Nature - Professional

Adam Crews Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Cypress Hills" Cypress Pines ~ ITALY

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Alessandro Puccinelli Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Mare 432" The Atlantic Ocean in south Portugal during a solids swell in February 2020

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Vit Madr Czech Republic 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Who knows where?" Who knows where the paths of life lead?

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Liyun Yu USA Honorable Mention "Part of Home"

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Laurie Freitag USA Honorable Mention "In the Garden at Chislehurst 7"

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Steve Zmak USA Honorable Mention "Man Contemplates Stone" The man & stone face each other and consider their lives, 100 years vs billions. Who has it better?

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Romain Tornay Switzerland Honorable Mention "Arctic Night" South Iceland, October 2019

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Leo Gesess Italy Honorable Mention "cloudplane..."

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Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention "The last supermoon" Early morning and it drifts over the Wasatch mountains of Utah in all its glory, the last supermoon of 2020.

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Nilton Souza Brazil Honorable Mention "Grass standing on a windy" grass standing on a windy sand that looks like small waves on the beach.

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Honorable Mention "The Dune" The highest sand dune of the Moroccan sahara desert

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Honorable Mention "Sand storm " Top of a sand dune during a sand storm

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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Mulranny Reflections" From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Pal Hermansen Norway Honorable Mention "Bumblebee meadow" Bumblebee embedded in flowering meadow

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Frank Bevans USA Honorable Mention "hole in the rock" this is a grinding rock reflecting a burned forest

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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention "seven sisters UK coast" seven sisters UK coast

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Craig Blacklock USA Honorable Mention "Brule Lake rainbow." Double rainbow over Brule Lake, BWCAW.

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Luciano Monti Italy Honorable Mention "the sunbeam" Antelopo Canyon Arizona

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Nathalie Lauzon Canada Honorable Mention "18o25'N 67o36'W" Mona Passage

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Layne Kennedy USA Honorable Mention "Black Hills Storm, South Dakota" Booming thunderheads roll over fire ridden trees in South Dakota's Black Hills territory.

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Honorable Mention "A light in the woods"

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Lou Novick USA Honorable Mention "Bisti Badlands 1"

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Craig Blacklock USA Honorable Mention "Antelope Canyon, Arizona" Antelope Canyon, Arizona. From the book, Slot Canyons of Page Arizona.

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Matthew Smith Australia Honorable Mention "Polyp Face" A close up wide angle macro image of bubble coral polyps.

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Roy Kaltschmidt USA Honorable Mention "Thunderstorm over Hernandez" Thunderstorm over Hernandez, New Mexico (see Moonrise over Hernandez - Ansel Adams)

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Charles Bush USA Honorable Mention "Foggy Ghost Tree" Ancient Cypress Tree–Foggy Morning in Louisiana's Swampland

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Adam Crews Australia Honorable Mention "Ama Dablam" Ama Dablam, Himalayas ~ NEPAL

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Uwe Winkler Germany Honorable Mention "Whiteout" »Whiteout«, Pallas National Park, Lapland I Finland

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David Paul Bayles USA Honorable Mention "Black Moon Rising"

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Adam Crews Australia Nominee "Everest" Mount Everest, Himalayas ~ NEPAL

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Adam Crews Australia Nominee "Expedition" Ama Dablam, Himalayas ~ NEPAL

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Alan W. Abramowitz USA Nominee "My Forever Love" An image from a book project on the art and anthropology of roadside memorials

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "summertime 2" analog, zenza bronica etrsi, long exposure. Summertime about the lyrics of the Gershwin song

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Amit Verma India Nominee "Daggers" Lahaul and Spiti, India

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Andrew Chittock UK Nominee "Storm Dennis" storm dennis hitting the harbour in Aberswyth

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Andrew B Church USA Nominee "Spider" A spider feeds on an insect in its web.

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Andrew B Church USA Nominee "Dragonfly in Cobwebs" A dragonfly is caught in cobwebs at a ranger station in Big Bend, Texas.

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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee "Jordan Pond"

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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee "Jordan Pond"

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Antti Viitala Finland Nominee "Aurora Borealis" Shot at Andenes, Lofoten Islands, Norway.

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Arne Rasmussen Denmark Nominee "Seascape 1" Malta

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Art Holeman USA Nominee "mt. hayden, north rim" hazy morning light, Mt. Hayden, North Rim, Arizona

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Axel Breutigam Canada Nominee "Icebergs" Jökulsárlón, Iceland

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Dark Wood"

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Waters Edge"

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Charles Bush USA Nominee "Dreamy Swamp Scene" Louisiana Cypress Swamp on a Foggy Morning

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "The Valley Awaits" A rain shower moved through the area briefly, creating this beautiful atmosphere.

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Charlotte Gibb USA Nominee "After The Storm" Yosemite Valley is spectacular. But, when it snows, it is magical.

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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee "Winter Foliage"

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Con van Staa Netherlands Nominee "Old Tree" Old Tree in River area

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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee "Ice covered trees, shore of Lake Superior." Ice covered trees, shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota.

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Daniel Tremblay Canada Nominee "Slow" There is no better feeling then standing on those basalt column for hours, enjoying the sound of the waves coming in and out!

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Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Cliff Waves" Death Valley National Park, CA.

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David Martin USA Nominee "Whispering Sand" The wind swept sand of White Sands are continually on the move

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David Gubernick USA Nominee "Dune Waves"

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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee "Some ghosts and the mysterious island" The fog hid everything with that magical feeling of mystery.

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Dawn Black UK Nominee "Three Brothers" Three Brothers, Yosemite

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "In the Garden"

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Dick Busher USA Nominee "Falling Water 1"

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Dimitri Kouznetsov Switzerland Nominee "Running along the edge" Sheep pasture, abandoned in late autumn. Swiss Alps.

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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee "The nice little Church og Engum, Denmark" The stunning view of the Church of Engum, Vejle in Denmark. At wintertime, taken from my garden.

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Eric T. Kunsman USA Nominee "Lake Powell, Utah"

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Geoffrey McKillop Australia Nominee "Niagara"

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George Peet USA Nominee "Branches in Ice" Branches in Ice

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "Into the lights" Looking the Wild and the pure nature

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Approaching Storm, Westport Bay, Ireland" From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Burning Bush" From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Rain Light " From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Pond Reflections" From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "First Light" From the continuing series The West of Ireland

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Glenn Vanderbeke Belgium Nominee "The test of time" In the heart of the High Fens, Belgium. The common reed skeleton trees are the remains of a pine forest that was planted around 1850 and from 1950 onwards plagued by successive fires.

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Glyn Davies UK Nominee "The Fallen" Woodland series - a tall, dead tree caught my eye, dominating a clearing of its own making, retaining form & even beauty in its angular skeletal limbs.

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "Searching for the light" A single Herring Gull flying past a bcklit wave. A split second when the light came through the wave

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "The Tempest" A single Gull backlit in flight over a large wave. Abersoch, Wales. UK

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James Fox USA Nominee "Mountain Mounting" Grand Canyon of the Gunnison River

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James Fox USA Nominee "Lonely Tree" Reservation Tree

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James Fox USA Nominee "Shifting Sand" Great White Sands

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James Fox USA Nominee "Lone Tree" Snow All Around

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James Fox USA Nominee "Country Road Take me Home" Country Road Take Me Home

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Jamie Leasure USA Nominee "Death Valley Moonrise" Death Valley, California

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Jane Olin USA Nominee "Intimate Conversation 22: Dark Side of Moon" Archival pigment print made from unique silver gelatin print

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Joel Biddle UK Nominee "Fall" Behind Durdle Door, taken with Zeiss Ikonta folding camera on HP5+

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John Rees USA Nominee "Austin " After a storm in Austin

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Jurgen Schrader Germany Nominee "Not Everything Negative Is Bad"

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Katherine Richmond USA Nominee "Clearing" Steep cliffs and mountains create a dramatic weather pattern that resists clearing.

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Katherine Richmond USA Nominee "Iluminating Lincoln" Fleeting light between the clouds iluminates Mt. Lincoln.

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Kirsten Heer Germany Nominee "Frozen Apple blossoms in springtime"

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Laurie Freitag USA Nominee "In the Garden at Chislehurst 1"

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Laurie Freitag USA Nominee "In the Garden at Chislehurst 4"

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Leo Pelletier Canada Nominee "The old couple" On the way to Quebec city

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Lothar Troeller USA Nominee "Covid Beach 2" Beaches are empty during Covid

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Lou Novick USA Nominee "White Mountian"

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Cedar Pass Grass Badlands" Patterns in steal and glass climb to the sky.

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Death Valley Dunes"

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Louis Gaillard France Nominee "Rock"

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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "Himalayan Shades"

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Marc Koegel Canada Nominee "Trees in Winter"

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Marco Felix Switzerland Nominee "Black Beach" Taken on a windy, rainy and last but not least stormy cold day at the famous Reynisfjara Black Beach

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "The Road to Eulenbis" Memories of my sacred mornings in the hills of Germany. Foggy mornings that carried a mood and serenity that put the soul at ease...the road to Eulenbis.

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Mervyn Dublin Malaysia Nominee "Imnajbu " Imnajbu is one of the smallest barangays in all of Batanes which is situated in the Philippines.

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Michael Hart USA Nominee "Grey Atlantic" Grey Maine Coast

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Mihai Moiceanu Romania Nominee "Flooded Forest" a landslide formed Lake Cuejdel in the mountains of Romania 50 years ago

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Mihai Moiceanu Romania Nominee "Nuptse" Nupse Ridge in Karakorum Area, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal

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Mike Walker UK Nominee "Whitby High" Whitby High lighthouse perched on the clifftop

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Mike DeCesare USA Nominee "Shoals" Shoals

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Mike Cable USA Nominee "Ice Macro (Trachea & Bronchi)" This is an macro of ice I took on a local stream that I thought resembled an human trachea and bronchi on the bottom left and other bone like structures in the rest of the image.

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Neal Panton Canada Nominee "Leave No Trace"

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Nigel Charman UK Nominee "Swifts at play" The Devil's throat, Iguazu falls.

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Ottmar Philipp Canada Nominee "Kluane NP, Kaskawulsh Glacier1" The thawing is breaking crevices into the solid ice

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Ottmar Philipp Canada Nominee "Kluane NP, Kaskawulsh Glacier3" Glaciers joining to travel down for the final meltdown

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee "Butterfly gem" Butterfly in flight against sky

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Namibian Dunes" Dunes

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Dead Vlei" Tree in Dead Vlei

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Peter Lik USA Nominee "Pacific Moods"

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Renata Vale Brazil Nominee "Small waves" Small waves

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Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Combers Beach" Combers Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Skogafoss"

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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee "Drought" Many regions of Australia went through record-breaking drought and then there were the fires.

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Apparition" Yellow Mountains, in China

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Face to Face" Yellow Mountains, in China

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Samuel Feron France Nominee "Ghosts" Karstic Mountains in China

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Sebastien Arbour Canada Nominee "Found a friend" The tree seemed to feel alone. Now, he found a friend.

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Shinya Itahana Japan Nominee "A conductor and melodious" A conductor seems to play a beautiful melody of nature with a rhythm in small increments and a sprin

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Steven Wayne USA Nominee "123"

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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee "La Havane" The view of the ocean, in front of the Malecón in Havana.

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Thomas Brotzler Germany Nominee "French Impressions: Atlantic Coast" An excerpt of my photo excursions to France in 2019.

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Thor Elias Engelstad Australia Nominee "Monde Sombre" Voyage Series

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Uwe Winkler Germany Nominee "Whiteout I" »Whiteout«, Pallas National Park, Lapland I Finland

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Virgilijus Usinavicius Lithuania Nominee "Landscape with Clouds"

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Will Enos USA Nominee "Eastern Sierra Moon" Early morning on the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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William Moureaux France Nominee "Au fil de l'eau" SL2 24-90, ND filter 400, Corse

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Wilma Roesch Germany Nominee "5G bark beetle" just taken yesterday - with color you see, that the trees are dead, but without they look like alive

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Yvon Jolivet Canada Nominee "Ovipare" Rock on sand when the light dims and the shadows rise again for another night. (Canada, Quebec 2016)

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