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Michael Cowen New Zealand 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Free Falling (2)" Skógafoss waterfall, Iceland October 2017 |
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Christian Meermann Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Amateur "Distant Rain" Taken on the German North Sea island Sylt where the weather changes constantly. |
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Debbie Rubin USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Borneo Canopy" The ancient trees in Borneo are high over the jungle floor. |
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Nathan Wirth USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Estapona Dougal Rock" Dusk, Spain, this rock resembles a 1970s cartoon dog called Dougal. |
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Eduardo Fujii USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Cascade" |
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Patrick Ems Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Burning winds" The magic northern lights over Snaefellsjoekull during a full moon night. |
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Romain Tornay Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Waves #2" |
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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Matterhorn" mountain-landscape, Matterhorn in the Valais with many clouds |
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Don Whitebread USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Valley Of Scars" Snaefellsjokull, Iceland October 2017 |
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Amardeep Singh India Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Home alone" Bayanzag, Mongolia |
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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Ray of Fuji" i was glad to capture the holy mount fuji |
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brian valente USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "yosemite untitled morning" morning mist trees and rock face |
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Tom Sliter USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "The Slot (2)" Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico |
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Adam Felde USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Pre-Dawn Dunes" |
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Nick Green UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Spreading your roots" SPREADING YOUR ROOTS |
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John Corney UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "From The Rocks I grew" I love the Strange things that Nature throws at us |
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Antonio Gouveia UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Fade To Grey" New Forest Hampshire U.K |
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Abigail Roberts USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Waves" There is so much beauty in waves; they are like finger prints, never ever identical |
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Aleksei Petrov Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Virage" Virage in the sky |
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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Torres del Paine,Patagonia,Chile" |
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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Reflection" |
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Angela Roumillac Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "Origin" Serra da Canastra, Brasil, 2014 |
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Anne Goedert Luxembourg Nominee Nature Amateur "Leafless" |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "2018" |
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Anthony Ranieri Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Monument Stars" Long exposure on film in Monument Valley Arizona |
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Antonio Gouveia UK Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Calveras Split" Dazzling cloud banks rolling through Central California on a blustery day |
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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "CHUPPAH" SHELTERED IN WHITE |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Blue Iceberg In Fog Greenland 7022" Blue Iceberg In Fog Greenland 7022 |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Iceberg & Rocks 6829" Iceberg & Rocks 6829 |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Tybee Island Stars 6265" Tybee Island Stars 6265 |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Neumayer Channel 1" Neumayer Channel, Antarctica |
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Brian Connor New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Wakatipu Sunset" Afterglow over Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand, 2010 |
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Brian Rope Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Reeds" Natural and man-made reeds alongside each other |
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Carol Brightbill USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Morning Grass" Foggy morning on a still lake |
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Caroline Fraser UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Poem from the frozen north 3" Details from the Yukon landscape in winter |
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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee Nature Amateur "Convergence" |
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Christine Jacobson New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Waterfall" |
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Christoph Oberenzer Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "River" |
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Chuck Nakell USA Nominee Nature Amateur "For Amod" Winter Sun at Clackamas River |
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Curt Palm USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Natural Snow Sculpture #2" La Tete Lake, Sierra Nevada, CA |
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Daniel Schwabe Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Kirkjufell" |
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David Martin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Ghosts II" Winter, fog, water ... everything was perfect at that moment in the swamp. |
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David Jacobs Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Wind" Wind blowing through leaves. Brighton, Victoria, Australia |
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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Lightscape Study 3" A series of images exploring reflections of the moon on the shoreline. |
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David Quinn USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Long Ago" |
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Dermot Russell Ireland Nominee Nature Amateur "Strength In Numbers" Tuscany, 2017. |
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Devin Campbell USA Nominee Nature Amateur "rexzth" |
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Diane Kravetz USA Nominee Nature Amateur "The Point" |
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Dominic Martello USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Half Dome" Yosemite National Park |
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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Drama in progress" Drama in progress, Guiera, Spain |
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Don Jacobson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Devil's Garden Arch" Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, UT |
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Doris Ferrarese Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Moon Serenade" After days of heavy rain, was blessed by a moon swept serenade. |
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Eduardo Fujii USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lake El Estero" |
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Edwin Mangabat Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Fingal Head" Image of giant causeway rocks located at Fingal Heads in NSW Australia. |
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Eric Wiles USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Moterey Ca Coast" Coastal shores of Monterey Ca |
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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Spooky Land" Zagori Region,Epirus,Greece |
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Francesca Ferrari Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Nel bosco" |
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Gary Wagner USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Dune Light" |
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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Narrabeen Gorge" Reflux |
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Grace Law Hong Kong Nominee Nature Amateur "Almost wicked" Aurora storm on Nordic highlands |
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Gunar Streu Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Coastline" Ice on lava beach, Iceland. |
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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Playa Llanes" Spain's rugged coast |
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How Pin Tang Malaysia Nominee Nature Amateur "Little Island" |
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Hugh Conacher Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Albatross " Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island 54° 82’ S, 36° 00’ W |
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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Deep in the forest" Morning mist in the mountain of Pelion in central Greece. |
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Ivan Hernandez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Finding the flow." Stormy afternoon, Eastern Sierras-California. |
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James Meldrum USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Storm Front" |
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Jamie Black USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Rhythm of Impermanence" The water cycle of Gitchie Gami. |
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Jay Hsu Taiwan Nominee Nature Amateur "SOUL" Soul on beach |
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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Aged Cherry Blossom" |
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Johannes Bosgra Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "Lago di Braies" Lago di Braies, Dolomites, Italy, 2015 |
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John Alfano USA Nominee Nature Amateur "eastern Sierra Nevadas" Taken from the White Mountains looking west across the Owens Valley |
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Joshua Hakin Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Swamp" 25 second exposure of old trees in a swamp in Ontario Canada |
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Judith Ebenstein USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Vicentine Coast" |
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Judy Adhitianto Indonesia Nominee Nature Amateur "Afloat" Leaf in the sea at Bali beach |
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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Nominee Nature Amateur "Home...... " Hokkaido |
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Karen Morton New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "That Cloud" |
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Kartik Rawal India Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Quiet Bright" White Sands, New Mexico |
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Keith Ellul Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "Kynance Cove" |
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Keith Ramsdell USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Tossa tree" |
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Kiraly Laszlo Gyorgy Hungary Nominee Nature Amateur "Lacy Glacier" Sólheimajögkull, Iceland |
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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee Nature Amateur "Mountain river" Europe, Austria, Alps |
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Klaus Blumhofer Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "dreamland" |
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Larry Colby USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Lobster" Ancient Lobster |
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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Heart Rock" Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, USA |
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Leslie Gleim USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Simplicity (2)" |
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Linda Treleaven Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Simplicity (1)" |
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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Silent Strength" Silent Strength surrounded by sea brush cotton. Curtis Bay, Antarctica |
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Maciej Szemelowski Poland Nominee Nature Amateur "Wave" Wave |
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Maciej Wojcik Poland Nominee Nature Amateur "Ghost" |
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Manfred Schroeder Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Eiger" |
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Marcia Getto USA Nominee Nature Amateur "What it Might Be 2" |
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Martin Galea Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "Following the water " |
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Martta Kelly USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Storm Brewing" taken in a park in Brooklyn, NY |
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Mary Anne Chilton USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Black beach" Taken while out on the beach one afternoon. |
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Mauro Raunich Slovenia Nominee Nature Amateur "Cloud" Storm is coming |
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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Free Falling (1)" |
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Michael Pollak USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Atmosphere " |
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Michael Lucchese Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "icebergs in the mist" icebergs in the mist |
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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Ripples" |
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Moira Fratta Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Silenzio" Trees in the snow, silence. |
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Nancy R Knutson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "From Water" |
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Nathalie At France Nominee Nature Amateur "alone on the hill" |
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Nathan Wirth USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Petaluma Dairy Farms" A group of trees stand on a hill in Petaluma, CA |
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Nicolas Blaiotta Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Three towers" Laguna de los tres, El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina. March 2018 |
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Nigel Spiteri Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "After The Storm" Shot In Malta after a massive storm |
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Nikki Stewart Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Lightning on Bellvista" |
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Nirzhar Pradhan Nepal Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "A Glowing Tree" Tree glowing during sunset in Yosemite Valley. |
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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Godafoss" At Iclands north. Godafoss. |
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Orlett Pearson USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "The Arctic Storm 6" Arctic storm in southern Iceland, October 2017 |
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Paul Byrne Ireland Nominee Nature Amateur "Sculpted Scarista" Scarista Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. |
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Paul Christener Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "In Search of Silence" Vik, Iceland |
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Paul Mordheweyk Indonesia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "clute-penelope_Palouse" Sunset in The Palouse, Washington |
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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee Nature Amateur "cypresses" cypresses of San Quirico d'Orcia in Italy |
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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee Nature Amateur "Summer Night" Heer, Norway |
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Phil Pogledich USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Cathedral Spires, Yosemite" Low clouds intermingle with the Cathredral Spires on a June morning in Yosemite |
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Rainer Quesada USA Nominee Nature Amateur "The Peaks of Queenstown" |
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Rene Algesheimer Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Gold" 2018, Rub Al Khali, the "Empty Quarter" in UAE |
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Richard Chirichillo USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "roots and leafs" mirror picture of tree on lake in Mantova/Italy |
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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Snow showers " Snow showers fall over Haweswater reservoir Cumbria |
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Sandra Hunter USA Nominee Nature Amateur "gate" Newbliss, Ireland |
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Santosh Mitra Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "INTO THE WOODS" A close encounter in the woods, Richmond, Australia |
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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee Nature Amateur "Concretion at Moeraki" |
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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Untitled, from the series Dark Mountains" |
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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Apollo" eine kleine Population fliegt jedes Jahr am Alpenrhein zwischen Haag und Landquart |
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Sergio Galanti Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Lines" |
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Seta Karabadjian Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Rain, Sun and Flamengos" Flamengos in Lake Manyara |
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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee Nature Amateur "The tree" |
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Sidney Gaspar Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "Perito Moreno Glacier" Argentina |
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Stefan Neagu Romania Nominee Nature Amateur "Pond" Analog photography |
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Stefan Baeurle USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Pacific Nebula" Half Moon Bay, California. |
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Stefan Seidler Austria Nominee Nature Amateur "See You in the Trees" |
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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Kimberley" North Western Australia coastal falls. |
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Stephen Scharf USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Northstar" Northstar Pond, Davis, CA |
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Steven Anggrek Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "America The Lonely" Alone with Mother Nature. Joshua Tree. |
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Steven Castro USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Emilia Romagna Tree Study" |
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Ted Lau Hong Kong Nominee Nature Amateur "Creek" Inside a little cave somwhere in Iceland. |
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Tim Mulcahy USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Prairie Cumulus" |
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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Waves Crashing into Lighthouse" Lake Michigan - Waves Crashing into a lighthouse |
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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Mysterious Path" Along the northern California coast |
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Uwe Langmann Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Silent" - |
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Valentin Denyset France Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Island in the Stream" Whytecliffe Park island at high tide - long exposure |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Nature Amateur "Ansel Adams site" Jackson Hole, Wy. |
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Willa Davis USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "persistence" moon valley - set of angular formations dug in the rocks by the water |
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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "The force of the water" Photo taken in Ibiza. |
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Yonghui Chen USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Caress" Sunshine through the foggy daylight, as if caressing the trees. |
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Yoram Gelman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Water / Reeds" |
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Zena Fairweather USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Broken Web" |
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