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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "Men on the edge" Group of climbers approaching the summit of Breithorn in Swiss Alps during the weather change. |
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Daniel Holmes USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Professional "An Explosion of Wave" A Pacific wave explodes against the rocky shore of Kauai'l NaPali Coast. |
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Samuel Feron France 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "Emergence " Guangxi Province in China |
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Alister Benn UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Gravity" In a world where I feel so small. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Cypress" States of Grace: Flora - Carmel, CA |
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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Tha Last III" taken for my series "Metamorphosis" on global warming -the disintegration of the Greenland ice shelf |
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Scott Hasson USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "The Slot (1)" Deep in the slots canyons of Utah |
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Stefan Kuhn Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Breakthrough" Breaking Icefield on fishing lake, captured in february 2018 |
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Alister Benn UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "The Spirit of Tibet" Rising to 6740m, Kawa Gabo is sacred to the Tibetan people. |
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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Liquid Sky" Inch Strand, County Kerry, Ireland |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ahwahnee Meadow Cottonwoods" I've been photographing this grove for many years. I finally made an image that pleases me. |
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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "cloud and sky" Sunset over Southern Texas |
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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Haiku (2)" One peak at the huangshan mountain |
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Sebastien Arbour Canada Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Magic Forest" A vaporous forest taken on early spring, offering a magical view. |
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Adrian Davis USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Friends and Family" Cypress trees at Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina |
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G Sharad Haksar India Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Blown" Slope Point, New Zealand |
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Jeff Johnson USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "It Must Be Happening on the Mountain" |
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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Abandon" A piece of ice standing on a black sand beach. |
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Clifford White Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Perfection" Perfect wave at Narrabeen beach in Sydney Australia |
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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Fading Sun" |
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Paul Sanders UK Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Glen Etive" |
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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Black Yosemite" |
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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Honorable Mention Nature Professional "BEACH" Cepilho Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Wilfried Beege Germany Honorable Mention Nature Professional "STYXX" Wadi in Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias |
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Adolfo Enriquez Calo Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Seaweed" Image made from a bridge to the seaweeds that at low tide are floating at the mercy of the currents |
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Adolfo Enriquez Calo Spain Nominee Nature Professional "Light Rays" |
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Adrian Barrett New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Sunrise" Sunrise over a textured beach |
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Albert Chen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Classical Monument Valley" A twilight shot for monument valley in Arizona, U.S.A. It’s one of the classical views for this prestigious attraction. |
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Alexander Khokhlov Russia Nominee Nature Professional "Fairy's Airfiled" Unusual and mystique plateau in Faerie Glen (Isle of Skye, Scotland) |
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Alexandria Neoh Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "Misty Wilderness" Spotted whilst on a climb up Mt. Rinjani, Lombok |
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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Wonderland " |
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Ali Ihtiyar Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Isolated" trees nature |
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Andy Woods New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Riverton Beach" Morning At Riverton Beach, New Zealand |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Frozen Forest" A frozen morning in Yellowstone after a very heavy snowfall, the trees are bent over by the weight. |
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Bobby Dong Singapore Nominee Nature Professional "The "Fall"" |
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Brad Allen Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Anticipation" A snow leopard quietly observes her prey from the shadows.... |
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Burt Crapo USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Way the Wind Blows" The branches are all pointing to the east as a result of strong mountain winds. |
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Caleb Asch USA Nominee Nature Professional "Vernal Falls" Vernal Falls Yosemite May 2018 |
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Cathy Bruegger USA Nominee Nature Professional "In Your Dreams" In your Dreams |
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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "road" |
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Celeste McKenzie South Africa Nominee Nature Professional "Deadvlei Namibia" 900 year old dead Camel Thorn trees are still standing in the clay pan. Due to climate change and the dunes moving with the wind the river cannot flow to the pan anymore. |
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Charles McKean Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Myanmar Landscape" Myanmar Landscape |
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Charles Bush USA Nominee Nature Professional "IR Tree Trunks" Infrared image of Live Oak Trees at Lake Martin Louisiana |
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Christian Klant Germany Nominee Nature Professional "silence" Wet Plate Collodion Tintype |
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Cody Brothers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Happy Saguaro " Analog 6x17 capture |
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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Nature Professional "St. Croix River" From the book: St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers — The Enduring Gift. |
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Craig Bill USA Nominee Nature Professional "Circle of Life" A Moonbow forms over petroglyphs in New Mexico |
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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Seagrass" Marine grasslands, like this one off the coast of Gracias a Dios, Honduras, store as much carbon as |
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Danielle Austen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hook" Along the Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Beach, Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey |
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Dawn Black UK Nominee Nature Professional "I am a rock, I am an island" Bow Fiddle Rock, Portnockie, Scotland |
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Dawn Benko USA Nominee Nature Professional "Grand Oak" A snow covered oak stands in a meadow in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. |
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Dawn Benko USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Sun Over Stony Lake" The sun rises over Stony Lake in Stokes State Forest |
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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Canyon Tree" The Canyon Tree. Snake River Canyon, Idaho. July 2017. |
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Debbie O'Donnell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Melaleuca" Island Point Reserve, Western Australia |
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Deborah Gray Mitchell USA Nominee Nature Professional "Birch Trees near Harbin, China" Enroute to Phoenix Mountain, outside Harbin, China. Photographed in October 2015. |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Patagonia Storm_" Lake Pahoe with wind waves and Paine Massif mountains. Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile, Patag |
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Dennis Frates USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lenticulars" Paine Massif mountains with lenticukar clouds . Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, Patagonia |
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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Haiku (1)" |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee Nature Professional "Yūgen" Kopparnäs, Finland, 2017 |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee Nature Professional "Autumn Contrast" Vanajanvesi, Finland, 2017 |
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Duncan de Fey Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Sea" |
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Ed Cooley USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Spider Tree" |
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Edmond Terakopian UK Nominee Nature Professional "Drama In The Skies" A dramatic beam of sunlight shines above the clouds. London. |
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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee Nature Professional "New Hope" With every dawn a new Hope .Agujas beach, Puntarenas Costa Rica. |
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Ellen Seefeldt USA Nominee Nature Professional "VAPOR TRAILS" |
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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gandalf" Waterfall at Mount Rainier |
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Felix Shumack UK Nominee Nature Professional "LIGMELL SCARS I" A landscape image of Ligmell Scars in the Lake District National Park, UK. |
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Filip Gierlinski UK Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes" Winds of change blow the sands across the dunes at dusk |
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Geoffrey McKillop Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Loch Eilt" |
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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee Nature Professional "POOLS" L'Isola di Skye è un posto veramente quasi incontaminato dove l'uomo percorrendola si rende conto di quanto è piccolo rispetto al creato e quanta importanza ha preservarla dall'inquinamento e il ris |
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Glyn Davies UK Nominee Nature Professional "Swellies Whirlpool" Giant whirlpools form when two tidal flows meet along the narrow Menai Strait, North Wales |
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Ilja C. Hendel Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Hardanger Vidda" Good Friday at Hardanger Vidda, Europe's greatest mountain plateau |
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James Fox USA Nominee Nature Professional "Wind Ridge" |
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Jan Wieczorek Poland Nominee Nature Professional "The kingdom of nature." Warmia. Poland. |
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Jason Buch USA Nominee Nature Professional "Birds" Birds on a dead tree, Kruger Park, South Africa |
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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee Nature Professional "END OF SNOW" |
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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Stoneface" |
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John Orcutt USA Nominee Nature Professional "East Kennegabo Mountain, Maine, USA " Reflection |
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John E. Kelly USA Nominee Nature Professional "Asheville" Asheville, NC |
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Jonathan Dann USA Nominee Nature Professional "MAROON BELLS" SPECTACULAR MAROON BELLS IN SUMMER |
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Jonathan David Sabin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Moon over Sedona" I've photographed Sedona since 1978. The area grows, The Land remains the same... |
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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee Nature Professional "Three Birches" |
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Kate Jordahl USA Nominee Nature Professional "Trees in Fog, Schokland, Netherlands" |
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Kip Sudduth USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sedona" The Red Rocks of Sedona, AZ as a storm abades. Digital Photography -Soloarization |
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Lee Scott USA Nominee Nature Professional "A Landscape to Challenge Your View" White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona |
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Lothar Troeller USA Nominee Nature Professional "Gowanus Canal Brooklyn" The Gowanus Canal has chances to become beautiful again... |
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Louis Wallach USA Nominee Nature Professional "High Valley Dawn 2" Distant ranch in the early morning mountains. |
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Louis Gaillard France Nominee Nature Professional "black sand 1" |
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Lucille Feremans Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "NORWAY" Norway, summertime sunset, during a cruise... romance... |
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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cradle Reflections" The summit of Cradle Mountain reflected in an icy alpine tarn |
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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "MISTY MORNING" The sun rays and fog created a magical moment. |
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Malcolm Schuyl UK Nominee Nature Professional "Fungal Architecture" Bridal Veil Stinkhorn Fungus |
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Marc Stapelberg Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Still" Sand dune sits silent and still in the Namibian desert. |
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Mat Beetson Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Catalina's Boab" This Boab has such a regal presence, extending a branch to those who might land on her. |
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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes #1" Winter at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes brings solitude and whispering winds... |
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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dunes #2" Winter at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes brings solitude and whispering winds... |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Tree & Cloud" Cloud floats over a barren, browned off field |
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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Moeraki Kumara" Legend has it that these are former kumera and calabashes washed ashore from an ancient canoe |
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Michael Streckbein Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Winter" A cold and misty morning in the forest. |
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Michael Hart USA Nominee Nature Professional "Holm Island, Sound of Rasaay, Isle of Skye" Holm Island in The Sound of Rasaay, The Isle of Skye, Scotland |
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Michael Stoklos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Fall trees " Fall trees in St David AZ |
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Michael Hudson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monster Wave" A huge wave crashes over the rocks at the Schoodic Peninsula, Maine |
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Mickey Strider USA Nominee Nature Professional "La Jolla Daybreak" La Jolla, California. Sea Lions sit atop a rock formation as waves crash against the shoreline. |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "Light from Heaven to Earth" During a evening storm in the summer Mother Nature created an awesome lightning display from the heavens to the earth |
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Nathalie Lauzon Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Reflexion" Emerald Lake, Canada |
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Nathaniel Coalson UK Nominee Nature Professional "Great White Sand Dune" Giant dune of pure white gypsum sand in New Mexico |
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Nicky Ryan Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Poe Beach, Near Bourail " Poe Beach, Near Bourail |
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Nicole Robinson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ace Basin Morn" Ace Basin Tidal Creek March 2018 |
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Olivier Robert France Nominee Nature Professional "Snow Monsters" |
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Olivier Robert France Nominee Nature Professional "Grove of Trees" |
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Olivier Robert France Nominee Nature Professional "Huangshan Tree" |
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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee Nature Professional "Mountain shape" Reflected mountain, Lofoten |
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Pallon Daruwala India Nominee Nature Professional "full bloom" a lone tree lifting the spirit of an entire dark forest |
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Patricia Dinu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lava Tube" |
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Patricia Dinu USA Nominee Nature Professional "Blue Cypress Lake" |
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Patricia Jarvis USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lake City Pass" A mountain pass just outside of Lake City, Colorado |
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Paul Sanders UK Nominee Nature Professional "Sirnea" |
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Paul J Harvey UK Nominee Nature Professional "Elgol" Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland during a storm |
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Peter Misfeldt Denmark Nominee Nature Professional "El Corazon" North Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 2017 (From the series The Second Survey) |
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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Professional "Monuments at dawn" Reynisdrangar rock formations in the southern Iceland taken during dawn |
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Rachael Smith New Zealand Nominee Nature Professional "Turitea Fog" I see clearly, but how I am seen is like being viewed through the thickest fog. They don't know me. |
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Ragnar B. Varga Norway Nominee Nature Professional "The sun kisses La Olla" Minimalist landscape, capturing the stillness of the mediterranean during the autumn in Altea, Spain. |
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Richard Mack USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Totality" The Totality of the solar eclipse 2017. |
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Richard Dweck USA Nominee Nature Professional "Triple Crown Winner" A winner, even after its first life is over |
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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Alone Bench " |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Professional "Indus" Ladakh, India |
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Rodrigo Etcheto USA Nominee Nature Professional "Flow" Waterfall in the Olympic Peninsula |
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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Cork Tree" |
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Ruud Peters France Nominee Nature Professional "flatlands" |
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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Amethyst Hairstreak Butterfly Babysitting" This Amethyst Hairstreak butterfly was babysitting the cocoon of a different species. |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Highlands" Highland desert in Iceland |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Mirror " Atacam Desert |
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Samuel Feron France Nominee Nature Professional "Kingdom" Guangxi Province in China |
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Sandy Adams USA Nominee Nature Professional "To the Point" |
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Sandy Sharkey Canada Nominee Nature Professional "The Creek to Nowhere" Where does this creek go? On this foggy morning, the answer was 'nowhere'. |
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Seth Mayer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Oregon Coast" Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor |
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Shinsuke Yoshida Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Dialogue with a different layer" The tree on the lake looks living in a different layer. |
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Silvio Kramar Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Cadillac Canyon" The rugged coast in Victoria offers strange and beautiful places to photograph. |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Civita di Bagnoregio-b" Italy |
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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee Nature Professional "Wadi Rum" Giodania |
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Steve Gosling UK Nominee Nature Professional "Under a Turbulent Sky" Swirling clouds conceal and reveal the mountains in Antarctica |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Kelp Galaxy" Point Lobos State Reserve – From the sci fi B&W nature portfolio, Expressions of Infinity. |
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Steve Walton UK Nominee Nature Professional "Mulafossur" A stormy day at Gasadalur, Faroe Islands |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Misty Rocks." |
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Steven Massart Belgium Nominee Nature Professional "After Dusk" Seaview after dusk in Bretagne |
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Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Glacier" Margerie Glacier Alaska |
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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Winter Island" A long exposure smooths out the rough waters of Lake Superior. |
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Sven Heinrich Germany Nominee Nature Professional "la gomera" Hiking around on the beautiful island La Gomera, I took this special moment. |
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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "In the forest IV" |
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Thomas Brotzler Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Cirque du Fer-Ã -Cheval | Study 01" French Alps |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Nature Professional "Trees and Shadows" Winter Morning in Yellowstone in Burnt Forest |
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Tony Hertz USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dune Anatomy No.16" Sand dunes at Oceano State Dunes District, California |
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Ursula Stiglitz Austria Nominee Nature Professional "greengray" to agree to differ |
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Victor Elias USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sky in Water" Clouds reflection in a pond with lillies |
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Viral Padiya India Nominee Nature Professional "Yosemite National Park" Yosemite National Park |
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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Nominee Nature Professional "BEITH" Betula aetnensis. Beautiful and elegant, it crosses the border between two worlds. |
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Wally Randall Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Mt.Burgess" Morning light on Mt.Burgess, Yoho Natl. Park, British Columbia |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Nature Professional "The Invisible Man" The coral reef looks like an invisible person. |
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Yolanda Chiaramello UK Nominee Nature Professional "Majestic " Flower Farm |
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Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Seaweed Poles" |
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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee Nature Professional "Sea of Dunes" The clouds create a very special effect. |
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