Still Life - Amateur

Rene Schaedler Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Empty Space"

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Christophe Matsacos Cyprus 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Still Life 3"

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Stephen Mimms USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Twisted Metal"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Honorable Mention "Cosmic Sea"

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Diane Klein USA Honorable Mention "Bare Minimum"

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Caroline Aung USA Honorable Mention "Our Bed" This photo is part of a series intimately exploring the photographer's own romantic relationship.

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Konstantin Weiss Switzerland Honorable Mention "chimney"

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Carolyn Knorr USA Honorable Mention "Afternoon Light" Part of a series of light studies while at home during the pandemic.

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Jacqui Turner USA Honorable Mention "Online" From the series: "Going Places"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention "Faded 1"

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Kerry Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Chilhuly's Pond"

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Regina Cserna Austria Honorable Mention "Recommencement"

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Klas Anders Sweden Honorable Mention "The Frugal Meal. (A Bloater on a Piece of Yellow Paper.)"

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Simone Nagel Germany Honorable Mention "Rest station" Early in the morning at the rest area at a gas station.

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Jane Craig Walker UK Honorable Mention "Frozen Flowers" Flowers frozen to the fence overnight with a hoar frost in Atyrau, Kazakhstan

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Wieneke de Leeuw Netherlands Honorable Mention "Lost Sunflower 2" These photos are part of a series: In early winter 2020, Sunflowers are left in a deserted field and reveal their characters as sculptures in the winter sun.

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John Crowley Ireland Honorable Mention "Reeds"

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Paul Dodd Australia Honorable Mention "Egg - After Sudek" Inspired by Czech photographer Josef Sudek who took many "kitchen" still lives

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Pei Chun Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention "Truth and illusion" Looking for truth and illusion in the reflection of the taro field.

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Jacqui Turner USA Honorable Mention "Mailboxes With Character" From the series: "Going Places"

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Regina Cserna Austria Honorable Mention "Ancient Still Life"

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Guenther Reissner Austria Honorable Mention "The Piano" Old Piano found in an old abandoned castle.

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Lynette Jonson Canada Honorable Mention "Finishing Touches"

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Diane Kravetz USA Honorable Mention "Untitled #1"

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Aleksandr Stikhin USA Nominee "Fresh" Sour Cherry

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Andrew Ilachinski USA Nominee "Oyster Still Life #2" Andy Ilachinski

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Demanding Silence"

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Antonio Bernardino Coelho Portugal Nominee "Yin-Yiang" From a conceptual perspective, this image addresses the Yin-Yiang.

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee " boots" Shadowy Boots

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Bernie Kubiak USA Nominee "Okay" Window seat

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee "In tribute to Bowie " Lamppost with Bowie sticker; from the series “Urban observations”

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C E Morse USA Nominee "Pontiac Ornament" Chrome hood ornament from a 1950 Pontiac after a rain storm

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Carmen Ramon Cami Spain Nominee "Ropes" PICTURE TAKEN IN BERLIN

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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee "Mushrooms"

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Charles Crain USA Nominee "forgotten fedora" while visiting a woodworking shop in 1970 I discovered this cobwebbed fedora

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Water Vegetation" This image is part of an ongoing series of images reflecting the wabi-sari concept.

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Christophe Matsacos Cyprus Nominee "Still Life 4"

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Chuck Nakell USA Nominee "Vicente Tacos" 7 a.m. behind Vicente's Magical Taco Truck

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Claudia Zeien USA Nominee "Floating Treasure" A gift box appears to be unwrapping itself, assisted only by gravity

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Claudio Guarisco Italy Nominee "Silent Flowers 0685" Fuji GFX 50 R continuous light

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Damaso Avila Spain Nominee "Still Life" A SET OF DRY TREES AND PLACED UPWARDS ARE USED AS A DECORATIVE ELEMENT IN THE MARTIÁNEZ COMPLEX IN T

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "Electric Petals"

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David Flueckiger Switzerland Nominee "Grass"

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David Johns Canada Nominee "I Think I Was A Soda"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee "Deco Peony"

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Debbie Hartley Australia Nominee "Collecting Magnolia"

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Denise Isnor USA Nominee "Vice"

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Frederic Deschenes Canada Nominee "Winter In Pending"

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Grace Law Hong Kong Nominee "A rose without fragrance" Rose sculpture at Hong Kong's harbour front

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Gregory Hom USA Nominee "Agave" A agave plant in the late afternoon sun.

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Heini Tikkanen Finland Nominee "Traditional Finnish sauna" Capturing of traditional Finnish wood burning sauna in countryside.

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Hennie Kempen Netherlands Nominee "Pearly Dew" Water is just like pearls (or diamonds) sometimes

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Holger Nimtz Germany Nominee "snow on the lake" Germany, Uckermark, Lake Zenssee [Winter 2021]

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Pincushion protea" Almost statuesque, the stem presents as a stairway to paradise as the flower prepares to open. Cape Town, South Africa 2015

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Isa Totah USA Nominee "Mannequins" Stoic mannequins outside a shop in Essaouira, Morocco

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James Meldrum USA Nominee "Late Winter"

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee "Allium Flower" Potrait of an Allium flower in full bloom

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Jennifer Nelson USA Nominee "Aeonium Sunburst" Black and white highlights contrast, texture in the horticultural arrangement of these succulents.

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Jennifer James USA Nominee "Precarious Position" Portion of a sculpture at the Boca Museum of Art, representing the masses in relation to the elite.

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Jishnu Changkakoti India Nominee "A simple pear" A simple image of a pear in candle light.

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John Raso Canada Nominee "Winter mask"

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Jose Guillon Brazil Nominee "Pandemy"

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JT Garry USA Nominee "Fuze box"

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Katerina Muchova Czech Republic Nominee "50 roses"

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Lady's Mantle" Victorian ladies used the dew catered in their leaves as a beauty elixir.

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Portable Magic" "The library is inhabited ny spirits that come out of the pages at night." -Isabel Allende

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Suspension" Taken surprisingly in the Houston International Airport

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "White Trash II"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "The last bottle"

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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee "After the Rain" Glowing wet forest floor after the rain at Purden Lake, BC, Canada

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Leslie Gleim USA Nominee "Fleeting ll"

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Leslie Gleim USA Nominee "Entwined"

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Lori S USA Nominee "curbside pick-up"

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Lucy Lasky USA Nominee "Where have all the Flowers Gone?" Where have all the Flowers Gone?

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Cod Salt Shack" Fogo Island Newfoundland Canada

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Manuel Ruiz Spain Nominee "Railroad" Abandoned railroad but actually very alive

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee "gallery"

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Maria Castillo USA Nominee "Ray Of Lilies"

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Marie Altenburg USA Nominee "Just Two Pencils" Just Two Pencils

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Marion Rodgers Australia Nominee "Sunflowers" Growing by the roadside

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Melissa Lackey USA Nominee "Joy Ride" While passing through a Florida Native American reservation, came across this crazy and otherworldly scene. Wonder about this poor doll and her backstory.

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Michael Miranda USA Nominee "At Night" One Lonely Night

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Mike Seidel Germany Nominee "sailing ship" I immediately thought of a sailing ship with set sails that glides over the ocean

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Neil Hunter USA Nominee "Sharp as a Knife"

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Nicola Bolton UK Nominee "The Art of Preservation" Air drying persimmons under family photos at a farmer's home in North Korea

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Windows"

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Patricia Schnepf USA Nominee "Autumn Gourds" Abundance of Gourds -- It's definitely autumn!

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Layered Leaves"

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Paul Blieden USA Nominee "Center of Life 01" Part of a series of images I started during the pandemic using my macro lens to keep myself sane.

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Paul Dodd Australia Nominee "After Sudek #2" Inspired by Czech photographer Josef Sudek - a kitchen window still life

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee "Ideogram-1" Some remains of dead leaves on sand may suggest an ancient writing

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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee "Barley" Belgian barley in the soft light of a late summer afternoon, taken on the outskirts of Brussels.

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "spider web with dew drops" a photo of a spider web taken y in the morning after the fog has cleared

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Robin Sacknoff USA Nominee "masks" covid fashion

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Just Dial 0" From a collection of objects that were once used by family members.

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee "Sale"

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee "Mushrooms at Dawn"

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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee "Dished Up" The scull of a once family pet monkey fascinates me. I'm pleased to be its minder.

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Sergey Majorov Russia Nominee "Awter the Eco Photo"

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Seta Karabadjian Canada Nominee "Calla Lily"

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Sharon Knowles USA Nominee "Crushed" Plastic Water Bottle Crushed by Hand

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Sven Thamm Germany Nominee "And yet Unique" Cotton grass of the Arctic. Thousands of them, like snowflakes of the bog, but each is yet unique.

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Ulla Cornelius Germany Nominee "Stormy Days"

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Ulla Cornelius Germany Nominee "Hazel Catkins"

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Vicki Gardner UK Nominee "Trapped"

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Wieneke de Leeuw Netherlands Nominee "Lost Sunflower 1" These photos are part of a series: In early winter 2020, Sunflowers are left in a deserted field and reveal their characters as sculptures in the winter sun.

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Wilhelm Kleinoeder Germany Nominee "Lily" The scent of pink lily is made visible in the picture

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