Wildlife - Amateur

Suzanne Anton USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Hope two" Tranquility

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Yaron Schmid USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Skyscrapers of Masai Mara" A tower of giraffes all looking in the direction of a leopard that was walking by.

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Bill Klipp USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Cliff Diving" Chinstrap Penguins in a snow storm diving into the sea

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Michel Groleau Canada Honorable Mention "Follow the guide" Penguins often follow the same path to go to the sea in Antarctica.

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Karen Bilgrai Cohen USA Honorable Mention "Grinning Lions" Lion and Lioness grin in unison side by side

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Honorable Mention "Emu"

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Vicki Santello USA Honorable Mention "Amorous Argument" A pair of mating lions confront each other during a romantic moment

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Honorable Mention "Gorilla maternity"

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Honorable Mention "the happy polarbear"

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Esperanza Gomez USA Honorable Mention "Night Dancing"

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Gary Levy USA Honorable Mention "Five O'Clock Shadow" Miami Zoo Giraffe

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Vitaliy Plyaka Ukraine Honorable Mention "Surprise" DR Congo

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Preeti and Prashant Chacko Kenya Honorable Mention "Waiting for the Storm" 2 Cheetah brothers contemplate an approaching storm

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Robert Vogt USA Honorable Mention "Red-eyed tree frog" A red-eyed tree frog just before it hopped.

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Tailai OBrien Australia Honorable Mention "Sleeping Beauty" The donkey foal rests by mum

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Lynette Jonson Canada Honorable Mention "A Cuddle with Mom" Sweet Baby Hippo Sleeping against his Mom

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Donald Wilson USA Honorable Mention "Comforting Touch" Zebra family groups often appear to find comfort resting their heads across each other.

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Stephen Allworth Australia Honorable Mention "Flamingos" Flamingos on the lake

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Cindy Poulin Canada Honorable Mention "Eagle in Flight"

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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention "Flying Free"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Honorable Mention "Camouflaged"

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Cecilie Bergan Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "Dusty catch" A Northern Hawk-owl catches a mouse in -31 degrees celcius

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Amardeep Singh India Nominee "Western Union"

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Ann Quinn USA Nominee "the window"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee "On The Move" A Gypsy Vanner enjoying some freedom.

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Arijit Goswami India Nominee "Help" Though torture in wildlife animals nearly closed but in some parts of India it still can be seen.

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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee "Coming Home" Wood stork Wakodahatechee, Delray Beach, Florida

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Ashley & Zachary Vemwell USA Nominee "Our Neighbor the Great Blue Heron" Morning rituals with our elegant friend. Puget Sound, WA, USA

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Hippo Spa" Hippo in a mud bath to cool down while also protecting skin from parasites and act as a sunscreen

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Lower Monument Canyon 0599" Lower Monument Canyon 0599

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Smoked Ducks" Wood Ducks in thick smoke from bushfires, over Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Orangutans" Mother and baby Orangutans

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Elephant Seal Pup #2" Elephant Seal Pup at Macquarie Island

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "Mom and Baby Gorilla"

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Can Gurkan USA Nominee "Jellyfish Nebula" Jellyfish in the Bosphorus, Istanbul, 2018

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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee "Horse Play" Wild horses of the Rockies frolicking

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Carol Smokler USA Nominee "Brown Pelican" ready to fly

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Caroline Guinan Ireland Nominee "Elephants Amour" Elephants Amour taken in Kenya

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Catherine Clifford Australia Nominee "The Hunter" Purplewinged Mantid (Tenodera australasiae)

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Cecilie Bergan Stuedal Norway Nominee "Kick the can" A Eurasian sparrowhawk hunting a Eurasian jay

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Chihiro Funasoko Japan Nominee "Running monkey" Monkeys that have invaded human settlements can move on the roof.

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Peacock #6" This image is from my ongoing series of monochrome animal portraits.

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Christina Maiorano USA Nominee "Lone Gallop"

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Christine Akar USA Nominee "Elusive"

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee "Underbelly" The underside of this turtle reveals an intricate structure that fits together like a jigsaw.

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Chuck LaChance USA Nominee "The Hidden Danger" Danger lurks within the Florida reeds.

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Chuck Nakell USA Nominee "Gracie" A sensitive soul, now gone

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Curtis Fedder USA Nominee "Lurking"

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Daniel Dencescu Germany Nominee "The great white egret"

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "I Know You"

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David Mediavilla Spain Nominee "El Rey de la montana"

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Debi Bradway USA Nominee "Dressy Dressage" All dressed up for the show.

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Demetrio Jereissati Brazil Nominee "Venice" The boat and the sky in a geometric composition seem to frame the flying bird.

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Denis Ryan Ireland Nominee "Lunch" Humpback Whale Lunge Feeding and a Heermann's Gull

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Denise Silva USA Nominee "Mom, What's Over There?" Kambaku, South Africa May 2022

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Donald Wilson USA Nominee "Above It All" A Giraffe stands above it all as he surveys the African savannah.

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Donald Wilson USA Nominee "Learning Its Trade" A leopard cub practices its stalking skill.

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Edward Mann USA Nominee "Long Drink" Longer to the water for this old fella

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Eric von Schulthess Switzerland Nominee "Seagul" the Seagul sitting on a pole - Switzerland

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Franck Rouzes France Nominee "Lunch" The bee and the flower meet for lunch

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Gail Foster Canada Nominee "Landing" A red-tailed hawk landing on tree branch

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Gary Levy USA Nominee "Two Feet Taller" Egret On a Post

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Gary Levy USA Nominee "Elite Alit" Butterflies

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Geffrard Bourke USA Nominee "Leopard" A young leopard lit by sunlight in the bush near the Chobe River

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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee "Reindeer herd in autum"

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Giorgio Suighi USA Nominee "Montauk Beach Part 2" Bird Standing Alone In Montauk Beach

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Giorgio Suighi USA Nominee "Wilderness Alone in Wyoming " Early Morning Wilderness Encounter with Moose in Grand Teton National Park

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Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee "Who is there?" deer, sky,clouds

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Guy Llewellyn USA Nominee "Pelican Stretch" Pelicans at Dauphin Island, Alabama

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee "Light Footed"

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee "Opened Wide T-junction" Two white backed vultures recovering from a rainy night, one spreading out its wings to better dry with two branches seemingly helping keeping them opened.

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Henk Langerak Netherlands Nominee "The King" I'm the king of the jungle

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I-Fan Chen Taiwan Nominee "Following"

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "The eyes miss nothing" Chanting Goshawk, waiting for prey. Etosha Game Reserve, Namibia 2015

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James Hyde USA Nominee "Abundance" Succesfull conservation leads to resource abundance as seen in Cabo Pulmo National Park, BCS Mexico.

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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee "Intimidation" Female Colorado black bear

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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee "Zebra " Zebra

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Common Dolphin"

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Jan Gyllensten Sweden Nominee "On the ice" Polarbear on the ice on Svalbard, looking for possible food...

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee "Bald Eagle Boundary Bay " Boundary Bay, BC has a large number of Bald Eagles in the area.

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee "Harbour Seal Trio" Three harbour seals on log jam in Tobas Inlet, BC.

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Jeff Bullied Canada Nominee "Hunter & Prey"

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Jennifer Julian-Breig USA Nominee "Lunch is Served" A Florida sandhill crane colt gets a wiggly meal with a dash of dirt

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Bird Do It" Yellow-billed Storks in breeding season

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Tender Moment" Mama and yearling sharing tender moment. Churchill Manitoba Canada

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John Doyle USA Nominee "Wolf" Dominant Male

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Joseph Ng Singapore Nominee "Rest & Relax" An Orangutan did a posed for the photographer.

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Karen Bilgrai Cohen USA Nominee "Snowy egret ascending" A snowy egret emerges after hunting

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Karen Bilgrai Cohen USA Nominee "Peaking leopard" A female leopard peaks out from her favorite limb

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Karen Bilgrai Cohen USA Nominee "Brio aroused" Andalusion stallion shows his excitement

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Karin De Winter Belgium Nominee "Clash of the Titans" Two male elephant seals fighting in the water next to a shipwreck, Grytviken harbour, South Georgia.

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Seven Flamingos" A study in grace and balance.

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Scanning for Prey"

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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee "Zebras at water hole" Zebras drinking at water hole

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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee "Elephants entwined trunks" African elephants entwined trunks

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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee "Painted Dogs"

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Kevin Lohman USA Nominee "House Finch on a Sunflower" A house finch eating a seed from a drying sunflower in a garden

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Kim McAvoy Australia Nominee "Lonesome Drink and a Mudbath" A Graphic treatment of a young bull elephant having a drink and a mudbath

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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee "Family Chat" Bluebird parent teaching its young the facts of self feeding.

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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Nominee "Mama" Portrait of a devoted mother taking a break from caring for her offspring.

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Lee Chee Wai Malaysia Nominee "Dancing in the rain" Pair of Grey Heron chasing around the river edge while raining

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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee "Mother and daughter?" Mother and daughter? BW The mother mallard duck took her little baby daughter to the water of creek of city Enkoeping Enkoping, for the first time. The little duckling first was a bit afraid of the wa

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Les Bentley USA Nominee "Black Bear 2727" Black Bear cub posing for a portrait in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, USA.

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee "Panda-monium." Panda Sanctuary. Chengdu, China 2018

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "Praying Mantis"

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Lori S USA Nominee "Thirst for life"

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Messy Faced Monkey"

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee "Give Peace a Chance" The lone white pigeon remains calm while others create an encircling frenzy on the Santa Monica Pier

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee "Puma" Top predator of the mountains of the southwest.

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Mitchell Anolik USA Nominee "The Lineup"

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Mitchell Anolik USA Nominee "The Sextuplets"

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Nathalie At France Nominee "The cow" a curious cow

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Neil Hunter USA Nominee "Ready for My Close Up"

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Free Thinker" Birds in formation

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Oyvind Pedersen Norway Nominee "Pine Marten" Pine Marten by the water. Taken with a PIR motion sensor and 2 flashes.

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Partha Roy Singapore Nominee "Flying Owl" Buffy Fish Owl in Flight

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Nominee "Serenity" Ibex (Capricorn) - King of the alps

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee "From the Road Side" When I realized that seeing the scenery was more important to me than paying attention to the steeri

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Pen-Yuan Hsu Taiwan Nominee "Fluctuation" On the shimmering surface of the water.

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "Vogelflug im Morgennebel" flock of birds above the ground fog in the "Maurer Riet" in Liechtenstein

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Preeti and Prashant Chacko Kenya Nominee "Hallelujah" 3 ox-peckers fly in celebration as the baby giraffe is reunited with its mother.

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Radek von Hirschberg Poland Nominee "Lord of Toxic Lake " 23-11-2021 / Warsaw

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Richard Burdon UK Nominee "Howling At The Wind" The howling of the sled dogs is such an evocative soud from my trip to Greenland

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Richard Collens Canada Nominee "Stock Decomposition" Panamanian fauna in mid decomposition

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Robert Vogt USA Nominee "Into the Great Unknown" Baby green sea turtle makes its way to the ocean for the first time

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Robert Ruble USA Nominee "Unlikely friends" A wild polar bear gently played with sled dog for half an hour, gave him a hug, and walked off.

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Robin Zygelman USA Nominee "Mindfulness" Mindfulness

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Robin Downs USA Nominee "Hello"

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Rolf Kjodnes Norway Nominee "Mountain Hares fighting" Photographed in Vauldalen,Norway in April 2022.

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Roy Wiesner Israel Nominee "Head Shot" Steenbok Antelope, Namibia

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Roy Wiesner Israel Nominee "Meet The Starlings" Starlings gather on wires

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee "Protected byMom"

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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee "Silken Web"

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Sajeesh R India Nominee "The Majestic Buck" An adult black buck at jayamangali back buck reserve, karnataka

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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee "Deep Thought" Sometimes they act so humanlike. Metro Richmond Zoo. Mosley, VA, USA

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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee "I Got You, My Pretty!!!" Successful hunting. Cooper hawk. Mobile, AL, USA

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Shlomo Nezer USA Nominee "The Great Blue Times Two" The Great Blue Heron cleans up before going to sleep

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Shoichi Toki Japan Nominee "charm"

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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee "Aligator #1" Florida aligator.

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Sonal Shah UK Nominee "Female Purpose" Masai Mara, Kenya

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Sonal Shah UK Nominee "2.4 Children" Masai Mara

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Sonal Shah UK Nominee "Lifetime Together" Masai Mara, Kenya

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Sonal Shah UK Nominee "Smile, You're on Candid Camera" Masai Mara, Kenya

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Steve Ricketts Canada Nominee "Visual cacophony" taken in Minburn County, AB. migrating Snow geese taking flight, alarmed by my presence

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee "Three Gaters" Three Gaters

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Steven Greenbaum USA Nominee "Crossing The Road" Croosing The Road

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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee "Eagle"

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee "Hope" Hope is the bravest bird in the sky

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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee "Mushroom Season" Red Eyed Tree frog featuring dead cricket leg on a mushroom

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Terry Self Canada Nominee "Monarch Butterfly" A monarch butterfly on a butterfly bush in late summer

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The Eng Loe Djatinegoro Indonesia Nominee "Dive To Gain BW" Moment when wild Crane dive its head to catch a fish

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Gippsland Skyline" I watched this horse paddock for years waiting to see them on top of the ridge

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee "polar bear"

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Tim Lucas Australia Nominee "Floating Along" Antarctic Travel Penguin Style

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Pas du Deux"

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Veronica de Bruyn South Africa Nominee "Art in Wildlife" Hunting Cheetah

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Wolfgang Autexier France Nominee "striking look" Straight in the eye: the look of the lion is striking

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Shark" A blue shark photographed in the Bay of Biscay.

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Xin Wang USA Nominee "homing" Time for the birds to go home

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Yaron Schmid USA Nominee "Striped 'Eye'" The endangered Grevy's zebra's unique stripe pattern.

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Yeom Dong Sam Korea (South) Nominee "flight" It is a beautiful flight of about 300,000 ducks coming Korea every year.

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Yuan Zhang China (PRC) Nominee "Portrait of A Racoon" A racoon sitting on a tree in the Central Park, New York, June 17, 2018.

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