Wildlife - Professional

Kyriakos Kaziras France 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Body and soul" Polar Bears at sunrise over Barter Island, Alaska

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Paula Durbin USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Lion Couple" Taking a break

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Marilyn Maxwell USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Cubs in Tree" I.U.C.N. redlist: Leopards are Vulnerable.

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention "true love" Empathy between two young elephants

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "Le temps suspendu" Elephant in the Maasai Mara plains,Kenya.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Wild Dog" Wild dogs are considered Critically Endanged @IUCN redlist.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention "Beyond Dark" Sometimes there is more than beyond dark, we still have time to step into the light.

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Charlotte Gibb USA Honorable Mention "Bullet" This little Black Phoebe is an aerodynamic machine, and as quick as a hummingbird.

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Seth Mayer USA Honorable Mention "Contemplation" Taking a moment to ponder the universe.

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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Honorable Mention "The Bull" Highland Bull, shot in Germany during a long walk

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David Winegar USA Honorable Mention "Band Of Mothers" A Band of Mother Mule Deer Mothers pose in the Wind River Range of Wyoming - USA

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Serge Melesan France Honorable Mention "Shallow " Sharks below the surface

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention "Mister Croccodille" Cuba - Gardens of the queen

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "Hello" Bear with her cub on the Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention "Wings of Confidence" This photograph attempted to capture Great Egret's decisive quality at the moment of takeoff.

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Javier Bohorquez USA Honorable Mention "Be kind"

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Aleksander Myklebust Norway Honorable Mention "Mountain Hare Fight" Røros, Norway. This photo shows two wild mountain hares fighting in the Norwegian mountains.

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Honorable Mention "Schooling Japanese Barracuda" schooling, Japan, barracuda, fish, eatable, sea, ocean

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "Ode a la joie" Elephant family going to the waterhole at sunset in Hwange, Zimbabwe

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "Midnight melody" Polar bear family in Svalbard.

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Valerie G Henry USA Honorable Mention "Dancing in the Wind" Wild mustangs of Utah running with the wind.

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Steve Burns USA Honorable Mention "Harris's Hawk" Taking Off!

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Coby Cooper USA Honorable Mention "Black Rhino" Endangered Black Rhino on the Serengeti, Tanzania

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Cheraine Collette Netherlands Honorable Mention "Nocturne"

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Matthew Meier USA Honorable Mention "Chevron Manta Ray" a chevron manta ray in front of a massive rock formation

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Alexandra Cearns Australia Nominee "Dark Flight" A white tern flies against a darkened sky on Cocos (Keeling) Island.

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Andrea Kornfeld Hungary Nominee "Snake portrait" Ball python

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Andrew Lever UK Nominee "'The bull'" A large majestic Bull stands on a beach in Spain in a stare off with me the photographer.

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Antti Viitala Finland Nominee "Seychelles" On the reef outside Mahe Island.

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Arnaud Gras France Nominee "Pixelle"

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "Male lions" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Ben Pulletz UK Nominee "A Wave of Egrets" I saw a mass group of cattle egrets feeding in a field. I stopped and waited for them to take off. I took the shot at a really slow shutter to get the motion in their wings.

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Drinking hawk"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Puffin"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "Goshawk"

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Brian Clopp USA Nominee "Genetic Mutation to Scratch an Itch" A moose locally known as Hoback scratches an itch with his rare downward facing antler point.

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Charles Bush USA Nominee "Osprey" Osprey Landing

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Christopher Hall Singapore Nominee "White Rhino" Majesty on the African Plains

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Clarence Lin USA Nominee "Untitled (Koi)"

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "Waiting" Morning light finds this Falcon sitting in a Namibian Mopani tree.

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Debby Thomas USA Nominee "Great American Horse Drive" Horse Drive in Colorado USA

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "Mandrill"

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Gatekeeper" An ephemeral capture of a truly enduring animal, “Gatekeeper” is an ode to the American bison. ⁠

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Tiger's Retreat" Capturing this Royal Bengal tiger in a minimalist setting was one of my hardest earned images.

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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee "No exit" Nikon d80 convert to Infrared Iso 200, f11, 1/90 20 mm

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Eleszabeth McNeel USA Nominee "Tesoro's Charge"

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Secret Garden" I captured this exquisite moment of the Great Egret in Central Florida in the spring of 2020.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Invitation" Courtship's display of a Great Egret in Florida during their breeding season in the spring.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Love Language" I captured this beautiful moment of a mother Egret and a baby Egret on a spring morning in Florida.

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "egret takes flight"

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Single Horse County Mayo Ireland" From the contuning series, the West of Ireland

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "Touch The Sky" A Manta Ray with its wing breaking the surface, 'Touching The Sky' Maldives, Indian Ocean.

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Taking Shelter #2" Horse in shed on farm off of Tuscarora Road in Frederick County, Maryland.

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "On the Rocks #1" Brown Pelicans and Pelagic Cormorants resting on cliff face at Point Lobos State Preserve, Carmel, C

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Helga Salwe Australia Nominee "The loner" Lone sheep in the Atlas mountains, Morocco

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Perfection" A sandhill crane performing her beauty routine.

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Janice Tieken USA Nominee "Condor Dolly - Broken Wing" Dolly is the ambassadress for the California Condor Conservation efforts. Beautiful, inquisitive A marvel of nature. Near extinction.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "Winning Grin" The Mandril is a large monkey with an even bigger winning grin.

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Johan Siggesson Malta Nominee "Zebras in Sync" Dashing stripes evolved to confuse and conceal, yet so satisfying to look at.

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John Marshall USA Nominee "Time Forgotten" Florida Swamps Are Primordial Places

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John W. McDermott USA Nominee "Elephant and Mt. Kilimanjaro" The majesty and elegance of an elephant against the background of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

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Judy Stokes New Zealand Nominee "Preening Praying Mantis"

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Karel Mus Belgium Nominee "Waiting to be Shot" Nature in Belgium is so fragmented that animals can no longer migrate and just wait to be shot

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Ken Loyst USA Nominee "Rest Area" Gulls finding a spot to rest after a long day of foraging

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Kisa Kavass USA Nominee "Goliath"

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Kristen Warning USA Nominee "Snowing Softly" Ever so soft, slowly falling snowflakes that rest on a horse.

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Nominee "In the clouds" Reflection of a polar bear on the arctic ocean in Svalbard.

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Nominee "Le curieux" Polar bear cub on the Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Nominee "Belle epoque" Cheetah in Olare Motorogi, Kenya

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Standing Out" Silverback gorilla taking a quiet moment of solitude.

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Mouthful" Giraffe chewing on fresh leaves after a long reach. Pays to be tall!

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Lance Carter USA Nominee "Serenity " Silverback gorilla taking a quiet moment of solitude.

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Landry Major USA Nominee "Return To Freedom" Wild Horses from The Red Desert Complex, Wyoming rescued from the BLM returned to freedom

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Lee Gordon USA Nominee "Gliding Pelicans" Pelicans gliding atop the ocean

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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Kinkajou" Kinkajou portrait

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Lisa F. Fleischmann Canada Nominee "Tails of feeding" Perimeter pigeons keep a watchful eye as their urban flock assemble to feed in protective concentric circles, tails pivoting.

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Marcia Loor Canada Nominee "My turn to leave" Caught this beautiful bird in fly against a cast sky

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Maria Errico USA Nominee "Equine landscape" Paint horse as part of the landscape. Wyoming USA

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Battle" I.U.C.N. red list: elephants are Crically Endangered

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "AlphaFemale" IUCN red list: Crically endangered

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Mark Duffy Canada Nominee "Wild Lynx on the Prowl" Wild Lynx in Riding Mountain Manitoba Canada

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee "Moonlight Dear" A male dear walks in front of a full moon

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Michael Koch Germany Nominee "Aspic" aspic, snake, eternal collection

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Michelle Everette USA Nominee "Fuzzy Wuzzy Waylon" Waylon is a sweet Clydesdale photographed on New Year's Eve.

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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee "A Time for Flight and Reflection"

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Nancy Ney USA Nominee "Run Run Run" Horses running in the Camargue

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Nigel Charman UK Nominee "Watching" Galapagos, Ecuador

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Paul Coghlin UK Nominee "Fight"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Peek A Boo" Watching his brohers on the other side of the log

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "LBR2" Lilac Breasted Roller

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Pedro Jarque Spain Nominee "Priceless"

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Pedro Noel da Luz Guerreiro Portugal Nominee "Wild Horses" Horses are freely on the loose in a field in Alentejo, Portugal.

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Petra Senn Germany Nominee "W 54 St flights"

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "I was able to feed my baby_Greater Adjutant." I was able to feed my baby_Greater Adjutant. It is a bird of the Greater Adjutant species. This bir

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Robin Wadhams USA Nominee "Calm Before The Storm" Wild Horses Sand Wash Basin Colorado

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Strong Character" -

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Salvatore Valente Italy Nominee "silenzio" Cina nella regione dello Yunan risaie allagate

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Scott Lanza USA Nominee "Highland Steer Isle of Skye"

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Scott Lanza USA Nominee "Vatten Ram Isle of Skye"

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Serge Melesan France Nominee "Symetry of the deep" A green turtle flying in the deep of Mayotte lagoon Indian Ocean

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Shankar Subramanian India Nominee "Egret" Egret

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Sharon Packer USA Nominee "Running Horse" Lusitano Stallion in Freedom

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Sheena Jolley Ireland Nominee "Zebra Talk" The Zebra stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual. They are vertical on the neck and horizontal on the rump and legs.

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Shelley Paulson USA Nominee "Power and Beauty" KD Taking Care of Business enjoys a winter gallop and showing off for the camera.

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Sreekumar Krishnan India Nominee "Looking Mamma 'Human being'" Look Mamma human being - Greater flamingos at Navi Mumbai

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Sreeroop KT India Nominee "Stare" Mantis stare

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Window to the Soul" A window to the soul, a beautiful Icelandic horse.

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Steve Turner Australia Nominee "Bird In Sky" Composit of 2 images shot 2022.

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Steven Begleiter USA Nominee "Wings" Wings

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Stuart Vesty USA Nominee "Stallion Portrait" National Champion Arabian Stallion Pyro Thyme SA

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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee "Love" I went to Portlick Forest in Ireland, where I took this picture.

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Tom Krausz Germany Nominee "Green iguana Reptilia" krausz-tom_green iguana.jpg

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Tom Krausz Germany Nominee "green tree python" krausz-tom_green tree python.jpg

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Cute" She makes cute gestures very occasionally. It's like a cat. She has a big body and is very cute.

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Straight eyes" Wait until the mother monkey comes. I stare at you with pure eyes.

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Valerie G Henry USA Nominee "Unbridled Spirit" Wild stallion watching the cowboys in the distance, rounding their cows.

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William King USA Nominee "Peace and Serenity" Foraging Great White Egret with sleeping Mute Swan

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Ximena Echeverria USA Nominee "The Challenge Series #3" In the midst of the great desert a challenge ensued. A wildhorse protects his herd

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Ziesook You USA Nominee "look" 20 X 30 INCH

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Zuzana Kamel Slovakia Nominee "Together everywhere" Beautiful flock of birds flying together everywhere, forever. Cape of Good Hope , South Africa

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