Nature - Amateur

Nathan Wirth USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "quietly"

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Rene Schaedler Switzerland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Bright Horizon"

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David Garthwaite UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Alone"

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Sue Trower UK Honorable Mention "Bird on the Wing" Whilst panning the wave, a seagull flew above it. Nature at its best!

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Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti France Honorable Mention "Keraunos" In the middle of the night a thunderstorm sets in over the Alps. I tried to transcribe through this photograph this privileged moment of nature.

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Scott Bolendz USA Honorable Mention "Kindred, from the series 'Against the Sea'"

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Robert Bolton UK Honorable Mention "Halo" Taken in Disko Bay, Western Greenland. The iceberg had a bank of fog above like a halo. Taken 2019.

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Jaehak Lee Korea (South) Honorable Mention "the roar of the waves" High waves are shouting to devour Tetrapod.

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Jonathan Knight USA Honorable Mention "Dunes Sandstorm" Morning sandstorm

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "Arcadia N.P. USA." Arcadia N.P. USA.

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Uri Mahlev Israel Honorable Mention "The first day" Genesis

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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention "Bubble" The Bubble Nebula was created by stellar winds from the massive, hot star.

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Tim Owen USA Honorable Mention "Angel" Many religions describe angels as a form of light. There has been no photo retouching of the Angel.

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Diane Kravetz USA Honorable Mention "Untitled #2"

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Franz Sussbauer Germany Honorable Mention "magic at the water" river in Bavaria with hoar frosted trees and mountains in the fog.

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John Crowley Ireland Honorable Mention "Waterfall"

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Rene Algesheimer Switzerland Honorable Mention "Purity" Meandering around the dunes. Death Valley National Park, 2020.

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Steven DosRemedios USA Honorable Mention "Cinder Cone" Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, 2019

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Rie Asada Japan Honorable Mention "Beauty and the noble beech" The forest was very foggy.

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John Marshall USA Honorable Mention "Unknown" Moving forward often means encountering the unknown.

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention "Protected" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P+,Hasselblad 4/40mm, 101 sec, ISO 100

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Mitchell Anolik USA Honorable Mention "Shoreline"

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Nigel Moyes Australia Honorable Mention "The Nest" Wet and dark dawn with a fast rising tide in freezing winter at Moeraki Boulders NZ

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Alberto Perer Italy Nominee "Corno Bianco" Clouds over Corno Bianco mountain peak in the Oclini group. The Fiemme Dolomites, Italian Alps.

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Andreas Bruglacher Germany Nominee "Monument Valley, Utah, USA"

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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Nominee "Fence in the snow"

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Andrew Hough UK Nominee "A Slender Presence" Taken deep in an area of conifers, this single trunk was silhouetted in the morning light.

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Andrew Hough UK Nominee "An embracing moment" A young sapling rises out of a sea of ferns to embrace a nearby conifer.

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Andrew Ilachinski USA Nominee "Isle of Skye, Scotland" Andy Ilachinski

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Antje Bormann France Nominee "City of (all sorts of) Light" Summer thunderstorm over Paris

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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee "Damsel Fly and Water Lily" McKee Gardens

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Tree tunnel 2" Majestic tree tunnel centuries old in Charlston South Carolina

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Tree tunnel 3" Majestic tree tunnel centuries old in Charlston South Carolina

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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee "Essence of Me #1" Series 1_4

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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee "Essence of Me #5" Single 1_5

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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee "Essence of Me #6" Single 2_5

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Beatriz Minguez Spain Nominee "Intense" An intense light shines upon the surface of the sea and sky.

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Ben Ng Swee Kong Malaysia Nominee "Serenity" This image was taken along the coast of Punakaiki Pancake Rocks in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Bill Jackson UK Nominee "Night Garden"

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Bill Jackson UK Nominee "Nocturnal Wonderland"

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Storm Chasing Tornado" Tornado Storm Chasing Lockett TX

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Carol Zulman USA Nominee "Canyon Walls" Antelope Valley Slot Canyon

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Charita Carter USA Nominee "Clearing Storm" EL Capitan After A Fall Storm

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Sunlit Flowers #3" I found this composition on the wayside as I was walking to location for another shoot.

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Chuck Hebert USA Nominee "The Lightning Strike" Lightning Strikes in an open field.

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Daniel Castilloux Canada Nominee "Mountain" Canada

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Daniel Ruegge Switzerland Nominee "SwissView" Longing in lowlands for distant beloved mountains in times of reduced mobility

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Deborah McGlynn USA Nominee "Oz Does Exist" Late March in WNY can be very dramatic.

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "bnm"

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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Nominee "Four in a row" Four trees in the mist of winter

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Dominique Genin Belgium Nominee "The Majestic Visit" The paternal majesty of the master

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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee "Inhale" Blow hole gets ready to inhale for its next discharge.

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Nominee "A patch of light" Trotternish ridge, Isle of Skye

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Gail Foster Canada Nominee "Pushing the Moon" Tree branch gently pushing the sliver moon

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Black and White" Death Valley Dunes

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Fallen" Black and White Coastal

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Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Clouds and Light" Black and White Seascape

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Georg Kowallek Germany Nominee "Tree" A single tree at the shore

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Gregory Hom USA Nominee "Flowing" A scene at the beach on a cloudy evening.

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Gregory Murray Canada Nominee "Winters Jewel" An isolated snowcrystal: every one is unique and beautiful in it's own right.

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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee "Canyonland" Layers in the landscape around Lake Powell, Arizona

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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee "Old Pinetree" Old Pinetree sitting along a rim in Canyonlands NP.

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Henrique Murta Brazil Nominee "Mar de Minas" A few hundreds of kilometres away from the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of Brazil, lies a sea.

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "ZZ Top" Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top during one of their last concerts. The performance was held at Istokpoga, near Lake Placid, Florida. They lived up to their reputation and totally rocked the scene.

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Ilija Stanusic Croatia Nominee "Slavonia fields " Slavonia fields

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Irina Magdalena Bivolaru Romania Nominee "autumn painting"

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Ivan Hernandez USA Nominee "Force of nature " Garrapata State Park offers some beautiful shorelines carved into the rock of the Salinian Block.

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James Peterson USA Nominee "The Mayor fo Cottonwoods" This majestic, able-bodied hardwood is one of many along the Verde River.

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Unworldly Landscape"

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Jane Ivory USA Nominee "Magic Mountain" image captured in 20 Mule Team Canyon

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Janet Burdon UK Nominee "ASerenity" A minimal image of trees emerging from the morning mist on Loch Ard at Kinlochard.

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Javier Herranz Casellas Spain Nominee "Salar de Uyuni" The first rays of dawn sun mark the saline edges highlighting the edges of geometric drawing.

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Jean-Pierre Le Marechal France Nominee "The Valley" Taken in Quercy, France the 23 november 2020

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Jo Van Rossem Belgium Nominee "Basalt Bath Tub" Water flowing down Aldeyjarfoss, Iceland.

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Jodi Frediani USA Nominee "Ghosts of Fire" The wildfire burned 86,000 acres and 900 homes. These oaks perished, but their spirit remains.

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John Eaton USA Nominee "Approaching Storm"

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Jonathan Knight USA Nominee "Dunes Sunrise" Death Valley, California, USA Sunrise over the Mesquite Dunes

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Joseph Ptacek USA Nominee "Valles Caldera Mist"

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Juergen Wieser Germany Nominee "Nature strikes back"

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Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee "White house" Highlands,Scotland

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Kazik Salwa USA Nominee "Morning fog"

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Kelly Tringas Australia Nominee "Tasmanian Coast Australia" Tassie Coastline Isolation

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Kishore Murthy USA Nominee "Weathered" Surviving against human vanity

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Klaus Spindler Germany Nominee "twelfe " winter afternoon

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Larry Bean USA Nominee "Cirque in the Beartooth"

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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee "Oregon Coast Sand Dunes" I was impressed by the forms and shapes of the Oregon Dunes. Oregon Coast, OR, USA

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Lorenzo Bensi Italy Nominee "Foggy Hills" Valli Piacentine, Emilia Romagna, Italy, 2021

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Lorraine Poole UK Nominee "Web of Ice" A beautiful spider's web in my garden, sparkling with ice crystals after a frosty winter's night.

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Marco Virgone Italy Nominee "The Volcano" Stromboli eruption

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Marco Virgone Italy Nominee "Eruption" Stromboli eruption at sunset

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Mark Appleton Australia Nominee "Caught in the Storm" A blend of fierce storm and sunlight coming together to create a dramatic scene

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Martijn Rijnberg Netherlands Nominee "The Woods" A photo taken at 'De Amsterdamse Bos' (Woods next to Amsterdam) in The Netherlands. July 8th 2019.

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Middle-Earth" Trees are sentient beings...

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Foot"

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Martin Galea Slovak Republic Nominee "Standing tall " A collection of silver birch trees photographed from below during a cloudy day creating the feeling of lying down on the forest floor and looking at the sky.

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Martta Kelly USA Nominee "Fog" Heavy fog descends on the golf course

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Matthew Wilkinson UK Nominee "Creise Over River Etive" Stormy clouds shrouding Creise as it towers above as the river Etive carves its way through the land

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee "Juxtaposition" The Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes form a striking contrast to the weathered mountains of Death Valley.

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee "King Tide Etchings" December’s King Tide etched haunting images in the sand of Playa del Rey beach, California.

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Michael Singer USA Nominee "Orchard" Pistachio orchard out of blooom

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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee "Quietude"

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Nathalie At France Nominee "Valllee de Brezons" Sea of clouds

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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee "Illuminate" A stormy start to the day at Aoraki Mt Cook NZ and suddenly the clouds parted giving a glimpse of a

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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee "Guarding the Light" Amazing clouds and light as the big waves washed through Canal Rocks Western Australia

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee "Olstinden" Lofoten winter 2021

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Paul Christener Switzerland Nominee "Silence No. 02" Silence No. 02

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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Mudjimba Study" Sun rising over Mudjimba Island, Sunshine Coast.

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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Serenity" From a series taken at Serenity Falls, Sunshine Coast, Australia

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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee "A cherry tree" A winter portrait of a cherry tree in vineyards, near Berg, Austria

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Philip Marriott UK Nominee "twisted pines"

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Philip Lawrence Australia Nominee "Family" Trees in the mist seem to protect the smallest member

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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee "the light of the way" Holga, film kodak ISO 100, Filter ND, long exposure 2'

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Zen " MAGIC OF LADAKH - ZEN

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Pratibha Reddy USA Nominee "Undulating"

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee "2 trees"

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Rene Schaedler Switzerland Nominee "Guided View"

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Rene Schaedler Switzerland Nominee "Diamonds"

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Ricardo Cuartero Estonia Nominee "Camino" Estonian bog at dusk. The beauty and uncertainty of every journey.

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Richard Burdon UK Nominee "Nelly Ayre Force" The awesome power of the waters tumbling over Nelly Ayre Force

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Richard Field UK Nominee "The Chase in Winter"

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Rie Asada Japan Nominee "Hottai Falls" Hottai Falls in Japan is a very beautiful waterfall.

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Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Family Portrait" A group of icebergs floating free in Disko Bay, Greenland. They are precious!

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Roberta Vacchiero Italy Nominee "The curtain opens" THE CURTAIN OPENS

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Robin Downs USA Nominee "Untitled 1"

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Rosario Civello Italy Nominee "Snow Shapes #8"

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Salvatore Mercieca Malta Nominee "at the end" galasndur in the foroe islands

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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee "Alpenrhein 1"

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Shinya Ichikawa Japan Nominee "Broken Stems" Lake Biwa, Shinga, Japan

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Steen Doessing UK Nominee "Hurst Spit"

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Stefan Buder Germany Nominee "Iced"

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Steve Day Australia Nominee "After the Flood" These trees were once flooded to a depth of up to 7 metres in what was Lake Mokoan in Victoria Aus.

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Susan Hillyard USA Nominee "Merritt Trees"

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee "Heaven meets earth" light in the midst of darkness

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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee "In the forest VII"

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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee "Welcoming Vineyard" A path leads to an old tree in the middle of the vineyard in McLaren Vale.

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Loch Lomond" A captivating beautiful reflection of Scotland

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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee "Simmons Falls" The Beauty of Decay from fallen trees and foliage is always something to gather ones attention.

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Yucca Accent"

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Liquid tree" A different take on one of the most photographed trees in Namibia

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Coated" A lighthouse in Grand Haven Michigan after a winter storm

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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee "Hills of Snow" An early snowfall at Vermillion Lakes in Banff created these mini mountains of snow

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Nominee "Rising"

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee "Devils Wall" Close-up of a remarkable sandstone cliff situated in the Harz mountain region by night (due to a LE shot, some star trails appear in the night sky)

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William Alsobrook USA Nominee "Footprints in the Monahans Sand" Monahans

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Xavier Arnau Bofarull Germany Nominee "Into Exil" Black Forest. Germany. March 2020

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Neowise" Neowise photographed in Ibiza.

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Yucel Basoglu Turkey Nominee "Natural" A rocky beach on the Black Sea coast. A beach close to Istanbul.

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