Wildlife - Amateur

Kit Snider USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Huntress"

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Stefan Maier Switzerland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Battle" Tansania, 2016

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Brian Jones Australia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Elephant Seal Ripples" South Georgia

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Sandra Hotrum Canada Honorable Mention "best friends"

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Honorable Mention "PHANTOM-END" A BACK SIDE ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention "dangerous jumps" Kenya, Masai Mara National Park

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David Cayless UK Honorable Mention "Elephant Trunk Call" The elephant was curious and came right over to my vehicle to check me out by smelling

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Paul Mordheweyk Indonesia Honorable Mention "Hard Landing" when the geese fly over to his friend to get food from the handler

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Nola Sumner Australia Honorable Mention "Gliders"

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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Honorable Mention "Fighting"

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Gregoris Mentzas Greece Honorable Mention "Portrait of a Chimpanzee" "Portrait of a Chimpanzee" is an image from my “Animal Kingdom” series.

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Mary Anne Chilton USA Honorable Mention "Dancing Koi" Japanese Koi

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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention "On the Run" Lion running, Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Michael Pachis USA Honorable Mention "Stink Eye"

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Honorable Mention "WHAT TO DO " WHAT TO DO WITH DRIFT WOOD IS THE QUESTION

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Seta Karabadjian Canada Honorable Mention "Dolled-up" Sheep near Hoorn, Netherlands, 2016

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Rebecca Shellhamer USA Honorable Mention "Owl (2)" Wise Owl

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Susan Hillyard USA Honorable Mention "Swoosh" Wild Mustangs: Mare and Foal

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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention "Butt!" Zebras at watering hole, Tarangire Ntl Park, Tanzania

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Abigail Roberts USA Nominee "Unlikely Friends" Taken on an ice shelf in Antarctica

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Ake Alm Germany Nominee "Monkey" Emperor Tamarin, Frankfurt Zoo, Germany

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Aleksandr Romanov Russia Nominee "Tornado" The Yamalonensky Autonomous Okrug, Russia, the Tazovsky Peninsula, March 24, 2018. Nentsy catch reindeer that would be vaccinated against an "anthrax".

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Amardeep Singh India Nominee "Twist in the tail" Gobi Desert, Mongolia

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee "Whale of a time"

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Anna Barber USA Nominee "BW Blue Heron Reflections"

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Annemarie Jacques USA Nominee "untitled"

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Snuggling Siblings in the Sunshine" Gimmelwald, CH

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Baby Gray Whale" Baby Gray Whale coming to check us out

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Iceberg & Whale Greenland 7683" Iceberg & Whale Greenland 7683

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Bragi J. Ingibergsson Iceland Nominee "Two of a Kind" Two Icelandic horses - one as the main subject and another in the distance framed by the horse in th

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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee "Frosty Bison"

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee "Hi, My Name is Burt." Meet Burt the Alpaca.

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Buffaloes in the Morning Mist " Buffaloes in Romania

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Silvery-cheeked Hornbill" The elegant pose creates nice juxtaposition with the rather crude bill of the bird.

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee "Zebras at Night"

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Honolua Manta" A huge Manta Ray and I surprised each other while I was free diving in Honolua Bay, Maui.

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Don Holman USA Nominee "Beak to Beak"

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Don Holman USA Nominee "Me and My Shadow"

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Earl Hirtz Canada Nominee "Bighorn Ram on Snowy Slope" I spotted this Bighorn Ram while hiking in the interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "Grey Angur" I met him in India and we've been friends ever since.

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "migration" the bird fly to south

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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee "Stalker" Florida gator paciently waiting for pray in the swampy waters of the Everglades National Park.

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Evangelia Athanasopoulou Greece Nominee "The Big Fish" Doha,Qatar

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Frederick van Heerden South Africa Nominee "We are coming" Photographed in teh Kgaligadi South Africa June 2017

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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee "Monkey portrait" Photo taken in the Galtaji Temple (temple of monkeys) in Jaipur (India).

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Hugh Conacher Canada Nominee "Gentoo Penguin " Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula 64˚41’ S, 62˚38’ W

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Black Swan" Foraging in the early morning, Lake Okareke, Rotorua, New Zealand 2018

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Jeff Moore USA Nominee "YingYang ducks" Two opposing ducks on a city pond

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Jerry Whitty USA Nominee "Morning Squawk" Delray Beach Fl 2018

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Confrontation"

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Joshua Sarinana USA Nominee "Icarus"

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Angels, Animals" All is new

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Flamingos" Mexico

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Big Island Horse" At the southern most point in North America.

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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Facing The Dawn" A wild horse in the early morning light at Carrot Island, NC

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Klaus Lenzen Germany Nominee "the four" pigeons seen at Duesseldorf (Germany) main station (2017)

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Lara Dziurdzy Canada Nominee "Hula Hippo"

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Leonardo Regoli USA Nominee "Resting" Wild bison resting in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

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Lezanne Gibbs New Zealand Nominee "Come and get it!"

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "Tokay Gecko"

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Louisa Paez Michelin USA Nominee "Antarctic "X" Factor" Kelp Gull in Cuverville, Antarctica displays its version of the Antarctic " X" Factor.

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Portrait of Pony" Pony is galloping full-tilt towards me.

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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "tête-à-tête"

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Marianne Lang Switzerland Nominee "Close to the sky"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Nippers"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Scratch Patch"

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee "Texture"

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Michael Gard USA Nominee "Buffalo Roams Alone" Yellowstone National Park

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Mok Hoe Singapore Nominee "Silky Sunset" Silky shark portrait with an evening sunburst backdrop, taken in Jardines de la Reina, Cuba

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Contemplation" Miami Zoo

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Partha Roy Singapore Nominee "Friendship" Friendship

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Blackie" blackie

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Praveen Pai India Nominee "Now You See Me" When wildlife is totally unexpected and there is a hidden avatar watching your space from the hideouts.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Owl (1)" Costa Rica

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Romain Tornay Switzerland Nominee "Swan attack" Reykjavik, Iceland, March 2018

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Rudolf Koenig Switzerland Nominee "Chao Praya river, Bangkok" river fish near landing on Chao Praya

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Sabine Peters Germany Nominee "Headstudy"

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Sajeesh Radhakrishnan India Nominee "Eyes" Tigress watching the visitors through the gaps of bushes, Bandhavgarg tiger reserve.

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Salvo Bombara Italy Nominee "The fragile traveller" Underwater photography, a nice specimen of Pelagia Noctiluca, Sicily.

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Sandy Scott USA Nominee "Great Horned Owl in Flight" A great horned owl in flight just as it takes off

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Santosh Mitra Australia Nominee "ALONE" A cormorant perched alone on a twig, Richmond, Australia

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Pagliaccio" Atlantic puffin posing - Iceland - reminiscent of Pagliaccio on stage

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Steven Shaw Australia Nominee "Feeding" Mountain Gorillas of the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda

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Susan Hillyard USA Nominee "Peregrine Falcon"

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Ted Lau Hong Kong Nominee "Hunter" A cheetah looks for its next victim in Tanzania.

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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee "Battle Below Kilimanjaro"

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TL Khong Malaysia Nominee "Bee is for Breakfast"

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Toby Trueman UK Nominee "Spent" After centuries of work, time to rest, overtaken, replaced, Spent. East Lothian

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Over the Hill" Gentoo Penguins, Booth Island, Antarctic Peninsula

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Dilemma for gulls" I was photographing a Christmas swim in Hyde Park when these gulls perched on the railing

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Valentin Boitel-Denyset France Nominee "Tenderness" Crouched in the reeds during a long winter day in the South of France, I could see this herons couple sharing a privileged moment. A tremendous instant captured!

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "La Negra" Portrait of Paso Fino mare.

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Vladimir Šoltys Czech Republic Nominee "Tenants" Nesting collony of guillemots on Cliff of Moher in Ireland

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Willa Davis USA Nominee "A Secret Place" An imagined place where swans can be safe at night.

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Wladia Drummond Brazil Nominee "désolé" Endangered African penguins. Boulders Beach is a reserve of protect these pengui

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Yejin Yoo USA Nominee "Cicada Song" A visual articulation of cicada songs. Shot in an apartment near the Han River, Seoul, South Korea.

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Zoi Kostantin Turkey Nominee "CloseUpHorse" Eye of the Horse

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