Nature - Amateur

Michael Cowen New Zealand 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Nature's Curves" What the desert lacks in biodiversity and rivers it makes up for in curves and textures.

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Patrick Ems Switzerland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Free Falling (2)" Skógafoss waterfall, Iceland October 2017

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Christian Meermann Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Distant Rain" Taken on the German North Sea island Sylt where the weather changes constantly.

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Debbie Rubin USA Honorable Mention "A Sheep's Paradise" The sheep were intent on taking advantage of the richness of the volcanic soil combined with the moisture rich nutrients created by this powerful fall.

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Carol Schaller USA Honorable Mention "Borneo Canopy" The ancient trees in Borneo are high over the jungle floor.

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Nathan Wirth USA Honorable Mention "ishizuki" A pine tree growing over a rock on the Northern California coast of the US.

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Nathan Wirth USA Honorable Mention "Two Trees on A Hill" Two trees sit on a hill in the dairy farms of Petaluma, CA

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Kieron Monahan USA Honorable Mention "Estapona Dougal Rock" Dusk, Spain, this rock resembles a 1970s cartoon dog called Dougal.

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Eduardo Fujii USA Honorable Mention "Cascade"

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Honorable Mention "Burning winds" The magic northern lights over Snaefellsjoekull during a full moon night.

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Romain Tornay Switzerland Honorable Mention "Ocean Fury" Huge waves on the Icelandic west coast after 2 days with winds over 100 Km / h. The winter is ending

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Rosario Civello Italy Honorable Mention "Waves #2"

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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Honorable Mention "Matterhorn" mountain-landscape, Matterhorn in the Valais with many clouds

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Don Whitebread USA Honorable Mention "Cloudy Star Tracks Over the Black Rock Desert" The Black Rock Desert is home to Burning Man in the fall, but deserted the rest of the year

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Honorable Mention "Valley Of Scars" Snaefellsjokull, Iceland October 2017

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Amardeep Singh India Honorable Mention "Home alone" Bayanzag, Mongolia

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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Honorable Mention "Ray of Fuji" i was glad to capture the holy mount fuji

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brian valente USA Honorable Mention "yosemite untitled morning" morning mist trees and rock face

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Tom Sliter USA Honorable Mention "The Slot (2)" Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

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Adam Felde USA Honorable Mention "Pre-Dawn Dunes"

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Nick Green UK Honorable Mention "Spreading your roots" SPREADING YOUR ROOTS

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John Corney UK Honorable Mention "From The Rocks I grew" I love the Strange things that Nature throws at us

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Antonio Gouveia UK Honorable Mention "Fade To Grey" New Forest Hampshire U.K

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Abigail Roberts USA Nominee "Real or Reflection?" Taken at a moment of utter calmness from a zodiac in the middle of a glacier filled Antarctic Ocean

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Adrian Per Romania Nominee "White Woods " The first snow in SW Romania , near my job place .I gone to the Hills where the snow was mo

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Agnes Tjandranegara Singapore Nominee "Waves" There is so much beauty in waves; they are like finger prints, never ever identical

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Aleksei Petrov Russia Nominee "Virage" Virage in the sky

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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee "Torres del Paine,Patagonia,Chile"

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee "Reflection"

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Angela Roumillac Brazil Nominee "Origin" Serra da Canastra, Brasil, 2014

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Anne Goedert Luxembourg Nominee "Leafless"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "2018"

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Anthony Ranieri Canada Nominee "Monument Stars" Long exposure on film in Monument Valley Arizona

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Antonio Gouveia UK Nominee "Before The Fall" Island of Gozo, Malta. This is the famous Azure Window, taken on my most recent trip to Malta. Unfortunately due to heavy storms it has collapsed, it surely will be missed by many of us.

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Arlene Vidor USA Nominee "Calveras Split" Dazzling cloud banks rolling through Central California on a blustery day

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "The Shape of Water" Water... It can take any form, from a simple puddle to a stormy ocean.

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "CHUPPAH" SHELTERED IN WHITE

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Blue Iceberg In Fog Greenland 7022" Blue Iceberg In Fog Greenland 7022

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Iceberg & Rocks 6829" Iceberg & Rocks 6829

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Tybee Island Stars 6265" Tybee Island Stars 6265

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Neumayer Channel 1" Neumayer Channel, Antarctica

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Brian Connor New Zealand Nominee "Wakatipu Sunset" Afterglow over Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand, 2010

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Brian Rope Australia Nominee "Reeds" Natural and man-made reeds alongside each other

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Carol Brightbill USA Nominee "Morning Grass" Foggy morning on a still lake

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Caroline Fraser UK Nominee "Poem from the frozen north 3" Details from the Yukon landscape in winter

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Convergence"

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Christine Jacobson New Zealand Nominee "Waterfall"

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Christoph Oberenzer Germany Nominee "River"

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Chuck Nakell USA Nominee "For Amod" Winter Sun at Clackamas River

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Curt Palm USA Nominee "Natural Snow Sculpture #2" La Tete Lake, Sierra Nevada, CA

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Daniel Schwabe Brazil Nominee "Moonrise at Bombo Quarry" Amazing shapes, textures and reflections at this other-worldly place on the East Coast of Australia.

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Daniel Dencescu Germany Nominee "Kirkjufell"

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David Martin USA Nominee "Overwhelmed" An aspen sapling is hanging on for its life during a heavy spring snow melt.

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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee "Ghosts II" Winter, fog, water ... everything was perfect at that moment in the swamp.

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David Jacobs Australia Nominee "Wind" Wind blowing through leaves. Brighton, Victoria, Australia

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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee "Barcode" Winter, cold, fog, water, refelctions...the light is perfect...and I'm looking at a natural barcode.

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David Magee UK Nominee "Lightscape Study 3" A series of images exploring reflections of the moon on the shoreline.

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David Quinn USA Nominee "Long Ago"

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Dermot Russell Ireland Nominee "Strength In Numbers" Tuscany, 2017.

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "rexzth"

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Diane Kravetz USA Nominee "The Point"

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Dominic Martello USA Nominee "Half Dome" Yosemite National Park

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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Nominee "Drama in progress" Drama in progress, Guiera, Spain

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Devil's Garden Arch" Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, UT

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Doris Ferrarese Canada Nominee "Moon Serenade" After days of heavy rain, was blessed by a moon swept serenade.

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Eduardo Fujii USA Nominee "Lake El Estero"

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Edwin Mangabat Australia Nominee "Fingal Head" Image of giant causeway rocks located at Fingal Heads in NSW Australia.

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Eric Wiles USA Nominee "Moterey Ca Coast" Coastal shores of Monterey Ca

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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee "Hey Stack!" Photograph taken on the fall of 2016 of the famous Canon Beach Haystack Rock, Oregon

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Evangelia Athanasopoulou Greece Nominee "Spooky Land" Zagori Region,Epirus,Greece

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Francesca Ferrari Italy Nominee "Nel bosco"

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Dune Light"

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "Narrabeen Gorge" Reflux

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Grace Law Hong Kong Nominee "Almost wicked" Aurora storm on Nordic highlands

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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee "Coastline" Ice on lava beach, Iceland.

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Playa Llanes" Spain's rugged coast

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How Pin Tang Malaysia Nominee "Little Island"

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Hugh Conacher Canada Nominee "Albatross " Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island 54° 82’ S, 36° 00’ W

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Red River Gums No 4" Statuesque trees in Infra-red, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Northern Territory, Australia 2017

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Ilias Varelas Greece Nominee "Deep in the forest" Morning mist in the mountain of Pelion in central Greece.

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Ivan Hernandez USA Nominee "Finding the flow." Stormy afternoon, Eastern Sierras-California.

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James Meldrum USA Nominee "Storm Front"

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Jamie Black USA Nominee "Shoreline Skeleton" The remnants of a dock on the Gulf of Mexico left behind by Hurricane Katrina.

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Janne Jatawa USA Nominee "Rhythm of Impermanence" The water cycle of Gitchie Gami.

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Jay Hsu Taiwan Nominee "SOUL" Soul on beach

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Aged Cherry Blossom"

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Johannes Bosgra Netherlands Nominee "Lago di Braies" Lago di Braies, Dolomites, Italy, 2015

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John Alfano USA Nominee "eastern Sierra Nevadas" Taken from the White Mountains looking west across the Owens Valley

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Joshua Hakin Canada Nominee "Swamp" 25 second exposure of old trees in a swamp in Ontario Canada

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Judith Ebenstein USA Nominee "Vicentine Coast"

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Judy Adhitianto Indonesia Nominee "Afloat" Leaf in the sea at Bali beach

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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Nominee "Home...... " Hokkaido

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "That Cloud"

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Kartik Rawal India Nominee "Heaven" A Landscape of a mountain on a rainy day, the day when i saw heaven on earth.

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Quiet Bright" White Sands, New Mexico

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Keith Ellul Malta Nominee "Kynance Cove"

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Keith Ramsdell USA Nominee "Tossa tree"

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Kiraly Laszlo Gyorgy Hungary Nominee "Lacy Glacier" Sólheimajögkull, Iceland

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee "Mountain river" Europe, Austria, Alps

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Klaus Blumhofer Germany Nominee "dreamland"

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Larry Colby USA Nominee "Lobster" Ancient Lobster

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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee "Heart Rock" Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, USA

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Leslie Gleim USA Nominee "Simplicity (2)"

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Linda Treleaven Canada Nominee "Simplicity (1)"

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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Nominee "Somewhere in time" This is a very cold winter. The beauty of West Lake is like the elegance of Chinese painting.

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Lorenza Cancian Austria Nominee "traight forward 3" I like the minimalism created by snow, it shows the essence of a landscape.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia Nominee "Silent Strength" Silent Strength surrounded by sea brush cotton. Curtis Bay, Antarctica

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Maciej Szemelowski Poland Nominee "Wave" Wave

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Maciej Wojcik Poland Nominee "Ghost"

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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Nominee "Eiger"

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Marcia Getto USA Nominee "What it Might Be 2"

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Martin Galea Slovak Republic Nominee "Following the water "

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Martta Kelly USA Nominee "Storm Brewing" taken in a park in Brooklyn, NY

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Mary Anne Chilton USA Nominee "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir" Taken during December 30, 2017 snowstorm in Central Park, New York City, 7 vertical images stitched.

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Mathew Oldershaw UK Nominee "Black beach" Taken while out on the beach one afternoon.

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Mauro Raunich Slovenia Nominee "Cloud" Storm is coming

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee "Free Falling (1)"

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Michael Pollak USA Nominee "Atmosphere "

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Michael Lucchese Australia Nominee "icebergs in the mist" icebergs in the mist

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee "Ripples"

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Moira Fratta Italy Nominee "Silenzio" Trees in the snow, silence.

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Nancy R Knutson USA Nominee "From Water"

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Nathalie At France Nominee "alone on the hill"

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Nathan Wirth USA Nominee "Petaluma Dairy Farms" A group of trees stand on a hill in Petaluma, CA

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Nicolas Blaiotta Spain Nominee "Three towers" Laguna de los tres, El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina. March 2018

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Nigel Spiteri Malta Nominee "After The Storm" Shot In Malta after a massive storm

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Nikki Stewart Australia Nominee "Lightning on Bellvista"

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Nirzhar Pradhan USA Nominee "Footprints Of Waves 04" Part of a series: Present Moment; Looking at the relationship between the waves and the sand.

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Nitin Doppalapudi USA Nominee "A Glowing Tree" Tree glowing during sunset in Yosemite Valley.

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee "Godafoss" At Iclands north. Godafoss.

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Orlett Pearson USA Nominee "Quiet Fog" A golf course submits to silence and a majestic view as the morning fog rolls in.

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Nominee "The Arctic Storm 6" Arctic storm in southern Iceland, October 2017

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Paul Byrne Ireland Nominee "Sculpted Scarista" Scarista Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Paul Christener Switzerland Nominee "In Search of Silence" Vik, Iceland

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Paul Mordheweyk Indonesia Nominee "Light from the sky" when it snows in hokkaido and the sky illuminates part of the region

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Penelope Clute USA Nominee "clute-penelope_Palouse" Sunset in The Palouse, Washington

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "cypresses" cypresses of San Quirico d'Orcia in Italy

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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee "Summer Night" Heer, Norway

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Phil Pogledich USA Nominee "Cathedral Spires, Yosemite" Low clouds intermingle with the Cathredral Spires on a June morning in Yosemite

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Rainer Quesada USA Nominee "The Peaks of Queenstown"

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Rene Algesheimer Switzerland Nominee "Gold" 2018, Rub Al Khali, the "Empty Quarter" in UAE

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Richard Chirichillo USA Nominee "Highway to Heaven" Approaching the El Jobean Bridge in El Jobean Fl while a thundercloud was forming appeared to me

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Rick Wagonheim USA Nominee "Kolugljfürur Waterfalls in Iceland" 60 second exposure photographed at high noon during an an overcast, grey,summer day

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Rudolf Koenig Switzerland Nominee "roots and leafs" mirror picture of tree on lake in Mantova/Italy

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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee "Snow showers " Snow showers fall over Haweswater reservoir Cumbria

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Sandra Hunter USA Nominee "gate" Newbliss, Ireland

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Santosh Mitra Australia Nominee "INTO THE WOODS" A close encounter in the woods, Richmond, Australia

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee "Concretion at Moeraki"

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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee "Untitled, from the series Dark Mountains"

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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee "Apollo" eine kleine Population fliegt jedes Jahr am Alpenrhein zwischen Haag und Landquart

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Sergio Galanti Switzerland Nominee "Lines"

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Seta Karabadjian Canada Nominee "Rain, Sun and Flamengos" Flamengos in Lake Manyara

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The tree"

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Sidney Gaspar Brazil Nominee "Perito Moreno Glacier" Argentina

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Stefan Neagu Romania Nominee "Pond" Analog photography

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Stefan Baeurle USA Nominee "Pacific Nebula" Half Moon Bay, California.

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Stefan Seidler Austria Nominee "See You in the Trees"

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "Kimberley" North Western Australia coastal falls.

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Stephen Scharf USA Nominee "Northstar" Northstar Pond, Davis, CA

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Steven Anggrek Switzerland Nominee "America The Lonely" Alone with Mother Nature. Joshua Tree.

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Steven Castro USA Nominee "Emilia Romagna Tree Study"

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Ted Lau Hong Kong Nominee "Creek" Inside a little cave somwhere in Iceland.

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Tim Mulcahy USA Nominee "Prairie Cumulus"

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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee "Dont Fence Me In" Once a tree, later a post, now its been claimed by the salt, and the circle of life is nearly over.

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Waves Crashing into Lighthouse" Lake Michigan - Waves Crashing into a lighthouse

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Mysterious Path" Along the northern California coast

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Uwe Langmann Germany Nominee "Silent" -

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Valentin Denyset France Nominee "Vastness" The depth of these mountains and valleys in Vietnam during a rainstorm created a distinctive and unique play of light and shadow.

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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee "Island in the Stream" Whytecliffe Park island at high tide - long exposure

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "Ansel Adams site" Jackson Hole, Wy.

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Willa Davis USA Nominee "In the Loins of the Earth" Deep in Antelope Canyon. A shaft of light, Wind, and sand flowing.

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Wladia Drummond Brazil Nominee "persistence" moon valley - set of angular formations dug in the rocks by the water

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "The force of the water" Photo taken in Ibiza.

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Yonghui Chen USA Nominee "Caress" Sunshine through the foggy daylight, as if caressing the trees.

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Yoram Gelman USA Nominee "Water / Reeds"

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Zena Fairweather USA Nominee "Broken Web"

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