominee

"Moody Skies"
Tacking Point Light House



Stairway to the Void Michael Kemper
USA

Nominee

"Stairway to the Void"
Step into my office...



Waves of Light Michael Pollak
USA

Nominee

"Waves of Light"



IYI Michael Deis
Germany

Nominee

"IYI"



Waiting For The Whiskey Mickey Strider
USA

Nominee

"Waiting For The Whiskey"
Barrels of bourbon quietly aging in the historic Wild Turkey rickhouse A.



Niemayer Center Miguel Cabezas
Spain

Nominee

"Niemayer Center"
Contemporary building Niemeyer Center of Aviles, Spain.



Ingress Milica Djurickovic Cvetinovic
USA

Nominee

"Ingress"
Stone Barge, Miami FL - expired Orwo film



The Big Ben Minas Stratigos
Qatar

Nominee

"The Big Ben"
long exposure, B&W treatment



Bridge (3) Ming Lung Cheng
Taiwan

Nominee

"Bridge (3)"
Bridge



Medal of Honor Neil Oracion
Philippines

Nominee

"Medal of Honor"
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. In memory of those american soldiers who faught and died during the WWII in the Philippines against the Japanese soldiers. On this structure, are soldiers names



lighthouse Nigel Bullers
Canada

Nominee

"lighthouse"
lighthouse, newfoundland, canada



Geometry Nola Sumner
Australia

Nominee

"Geometry"
An in-camera double exposure, a feature that fascinates me.



Five Roses Nora Hartfelder
Canada

Nominee

"Five Roses"
Five Roses Building in Montreal Canada



Wall Oleksiy Sobol
Ukraine

Nominee

"Wall"



Counterpoint Oscar Lopez
Germany

Nominee

"Counterpoint"



Equivalence Pamela Aminou
UK

Nominee

"Equivalence "
This image is named Equivalence as to highlight the relationship we have with things around us



Wishes Pamela Aminou
UK

Nominee

"Wishes"
Taken in London entitled Wishes for all the wishes we have in the past, present & future



Upstaged Pamela Aminou
UK

Nominee

"Upstaged"
Taken in London, represent the feeling of being overwhelmed by emotions and by life



Breeze Partha Roy
Singapore

Nominee

"Breeze"
Singapore Skyline



Spiral Staircase Paul Hetzel
USA

Nominee

"Spiral Staircase"
the play of light leads the eye up the spiral



Auschwitz-Birkenau Pedro Diaz Molins
Spain

Nominee

"Auschwitz-Birkenau"



Architecture and nature Peter Stadler
Austria

Nominee

"Architecture and nature"
Vienna 2017



roof (1) Pietro Maria Romagnoli
Italy

Nominee

"roof (1)"
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta, Alvar Aalto, Riola di Vergato, Italia. Its the only Alvar Aalto building in italy.



Untitled Rachel Wei
Canada

Nominee

"Untitled"
Disney Concert Hall



Head in the Clouds Rachel Wei
Canada

Nominee

"Head in the Clouds"



Seven stairs Radu Fizesan
Romania

Nominee

"Seven stairs"
Concrete arhitecture in Malaga



Sun shade Radu Fizesan
Romania

Nominee

"Sun shade"
Alcazar of Seville



The Fireplace Rhonda Dubin
USA

Nominee

"The Fireplace"



Lensless Vision Roberto Messina
Italy

Nominee

"Lensless Vision"
"Foro Museum" location: Saragozza (Spain) 2017,avril Pinhole photograph Camera:Zero Image 6x6 (f138) film: Rollei Superpan 200 Exposure time: 10 secs Developed at home: hc110 dil b



The native looks on Robi Chakraborty
USA

Nominee

"The native looks on"
Washington DC, USA



three wise men Ron Quick
USA

Nominee

"three wise men"



blast central Ron Quick
USA

Nominee

"blast central"



dark escape Ron Quick
USA

Nominee

"dark escape"



Abbey of Fontenay Rudi Neumaier
Switzerland

Nominee

"Abbey of Fontenay"



The Hague Tower Sandra Uittenbogaart
Netherlands

Nominee

"The Hague Tower"
New perspective on The Hague Tower



Frisco 2 Sandro Tedde
Italy

Nominee

"Frisco 2"



Peterson Automotive Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

Nominee

"Peterson Automotive"



The Balconies Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

Nominee

"The Balconies "
Hotel Zaza in Houston



Houston Canal Reflections Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

Nominee

"Houston Canal Reflections"



Len Lye Building Sarah Caldwell
New Zealand

Nominee

"Len Lye Building"



Art Gallery of Alberta 01 Sheila P Morrison
Canada

Nominee

"Art Gallery of Alberta 01"
Steel ribbon and fenestration of the Art Gallery of Alberta.



winter light Shinya Ichikawa
Japan

Nominee

"winter light"
gelatin silver print, taken in Killkeny, Ireland



Fata Morgana of Manhattan Sonia Melnikova-Raich
USA

Nominee

"Fata Morgana of Manhattan"
A classic example of Art Deco architecture, the Chrysler Building is considered by many architects t



300 Steps Steve Cheetham
UK

Nominee

"300 Steps"



Arched Steven Stanger
USA

Nominee

"Arched"



Hongkong (2) Thomas Kokta
USA

Nominee

"Hongkong (2)"
Looking up at apartments in Hong Kong



ExSpired Tim Mulcahy
USA

Nominee

"ExSpired"



Topsy Turvy Tunnel Tom Rutherfoord
USA

Nominee

"Topsy Turvy Tunnel"
Inside the Hoover Dam



Human Space I Tomasz Grzyb
Poland

Nominee

"Human Space I"



Auckland Museum Tony Gorham
New Zealand

Nominee

"Auckland Museum"



Against the Tide Vanda Ralevska
UK

Nominee

"Against the Tide"



Convex sky Victor Valery
Brazil

Nominee

"Convex sky"
building new perspectives



Tornado Vincent Morban
Canada

Nominee

"Tornado"
Peace Bridge across the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta.



Tokyo 02 Werner Dursteler
Spain

Nominee

"Tokyo 02"
Leica M Monochrome



Kontinuitat Wolfgang Mothes
Germany

Nominee

"Kontinuitat"



Kaleidoscope Wolfgang Mothes
Germany

Nominee

"Kaleidoscope"



Gothic House Wolfgang Mothes
Germany

Nominee

"Gothic House"



Seri Saujana Bridge Wong Choon Keat
Malaysia

Nominee

"Seri Saujana Bridge"



ELEVATION Yousef Alkhamees
USA

Nominee

"ELEVATION"



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