Abstract - Amateur

Abi Basiri Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Carnal"

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Gerald Pisarzowski Canada 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Cherry Street No. 12" From the Series, Cherry Street Bridge, Toronto, ON. 2020

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Ruth Ball Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Up the Down Stair Case" Portion of the Bell Centre in Calgary

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Katerina Muchova Czech Republic Honorable Mention "black fire"

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Marc Wehner Germany Honorable Mention "black triangle" erg chebbi, morocco

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Denis Sivack USA Honorable Mention "Fingers Of Thought" Film capture, archival pigment print.

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Lois Alexander-Mandel USA Honorable Mention "Paper Strings"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Honorable Mention "Luke 24"

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Christine Jacobson New Zealand Honorable Mention "Stair Climb"

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Jacqui Turner USA Honorable Mention "Between the Lines" From the series "Veiled in Light".

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Judith A. Taylor UK Honorable Mention "glasslight 1" In-camera triple exposure. From a lockdown project, photographing different household glass objects

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Flo Fritz Germany Honorable Mention "Lost in snow" This might be the rest of a car unter huge snow masses, or is it something else?

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C E Morse USA Honorable Mention "Boothbay Ripples" Nautical reflections

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Honorable Mention "Forms"

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James Lee USA Honorable Mention "Water Shake" Caught this dog shaking off water at dog beach with a slow shutter speed.

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Robert Bolton UK Honorable Mention "A Line in the Snow" A vein of blue ice running through a glacier. Taken in Greenland 2019. I liked the wave effect.

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Nelson Rudiak USA Honorable Mention "Ice Abstract" While hiking along a lake last winter, I was fascinated by the lines formed in the ice.

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Holger Goehler Germany Honorable Mention "corridor light" Light polarizes and makes things appear in a different context. It reshapes and recomposes the world.

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Stanislav Sitnikov Russia Honorable Mention "Lines"

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Diane Klein USA Honorable Mention "Geometrica" A detail of a facade

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Stefano Degli Esposti Italy Honorable Mention "Nothing at all" Study of archietectural features of a modern building - Milan (IT)

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Barbara Collister Canada Honorable Mention "Anybody Home?" Calgary, Alberta

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Honorable Mention "Curves"

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Nadir Mauge Palestinian Settlements Honorable Mention "#25" "Photography should never say, Photography should indicate." - Josef Sudek

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Carolyn Knorr USA Honorable Mention "Path Train Station" Close up look at the Calatrava Path Train Station in NYC

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Stephen Buhagiar Malta Honorable Mention "To infinity" An extract from a pile of paper sheets leading to infinity

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Robert Bolton UK Honorable Mention "Drawing a Parallel" Some detail from a frozen puddle taken on my dog walk

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Steffen Ebert Germany Honorable Mention "House of Lines" facade of a building

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Steffen Ebert Germany Honorable Mention "Tunnel Vision" segments of a new bridge stored in a row on a yard

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Honorable Mention "Destination Unknown" Loved the form of this Slovenian Bridge

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Abi Basiri Canada Nominee "Spike"

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Abi Basiri Canada Nominee "We Will Reach"

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Abi Basiri Canada Nominee "Sensual"

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Abi Basiri Canada Nominee "Life Spin"

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Ahmad Kaddourah Palestinian Settlements Nominee "White Door "

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee "Dreamlike"

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Losing Phoebe 1" Having a family member in a nursing home in 2020 felt like watching a car crash in slow motion.

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Anna Barber USA Nominee "Calla Lily Swirls"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Connection "

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "The new world order"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Kongsvinger Festning"

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Antje Bormann France Nominee "The looking glass" Reflection of a Dublin church in a puddle just as the sun broke through

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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee "Rock and Roll" Van Halen Tribute

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Frozen World" The magnificence of nature comes to manifest its beauty even in a puddle. - Italy 2021

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee "Vases" IN ABSTRACTION

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee "Condensation " Glass partition on railway platform shelter covered in condensation

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee "Window view"

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Brent Haddix USA Nominee "Howling at the Moon" Arooo!

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Brian Clopp USA Nominee "Spiral" A spiral staircase takes on the appearance of an eye with a lash.

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C E Morse USA Nominee "Wolf" Wolf's head

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Carla Vermeend Netherlands Nominee "Connection "

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Carlton Johnson USA Nominee "Mercurial Ways"

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Carol Schiraldi USA Nominee "Gate with Crack" Crack in metal gate with bills posted, Guangxi, China

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Charlotte Turner USA Nominee "Empowered" Elevated Architectural Detail

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Hummingbird Abstraction (Calla Lily #3)" I photographed this flower so that it resembles a hummingbird hovering in the air.

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex #37" I tried to create a multilayered complex photograph with only one exposure.

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee "Mountain Ash"

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Christophe Matsacos Cyprus Nominee "Geometric abstraction"

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Cindy Poulin Canada Nominee "Inside Wonderland" View from the inside of a Calgary sculpture.

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Claudia Fainguersch Argentina Nominee "Dot"

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Colleen Sayer Canada Nominee "Rain in the Forkast" Rain in the Forkast

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Daniela Gobetti Italy Nominee "Venus?"

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Danqing Liu USA Nominee "FogDay" Street light in the foggy winter day at NYC.

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "Look Within"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee "Cheesy Abstract "

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Denis Sivack USA Nominee "Which Up Is Up?" Film capture, archival pigment print.

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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee "Glowstick Ribbons"

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Dominique Genin Belgium Nominee "Silent Sorrow" Mother nature's silent song softens my inner chaos

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Don Jacobson USA Nominee "Pleistocene Sand" Pleistocene Sand, Baker Beach, OR

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Dotan Saguy USA Nominee "Empty abandoned room full of reflected landscape" Made in-camera as a reflection and without post processing. 2021 in Bodie, CA.

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Frank Doerr Germany Nominee "Iron Fern" WTC NYC Railway station, focusing on the geometric structure

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Frederic Deschenes Canada Nominee "Confusion"

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Gerald Pisarzowski Canada Nominee "Be A Change Artist" Toronto, ON, 2021

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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee "The eye"

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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee "Eruption"

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Gwen Solomon USA Nominee "MET Shadows" Windows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Helle Nielsen Denmark Nominee "Bridge"

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Henry Eicken Germany Nominee "Tea for Two" The spout of a warming jug in a reduced representation.

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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee "Against the grain" Memories of Grenada

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Hugh Jones USA Nominee "Alice in Wonderland" The zeros and ones are a binary code translation of Alice in Wonderland

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Sea Flower" Kayaks arranged almost as petals of a flower against a dark sea on an Uncruise adventure cruise in the inside passage, Alaska, 2018

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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee "End of the week"

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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee "Highway"

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Ira Dwoskin USA Nominee "Jacobs Ladder" This is an abstract of The Hard Rock Hotel (Guitar Hotel) Davie, FL

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Jae Sung Choi Korea (South) Nominee "Mirror of The Prejudice" I can’t look at myself completely because of my prejudice caused from the emotions and surroundings

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James Peterson USA Nominee "Emerging #2" Cheyenne rises from shadows of the past.

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James McNelis USA Nominee "Above Zero" Creek Ice

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Jane Strisik USA Nominee "Time " Always

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Janet Burdon UK Nominee "TunedIn, Redcar 1" A multiple Exposure of the TunedIn building in Redcar.

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Janin Bergmann Germany Nominee "Abstraction" cell phone photo / work , multiple mirrored , taken with natural light , Bavaria July 2021

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Jason Nessler Canada Nominee "At Social Distance"

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Jennifer James USA Nominee "Radials" Taken in the Miami Design District, this personifies the uniqueness of the area.

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Jerry Qiao USA Nominee "Lost" Cacophonies of noise, opinion, and fake news from a bird's eye

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Jim Sterne USA Nominee "Vented Shadow"

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John Doyle USA Nominee "Spoons"

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Joseph O'Neill USA Nominee "Pattern 1"

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Joseph O'Neill USA Nominee "Pattern 784"

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JT Schube USA Nominee "Frankie" JT Schube

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Judith A. Taylor UK Nominee "glasslight 2" In-camera triple exposure. From a lockdown project, photographing different household glass objects

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "Circa 3023 Artifact"

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Kimberly Schneider USA Nominee "Into the Ether" unique gelatin silver print (photogram); made sans enlarger

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Klaus Tesching Germany Nominee "Apocalypse 1"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "Construct 1"

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Konstantin Weiss Switzerland Nominee "shadows on wall"

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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee "Mystic Woods" Slow shutter look at nature during the golden hour

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Lilyan Aloma USA Nominee "Isolation Week One" Looking North from Chelsea Rooftop

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Lois Alexander-Mandel USA Nominee "Inner Spring"

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Louis Kelly USA Nominee "Wine Glass in Window" Wine Glass Blind

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Lynne Mass USA Nominee "Dazzle"

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Maciej Szemelowski Poland Nominee "Trace" Trace

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Maria-Camilla Fiazza Italy Nominee "Stationary Waves II"

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Marlene Mendez USA Nominee "Duality"

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee "In deep water no screaming" Sometimes the sharks are circling, we're drowning and all that is left is the scream

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Mauricio Arango USA Nominee "Glowing Mountain"

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Mia Depaola USA Nominee "Time traveler " Self portrait

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Mike Shea USA Nominee "Language of the Birds" An art installation hanging off wires on the corner of Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco

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Mitchell Anolik USA Nominee "Ocean Impression"

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Monika Kossak Poland Nominee "Aquam Viventem project" Monika Kossak

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Nicola Bolton UK Nominee "Architectural Abstract" Shangri-la Hotel at The Shard London

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Niklaus Fringeli Switzerland Nominee "BodyArt 1"

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Patrick O'Brien USA Nominee "Selfie 1"

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Patrick O'Brien USA Nominee "GTX Dam"

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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee "Morning glory" Ipomoea tricolor leaf transluminated

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "Ice Art 04" After a cold night it is formed abstract patterns of frozen water in the backwater of the Rhine

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Peter Paluzzi USA Nominee "Awash" Awash

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Raphael Seiler Switzerland Nominee "follow the lights"

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Remigijus Scerbauskas Lithuania Nominee "City Vibrations" Image was taken in Kaunas Lithuania using own photography technique.

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Rhonda Dubin USA Nominee "Breakthrough"

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Robert Davis USA Nominee "Rubber bands" A stunning sculpture made with rubber bands

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Saman Majd USA Nominee "Braid #2"

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Steffen Ebert Germany Nominee "Wavy Front" facade of a skyscraper

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Stella Oliver USA Nominee "Blurred Pillars of Life" As we all moved through 2020, life became a blur

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Steven Greenbaum USA Nominee "Troll" Troll With Magic Scepter

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Concealed, Part I"

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Scrub"

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee "Residue"

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Susan Brandt Graham USA Nominee "Out of Darkness"

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Takashi Sugimoto Japan Nominee "poolside dream" In Ginza, Tokyo, the photo was taken at a poolside on the top of modern building, during the night.

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Timofey Tararin Russia Nominee "Funnel of Creation" Filtered macro image of Petunia flower.

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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee "Looking at the Sky at Dereen Woods" I took this picture in Dereen Forest in County Roscommon in Ireland.

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Shadows" Walking the Dunes

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