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            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 Colombia 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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            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 R 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 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  Soltys Czech Republic Nominee "Tenants" Nesting collony of guillemots on Cliff of Moher in Ireland  | 
  
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            Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "Silky Sunset" Silky shark portrait with an evening sunburst backdrop, taken in Jardines de la Reina, Cuba  | 
  
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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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