Nature - Amateur

Glass House Jurius Jurius
Indonesia

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement
Nature
Professional

"Glass House"
When only you and the Tree = Peace



heart of antelope canyon Albert Stoehr
Germany

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence
Nature
Professional

"heart of antelope canyon"
from a fototour in the antelope canyon



Dunes #14 Christian Meermann
Germany

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction
Nature
Professional

"Dunes #14"
Dune and beach grass, found in the extensive beach and dune area in Amrum, Germany.



The Dancing Trees Nick Green
UK

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"The Dancing Trees"
Green nicholas



 A Light At The End Of The Tunnel Debbie Rubin
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

" A Light At The End Of The Tunnel"
The beautiful trees framed the light giving it a supernal glow.



Polar Ice Symmetry Louisa Paez Michelin
Colombia

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Polar Ice Symmetry"
It is silent. The ship is gently drifting along polar water that seemed like glass. These unique pieces of Polar Ice Symmetry seemed to be floating above the water line. Each with its beause design



Crescent Dune John Eaton
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Crescent Dune"



Aspens in Park City William Alsobrook
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Aspens in Park City"
Aspens in Park City



A Grassy Knoll Richard Burdon
UK

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"A Grassy Knoll"
A bare tree on a snowy hill top makes a simple graphic monochrome image



Dingle Waterfall John Crowley
Ireland

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Dingle Waterfall"
A waterfall on the Dingle coastline, Ireland.



Herald Ed Sancious
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Herald"



Ice Bridge Paradise Harbour Brian Jones
Australia

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Ice Bridge Paradise Harbour"



Oak & Light Nathan Wirth
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Oak & Light "
Oak Tree in Marin County, CA



Gouganne Barra John Crowley
Ireland

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Gouganne Barra"
Gouganne Barra, West Cork, Ireland



Drifting Antonio Gouveia
UK

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Drifting"
Drifting away slowly towards its next destination, leaving motion in its trail.



Approaching Storm Peter Aitken
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Approaching Storm"
Atlantic Ocean, off the North Carolina coast.



Infinite Ivan Hernandez
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Infinite "
Milky Way Galaxy shimmering over the Sierra Nevada, CA. A clear night that I won’t forget



Veil of Eden Brian Rivera
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Veil of Eden"



Legacy (from the series Against the Sea) Scott Bolendz
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Legacy (from the series Against the Sea)"



Dead Trees in Dam Keith Wilson
Germany

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Dead Trees in Dam"
Spotted these trees over a fence while driving in New Zealand...



Enchanted Ernesto Rodriguez
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Enchanted"
Master of the waters, lone cypress endures in the cold and fog.



Lake Martin Cypresses Laszlo Perlaky
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Lake Martin Cypresses"
Spring time Bald Cypress trees like skirts of dancers with shadow play in Lake Martin's swamp, Louisiana, USA



Touching Down in Randall, Minnesota Don Whitebread
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Touching Down in Randall, Minnesota"
The beginnings of a tornado forming over farmland in Randall, Minnesota



Deep Forest James Meldrum
USA

Honorable Mention
Nature
Professional

"Deep Forest"



Cinque Torri Alberto Perer
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Cinque Torri"
At dawn I see an evocative climatic condition, a sea of clouds was very low and covered the valley of the Ampezzo Dolomites. The clouds wraps the peaks of the Cinque Torri mountains. Italy.



Baltic Sea, Lithuania Andreas Bruglacher
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Baltic Sea, Lithuania"



Eternal Monument Antonio Gouveia
UK

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Eternal Monument"
Battered and worn through all weathers, standing steady and strong for eternity.



LONE SURVIVOR Arup Bhattacharjee
India

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"LONE SURVIVOR"
LONE TREE IN SNOW FIELD



Dark Mountains Aurelio Bormioli
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Dark Mountains "
Valle Maira (Cn) – Italy 2018



Oblivion Aurelio Bormioli
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Oblivion"
Lac du Mont-Cenis – France 2018



Brains of Sand Bill Motley
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Brains of Sand"
Dunes in Death Valley National Park



Dead Horse Point 0855 Bob Neiman
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Dead Horse Point 0855"
Dead Horse Point 0855 Dead Horse Point State Park During A Rain Storm



Gladwin Pond Bob St-Cyr
Canada

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Gladwin Pond"
Sunset on Gladwin Pond



Approaching Summer Clouds Bohdan Hrynyshyn
Canada

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Approaching Summer Clouds"
Summer clouds over a wheat field



Iceberg Paradise Harbour 2 Brian Jones
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Iceberg Paradise Harbour 2"



texture, lines, light, shadow brian valente
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"texture, lines, light, shadow"
clouds, reflections and sand bars in lone pine, ca



Elegance in the trees Cain Shimizu
Japan

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Elegance in the trees"
This is a submerged forest taken in Japan. I want to share this beautiful scenery of Japan with people all over the world.



Mighty El Cap Charita Carter
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Mighty El Cap"
El Capitan of the Yosemite Valley during a clearing snow storm



Dunes #15 Christian Meermann
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Dunes #15"
Dunes found in the extensive dune area in Amrum, Germany.



Tawhai Falls Christine Jacobson
New Zealand

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Tawhai Falls"
The photo was made on a very rainy day.



Approaching Storm David Jacobs
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Approaching Storm"
Infrared Photo of Approaching Storm in Queensland, Australia



Tributaries, Diptych Debra Achen
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Tributaries, Diptych"
The quickly melting snow sent tributaries in all directions.



Untitled Devin Campbell
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Untitled"



Mountain Lake, Montana Diane Kaye
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Mountain Lake, Montana"
Film from analog plastic Banner camera.



Anasazi Stone Circle Lookout Don Whitebread
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Anasazi Stone Circle Lookout"
An ancient Native American stone circle in an alcove high on a sandstone cliff in Utah.



Twin Trees Don Hooper
UK

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Twin Trees"
The Twin Trees are on the horizon looking down on a crop of Rapeseed oil plants.



Sinai sand Efim Chernov
Russia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Sinai sand"
The photo was taken with a large format camera on a 4 by 5 inch sheet slide. Egypt, Sinai desert.



mask of ice Erika Tanzer
Austria

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"mask of ice"
taken on 29th August 2018 in Iceland on the beach near Jökulsarlon



 Spring Evangelia Athanasopoulou
Greece

Nominee
Nature
Professional

" Spring "
Zagori Region, Greece



A sweet awakening Fabio Rossi
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"A sweet awakening"
The sweet awakening of nature on a spring morning in Tuscany, we are in Cantagallo near Prato



Exploring Vestrahorn Fredrick Muscat
Malta

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Exploring Vestrahorn"
Vestrahorn, on the Stokksnes peninsula in Iceland. Photo taken in March 2018



Keeping Watch Gary Wagner
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Keeping Watch"
Black and White Seascape



Cloudscape, Tree Gary Kuroki
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Cloudscape, Tree"



Stormy Night at NY Gautam Kamat Bambolkar
India

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Stormy Night at NY"
What a delight it was watching lightning-god play with New York's pride - The World Trade Center.



Dew Pond Gillian Martlew
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Dew Pond"



The dead trees of Deadvlei Giovanni Sonsini
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The dead trees of Deadvlei"
A detail of the dead trees in a place of Namib desert called "Deadvlei" -Namibia



Dancing Tree Glenn Vanderbeke
Belgium

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Dancing Tree"
In dutch we have this saying: High Trees catch a lot of wind. This is my impression.



The storm Graeme Gordon
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The storm "



Single Tree Guenther Reissner
Austria

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Single Tree"
Winter, Snow, Tree, Cloudy, Austria



In the Winecountry Guenther Reissner
Austria

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"In the Winecountry"
Winecountry, Winter, Sunset, Shadows, Austria, Lines



The Slug (Night view of the sea) Harald Weimann
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Slug (Night view of the sea)"
Javea Spain 2017



Play of light Ian Shand
New Zealand

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Play of light"
Antelope canyon, known for its colour transforms into a study in lines, layers, weathering and light. Antelope Canyon, Arizona



solitary tree Insang Kang
Korea (South)

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"solitary tree"
a foggy winter, 2019. South Koea.



Spring Serenade Ivan Hernandez
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Spring Serenade "
After days of heavy rain, I was blessed by a clearing storm, which revealed a hidden world. Yosemite National Park, CA.



Ancient Forest Ivan Hernandez
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Ancient Forest "
The Great Basin bristlecone pines are so ghostly gnarled and ashen that they almost looks their age



Human forms James Patrick Conway
Brazil

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Human forms"



Calmness Jan Bellamy
New Zealand

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Calmness"



El Teide Jesse Mechling
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"El Teide"
El Teide volcano, Tenerife, Spain 2019



The Canopy of the Glorious! Jewel Islam
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Canopy of the Glorious!"
The vastness of any glorious existence holds a power which overcasts our vision & insight!



Ventry John Crowley
Ireland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Ventry"
Ventry beach, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland.



Shifting Sands Judy Stokes
New Zealand

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Shifting Sands"
On the Wild West Coast



Out of the Glacier Juergen Wieser
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Out of the Glacier"



Follow your heart Karolin Schild
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Follow your heart"
If you don't follow your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.



Cala Tinnari Keith Ellul
Malta

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Cala Tinnari"



Rainbow Mountain Kos Karathanasis
Netherlands

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Rainbow Mountain "
Rainbow Mountain Peru at 5,200 m altitude



March 2019 Leif Sohlman
Sweden

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"March 2019"
March 2019 BW, a view at path over Dyarna, a swampy area south of city Enkoeping (Enkoping) Sweden,



Pele's breath Leslie Gleim
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Pele's breath"
Aerial image from the Pu'u 'O'o of Kilauea (volcano)



The Skeleton Tree Linda Cutche
New Zealand

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Skeleton Tree"



Sparkles Mark Hopgood
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Sparkles"



Mountains Martin Galea
Malta

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Mountains "
Early morning fog in between the mountains



Huang Shan Mountain Matty Karp
Israel

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Huang Shan Mountain"
Majestic Yellow Mountain in China.



2999 Meter Merten Riesner
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"2999 Meter"
photographed in June 2017, dolomites, I love the mountains, the mountains show me again and again where man has his limits



Swallow Tail Michael Pachis
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Swallow Tail"



Owens River Mike Boden
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Owens River"
This image was made with a large format 8x10 view camera on B&W film.



Guardians Morden O'Hare
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Guardians"
Quivertrees and rainbow at the Quiver Tree forest, Keetmanshop, Namibia.



Whitewash Morden O'Hare
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Whitewash"
Coastal long exposure, Dunsborough Western Australia.



calm Nadja Naujoks
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"calm"



Soul River Narcis Mursa
Romania

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Soul River"
This photo was taken in Danube Boilers(a little canyon)- Mehedinti County-Romania



Summer Snow Natalia Groza
Poland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Summer Snow"
Fresh snow and rolling clouds changed the landscape dramatically on this cold June morning.



End of the day Nathalie At
France

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"End of the day"



Humboldt Redwoods Nathan Wirth
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Humboldt Redwoods"
The Eel River slithering through Humboldt Redwoods State Park



Lone Tree on Hillside Nathan Wirth
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Lone Tree on Hillside"
Rialto Beach, Olympic Coast, WA, USA



untitled Nathan Wirth
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"untitled "
Redwood National and State Parks, Humboldt County, CA, USA



The Looking glass Olga Golopolosova
Denmark

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Looking glass"
The sky reflex in the sea at the coast of Esbjerg, Denmark , 2018



Sleeping giants Patrick Ems
Switzerland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Sleeping giants"



Felsengrab, Study 1, Rugen 2018 Patrick Opierzynski
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Felsengrab, Study 1, Rugen 2018"
This photo was taken on the German island of Rügen and shows a rock tomb.



In Search of Silence - Etang de Gruere Paul Christener
Switzerland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"In Search of Silence - Etang de Gruere"
In Search of Silence - Etang de Gruere



Sculpted Iceberg Paul Hetzel
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Sculpted Iceberg"
Eastern Greenland



Apogee Phil Anderson
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Apogee"



clearing storm, late afternoon Phil Anderson
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"clearing storm, late afternoon"



winter, California desert Phil Anderson
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"winter, California desert"



Skyfall Phil Pogledich
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Skyfall"
Heaven meets earth in Yosemite Valley, Spring 2019.



Evanescent nature Pierre Pellegrini
Switzerland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Evanescent nature"
The fog and its veil of mystery and curiosity



Trees Near Gingolx Randall Bresee
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Trees Near Gingolx"



Duned Rene Algesheimer
Switzerland

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Duned"
Empty Quarter, UAE, January 2018



Solitude Richard Burdon
UK

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Solitude"
A lone tree in a wide open landscape



Snow Creek Study Richard Chirichillo
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Snow Creek Study"
Upper Snow Creek Falls , Kootenai Wildlife Refuge , Id , USA ...



Laguna Amarga Roberto Maciel
Brazil

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Laguna Amarga"
In Torres del Paine



The Hairs of Mountain Rony Tjayana
Indonesia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Hairs of Mountain"
when the road to the location we wan, suddenly I see on the hill lined with trees that only have twi



The House and the Mountain Rosario Civello
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The House and the Mountain"



Ice Cold Rowena English
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Ice Cold"
Winter, deep inside the Arctic Circle in the Lofoten Islands is a frozen wonderland



static Sandra Hunter
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"static"
Lake Annaghmakerrig, Ireland



Light Sebastien Bulenger
France

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Light"



A windy day Shifra Levyathan
Israel

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"A windy day"



Mountain paths Sidney Gaspar
Brazil

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Mountain paths"
Mendoza - Argentina



The Myst Stefano Coltelli
Italy

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The Myst"
Zhangjiajie Park during a particular time of the year the mountains are surrounded by seas of cloud.



White Horses Sue Trower
UK

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"White Horses"



Shore Break Sue Trower
UK

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Shore Break"



Winter landscape Susanne Eftevand
Norway

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Winter landscape"
from Norway



fuzzy Tiffanie Ragasa
USA

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"fuzzy"



The BirthingTree Tim Lucas
Australia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"The BirthingTree"
The Birthing Tree, like a womb, is a source of renewal, shelter and comfort.



Purity Valentin Denyset
France

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Purity"
In winter 2019, during a solitary 50-day trip to an isolated wooden cabin in Norway...



Springtime Volker Kesting
Netherlands

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Springtime"



Camel Rock Volker Birke
Germany

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Camel Rock"
Camel Rock, Pacific Ocean, Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia



Alone Zuzana Kamel
Slovakia

Nominee
Nature
Professional

"Alone"
Walking alone in Sossusvlei namibian desert



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