Wildlife - Professional

Kyriakos Kaziras France 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "ANOTHER WORLD" The dance of two elephants at sunset.

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Fenqiang Liu USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Wings of Light" On a peaceful May morning in 2020 in Florida, a captivating scene unfolded as young Great Egrets prepared for the momentous flight journey.

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Kyriakos Kaziras France 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "WONDERFUL WORLD" When a giraffe and a bird fall in love at first sight.

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "ARCTIC EMOTION" The nap of a polar bear cub under the protection of its mother.

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Ximena Echeverria USA Honorable Mention "Curves" Covered in mud, the curvatures of this wildhorse show the strength. Onaqui Mountains, Utah

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Robin Scholte Netherlands Honorable Mention "Elegant curves" The elegant curves of the whooper swan, Finland

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Debby Thomas USA Honorable Mention "The Darkest Night" Unlimited Power

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention "At the Dentist" Cuba- Gardens of the queen - the shot was taken in the archipelago, among the mangroves,

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Robin Scholte Netherlands Honorable Mention "Focus" Do I need to say more.. Focus; the powerful penetrating gaze of a leopard in the night

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Honorable Mention "The River Crossing" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Andrew Robert Fox UK Honorable Mention "Holy Cow" At daybreak in the Swiss Bernese Alps, the cows roam free on the alpine pastures, and the only sound to hear is the hollow clunk and jangle of their bells echoing around the mountainside.

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Honorable Mention "Teddy bears" Svalbard, Norway

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David Stewart Canada Honorable Mention "Looking At You"

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Johan Luykx Belgium Honorable Mention "Iceland" Horses of Iceland

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Yancho Sabev Belgium Honorable Mention "Pass Through" A moment of peaceful beauty, the kind that leaves an impression on the soul.

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Kristen Warning USA Honorable Mention "I See You" Feline eyes stare at you from the darkness.

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Honorable Mention "Monkey dumpling" The way to beat the cold is to become dumplings

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Adrienne Villar USA Honorable Mention "Alligator"

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Impala Lineup" I loved the symmetry and balance of these thirsty impalas.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Rhino in the Morning" This rhino commanded our respect with an air of gravitas.

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David Winegar USA Honorable Mention "Starlings Sheet Music " Starlings Sheet Music Winter Storm - Wanship Utah

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Antti Viitala Finland Honorable Mention "Great White Shark" Great White Shark

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention "Delicacy"

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Valerie G Henry USA Honorable Mention "Shadows in the LIght" Two wild American mustangs waiting their turn at the watering hole.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention "Color of the Wings" A Great Egret flew away from this unique-looking pine tree in Florida during sunset.

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Bowman Ashe USA Honorable Mention "Welcome to my Nightmare"

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Honorable Mention "AT LAST" After extremely mild temperatures, the survival of polar bears is on hold time like the icicles.

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention "Apple picking"

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Stone Peng USA Honorable Mention "Jellyfish #2" Jellyfish#2

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Stuart Vesty USA Honorable Mention "Flautist" Infant Baboon with Marching Band dreams

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "Reflection"

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Jean Rouzaud France Honorable Mention "SISTER " ANIMALS how to communicate

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Jeff Johnson USA Honorable Mention "Team Work" Team work to prepare the nest for the future little ones

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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Honorable Mention "The Boss" The goat looking at you like a boss!

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Maria Marriott USA Honorable Mention "Desert Grays" Two gray stallions of the Great Basin Desert of Utah size each other up, a normal ritual before what can turn into a serious battle to establish dominance.

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Sheena Jolley Ireland Honorable Mention "Seal Safe" Galapagos Sea Lion at Gardner Bay,Hood Island looking relaxed and showing no fear of human presence.

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Grant Stirton Canada Honorable Mention "Fusilier" Bali, Indonesia

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Ashley Garrett USA Honorable Mention "On A Mission" Early morning walk in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "Lions in the rainy season" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "The Big Migration" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "The Black Panther" Wild black leopard (melanistic), Kenya

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee "Lookout" Amboseli National Park, Kenya, Africa

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee "Rush Hour" Maasai Mara Migration!

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee "We've Got This" Zebras lead the way in the day's great migration, Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, Africa

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee "You Go, No You Go" Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Africa

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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee "Awakenings" While the cranes are sound asleep in the background, the greylag geese swim excitedly on the misty l

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee "High5 x 4"

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Bowman Ashe USA Nominee "Portrait of an Orangutan"

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Bowman Ashe USA Nominee "Bornean Orangutan"

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee "Room with a Veiw" The Terns make there nest on the cliff ledge above the sea

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Brian Clopp USA Nominee "Snow Fight" Wild stallions battle against fresh snow.

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Brown Cannon USA Nominee "Great White, Guadalupe Island, Mexico" Natures most evolved form cruises the waters off of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.

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Clarence Lin USA Nominee "Deer of Miyajima" Miyajima (or Itsukushima), Japan.

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Eleszabeth McNeel USA Nominee "Here I Am"

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee "Morning’s Glory" In Florida, I snapped this photo of a Great Egret flying into a natural frame made of tree leaves and Spanish mosses. The sunlight illuminated its wings from behind.

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "coyote"

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Gabriella Giannini USA Nominee "Salton Sea Herons"

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Glenn Goldman USA Nominee "You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine"

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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee "Burrowing Owls" Classified as an endangered species, these birds of a feather found comfort in numbers; Lake Ida, FL

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Jeff Johnson USA Nominee "Dawn Patrol" Early morning patrol of an eagle over Sequoia National Park

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "ICU TOO Smiling Orangutan" Orangutan can laugh, I only need to be around them when they do.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "ICU TOO Male Chimpanzee" Chimpanzee body architecture has strong arms and legs.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "ICU TOO Mandril" The male Mandril show facial expression when they are angry.

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "dragon-fly"

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee "chessboard butterfly"

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John Marshall USA Nominee "Out Of The Dark" Secrets the dark may hold.

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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee "Fixed Gaze" Maned wolf focused on my position.

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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "In His Prime" A wild stallion at Carrot Island, NC

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Kisa Kavass USA Nominee "Of Wolf and Horse"

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Kyriakos Kaziras France Nominee "WHITE SYMPHONIE" After many expeditions it was the first time I saw bears from different families playing that way

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Maria Marriott USA Nominee "Nuzzle" Two wild mustangs nuzzle each other - the most intimate of communications and affection.

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Maria Marriott USA Nominee "Siesta" After early morning activities and a trip to the watering hole, the herd pauses for a nap.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Airborn" The Nkoveni female sprang across the river to reach her kill hidden in the reeds.

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Mark Kuhn USA Nominee "How's my Hair?" Icelandic horses posing in the breeze for a quick photo

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Nominee "Manta ray" Komodo Island - Manta ray in cleaning station in the afternoon in backlight

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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee "In Her Mother's Arms" I love how this image shows the gentleness of the mother gorilla with her young baby. All naturally lit.

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Neil L. Johnson USA Nominee "Gator" An illustration for a children's book. Found this guy at an alligator park. Shot on site.

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Nolan Septer USA Nominee "Caballo de Cotopaxi" This image of a horse was made in Ecuador's Cotopaxi National Park. The effects are done in-camera.

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Cubs" 3 cubs looking around the corner

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Hyena"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "I'm Climbing Here"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Jump"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Yep It's Still There"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Yum"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Mom Go Away"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Zebra Youngster and Mom"

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Philip Armitage New Zealand Nominee "Praying Mantis" The head of a praying mantis looking at the photographer

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "Rhinoceros defecating in the jungles " Greater one-horned rhinoceros defecating in the jungles of Nepal's famous Chitwan National Park. Nep

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Robert DeRosa USA Nominee "Melody" American Avocets wading in a musical pattern in the Great Salt Lake

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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee "Back to my roots" In Botswana, a leopard sits between the roots of a very old tree, looking over the dry riverbed.

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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee "Close Enough" In South Africa I photographed from a photo hideuntil this elephant stood less than a meter from the

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Robin Scholte Netherlands Nominee "Waterfun" On the South African plains, this elephant comes to drink water at a spring. He first sprays away th

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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee "Bubble Net Feeding" Humpback Whales Bubble net feeding in Antarctica

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Vulture" Spain

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Flying Vulture" Spain

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Seth Joel USA Nominee "Punching Cattle" Punching cattle on the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico.

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Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya India Nominee "dance of herons" Altercation of two egrets, as if choreographed and in sync, at the Manglajodi wetlands in Odhisa.

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Sreekumar Krishnan India Nominee "The Celstials of Earth" Lesser Flamingos fly off in the twilight creating a celestial feeling on Earth

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Sreekumar Krishnan India Nominee "UFO Outside my window" The tent spider is an amazing architect, one of its kind in the spider world, creating a dome

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Stefano Lunardi Austria Nominee "Grey Owl" a great grey owl - my project birds of pre(a)y

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "United" A cherished moment in South Africa.

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Terry Wild USA Nominee "Merganser Family Moosehead, Lake" Merganser Family

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Timothy Cotter USA Nominee "Siamang " Good Morning

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Tom Svensson Sweden Nominee "Crowded" Taken in Masai Mara during the great migration

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Tom Krausz Germany Nominee "albino-alligator" albino alligator, saved and living in TerraZoo, Rheinberg, Germany

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Towanda Hannah USA Nominee "Bird Reflections "

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Victor Elias USA Nominee "His majesty The King" Showing off who is the King

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee "Coming home"

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William King USA Nominee "Mating Osprey" Mating Osprey at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center.

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee "bow" out of my series ANIMALS

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Ximena Echeverria USA Nominee "Solitude" A solitary stallion walking along the path of the mountains surrounding the Salt River, Arizona

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Ziesook You USA Nominee "look"

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