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Nathan Wirth USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Amateur "quietly" |
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Rene Schaedler Switzerland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Nature Amateur "Bright Horizon" |
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David Garthwaite UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Amateur "Alone" |
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Sue Trower UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Kindred, from the series 'Against the Sea'" |
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Robert Bolton UK Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "the roar of the waves" High waves are shouting to devour Tetrapod. |
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Jonathan Knight USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Dunes Sandstorm" Morning sandstorm |
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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Arcadia N.P. USA." Arcadia N.P. USA. |
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Uri Mahlev Israel Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "The first day" Genesis |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Bubble" The Bubble Nebula was created by stellar winds from the massive, hot star. |
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Tim Owen USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Untitled #2" |
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Franz Sussbauer Germany Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Waterfall" |
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Rene Algesheimer Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Purity" Meandering around the dunes. Death Valley National Park, 2020. |
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Steven DosRemedios USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Cinder Cone" Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, 2019 |
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Rie Asada Japan Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Beauty and the noble beech" The forest was very foggy. |
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John Marshall USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Unknown" Moving forward often means encountering the unknown. |
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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Protected" Hasselblad 503CW, Phase One P+,Hasselblad 4/40mm, 101 sec, ISO 100 |
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Mitchell Anolik USA Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "Shoreline" |
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Nigel Moyes Australia Honorable Mention Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Monument Valley, Utah, USA" |
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Andreas Torsten Schuler Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Fence in the snow" |
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Andrew Hough UK Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Isle of Skye, Scotland" Andy Ilachinski |
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Antje Bormann France Nominee Nature Amateur "City of (all sorts of) Light" Summer thunderstorm over Paris |
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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Damsel Fly and Water Lily" McKee Gardens |
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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Tree tunnel 2" Majestic tree tunnel centuries old in Charlston South Carolina |
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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Tree tunnel 3" Majestic tree tunnel centuries old in Charlston South Carolina |
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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Essence of Me #1" Series 1_4 |
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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Essence of Me #5" Single 1_5 |
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Beat Barthold Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Essence of Me #6" Single 2_5 |
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Beatriz Minguez Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Intense" An intense light shines upon the surface of the sea and sky. |
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Ben Ng Swee Kong Malaysia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Night Garden" |
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Bill Jackson UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Nocturnal Wonderland" |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Storm Chasing Tornado" Tornado Storm Chasing Lockett TX |
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Carol Zulman USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Canyon Walls" Antelope Valley Slot Canyon |
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Charita Carter USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Clearing Storm" EL Capitan After A Fall Storm |
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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "The Lightning Strike" Lightning Strikes in an open field. |
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Daniel Castilloux Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Mountain" Canada |
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Daniel Ruegge Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "SwissView" Longing in lowlands for distant beloved mountains in times of reduced mobility |
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Deborah McGlynn USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Oz Does Exist" Late March in WNY can be very dramatic. |
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Devin Campbell USA Nominee Nature Amateur "bnm" |
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Dominique Dubied Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Four in a row" Four trees in the mist of winter |
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Dominique Genin Belgium Nominee Nature Amateur "The Majestic Visit" The paternal majesty of the master |
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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Inhale" Blow hole gets ready to inhale for its next discharge. |
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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "A patch of light" Trotternish ridge, Isle of Skye |
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Gail Foster Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Pushing the Moon" Tree branch gently pushing the sliver moon |
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Gary Wagner USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Black and White" Death Valley Dunes |
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Gary Wagner USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Fallen" Black and White Coastal |
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Gary Wagner USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Clouds and Light" Black and White Seascape |
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Georg Kowallek Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Tree" A single tree at the shore |
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Gregory Hom USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Flowing" A scene at the beach on a cloudy evening. |
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Gregory Murray Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "Winters Jewel" An isolated snowcrystal: every one is unique and beautiful in it's own right. |
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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee Nature Amateur "Canyonland" Layers in the landscape around Lake Powell, Arizona |
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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee Nature Amateur "Old Pinetree" Old Pinetree sitting along a rim in Canyonlands NP. |
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Henrique Murta Brazil Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Slavonia fields " Slavonia fields |
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Irina Magdalena Bivolaru Romania Nominee Nature Amateur "autumn painting" |
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Ivan Hernandez USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Unworldly Landscape" |
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Jane Ivory USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Magic Mountain" image captured in 20 Mule Team Canyon |
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Janet Burdon UK Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "The Valley" Taken in Quercy, France the 23 november 2020 |
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Jo Van Rossem Belgium Nominee Nature Amateur "Basalt Bath Tub" Water flowing down Aldeyjarfoss, Iceland. |
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Jodi Frediani USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Approaching Storm" |
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Jonathan Knight USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Dunes Sunrise" Death Valley, California, USA Sunrise over the Mesquite Dunes |
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Joseph Ptacek USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Valles Caldera Mist" |
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Juergen Wieser Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Nature strikes back" |
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Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee Nature Amateur "White house" Highlands,Scotland |
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Kazik Salwa USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Morning fog" |
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Kelly Tringas Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Tasmanian Coast Australia" Tassie Coastline Isolation |
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Kishore Murthy USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Weathered" Surviving against human vanity |
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Klaus Spindler Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "twelfe " winter afternoon |
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Larry Bean USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Cirque in the Beartooth" |
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Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Foggy Hills" Valli Piacentine, Emilia Romagna, Italy, 2021 |
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Lorraine Poole UK Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "The Volcano" Stromboli eruption |
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Marco Virgone Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Eruption" Stromboli eruption at sunset |
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Mark Appleton Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Middle-Earth" Trees are sentient beings... |
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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Nature Amateur "Foot" |
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Martin Galea Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Fog" Heavy fog descends on the golf course |
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Matthew Wilkinson UK Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Orchard" Pistachio orchard out of blooom |
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Michelle Lake Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Quietude" |
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Nathalie At France Nominee Nature Amateur "Valllee de Brezons" Sea of clouds |
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Nigel Moyes Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Olstinden" Lofoten winter 2021 |
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Paul Christener Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Silence No. 02" Silence No. 02 |
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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Mudjimba Study" Sun rising over Mudjimba Island, Sunshine Coast. |
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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Serenity" From a series taken at Serenity Falls, Sunshine Coast, Australia |
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Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee Nature Amateur "A cherry tree" A winter portrait of a cherry tree in vineyards, near Berg, Austria |
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Philip Marriott UK Nominee Nature Amateur "twisted pines" |
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Philip Lawrence Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "Family" Trees in the mist seem to protect the smallest member |
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Pierre Pellegrini Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "the light of the way" Holga, film kodak ISO 100, Filter ND, long exposure 2' |
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Porus Khareghat India Nominee Nature Amateur "Zen " MAGIC OF LADAKH - ZEN |
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Pratibha Reddy USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Undulating" |
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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "2 trees" |
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Rene Schaedler Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Guided View" |
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Rene Schaedler Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Diamonds" |
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Ricardo Cuartero Estonia Nominee Nature Amateur "Camino" Estonian bog at dusk. The beauty and uncertainty of every journey. |
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Richard Burdon UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Nelly Ayre Force" The awesome power of the waters tumbling over Nelly Ayre Force |
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Richard Field UK Nominee Nature Amateur "The Chase in Winter" |
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Rie Asada Japan Nominee Nature Amateur "Hottai Falls" Hottai Falls in Japan is a very beautiful waterfall. |
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Robert Bolton UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Family Portrait" A group of icebergs floating free in Disko Bay, Greenland. They are precious! |
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Roberta Vacchiero Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "The curtain opens" THE CURTAIN OPENS |
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Robin Downs USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Untitled 1" |
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Rosario Civello Italy Nominee Nature Amateur "Snow Shapes #8" |
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Salvatore Mercieca Malta Nominee Nature Amateur "at the end" galasndur in the foroe islands |
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Sepp Koeppel Switzerland Nominee Nature Amateur "Alpenrhein 1" |
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Shinya Ichikawa Japan Nominee Nature Amateur "Broken Stems" Lake Biwa, Shinga, Japan |
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Steen Doessing UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Hurst Spit" |
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Stefan Buder Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Iced" |
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Steve Day Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Merritt Trees" |
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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Heaven meets earth" light in the midst of darkness |
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Sylvia Doeleman Netherlands Nominee Nature Amateur "In the forest VII" |
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Teri McNevin Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Loch Lomond" A captivating beautiful reflection of Scotland |
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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Yucca Accent" |
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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee Nature Amateur "Liquid tree" A different take on one of the most photographed trees in Namibia |
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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee Nature Amateur "Coated" A lighthouse in Grand Haven Michigan after a winter storm |
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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Rising" |
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Volker Birke Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "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 Nature Amateur "Footprints in the Monahans Sand" Monahans |
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Xavier Arnau Bofarull Germany Nominee Nature Amateur "Into Exil" Black Forest. Germany. March 2020 |
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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Nature Amateur "Neowise" Neowise photographed in Ibiza. |
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Yucel Basoglu Turkey Nominee Nature Amateur "Natural" A rocky beach on the Black Sea coast. A beach close to Istanbul. |
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