Wildlife - Professional

Annie Katz USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Life on the Line" A Snowy Owl, with riveted eyes and wings flared, about to make a catch

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Michael Fell USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Piece of Earth" An elephant bull kicks debris at the camera in indignation (Kitirua Conservancy, Kenya).

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Roie Galitz Israel 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Almost Human" Bears show an amazing character and each one has its own personality. In this image of the wet standing bear, with its backlight and black & white processing, you can really see the 'human' side of...

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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention "Belly of a giant" A close encounter with a 40 tonne humpback whale as she glides by.presenting her stomach.

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Chasing Light" The all-white horses of Camargue are most identifiable by their signature color and prominent features; they are believed to be descended from prehistoric horses around 17,000 years ago.

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Pamela Pauline Australia Honorable Mention "Connected" A family of elephants, Southern Africa December 2015

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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Honorable Mention "Competition of Chaos" White tail repair's prey fight in Hokkaido. Who is eating? Who lives? The labyrinth in chaos.

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Bartlomiej Jurecki Poland Honorable Mention "Fighting Horses" Wild horses fighting during the Rapa das Bestas festival in Sabucedo, Spain.

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Jari Peltomaki Finland Honorable Mention "Brown Bear" Brown Bear early in the morning in open frozen marsh surrounded by Ravens.

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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention "Flamingo" States of Grace: Fauna - 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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Tom Schandy Norway Honorable Mention "City of King Penguin chicks" King Penguin chicks at South Georgia, last light of the day.

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Beau Pilgrim Australia Honorable Mention "Whale Trail" This male Humpback Whale spent over an hour playing in the water and interacting around me, putting

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Debra Garside Canada Honorable Mention "Cubby Hole" Cubby Hole (a safe place for kids to hide). Spring cubs in -50C temps.

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Honorable Mention "Rural Road" Sheep being moved on a gravel road in back country New Zealand

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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention "King Penguin Gathering" Thousands of king penguins gather on South Georgia Island

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Joseph Anthony UK Honorable Mention "Fountain pens blotting paper and quill" Swallows nest with six hungry chicks in Hong Kong. Open mouths resemble fountain pens

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Janice Tieken USA Honorable Mention "HANDSOME - Cathartes Aura" HANDSOME is his name. He is one of the Cathartes Aura also known as the turkey vulture, a vital part of our eco-system, one of the many who serve in the role of Nature's housekeeper.

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Ellen Reus Netherlands Honorable Mention "Gotcha!" The dog, named Prada, loves his ball and want to play catch all day.

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Seth Joel USA Honorable Mention ""Angry Cow"" Angry cow is a force to be reckoned with on the open range in Hillside, Arizona.

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Marc Cramer Canada Honorable Mention "American Crow" Today it is still snowing in Quebec, I have an outdoor studio for shooting the birds in my garden, O

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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention "FurSealAndKIngPenguinFaceOff" Fur Seal Watches King Penguins South Georgia Islands

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Pedro Jarque Spain Honorable Mention "The Sect" A group of flying foxes hanging on a tree.

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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention "Elephant Seal (2)"

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention "not human" female gorilla

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Tomas Hulik Slovak Republic Honorable Mention "Winter Gang" Rare picture of Red Deers winter gang on floodplains of Morava River, Slovakia

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David Skernick USA Honorable Mention "Froggy" This guy played hide and seek with me for 45 minutes.

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Michael Fell USA Honorable Mention "Chomp" A powerful pod of hippopotamuses engage in the mating game on the Simuyu River, Tanzania.

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Rolf Walther Germany Honorable Mention "Baby Gorilla"

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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention "Watchful eye" A female Humpback keeps a watchful eye over an adventurous new born calf.

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Bernard Sim Singapore Honorable Mention "Let me out!" They look so sad but don't be fooled, they are very aggressive. This was taken at a mini zoo in Batam, Indonesia. The monkeys were very aggressive and will snatch anything that is close to them.

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Susan Greeff South Africa Honorable Mention "Rhino Reflection" Rhino Reflection is not only the literal description of the image, but also the sad reality that rhino numbers are decreasing due to the murderous acts of killing them off for greedy poaching of...

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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee "Fly" So common, so disliked, yet so magnificent from up close.

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Alexandra Cearns Australia Nominee "Moon Bear" This Moon Bear was rescued from a bile farm in Vietnam and is now cared for by Free The Bears.

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Andrew B Church USA Nominee "Birds on a Wire"

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Andrew JK TAN Singapore Nominee "Family" Family of elephants at waterhole , Botswana

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Anette Mossbacher Switzerland Nominee "White Is The New Black" Two Zebras having a tender moment together in Namibia

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Stealth" A female Snow Owl, eyes transfixed, flying straight on in and very low to the ground.

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Anouk Baumann Switzerland Nominee "Breathtaking Moments" Parklandranch, Canada - memorable encounters with all kinds of horses, remaining in my memory for ever.

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Anthony Nex USA Nominee "Guadalupe Buffet Line" Great Whites off Guadalupe Island, Mexico

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "Elephants under the thunder skies" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Azin Haghighi Iran Nominee "patriots" A female stork and her mate who stay in the marivan-Iran all year round even during cold seasons

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baris akyurt USA Nominee "zebra" Love in Black and White

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Bev Pettit USA Nominee "White Horse #1" White Andalusian Stallion

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Eagle fight"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Puffin"

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "Zen" Last light of day illuminates line of flamingo. Lake Nakuru, Kenya

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "Stay with Me" A few days old, baby closely guarded by mother. Kenya

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "The Mighty Warthog" This little fellow scurried into a ground hole, then popped out as the light bathed his face. Kenya

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "leopard with kill" Leopard clearly visable, having dragged his kill up a tree for safe keeping. Kenya

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Chris Sattlberger USA Nominee "Ghostriders" shadows of wild mustangs galloping across arid plain

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christopher mcleod UK Nominee "Foggy Rise" Young fallow deer looking out into the rising sun in the fog.

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Cid Costa Neto Brazil Nominee "Manech tête noire"

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Craig Moodie Australia Nominee "Victorian Dairy Farmers" Study of a Victorian dairy farm in South Gippsland Victoria depicting water capabilities in farming.

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Craig Moodie Australia Nominee "Victorian Sheep Farmers 03" Study of a Victorian Sheep farm in Yea, Victoria.

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David Skernick USA Nominee "Elk Herd" Elk in Grand Teton National Park

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Deborah Roffel Netherlands Nominee "Happy Seal " a portrait of a seal at the seal hospital Pieterburen, Groningen

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Debra Garside Canada Nominee "Rockstar" This young wild stallion from Sable Island was trying to steal mares from another herd.

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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee " Eremitagen, Denmark" A dearest deer on a beautifull day in Eremitagen, Denmark.

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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee "Ostriches_South Africa" One of the worlds funny animals_Captured in South Africa.

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Federico Janni USA Nominee "audience" bunch of observers in hermosa beach, california

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Gjertrud Hustad Norway Nominee "Upward"

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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee "Raven party"

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Janice Tieken USA Nominee "CONDOR DOLLY GROOMING" Condor Dolly, now 6, the ambassadress for the Endangered California Condor efforts. Young and with a broken wing unable to fly, cannot return to the wild. Condors are nature's housekeepers, clean up d

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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee "Leatherback hatchling" This endangered leatherback hatchling heads to the water in St. Croix.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "Rhinoceros" The Rhinoceros is hidden among the tombstone of his ancestors.

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Joan Davis USA Nominee "March Of The Mares"

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "White Capuchin" White Capuchin Portrait

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Louis Montrose USA Nominee "Penguins in the Snow" On the Antarctic Peninsula

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee "Flamingo Flight" Elegant flamingo flight with slow shutter speed

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Michael Finn Ireland Nominee "Finn_Michael_Lion3442A" Lion from my "Bucket List" photographic safari to the Maasai Mara following a heart attack

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Michael Fell USA Nominee "Trumpeting Stop" Close enough to touch and an intimate view of a charging elephant before the dust has time to settle

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Michael Fell USA Nominee "Defender" Elephant bull protects the herd in Kitirua, Kenya.

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Michael Fell USA Nominee "Changing Land" Herd of elephants walk across the dry land in Kitirua, Kenya.

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Michael Fell USA Nominee "Venturing in the Rain" A lion shakes off in the rain in Maswa, Tanzania.

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Michael Kloth USA Nominee "Ferruginous Hawk" Ferruginous Hawk Take Off

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "Pescado" Lava island in the middle of Salar de Uyuni. Altiplano Bolivia.

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Nila Onda USA Nominee "Psyche"

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Pamela Pauline Australia Nominee "Quelea Birds" The Quelea Bird Migration in Botswana

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Patricia Jarvis USA Nominee "Snowstorm Greeting" Fight or Flight?

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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee "Thundering Hooves"

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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee "Return to the Herd"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Yum!" Cleaning off his face after having a snack

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Waiting" Patiently waiting

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Kudu in the treetop" Watching

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Pedro Jarque Spain Nominee "In your hands" Potrait of a worried chimpanzee.

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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee "Chimpanzee Dreaming" Male Chimpanzee lies on forest floor with hands behind head.

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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee "Oryx in a Namibian Dune"

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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee "Waterbuck Portrait" Taken in Tanzania, Africa

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Ape Hand and Foot Nr. 1"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Ape Hand And Foot Nr. 2"

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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee "False Killer" False Killer whales are found across various parts of the world but remain quite elusive.

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Shelley Paulson USA Nominee "Myley" A white horse pauses for a moment against a white sky...

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Shokoufeh Malekkiani Iran Nominee "Wild Jackal" Faraway valley near south of khoarsen between the border of Iran and Afghanistan where a bunch of Jackals live.

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Steffen Hofemann Germany Nominee "mother" the horse was shot on a hot day in sicily, her role sleeping next to her.

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Steven Begleiter USA Nominee "Feeding Time" Feeding time for baby birds

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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Nominee "Fisherman owl" Blackston's Fish Owl caught fish to eat half, bring to incubate eggs wife

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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee "Elephant Seal (1)" Elephant Seal Relaxing in a Pool on South Georgia Islands

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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee "Baby Monkey Hand and Mom" Baby Snow Monkey Embraced by Mom, Only Hand Showing

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Till Leeser Germany Nominee "Andalusian Horses"

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tom nagy Germany Nominee "chimpansee"

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tom nagy Germany Nominee "snake"

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tom nagy Germany Nominee "lion"

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Umon Taga Japan Nominee "crab" Image from the series of "biological design".

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Victoria Hillman UK Nominee "Mating Ball" Common toad mating ball, Somerset, UK

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William Moureaux France Nominee "Flamants Roses" Fuji XT1 100-400 mm

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee "little fighters" Two fighting Cheetah Cubs

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Got You"

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