|  | Catherine Riddle USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "What Lies Beyond" A view of Mount Whitney through natures window | 
|   | Sue Trower UK 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Rising Up Crashing down" A slow shutter speed reveals wave details the eye would not normally see | 
|   | David Reilly USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Cloudy With A Chance Of Invasion" An unusual gathering of lenticular clouds seen in Iceland. From an Iceland series "Þar sem landið byrjar". | 
|   | Jovelino Matos Almeida Portugal Honorable Mention "a Tree in Wales" I waited several days until finding the right weather conditions to photograph this tree in the lake | 
|   | Marie Veran Canada Honorable Mention "Taking a Step Back" The beauty of this Tuscan landscape is reinforced by the missing tree | 
|   | Mike Seidel Germany Honorable Mention "firenight no.3" Calabria in southern Italy the usual forest fires, fascinating and threatening at the same time | 
|   | Roy Wiesner Israel Honorable Mention "Dune" The two faces of a giant dune in Sossusvlei, Namibia, in late afternoon light | 
|   | Grace Law Hong Kong Honorable Mention "Hat off to Fuji" Lenticular cloud over Mt Fuji | 
|   | Eddy Verloes Belgium Honorable Mention "Is this the end?" 2020, Belgium | 
|   | David Reilly USA Honorable Mention "Inside The Glacier. Vatnakojull, Iceland. " Taken inside the 800-year old ice that is Vatnakojull glacier in Iceland. From an Iceland series "Þar sem landið byrjar". | 
|   | Willa Davis USA Honorable Mention "The Graceful Dead #1" Part of the series: The Graceful Dead. Trees and brush killed by drought or fire. | 
|   | Tony Jackson USA Honorable Mention "Celebrating" High desert juniper: Abiqui Lake, NM | 
|   | Damjan Voglar Slovenia Honorable Mention "Dunes" | 
|   | Jurius Jurius Indonesia Honorable Mention "The Two of Us...." Unexpected weather always give surprising result... | 
|   | Rosario Civello Italy Honorable Mention "Winter Road" | 
|   | Carol Rusinek Canada Honorable Mention "Methane Bubbles in Lake Ice" | 
|   | Mary Ann Tardif USA Honorable Mention "Ebbing Tide" Exuma Cay, Bahamas | 
|   | Spyros Lambrou Greece Honorable Mention "Hiliadou Coast, Greece" | 
|   | Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti France Honorable Mention "Fiery Night" A magical night to contemplate a volcano in eruption. A great moment of nature. | 
|   | Yucel Basoglu Turkey Honorable Mention "black sea coast / istanbul" This lake is a beautiful and quiet place 1 hour away from Istanbul. | 
|   | Gary Wagner USA Honorable Mention "Earths Layers" Black and White Landscape | 
|   | Keith Manning USA Honorable Mention "Alone" A small piece of glacier alone at sea (Iceland) | 
|   | Volker Birke Germany Honorable Mention "Standing Strong" Nikon D810, beech trees taken at Nienhagen, Baltic Sea, during a fantastic moonlit night. | 
|   | Larry Alford USA Honorable Mention "Cypress Tree Trail" Cypress Tree Trail | 
|   | Pratibha Reddy USA Honorable Mention "Ice Sculpture 1" | 
|   | John Kochanowski USA Honorable Mention "Misty Mountain Road" | 
|   | Edwin Robinson USA Honorable Mention "Dive Tree" | 
|  | Jonathan Knight USA Honorable Mention "Phantom Waters - Waterfall II" This dark, minimal collection showcases a series of waterfalls. Rather than present a completed im | 
|   | Anna Onishi Japan Honorable Mention "Path of the wind" | 
|   | Kathleen Fischer USA Honorable Mention "High Plains Rain" | 
|   | Sam Dobrow USA Honorable Mention "Cat Eye Cave" Infrared photograph shooting up with wide angle lens inside cave | 
|   | Chuck Campbell USA Honorable Mention "Kvernufoss Waterfall" Behind the Kvernufoss Waterfall in Iceland | 
|   | Sue Trower UK Honorable Mention "Engulfed" A very high spring tide combined with a large swell batter this tiny hut, but it still stands strong | 
|   | Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Honorable Mention "Bestow" Mother Nature preparing to do her work. | 
|   | Abby Raeder USA Nominee "Impressions" | 
|   | Adriana Kastelan Croatia Nominee "Moment" Mountain Velebit, Croatia | 
|   | Andreas Lange Germany Nominee "Treacherous path across the ice" | 
|   | Anna Onishi Japan Nominee "Wind and snow" Strong wind blows snow | 
|   | Anne Dignam USA Nominee "Icelandic Falls" | 
|   | Beth Buelow USA Nominee "Dune Dance" Graceful lines of a dune crest in Death Valley National Park | 
|   | Bill Klipp USA Nominee "After the Storm" Palm Tree Shadows | 
|   | Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Scoresby Sound 5138" Scoresby Sound 5138 | 
|   | Carol Zulman USA Nominee "Diamond Beach" | 
|   | Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Costila" | 
|   | Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Spider Joys" A spider and web lightened by Sunset at home . Reminding me of Spider Awards | 
|   | Christine Jacobson New Zealand Nominee "Forest lights" A walk in the NZ bush on a drizzly day decorated the forest with fairy lights | 
|   | Danny Vint USA Nominee "Silent night" | 
|   | Dave Cohen USA Nominee "Reaching Out" | 
|   | David Martin USA Nominee "Family" Cypress trees surrounded by fog on an early autumn morning creates a sense of belonging. | 
|   | David Reilly USA Nominee "Breidamerkursandur glacial plain, Iceland" The Breidamerkursandur glacial plain on the south coast of Iceland. From an Iceland series "Þar sem landið byrjar". | 
|   | David Mediavilla Spain Nominee "VIAJE" | 
|   | Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "The Forest For The Trees" The fog shrouded trees looked as if they were otherworldly. | 
|   | Devin Campbell USA Nominee "nhtyntyty" | 
|   | Donald Bolak USA Nominee "Sand Plume, Alamosa, Colorado" Great Sand Dunes National Park | 
|   | Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "Battling Hegemony" Battling conformity begins with the seeds of insubordination | 
|   | Eros Bottazzo Italy Nominee "Valsesia 7-22 1" | 
|   | Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee "Milky Way and the Paradise" This photo was made in Mangue Seco, Bahia, Brazil | 
|   | Fumi Akao Japan Nominee "Something behind it #3" Magnolia kobus | 
|   | Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Strong and Silent" Black and White Seascape | 
|   | Gary Wagner USA Nominee "Dark Seas" Black and White Landscape | 
|   | Geffrard Bourke USA Nominee "Aspen Family" A small clump of Aspen trees near Glacier NP | 
|   | Gerd Guenzel Germany Nominee "Teneriffa" Ocean view | 
|   | Guenther Reissner Austria Nominee "Road to nowhere" road, landscape, clouds, weather, cold, Iceland | 
|   | Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Gathering storm" The elements dwarf the scale of man's existence. Doubtful Sound, New Zealand 2020 | 
|   | James Peterson USA Nominee "Tunnel Survivor" These pines, rooted on a small volcanic cone, have all been altered by fire, but they soldier on. | 
|   | Jeff Bullied Canada Nominee "Iceberg" | 
|   | Jerry Harrison USA Nominee "Serenity of Fog" The tree's last stand | 
|   | Jitendra Chaturvedi India Nominee "Flames " River currents going up in flames | 
|   | Joyce Harman USA Nominee "Looking up" This tree in Borneo was magnificent from lying on my back | 
|   | Karmen Orlic Croatia Nominee "Between the land and the sky" Highlands,Scotland | 
|   | Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Moon Caught in Tree" | 
|   | Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Vision Quest" | 
|   | Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Resistance" | 
|   | Kent Wisner USA Nominee "Tuscan Trees and Clouds" Spring Textures Viewed from the Walls of Lucca | 
|   | Klaus-Juergen  Roericht Switzerland Nominee "The look of the birch tree" | 
|   | Larry Bean USA Nominee "Cold Smoke" Luther, Montana, 2021 | 
|   | Laszlo Perlaky USA Nominee "Onion Creek Tree Legs" | 
|   | Lee Chee Wai Malaysia Nominee "Surya" Surya : Sun - Solar energy or positive energy is masculine, warm, light and active, linking to our left brain energy | 
|   | Leslie Gleim USA Nominee "In the Beginning" | 
|   | Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee "Blow out" Geysir, Iceland | 
|   | Martin Miklas Slovakia Nominee "Crimson Tide" When water weeps, its tears turn red, reflecting the dark tale it once witnessed.(Journey ofThe Fish | 
|   | Matthew Wilkinson UK Nominee "Passing Of Time" Bamburgh Coast Line | 
|   | Maurizio Vicedomini Germany Nominee "In that quiet earth" | 
|   | Michael Rausch USA Nominee "The Sentry" Standing alone against the sun and wind. | 
|   | Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Light after darkness" The first light is often spectacular when peeking between the branches near Torres del Paine in Pata | 
|   | Nick Green UK Nominee "FORMER GLORY" A beautiful dead tree in the mountains of madeira captured in the mist and drizzle | 
|   | Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee "Ekspressen" Bodo, Norway | 
|   | Paul Newton Canada Nominee "Five Rocks" The Five Rocks - Iceland | 
|   | Paula Price USA Nominee "Surviving" Even in the dead of winter life survives. | 
|   | Peter Krenek Slovak Republic Nominee "After harvest" Fields after near Prellenkirchen, Austria | 
|   | Piper Smith USA Nominee "Tree" Photographed in Central Park July 2023 | 
|   | Pratibha Reddy USA Nominee "Ice Sculpture 2" | 
|  | Radek  von Hirschberg Poland Nominee "Ray of Light, 2023" Ray of Light, 2023 by Radek von Hirschberg, Iceland, 2023 | 
|   | Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee "misty morning" | 
|   | Rick Bogacz Canada Nominee "Tree on Snowy Hillside" Shot in March of 2023 near the town of Caledon, Ontario, Canada | 
|   | Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Ballerinas" Four cherry trees in rural Hokkaido. This made for a minimalist composition. The trees were dancers. | 
|   | Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Quartet" Hokkaido snowscape taken in January 2023. A simple, minimalist group of four trees on a hillside | 
|   | Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Alone" Hokkaido minimalist tree in the snow. The curve of the horizon adds a sort of flow to this. | 
|   | Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Here Today" Taken in Disko Bay, Ilulissat, Greenland in July 2023. | 
|   | Sandra Jasmin Nieuwenhuijsen Canada Nominee "Ancient Giants 01" Spectacular Camel Rock is an ancient rock formation in Bermagui, Australia. | 
|   | Steve Gelineau USA Nominee "Among the Aspens" A lone Christmas tree sits among the Aspens near Crested Butte Colorado USA | 
|   | Steve Gelineau USA Nominee "Brewster Sunset" Sunset over the Brewster Tidal Flats, Cape Cod, Massachusetts USA | 
|  | Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Desert Sunset 2" Sonoran Sunset | 
|   | Stevi Jackson UK Nominee "Half moon" Somewhere for a bit of peace.. | 
|   | Teddy Sugrue Ireland Nominee "Coumeenoole" This image was captured on a stormy day at Coumeenoole Bay in Dingle, Ireland. | 
|   | Tim Owen USA Nominee "Antarctica V" The Antarctica - like no other place on earth. You can't just see it, you need to feel it. But I tried to capture a bit of its splendor with these images. | 
|   | Tim Truby USA Nominee "High Winds, Thor's Well" A 20 foot deep lava tube on the Oregon coast captures the wind-blown waves. | 
|   | Tony Jackson USA Nominee "Swirls" High desert juniper; Abiqui Lake, NM | 
|   | Tony Jackson USA Nominee "Desert Flyer" High desert juniper: Abiqui Lake, NM | 
|   | TR Smith USA Nominee "Bensonhurst Park 03" Bensonhurst Park Trees 03 | 
|   | Vidya Kane USA Nominee "Sculpted Rocks and Pebbles" Sculpted rocks and textured pebbles created by waves lashing the coastline | 
|   | Wilhelm Kleinoeder Germany Nominee "Wood" Wood | 
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