Wildlife - Amateur

Patrick Ems Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Devotion" Sledgedog race in Ilulissat, Western Greenland

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Christian Meermann Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Bad Attitude" This photo is a part of my ongoing series of monochrome animal portraits on black background.

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Javier Herranz Casellas Spain 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Deer bellow" A huge European deer bellows in the English countryside.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Honorable Mention "Goat in argan tree"

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "angry bird" pelican

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Erika Tanzer Austria Honorable Mention "eye" a detail of a horse

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Holger Buecker Germany Honorable Mention "Above and Below - Shake" Only a small part of the polar bear is above the water. Just like an iceberg.

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Michael Gard USA Honorable Mention "Black Goat"

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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Honorable Mention "Gazemu" Staring contest game with an emu... Bad idea!

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Arup Bhattacharjee India Honorable Mention "The Great Escape" THE GREAT ESCAPE

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Kathleen Fischer USA Honorable Mention "Flamingos at Night" A midnight snack in Cozumel, Mexico

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Honorable Mention "Mimicry" A mimic octopus impersonating the movements of a venomous jellyfish to ward off predators

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Robert Vogt USA Honorable Mention "Sportive Lemur in a Tree Hole" Sportive lemurs sleep with their eyes wide open during the day.

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Michael de Guzman Philippines Honorable Mention "Gannet Colony" Murawai Regional Park New Zealand taken Nov 21, 2019

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Zuzana Kamel Slovakia Honorable Mention "Over the wave" From the cliffs above the wave.Photo taken in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "fighting starlings"

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Marshall Gould USA Honorable Mention "A Mare Shadow"

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention "Night Birds" Birds and greenhouse at night

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Nikolai Endegor France Honorable Mention "Catpath"

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Marshall Gould USA Honorable Mention "Afternoon Nap"

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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Honorable Mention "The Curve"

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Michael Rausch USA Honorable Mention "Three Swans" The tight flying formation reminded me of the movements of the ballet, Swan Lake.

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Erich Studhalter Switzerland Honorable Mention "Lion King"

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Honorable Mention "Refuge Watussy"

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Pascal Dorothee France Honorable Mention "Stare" Tonkean macaques communicate through a large number of facial expressions and vocalizations. But at that moment, he does not look away, he stares his opponent in the eyes, the expression is silent.

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Lynn Tait Canada Honorable Mention "Puffin with Flower" Taken in Newfoundland Canada

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "mother and child" orangutan with her child

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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention "King Penguins" I was sitting on the beach at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island when a group of King Penguins wandered by.

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Syed Rizvi USA Honorable Mention "Dazzle of zebras" Masai Mara , sunrise taken from a hot air balloon.

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Bernice Fargus Australia Honorable Mention "A Friendly Visit"

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Honorable Mention "Visitor" Altare (SV) – Italy 2019

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Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Qatar Nominee "Against" I capture this image in Mongolia using my Nikon D750 camera to give the viewer the feeling of the pure nature away from the city life

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Alexandra Morris Canada Nominee "Looking Up"

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee "Lunch time" Photo taken in the Natural Reserve of Cabárceno, Cantabria (Spain)

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Amardeep Singh India Nominee "Close Call"

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Arthur Veitch Canada Nominee "Ursus horribilis" A wild grizzly bear steps through some old willow trees in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.

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Arthur Veitch Canada Nominee "Sunset Cougar" A wild cougar pauses in front of the Smoky River valley at sunset.

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Barry Mills New Zealand Nominee "Dolphin" Swim together, hunt together, and look like they love to have fun

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Barun Chatterjee India Nominee "Tusker on Move " Tusker enjoying early monsoon shower in Nilgiri Biosphere, Kabini Forest, India

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Nominee "Grazie" THANKS FOR A DEAD SALMON BY BEAR CUB

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Underwater Ballet" Two California Sea Lions performing a Sea Lion Ballet

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Southern Elephant Seal Pup"

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Jaguar Hunting"

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Elephant Rainbow" Elephants headed back to the forest for the evening

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Elephant seal yawn" Elephant seal yawn, South Georgia

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Catherine Clifford Australia Nominee "Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)." A baby magpie momentarily confounded by a big confusing world.

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Flight of the Pigeon " The Flight of the pigeon in Valletta

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Gliding off the Sand" A green Sea Turtle, or Honu, coming up through the mesmerizing light in the water of Olowalu, Maui

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Erich Studhalter Switzerland Nominee "Take off"

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Fabio Rossi Italy Nominee "Born to be wild" Born to be wild

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Francesco Biagini Italy Nominee "fringes"

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Franck Rouzes France Nominee "look at me now" Sometimes we don't know who the observer is...

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Franck Rouzes France Nominee "Go!" Seagulls of Noirmoutier island

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Gaute Froystein Norway Nominee "Winter fight" Golden eagles fighting for food.

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "Koala Love" Bushfire Survivor

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Ghassan El-Moussa UK Nominee "I see you" you have to be watchful in Brazos Bend as you are always being watched

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Jesse Mechling USA Nominee "Manta" Manta, Dhigurah, South Ari Atoll, Maldives

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Reachers"

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Katherine Young UK Nominee "Out of Darkness" Lipizzaner head

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Katherine Carlson USA Nominee "On the Bayou " Great Egret on majestic water covered with white cotton from cottonwood trees.

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Four Flamingos" enjoying their lunch in Cozumel, Mexico

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Les Bentley USA Nominee "Building The Nest" A Great White Egret lands with stick for the building of its nest to the delight of its partner.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "Moroccan Stork " Stork nesting at the El Badi Palace, Morocco

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Lynne Wilde USA Nominee "The Stare" South African Leopard in Kruger National Park

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Maggie Machinsky USA Nominee "Three Stripes" An exceptionally windy day in Etosha National Park.

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Marco Enderli Switzerland Nominee "gigants"

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Mark Walker Denmark Nominee "Late afternoon fun" A curious young lion cub stares at the camera. I wonder what he is thinking?

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Mark Walker Denmark Nominee "Contemplation" A mother leopard takes a break in the dense bushes of the Maasai Mara.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Nursing Nudge"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Belly And A Braid II"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Friends For Life"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "First Kiss II"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Vanishing Fence Line"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Nurture"

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Merten Riesner Germany Nominee "alone" "alone" is a flamingo in Lake Chiemsee, which I photographed in 2016. He was all alone in the water,

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Michael McKinney USA Nominee "Dolphins in Clouds" Dolphins and reflected clouds on a windless day off Redondo Beach, Calif.

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Narcis Mursa Romania Nominee "No Man's Land (Dark Deliverance)" Taken near Danube River-Mehedinti County-Romania

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Natalia Groza Poland Nominee "Portrait with Flowers" This summer I spent almost 6 weeks with these incredible birds. I miss them already.

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Neil Williams USA Nominee "A Real Sleeper" A sleeping Flamingo seems to be in a perfect state of rest.

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Nicola Bolton UK Nominee "Leopard moving kill" Masai Mara, Kenya

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee "Cormorants" Lofoten in realy bad weather

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Oyvind Pedersen Norway Nominee "Leopard stare" Leopard at Masai Mara, Kenya

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Patrick Sanford USA Nominee "Calm before the storm" Icelandic horses grazing as winter storm set in

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Ramesh Letchmanan Singapore Nominee "Monkey Jump Sequence" Motion capture of juvenile snow monkey jumping into hot spring onsen.

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Robert Davis USA Nominee "Nestbuilder in flight" This is a great white egret in breeding season carrying a branch for the nest

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee "Attentive" Silently waiting in the sun

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Ryn Clarke USA Nominee "Humming bird"

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Sajeesh R India Nominee "Lights & Dark" the bright white against the bark back ground

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Sergey Krasnikov Germany Nominee "Hide and Seek" 2019, Poing, One of the biggest wild parks in Germany, Wolf ringleader

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Shajin Nambiar India Nominee "Love, Care & Protection of Mother" mothers love isn’t expensive, its priceless.

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Sidney Gaspar Brazil Nominee "Llamas at Licancabur" Image captured from a group of Llamas created in front of the Licancabur volcano

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Sunita Mandal USA Nominee "Peekaboo I See You" Standing on a branch high up in a tree, this juvenile bear seems to be playing peekaboo.

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Susan Perry USA Nominee "Spoonbill Preening"

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TL Khong Malaysia Nominee "Nursemaid" An ant tends to what appears to be a nursery of baby ants.

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Veronica de Bruyn South Africa Nominee "Dust Bath" Etosha National Park, Namibia during late afternoon

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Wai Hoe Mok Singapore Nominee "Pisces" A pair of white tip reef sharks hunting at night in Cocos Island, Costa Rica

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