Wildlife - Professional

Jennifere Thompson Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Lonely Boy" When growing up in a man's world it can be lonely. When you are a monkey it means extinction.

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Peering Crocodile" An American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) peers above the thin blue line, and we make eye contact th

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Scott Portelli Australia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Dusky" Taking a breath begins with an exhale

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Alexandra Cearns Australia Honorable Mention "Sheep" This is Francine the rescue sheep. She was handed in to a vet clinic after being found wandering the street. She was underweight and malnourished. She was taken in by Possum Valley Sanctuary in...

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention "a last kiss" The sick chimpanzee baby died a few days after taking this picture.

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Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Honorable Mention "Guy"

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Lee Gordon USA Honorable Mention "Flamingo" Flamingo preening

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Andrey Gudkov Russia Honorable Mention "Let's play." Brown bears. Finland.

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "Last chase"

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Scott Dere USA Honorable Mention "Collosus" A close encounter with one of Africa's giants will humble anyone who dares to experience it.

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Honorable Mention "Rain Flight" Great Tit flying off in light rain. France

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Pedro Jarque Spain Honorable Mention "You are not alone" Empathy is not restricted to humans

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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention "Awestruck" A Scottish Mountain Hare, surprised, in the Scottish Highlands, Scotland.

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Rolf Walther Germany Honorable Mention "Baby Ape playing"

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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention "Steely Eyes" A Coyote scours the banks of the Madison River, looking for breakfast, in Yellowstone National Park.

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Annie Katz USA Honorable Mention "Serenity" A Scottish Mountain Hare during a snowstorm in the Scottish Highlands, Scotland.

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Tina Thuell Bermuda Honorable Mention "War Horse" The Andalusian or PRE, Pure Spanish Horse, better known as a War Horse, was prized by nobility!

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Lee Gordon USA Honorable Mention "Pelicans" Pelicans on pilings

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Roie Galitz Israel Honorable Mention "Giant of the Savannah" An alpha male Elephant in a threat display in the Serengeti, Tanzania

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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention "Remora" Remora attach themselves for a ride and clean up any of the dead skin from the baby whale.

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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Honorable Mention "Lethal Stare" yacare alligators in muddy water, northern Argentina

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Paula Durbin USA Honorable Mention "Cheetah Snack" Maliah and her cubs

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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention "Connection" The females are quite protective of the young and will keep them close

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Steve Zmak USA Honorable Mention "Dolphin Race" Na Pali Coast, Kauai 2017

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Dawn Benko USA Honorable Mention "Reflections of a Beaver" A beaver swims in a swamp in High Point State Park in Montague, New Jersey.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention "A Long Call" In a man's world it's a long call to for an Orang-utan to be heard.

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Joyce P. Lopez USA Honorable Mention "Frogs Fell From the Sky" True Story

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Kristen Warning USA Honorable Mention "Just Her Eye" Just Her Eye

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Sreekumar Krishnan India Honorable Mention "Glider" Lady of the lake

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Alexander Varvarin Russia Nominee "Interrupted Siesta"

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Alexandra Cearns Australia Nominee "Reptilian" This bearded dragon lizard is one of the education animals at Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Australia and helps members of the community learn about reptiles.

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Alexandria Neoh Singapore Nominee "Wild Beauty" Wild Macaque in Malaysia

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Andrew Kemp Brazil Nominee "Sea gulls flight path" Light trails from a flock of sea gulls

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Andrey Gudkov Russia Nominee "Snow dance of cranes" Hokkaido. Japan.

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Oasis" Gulls gather for some down time and relaxation at a private waterfall oasis in Norway.

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Seagull" A Seagull flying directly into the sun at dusk in a dark fiord in Norway.

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "The Bison" Bison, Yellowstone

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Barb Young USA Nominee "Galloping in Sagebrush" An exuberant gallop on a lovely summer day in the sagebrush in the Colorado Mountains.

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Bev Pettit USA Nominee "Onaqui Wild Stallions" Two wild stallions share a rare tender moment on the Onaqui Range in the Great Basin Desert of Utah.

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Osprey"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Eagle fight"

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Bobbie Goodrich USA Nominee "ICELANDIC HORSE ROUNDUP" photographed in the North of Iceland at an annual centuries old horse roundup.

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "Pelicans at Lake Nakuru" Remains of the day at Lake Nakuru Kenya

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Chris Dei USA Nominee "Marabou Stork, Kenya" Three Marabou Stork silhouetted against the sky as we left the Rift Valley in Kenya

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Christoph von Haussen Germany Nominee "Seafood Cemetery" a whole harbor of dead seafood animals

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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee "Close Formation, Trumpeter Swans" From the book: St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers — The Enduring Gift.

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "Orcas of Norway" I talked myself into remaining calm as a whole pod of orcas came straight towards me

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "Lion's Mane" A Lion's Mane Jellyfish is silhouetted against the sun's rays in British Columbia's Great Bear Sea⠀

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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee "The Ice Queen Cometh" The Ice Queen Cometh. Canadian Lynx. Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. November 2017.

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Debby Thomas USA Nominee "Light Play" Spanish horse caught by the light.

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Dvir Barkay USA Nominee "Shoebill Eclipse" Rim lighting on an endangered Sheobill in the swamps of Uganda

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee "Zakula" Zakula, the gorilla, with her hand on her hip

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Filip Gierlinski UK Nominee "Camels" A herd of wild camels gather as the storm rolls in across the Mongolian Steppe

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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee "JellyBelly" Dance like nobody's watching

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Dragonfly Landing" Dragonfly rests on branch of bush at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge near Sudbury, Mass.

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Jan Wieczorek Poland Nominee "Penetration." Warmia. Poland.

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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Nominee "Inflight" Egrets in the Ibera wetlands, northern Argentina

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Jessica Cardelucci USA Nominee "The Great Stallion" A wild mustang stands in the Great Basin, 2018.

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Jonathan Banks UK Nominee "Face Off" Two African bull elephants in a face off stand at the shore line of Lake Manyara in Tanzania

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Joseph Anthony UK Nominee "Teeth and floss" On Sri Lanka assignment. Composition a challenge due to head movement. Story and details drew me in.

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Julie Shipman USA Nominee "Horse Breath" photographing horses on a winter day in utah

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Kay Erickson USA Nominee "Dove" A Dove Takes Flight

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Kirsten Heer Germany Nominee "Lions In Love" photograph taken in the "Tierpark Hagenbeck" in Hamburg in 2016

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Not on My Watch" Shri Lanka elephant family protect their newest family member with a hard stance.

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Landry Major USA Nominee "Winter's Horses" A herd of horses runs through fresh snow in Montana.

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Lee Scott USA Nominee "A Gentle Look in the Eye" Desert Big Horn Sheep in Zion National Park, Utah

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Young Orangutan" Young orangutan eating leaves in forest.

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee "Bison in Yellowstone" Suddenly this large bull appeared out of the mist.

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee "Humpback Whale Breaching " This young humpback made about ten breaches alongside our boat....off Sydney Heads

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Malcolm Schuyl UK Nominee "The Black and White Spider Image" A spider in its web in the Peruvian Rainforest

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Marc Stapelberg Australia Nominee "Ghost buck" A gemsbok in the sousousvlei in Namibia

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Encounter" Elephants are hunted for their ivory and for damaging crops.

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Mark Harvey UK Nominee "Snow Horse" Black Friesian horse in virgin snowscape

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee "Heron Duel" 2 Herons face to face against a white sky. Hungary

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Michael Finn Ireland Nominee "AllSeeing" Maasai Mara, Kenya.

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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee "Peruvian Paso Heritage" Never mounted Peruvian Paso Horses enjoying the desert.

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Neil L. Johnson USA Nominee "Making Wake" Shot from bridge in Boston Gardens.

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "Black tit" Blactit wide angle portrait

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Pamela Pauline Australia Nominee "Like Mother Like Daughter"

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Patricia Jarvis USA Nominee "Where is That Kid Now" Horses on the Range in Colorado waiting for their friend.

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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee "Dancing in the Wind"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Fig the Leopard"

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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee "Kalahari Lion" Portrait of a Kalahari Lion

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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee "Embrace" Zebra Stallions stand tall and embrace, testing each other strengh

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "Leopard" Agressive Leopard, Nepal

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Richard Mack USA Nominee "The Dance" Great White Egrets dance as they land. Whitewater Lake, Wisconsin.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Peacocks of Osian" Osian, Rajasthan, India

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Baby Orang Utan"

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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee "Deer Pig"

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Camouflage"

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Shelley Paulson USA Nominee "Pony Herd" A herd of welsh ponies run through a pool of evening light.

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Simon Puschmann Germany Nominee "Elephant"

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Don't Look Now" Three inquisitive King Penguins at Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Lonely Penguin" A lone Penguin trudges to the beach at Gold Harbour, South Georgia

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Rejected" Two King Penguins, King Haakon Bay, South Georgia

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Steven Haberland Germany Nominee "Giraffe Tree" 2018 Southafrica

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Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee "Snow Owl"

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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee "Emperor Penguin Chicks" 3 Emperor Penguin Chicks in Antartica

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Victoria Hillman UK Nominee "Together" Roosting Marbled White Butterflies

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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee "Cicada" States of Grace: Fauna - Denver, CO

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Taijitu" A red crane cleaning its own feathers looks like a taijitu.

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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee "The King Of The Forest" The monkey defends his females. Looking to me and shaking vigorously the tree trying to afugent me.

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