Silhouette - Amateur

Charles Mifsud Malta 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Forgotten Nests" Early morning sparrows flying over empty nests

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Joao Coelho Portugal 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Zzzuum" The silence of the mist is only broken by the zzzumm of the cars discovering the other shore

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Can Gurkan USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Onosintos" "Onosintos" are mythical beings, personifications of unsettling anxiousness caused by the unknown.

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Honorable Mention "Behind the Paravan"

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Kenichiro Hagiwara Japan Honorable Mention "Dreaming at the Aquarium" The conflict between my illusion of a beautiful aquarium and my feelings for the fish as a spectacle

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Angelo Brancaccio Italy Honorable Mention "Nun in the snow" Cremona, Italy, 2020. A nun with an umbrella during a snowfall in a desolated Duomo square.

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Jimmy Lok Hong Kong Honorable Mention "A Call from a Distance"

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Melinda Goodall USA Honorable Mention "History Lesson" A traveler at Union Station stops to read about the history of transit in Los Angeles.

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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention "Thinking Man"

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Josef Buergi Switzerland Honorable Mention "Samarkand" Buildings of the Silk Road.

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Shinya Ichikawa Japan Honorable Mention "a Man in a Alley" Lucca, Italy, 2012, captured by film

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Remigijus Scerbauskas Lithuania Honorable Mention "Urban vibrations" Caption was taken in underground passage - woman was climbing up stairs.

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Narcis Mursa Romania Honorable Mention "Devotion in Black@White" Taken to Varanic Hills Mehedinți County Romania

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Javier Herranz Casellas Spain Honorable Mention "Mountain goat" Goat silhouette in the mountains of Gredos National Park. Spain.

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Carolyn Edelstein USA Honorable Mention "Drunken Bistro Shadows" I walk by this daily. Sometimes I'm there at the time that the sun has this kind of fun with the shadows.

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Michael Brodie USA Honorable Mention "We and Our Shadow" On final approach to Ft. Lauderdale airport

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Gary Levy USA Honorable Mention "Squeaky Clean" Winder Cleaner

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Simone Nagel Germany Honorable Mention "striped"

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Leslie Goldman USA Honorable Mention "The Magician of the Mist" Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, FL 2023

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Eric Pijnaken France Honorable Mention "WORK IN PROGRESS" WORK IN PROGRESS: pijnaken-eric_work in progress

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Susan Langer USA Honorable Mention "Stirring up Reflections"

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Honorable Mention "Choice" Photo was taken in Thessaloniki

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Barbara Corvino Italy Honorable Mention "On the border" On the border between sun and shadow, in the early morning.

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Hsien-Chih Chuang Taiwan Honorable Mention "Losing Oneself" Losing Oneself

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Barbara Maker USA Honorable Mention "Family Day" Shop Till You Drop

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Volker Birke Germany Honorable Mention "Gotcha" Canon EOS 5D, watching an angler while hooking a pike during a misty eve on Lake Steinhude in winter

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Diane Klein USA Honorable Mention "Oh, Little Man"

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Honorable Mention "Helpless" Photo was taken in Maastricht

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Honorable Mention "Days of Summer" Couple playing with photo camera at Golden Bay beach in Malta.

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Andreas Lange Germany Nominee "A song that ABBA never sang"

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Andreas Theologitis Greece Nominee "Primitive Shadows"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee "Street Sweeper"

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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee "Conversation" A sunbeam in the alley of the old town

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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee "Curious little dog" A curious little dog beyond the arch

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee "Bar Scene" Have a Seat

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Berry Bingel UK Nominee "Safety chain"

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Sunset Silhouettes" Higgs Beach Pier Key West Sunset

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Baboon Sunset Silhouettes" Baboons playing on dead tree at sunset

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Scoresby Sound 2791" Scoresby Sound 2791

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Brendan Berryman Australia Nominee "Contemplating" This image was captured at Pinnaroo Point in Western Australia

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Brian Hunt Canada Nominee "Brookfield Place"

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Bruce Fraser Australia Nominee "Shadows" Santiago Chile

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Budd Parker USA Nominee "Girl in the Window"

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Carlton Johnson USA Nominee "Lost" Capture of a couple looking out of the Whitney Museum, Manhattan, NYC.

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Carol Zulman USA Nominee "Grand Central Station"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Fishermen and Fish" Reflection of Fisherman and Fish

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Christine Akar USA Nominee "Still Waiting...."

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Chuck LaChance USA Nominee "Dark Destiny" Move to the light from the shadows.

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Nominee "under the spotlight" Photo was taken in Düsseldorf

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Dave Rudin USA Nominee "Nude, Germany 01"

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "Cast A Giant Shadow"

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Derek Attico USA Nominee "The Bridge" Sometimes the shadows reveal beauty that can't be seen in the light.

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "umkuyuty"

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Eddy Verloes Belgium Nominee "More than a shadow" 2021, Belgium

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Eros Bottazzo Italy Nominee "Intra 11-22 1"

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Estevao Lafuente Portugal Nominee "Mares pool" Matosinhos, Portugal

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Francesco Lepre Canada Nominee "Black Trees" Old oak trees shot on a foggy day at Cherry Beach in Toronto.

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Francis Keating Australia Nominee "Moreton" Shot on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia . A lone tree survives the extreme elements of nature.

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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee "Shadow Men or Pictures at an Exhibition"

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Gregory Hom USA Nominee "Memorial"

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Holger Goehler Germany Nominee "Drei Herren" Dresden - Radebaeul April 2023

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I-Fan Chen Taiwan Nominee "Bike ride"

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Jeff Bullied Canada Nominee "Beam Me Up"

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Jeff Bullied Canada Nominee "3 Silhouettes"

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee "Before the Storm"

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Great Lakes Portal"

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Life in a Slinky"

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Kenneth Tyson USA Nominee "JACOB'S LADDER"

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Kishore Murthy USA Nominee "Chicago Sky" Chicago city

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Klaus Blumhofer Germany Nominee "light shower"

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Klaus Blumhofer Germany Nominee "sunset on habor wall" placeholder

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "winter graphik"

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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Nominee "Admire" Individuals engaged in the process of aesthetic appreciation.

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee "Desolation" Broward Boulevard, Ft/ Lauderdale, FL 2022

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Lilyan Aloma USA Nominee "Confounded" A poster can alter our perception, Houston Street, New York City, Infrared image

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "The End of the Day"

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Lois Alexander-Mandel USA Nominee "Hanging to Clean"

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Lorraine Poole UK Nominee "Turnberry Lighthouse" Turnberry Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland celebrates 150 years this year.

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Lynn Tait Canada Nominee "Water Birds in Silhouette" North East Maryland

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Marilyn Canning USA Nominee "Untitled"

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Marnix Detollenaere Belgium Nominee "The biker" Ready for action - (Antwerp 2023)

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Matthew DeZee USA Nominee "Into the Light"

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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee "Flight of Fancy" A vista point near Big Sur celebrates the reintroduction of the condor to central California in 1992

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Michael Potts USA Nominee "Dance at Daybreak" Silhouette with model Vivian Cove

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Michiko Ôtomo Canada Nominee "Lonely walker" One snowy night, a man was walking down the street as if he was enjoying loneliness. This photo was taken in the residential area of Sillery in Quebec City, Canada.

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Morris Asato USA Nominee "Shadow Fence" Sunlight streams through a fence casting light and shadows on a pathway.

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Mrigankamouli Bhattacharjee India Nominee "The Enchanted Forest" A foggy evening in The Enchanted Forest

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Nancy Mitchell USA Nominee "Good Morning Sunshine" Andalusian stallion greeting the day

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Natalie Truchsess Germany Nominee "Ivy" Berries and leaf of ivy branch

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Nicole Vittoria de Jager South Africa Nominee "Alley Stroll" Essaouira, Morocco. 25th April 2023

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Takeout" Salmon lunch in Canada

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Oya Akkul Turkey Nominee "Crowded" Galata Bridge Istanbul/Turkey

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Nominee "The Dawn" Staying on the Aiguille du Midi over the valley of Chamonix.

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "Vogel Strauss" Ostriches in the evening light in front of migrating wildebeest in the Northern Serengeti

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Peter Zarkob Spain Nominee "Centenario Bridge" The “Centenario Bridge” is a cable-stayed bridge in Seville (Spain).

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Rainer Quesada USA Nominee "Church Silhouette"

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "Water Reflection" Kangemi Slum in Nairobi

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Steve Gelineau USA Nominee "Hurry Home" Workers heading home are silhouetted by the setting sun in Boston, Massachusetts USA

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Desert Sunset 1" Sonoran Sunset with backlit cacti

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Suzanne Livingstone UK Nominee "Crane Over Huangpu River" Cityscape of Shanghai in the fog taken from an elevated viewpoint.

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Sven Svenson Germany Nominee "Mysterious" Shadow and light play

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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee "Silhouette Sheep" Sheep upon the hill featuring a lone tree in silhouette

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Tetuso Kaneko Japan Nominee "childcar" Child giving direction from stroller

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Despair" The hunched figure on an illuminated stairway may be a parable of modern life

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Absent Friends" The custom has grown to place cut-outs in public spaces to remind us of the fallen of World Wars and other conflicts

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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee "Fire Escape"

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Wolfgang Autexier France Nominee "spiritual even in adversity" 4 steeples and a terrible cloud: spiritual even in adversity

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