Nature - Professional

Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "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 "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 "Emergence " Guangxi Province in China

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Alister Benn UK Honorable Mention "Gravity" In a world where I feel so small.

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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention "Cypress" States of Grace: Flora - Carmel, CA

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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Honorable Mention "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 "The Slot (1)" Deep in the slots canyons of Utah

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Stefan Kuhn Germany Honorable Mention "Breakthrough" Breaking Icefield on fishing lake, captured in february 2018

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Alister Benn UK Honorable Mention "The Spirit of Tibet" Rising to 6740m, Kawa Gabo is sacred to the Tibetan people.

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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Liquid Sky" Inch Strand, County Kerry, Ireland

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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention "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 "cloud and sky" Sunset over Southern Texas

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Alexandre Manuel Portugal Honorable Mention "Haiku (2)" One peak at the huangshan mountain

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Sebastien Arbour Canada Honorable Mention "Magic Forest" A vaporous forest taken on early spring, offering a magical view.

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Adrian Davis USA Honorable Mention "Friends and Family" Cypress trees at Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina

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G Sharad Haksar India Honorable Mention "Blown" Slope Point, New Zealand

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Jeff Johnson USA Honorable Mention "It Must Be Happening on the Mountain"

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Samuel Feron France Honorable Mention "Abandon" A piece of ice standing on a black sand beach.

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Clifford White Australia Honorable Mention "Perfection" Perfect wave at Narrabeen beach in Sydney Australia

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Margo Taussig Pinkerton USA Honorable Mention "Fading Sun"

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Paul Sanders UK Honorable Mention "Glen Etive"

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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention "Black Yosemite"

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Honorable Mention "BEACH" Cepilho Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Wilfried Beege Germany Honorable Mention "STYXX" Wadi in Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias

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Adolfo Enriquez Calo Spain Nominee "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 "Light Rays"

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Adrian Barrett New Zealand Nominee "Sunrise" Sunrise over a textured beach

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Albert Chen USA Nominee "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 "Fairy's Airfiled" Unusual and mystique plateau in Faerie Glen (Isle of Skye, Scotland)

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Alexandria Neoh Singapore Nominee "Misty Wilderness" Spotted whilst on a climb up Mt. Rinjani, Lombok

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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee "Winter Wonderland "

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Ali Ihtiyar Canada Nominee "Isolated" trees nature

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Andy Woods New Zealand Nominee "Riverton Beach" Morning At Riverton Beach, New Zealand

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "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 "The "Fall""

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Brad Allen Canada Nominee "Anticipation" A snow leopard quietly observes her prey from the shadows....

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Burt Crapo USA Nominee "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 "Vernal Falls" Vernal Falls Yosemite May 2018

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Cathy Bruegger USA Nominee "In Your Dreams" In your Dreams

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee "road"

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Celeste McKenzie South Africa Nominee "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 "Myanmar Landscape" Myanmar Landscape

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Charles Bush USA Nominee "IR Tree Trunks" Infrared image of Live Oak Trees at Lake Martin Louisiana

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Christian Klant Germany Nominee "silence" Wet Plate Collodion Tintype

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Cody Brothers USA Nominee "Happy Saguaro " Analog 6x17 capture

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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee "St. Croix River" From the book: St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers — The Enduring Gift.

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Craig Bill USA Nominee "Circle of Life" A Moonbow forms over petroglyphs in New Mexico

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "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 "Hook" Along the Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Beach, Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey

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Dawn Black UK Nominee "I am a rock, I am an island" Bow Fiddle Rock, Portnockie, Scotland

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Dawn Benko USA Nominee "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 "The Sun Over Stony Lake" The sun rises over Stony Lake in Stokes State Forest

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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee "The Canyon Tree" The Canyon Tree. Snake River Canyon, Idaho. July 2017.

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Debbie O'Donnell USA Nominee "Melaleuca" Island Point Reserve, Western Australia

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Deborah Gray Mitchell USA Nominee "Birch Trees near Harbin, China" Enroute to Phoenix Mountain, outside Harbin, China. Photographed in October 2015.

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "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 "Lenticulars" Paine Massif mountains with lenticukar clouds . Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, Patagonia

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "Haiku (1)"

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Yūgen" Kopparnäs, Finland, 2017

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Autumn Contrast" Vanajanvesi, Finland, 2017

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Duncan de Fey Netherlands Nominee "Sea"

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Ed Cooley USA Nominee "The Spider Tree"

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Edmond Terakopian UK Nominee "Drama In The Skies" A dramatic beam of sunlight shines above the clouds. London.

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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee "New Hope" With every dawn a new Hope .Agujas beach, Puntarenas Costa Rica.

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Ellen Seefeldt USA Nominee "VAPOR TRAILS"

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Gandalf" Waterfall at Mount Rainier

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Felix Shumack UK Nominee "LIGMELL SCARS I" A landscape image of Ligmell Scars in the Lake District National Park, UK.

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Filip Gierlinski UK Nominee "Dunes" Winds of change blow the sands across the dunes at dusk

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Geoffrey McKillop Australia Nominee "Loch Eilt"

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "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 "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 "Hardanger Vidda" Good Friday at Hardanger Vidda, Europe's greatest mountain plateau

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James Fox USA Nominee "Wind Ridge"

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Jan Wieczorek Poland Nominee "The kingdom of nature." Warmia. Poland.

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Jason Buch USA Nominee "Birds" Birds on a dead tree, Kruger Park, South Africa

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "END OF SNOW"

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "Stoneface"

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John Orcutt USA Nominee "East Kennegabo Mountain, Maine, USA " Reflection

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John E. Kelly USA Nominee "Asheville" Asheville, NC

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Jonathan Dann USA Nominee "MAROON BELLS" SPECTACULAR MAROON BELLS IN SUMMER

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Jonathan David Sabin USA Nominee "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 "Three Birches"

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Kate Jordahl USA Nominee "Trees in Fog, Schokland, Netherlands"

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Kip Sudduth USA Nominee "Sedona" The Red Rocks of Sedona, AZ as a storm abades. Digital Photography -Soloarization

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Lee Scott USA Nominee "A Landscape to Challenge Your View" White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

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Lothar Troeller USA Nominee "Gowanus Canal Brooklyn" The Gowanus Canal has chances to become beautiful again...

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Louis Wallach USA Nominee "High Valley Dawn 2" Distant ranch in the early morning mountains.

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Louis Gaillard France Nominee "black sand 1"

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Lucille Feremans Belgium Nominee "NORWAY" Norway, summertime sunset, during a cruise... romance...

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Luke Tscharke Australia Nominee "Cradle Reflections" The summit of Cradle Mountain reflected in an icy alpine tarn

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee "MISTY MORNING" The sun rays and fog created a magical moment.

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Malcolm Schuyl UK Nominee "Fungal Architecture" Bridal Veil Stinkhorn Fungus

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Marc Stapelberg Australia Nominee "Still" Sand dune sits silent and still in the Namibian desert.

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Mat Beetson Australia Nominee "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 "Dunes #1" Winter at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes brings solitude and whispering winds...

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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee "Dunes #2" Winter at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes brings solitude and whispering winds...

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "Tree & Cloud" Cloud floats over a barren, browned off field

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Michael Venz New Zealand Nominee "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 "Winter" A cold and misty morning in the forest.

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Michael Hart USA Nominee "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 "Fall trees " Fall trees in St David AZ

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Michael Hudson USA Nominee "Monster Wave" A huge wave crashes over the rocks at the Schoodic Peninsula, Maine

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Mickey Strider USA Nominee "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 "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 "Reflexion" Emerald Lake, Canada

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Nathaniel Coalson UK Nominee "Great White Sand Dune" Giant dune of pure white gypsum sand in New Mexico

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Nicky Ryan Australia Nominee "Poe Beach, Near Bourail " Poe Beach, Near Bourail

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Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Ace Basin Morn" Ace Basin Tidal Creek March 2018

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Olivier Robert France Nominee "Snow Monsters"

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Olivier Robert France Nominee "Grove of Trees"

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Olivier Robert France Nominee "Huangshan Tree"

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "Mountain shape" Reflected mountain, Lofoten

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Pallon Daruwala India Nominee "full bloom" a lone tree lifting the spirit of an entire dark forest

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Lava Tube"

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Blue Cypress Lake"

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Patricia Jarvis USA Nominee "Lake City Pass" A mountain pass just outside of Lake City, Colorado

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Paul Sanders UK Nominee "Sirnea"

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Paul J Harvey UK Nominee "Elgol" Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland during a storm

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Peter Misfeldt Denmark Nominee "El Corazon" North Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 2017 (From the series The Second Survey)

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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee "Monuments at dawn" Reynisdrangar rock formations in the southern Iceland taken during dawn

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Rachael Smith New Zealand Nominee "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 "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 "The Totality" The Totality of the solar eclipse 2017.

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Richard Dweck USA Nominee "Triple Crown Winner" A winner, even after its first life is over

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Robert Maynard UK Nominee "Alone Bench "

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Indus" Ladakh, India

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Rodrigo Etcheto USA Nominee "Flow" Waterfall in the Olympic Peninsula

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Cork Tree"

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Ruud Peters France Nominee "flatlands"

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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee "Amethyst Hairstreak Butterfly Babysitting" This Amethyst Hairstreak butterfly was babysitting the cocoon of a different species.

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Highlands" Highland desert in Iceland

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Mirror " Atacam Desert

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Kingdom" Guangxi Province in China

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Sandy Adams USA Nominee "To the Point"

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Sandy Sharkey Canada Nominee "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 "Oregon Coast" Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor

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Shinsuke Yoshida Japan Nominee "Dialogue with a different layer" The tree on the lake looks living in a different layer.

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Silvio Kramar Australia Nominee "Cadillac Canyon" The rugged coast in Victoria offers strange and beautiful places to photograph.

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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee "Civita di Bagnoregio-b" Italy

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Stefano Ciol Italy Nominee "Wadi Rum" Giodania

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Under a Turbulent Sky" Swirling clouds conceal and reveal the mountains in Antarctica

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "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 "Mulafossur" A stormy day at Gasadalur, Faroe Islands

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Misty Rocks."

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Steven Massart Belgium Nominee "After Dusk" Seaview after dusk in Bretagne

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Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee "Glacier" Margerie Glacier Alaska

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Susan Dykstra Canada Nominee "Winter Island" A long exposure smooths out the rough waters of Lake Superior.

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Sven Heinrich Germany Nominee "la gomera" Hiking around on the beautiful island La Gomera, I took this special moment.

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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee "In the forest IV"

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Thomas Brotzler Germany Nominee "Cirque du Fer-à-Cheval | Study 01" French Alps

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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee "Trees and Shadows" Winter Morning in Yellowstone in Burnt Forest

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Tony Hertz USA Nominee "Dune Anatomy No.16" Sand dunes at Oceano State Dunes District, California

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Ursula Stiglitz Austria Nominee "greengray" to agree to differ

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Victor Elias USA Nominee "Sky in Water" Clouds reflection in a pond with lillies

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Viral Padiya India Nominee "Yosemite National Park" Yosemite National Park

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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Nominee "BEITH" Betula aetnensis. Beautiful and elegant, it crosses the border between two worlds.

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Wally Randall Canada Nominee "Mt.Burgess" Morning light on Mt.Burgess, Yoho Natl. Park, British Columbia

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "The Invisible Man" The coral reef looks like an invisible person.

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Yolanda Chiaramello UK Nominee "Majestic " Flower Farm

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Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee "Seaweed Poles"

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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee "Sea of Dunes" The clouds create a very special effect.

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