Nature - Amateur

Wong Choon Keat Malaysia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Dancing Mangroves" the home of dancing mangroves

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Debbie Rubin USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "A New Beginning" Once burned to a crisp, a new beginning to these beauties.

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Louisa Paez Michelin Colombia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Simply Ice" Simply Ice floated in stillness on a very rare soecial quiet and windless morning in Svalbard.

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Honorable Mention "The Wall 5" Big wave surfers are in search of the perfect ride and the biggest waves ever surfed, knowing that e

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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Honorable Mention "früh am Morgen"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Honorable Mention "Snow Cotton"

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Jeff Lucas Canada Honorable Mention "Ruby-Throated Hummingbird" Busy neighbourhood hummingbird just before landing at feeder in Vancouver, BC Canada.

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Sue Trower UK Honorable Mention "A Moment of Power" A moment where a wave crashes into the rock. Feel the force.

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Wilhelm Kleinoeder Germany Honorable Mention "Baltic Sea at Usedom" Baltic Sea at Usedom with rain

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Gerhard Daniels Germany Honorable Mention "Eisberg" 03.01.2020; 64°39'59.292" S 62°42'51.498" W

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John Crowley Ireland Honorable Mention "Glengarriff Mussel Farm"

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention "Forced distance" Hasselblad503CW, Phase On P20+, Hasselblad 4/40mm, 120'', ISO 100

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention "Hibernating"

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Lee Grossman USA Honorable Mention "Variation on a theme by pretty much everybody"

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Ricardo Da Cunha Australia Honorable Mention "Mungo Tree"

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Ricardo Da Cunha Australia Honorable Mention "Volcan Villarrica"

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Konstantinos Oikonomou Greece Honorable Mention "Canal D' Amour"

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Flo Fritz Germany Honorable Mention "molehill desert" Snow over lava formed landscape in icelandic winter

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Jurgen Dopatka USA Honorable Mention "Oreo Trees" Snow Covered Beech Trees, Kirchheim-Teck, Germany

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Stefan Buder Germany Honorable Mention "Niagara - study III"

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Alessandro Andreatini Italy Honorable Mention "Entrapped" Shot at the Dark Hedges, Ireland, in the evening. It was like being entrapped in the branches

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Karmen Orlic Croatia Honorable Mention "I'm one, and I'm a thousand"

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Bernd Beykirch Germany Honorable Mention "Ash, Water and Sand" Taken from a helicopter over a river delta in Iceland

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention "Simply trees in the fog" Hasselblad503CW, Phase One P20+,4/40mm, 119sec, ISO 100

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Cain Shimizu Japan Honorable Mention "Cherry blossoms on the hill" This hill where cherry blossoms bloom is a very picturesque place.

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Stephen Hayes Ireland Honorable Mention "Edge" A long exposure at the beautiful location of Long Strand in West Cork

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Rene Algesheimer Switzerland Honorable Mention "Spiral" Sometimes we wonder how the darks and the whites and intertwined. Captured 2020, Death Valley.

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Ashley Olsen Canada Honorable Mention "Alberta Rain Cloud" It is nice when you are able to capture a rain cloud from side to side with what appears to be a bright beam of sun but is actually a rainbow shining through.

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Richard Burdon UK Honorable Mention "Twenty Trees" A row of trees in a field of snow makes a simple, graphic image.

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Richard Burdon UK Honorable Mention "Misty Beech Wood" The ethereal light of misty morning in the beech wood.

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Tom Sliter USA Honorable Mention "Boneyard Branch" Boneyard beach is on Bulls Island in the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina.

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Aaron Rayburn USA Nominee "Burial Mounds"

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Adriana Kastelan Croatia Nominee "lonely tree" lonely tree on beach

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Ake Alm Germany Nominee "Lighting"

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Aleksei Petrov Russia Nominee "Still waters" Russian spring starts. Ice gets melted. Still waters start to move.

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Alessandro Andreatini Italy Nominee "Desert Lines" In the sunset over Sahara Desert, the wind draws incredible lines in the sand and in the clouds

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Alessandro Andreatini Italy Nominee "Neverending Valley" A panoramic view from Beinn a' Chrulaiste, in Glencoe, Scotland, in the soft light that filters thro

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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Nominee "Light in the dark" The lonley and bettered Tree catches a little light - life is sometimes like this?

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee "Iceberg"

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Andrii Zinchenko Ukraine Nominee "Mystic Forest" Contrast sunset light and clouds of Huangshan – January 2020

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Anne Readel USA Nominee "Ice Hut No. 1"

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Anne Readel USA Nominee "Ice Hut No. 2"

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Annie Low Malaysia Nominee "Entrance to a villa" Entrance to a villa in tuscany, italy, used as location in gladiator movie

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Arvid Fimreite Norway Nominee "Meltdown" Glacier Nigardsbreen Norway. Rapid meltdown...

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Barry Mills New Zealand Nominee "Central Plateau NZ" Standing tall above the earths cloud ceiling are Ruapehu, Ngaruhoe, and Tongariro

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Beatriz Minguez Spain Nominee "Tipping Lines 9" Movement in the sea seen through light both above and below the surface, close and far away.

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Bernd Beykirch Germany Nominee "Clearing Storm" Taken after a strong thunderstorm over Seiser Alm in the Dolomites

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Greenland 6803" Greenland 6803

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "Fly Mate"

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Carla Vermeend Netherlands Nominee "Red Blood Moon"

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Carol Zulman USA Nominee "Seven a.m."

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Black Sea Rocks"

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Charita Carter USA Nominee "Bridalveil Fall In Winter" Bridalveil Fall in Winter - Yosemite Valley

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Christian Bucher Canada Nominee "Aurora Play"

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee "Landing at Lake Mungo" Looking like they have landed on another planet, these visitors to Lake Mungo are dwarfed by the enormous outback sky above this ancient, now dried out lake with its other-worldly landscape.

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Daniel Villanueva Spain Nominee "The Wait" The fact that we are so comfortable in nature comes from the fact that it has no opinion about us.

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David Quinn USA Nominee "By the Shore 8" By the Shore explores the dramatic beauty of glacial erratics.

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David Quinn USA Nominee "By the Shore 10" This series explores the dramatic beauty of glacial erratics on the north shore of Long Island.

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "The Perfect Balance" The absolute perfection of the balance of the rock was beyond belief.

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "Night Time Descends" Alone, as night time approached, the shadows and trees began to appear anthropomorphic.

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Demetrio Jereissati Brazil Nominee "Fairy" I used a smartphone to picture this butterfly

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Cirsium edule" Cirsium edule

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Dvornik Gabor Hungary Nominee "Waypoint" “Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you go in another direction.” ― Suzy Kassem

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Gail Foster Canada Nominee "Aspen Love"

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Endless" Black and White Photography

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Gary Lopez USA Nominee "Lattice" Star energy and gravity stretch ribbons of gas and dust across 100 million light-year of space.

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Gerhard Daniels Germany Nominee "Antarctica" 03.01.2020 near Lemaire island

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Ghassan El-Moussa UK Nominee "Voluptuous Dunes" The dunes of the empty quarter in the UAE can be very sensual

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Hal Tearse USA Nominee "Daybreak in Death Valley" Rolling Silky light in Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes- Death Valley National Park

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Harald Weimann Germany Nominee "Blizzard" Harald Weimann Photograph - Portfolio Winter Sceneries

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Alone in the Desert" A tiny little human at the right top edge of the dunes shows the scale of this vast expanse of sand dunes in the desert of Wahiba Sands, Oman.

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Holger Nimtz Germany Nominee "Reflections on water"

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I-Fan Chen Taiwan Nominee "The Milkyway"

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Ivan Hernandez USA Nominee "California Dream." Early morning vibes along the California coast.

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James Peterson USA Nominee "Reaching" A midwinter reminder that the living landscape will someday be reborn.

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Surreal Landscape"

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Jesse Mechling USA Nominee "Christmas Truce Cementary" Prowse Point Military Cementary, St. Yvon, Belgium

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John Doyle USA Nominee "Snowy Beach" Winter in the Adirondacks

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John Crowley Ireland Nominee "Kilkee Cliffs"

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Juergen Wieser Germany Nominee "Half dead or half alive"

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Julie Yesko USA Nominee "Reeds" Grass reeds at water's edge

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Kartik Rawal India Nominee "Stonology" This shot of a stone erect in middle of a lake, creating a marvelous reflection and shadow by sun

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Keith Wilson Germany Nominee "Remarkables in the Mist" The Remarkable Mountains near Queenstown peaking through the clouds

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "Canyon Trail"

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Klaus Blumhofer Germany Nominee "solitary hut"

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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee "Probing" A Walking Stick probing for food touches a monarch chrysalis.

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Larry Bean USA Nominee "Angle of Repose 3" The Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley N.P. at sunrise are a target rich environment

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Lee Grossman USA Nominee "Jade"

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Lee Grossman USA Nominee "Murray's fig"

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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee "first snow morning" First snow morning BW. Black and white presentation of tonight the first snow this season has come.

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Lorenza Cancian Austria Nominee "Intrusion" Seen in Upper Austria, looked like a "cuckoo's egg"

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Lorenzo Bensi Italy Nominee "Belvedere" Belvedere Waterfall, Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy, 2020

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Arches" The Arches in Portland Creek Newfoundland Canada

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Marco Virgone Italy Nominee "The Crack" Dolomites view in the early summer

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Marie Watt Australia Nominee "1551 : Turpins Falls" This infrared image was taken in a moment of stillness, leaves floating gently on water.

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Biggest"

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Martin Galea Slovak Republic Nominee "Following the water" A wave returning to sea creating a beautiful leading line towards ominous weather.

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Artists Point"

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Mary Ann Tardif USA Nominee "Somber Ocean" Long Exposure Seascape, early morning

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Mats Reslow Sweden Nominee "The Lonely Tree" Skåne, Sweden

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Michael de Guzman Philippines Nominee "Holen" Moeraki Boulders Beach, Hampden, New Zealand taken last Dec. 4, 2019

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee "Strike" Lighting blasts during a thunderstorm during monsoon season in the desert.

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Mihai Florea Australia Nominee "Pan's Labyrinth"

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Mofeed Shalwa Saudi Arabia Nominee "Black wasp" I photographed this Black Wasp in one of the rainforests of Amazon,The iridescent Great Black Wasp p

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Morris Asato USA Nominee "Rooted" Tree roots attempting to reclaim an area now occupied by a road.

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Mrigankamouli Bhattacharjee India Nominee "The Essence of Companionship"

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Nick Green UK Nominee "Shard" My third attemp and visit to this spot as previous times the state of the tide and conditions were n

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Nirvan Pradhan USA Nominee "Aimless Motion 01" Jellyfish have always facinated me. No heart. No brain, yet it lives on...

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Paul Christener Switzerland Nominee "Vanishing Silence 04" The Alps, Switzerland

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Peter Aitken USA Nominee "Puddle" Frozen puddle in parking lot

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Phil Anderson USA Nominee "awakening" first light, morning in the California desert

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "Infinite curve" Hasselblad503CW, Phase One P20+, Hasselblad4/40mm, 241'', ISO 100

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee "white winter" lonely tree in snowy landscape

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Richard Chirichillo USA Nominee "Snow Creek Falls study" Snow Creek Falls, Kootenai National Forest, Id, USA

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Richard Burdon UK Nominee "Frosted" Frosted grasses on Strensall Common on a misty winter's morning.

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Ricky Knowles Australia Nominee "Southern Swell" Stormy weather from the Southern Ocean meet the coast of Victoria.

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Rosario Civello Italy Nominee "Six Trees"

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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee "Hardraw Force" An intimate shot of the waters at Hardraw force - Yorkshire

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Sandra Hunter USA Nominee "Ice Trophy" Glacial ice, Diamond Beach, Iceland

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Scott Bolendz USA Nominee "Untitled, from the series Dark Mountains"

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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee "Am Nachmittag"

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Siow Yih Teo Malaysia Nominee "Growth" small mangrove tree

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Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee "Fear" A long exposure at one of my favourite locations, Sheep's Cove, in West Cork

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Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee "Gnarled" A hand held capture of a beautiful tree with loads of character that I see from my window every day

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Steve Ricketts Canada Nominee "Bridal Falls" Taken in Plitvice Lakes NP, Croatia

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Steven Shaw Australia Nominee "Early Morning at Deadvlei" It may be called Deadvlei but look again, there are plenty of signs of life

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Sue Trower UK Nominee "Becalmed" The iceberg is becalmed before continuing its journey south.

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Susan Hillyard USA Nominee "Two Trees"

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Susan Brandt Graham USA Nominee "Joy"

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Suzanne Schwartzman USA Nominee "Dunes" Dunes are always shifting due to strong winds.

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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee "Agonised"

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Tjutjut Bramantoro Indonesia Nominee "Cloudy day" 8 March 2020 at Liang Ambon. It's about a heavy rain on that day.

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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee "Tullan Strand" I went to Tullan Strand in Bundoran in Ireland, where I took this picture.

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Ulrike Lugert Germany Nominee "Last snow" North of Sweden, 2020

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Vidya Kane USA Nominee "Young Tree, Merced" Snow melt and heavy rain had crested the Merced River in Yosemite National Park to dangerous levels while a young tree was barely holding on.

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William Alsobrook USA Nominee "Perseverence" Tree Thriving in the Rocks near Zion National Park

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Lightning" Lightning at dawn over Formentera Island.

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Xavier Arnau Bofarull Germany Nominee "After the Storm"

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Yousef Alkhamees USA Nominee "White Meets Black"

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