Nature - Professional

Sacha Ineichen Switzerland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Ice melting" Island

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Mark Seawell USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Beyond the light" Storm clouds cover the land as the day ends on Antelope Canyon..somewhere beyond the light.

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Fallen Trees"

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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention "Beach surf in moonlight" beach surf in moonlight

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Steve Turner Australia Honorable Mention "Ocean Power"

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Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention "A realm of fantasy" My first and only trip to Lower Antelope Canyon and I enter..a realm of fantasy.

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Ragnar B. Varga Norway Honorable Mention "Solitary Sentinel" In the remote reaches of the Spanish mountains, a solitary tree stands proudly on a cliff's edge.

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Cim MacDonald Canada Honorable Mention "Take Cover" Calm before the storm

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David Jordan Williams USA Honorable Mention "Crescent Moon Through The Grotto"

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Honorable Mention "Black lands"

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Steve Gosling UK Honorable Mention "Here Comes The Rain Again" A typical weather day in the Scottish islands as rain showers pass through

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Nature 18" A lonely tree in the Tuscany region of Italy.

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Robert Coates Canada Honorable Mention "Majestic"

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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention "Stardust" This is the Flaming Star nebula where the gas and dust is churned into an enormous celestial storm.

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Aleksandrs Drozdovs Latvia Honorable Mention "Another dimension" " ...nature , the only book , whose every page is full of deep content..." J.W.Goethe

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Robert Maynard UK Honorable Mention "Black Neural" Black Neural

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Ryan Conrad USA Honorable Mention "Winter in Indiana" After a freshly fallen snow in northern Indiana, I ventured out with my drone to photograph trees and shadows in the snow.

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Will Enos USA Honorable Mention "Desert Fog" Fog surronds the granite behind a lone Joshua Tree

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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Nature 5" Under an iceberg in Antarctica.

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Michelle Ranee Johnson USA Honorable Mention "Mobius Arch and Moon" The moon setting during sunrise between the Eastern Sierra and Mobius Arch, CA.

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Joel Simpson USA Honorable Mention "Tanguy's Ancestors" The rock formations of Bisti Badlands, NM suggest the subjects of Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy.

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Willem Hansen Netherlands Honorable Mention "Nature 23"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Honorable Mention "Untitled #1" And the way up is the way down.

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "Bones and Penguins" real life on antarctic peninsula

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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee "Drowned Forest" Arthur's Lake Tasmania, Australia

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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee "Tidal Flats" Kumamoto in Japan

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Allen Russ USA Nominee "3 Trees, Stages of Life"

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Allen Birnbach USA Nominee "Lampchung Himal"

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Allen Birnbach USA Nominee "Starlight Study #21"

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Ann Co USA Nominee "To the West I" "Eternal whispers in stone: The delicate cascade of sand in Antelope Canyon's lower level, captured

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Annette Willis Australia Nominee "Queensland Bottle Tree"

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Bob Canepa USA Nominee "Like a rock" Life long after death

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Caleb Asch USA Nominee "Vsdahorn" Vsdahorn in Iceland with her Cloud Shroud

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Caleb Asch USA Nominee "Skogafoss"

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Cameron Carothers USA Nominee "Silverton Fall"

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Claude Ka Kit Tsang Hong Kong Nominee "An interesting coexistence" A small tree is fully covered with tiny yellow flowers and a cypress tree with dense dark green leaves. Young and coarse, sparse and dense, shallow and deep form contrast but aesthetic combination.

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Coby Cooper USA Nominee "Doolin Ireland Wild Atlantic Coast" the power of the winter Atlantic on display in Doolin, Co Clare, Ireland

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "The River" Deep within the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River flows.

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Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Winter's Brew" Skillman, New Jersey

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David Frutos Egea Spain Nominee "Three Souls" New victims will be added to the long list of souls that nature claims on a daily basis.

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "Rain Flow" Rain Flow

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Nominee "The Cathedral of Flow" The Cathedral of Flow

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Dimitri Kouznetsov Switzerland Nominee "Against all odds" Fomapan 100 13x18

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Douglas Dubler USA Nominee "Montauk Moonrise" Montauk Moonrise

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Dragomir Vukovic USA Nominee "Opening" Walking by a desert rock, and felt that opening...

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee "Pfunders Valley" The road ends in Pfunders...

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Eric Hagemann USA Nominee "The Wizard" The 1200 year old limber pine takes on the form of a wizard casting a magic spell

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Florian W. Mueller Germany Nominee "Norge No. 3" Landscape in Norway.

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "Water wall" solace

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Fritz Berger Switzerland Nominee "Hope for rain"

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Gaudenz Danuser Switzerland Nominee "Unplugged" Unesco World Heritage Site Tectonic Arena Sardona, Tschingelhörner

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Gianluca Federighi Italy Nominee "Alien" Loving heals the body and the soul. Loving someone, a place or something with tenderness has no downsides. Loving has great power. Love as much as you can. js.

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Gio Fleming France Nominee "The rock" Erosion hasn't climed this rock formation...Yet

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Low Tide at Streedagh Strand, County Sligo, Ireland" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Patterns at Old Head Beach, County Mayo Ireland" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland

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Greg Probst USA Nominee "Louise Lake" Soft light coming through fog at Louise Lake, Mt. Rainier National Park

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Greg Probst USA Nominee "Sand Dune" Morning light on a sand dune in Death Valley National Park

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee "Peaking Through the Peaks" Early morning with the first sun rays peeking through the peaks of the high Himalayas.

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James Fox USA Nominee "White Sands Dune #1"

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Jamie Reed Japan Nominee "Mountain" A dreamy interpretation of the Nā Pali Coast along Kauaʻi's North Shore

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 1" Iceberg in Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 2" Wave swirling on an iceberg in Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 3" Detail of iceberg in Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 4" Icebergs in the Iceberg Graveyard, Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 6" Wind whipped waves in Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 7" A really remarkable iceberg in Antarctica.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 15" Wind swept Monterey Cypress trees along the Pacific coast.

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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Nature 17" Saguaro cactus skeleton, Tuscon, AZ.

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John Sassen Netherlands Nominee "West Mitten Butte" Monument Valley

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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Majestic Dunes Namibia" Light & Shade Dunes

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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Deadvlei" Namibia

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John Wiseman Australia Nominee "Sand & Rock Dunes" Namibia

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Untitled #2"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Venus"

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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Foggy Shores of the Ohio" Fog rising off the Ohio River and engulfing everything along the shores

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Kingsley Burton Australia Nominee "Hutt Lagoon 83" Hutt Lagoon Western Australia

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Leigh Ann Pincus USA Nominee "Slot Canyon" A slot canyon in Utah.

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Lou Novick USA Nominee "Wilderness Portal"

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Lynne Eodice USA Nominee "Oak Tree in Los Olivos" An oak tree at Gainey Vineyards, Los Olivos

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Land of light" The first snow of the season arrives in Huntsville Utah and I take in the moment..land of light

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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Marvels of Nature" Hoodoos in the Utah desert sprout from the ground and dazzle the eyes..marvels of nature.

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "The Witness to History" Infrared photography

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Mia Segaert Belgium Nominee "Dam at the crack of dawn I"

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Mia Segaert Belgium Nominee "Innocent Avalanche"

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Michael Barley USA Nominee "Farm Workers New Mexico" Farm Workers walk along pond in southern New Mexico

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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Separation" Long exposure of fish net poles, Lake Trasimeno, Italy

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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Rippled" Reflection of fish net poles, Lake Trasimeno, Italy

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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Desert Waves" Sand dunes, Death Valley, California

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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Presence" Pacific coastal landscape, Oregon, USA

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Naoki Kimura Japan Nominee "Let there be light" The momentary scene floating in the silence seemed to be reminiscent of the beginning of Genesis.

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Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Boneyard Bedtime"

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Nicole Robinson USA Nominee "Starry Night"

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Niko Eden USA Nominee "El Arbol " Leaves binding in the torrential wind, he swept me horizontal to the horizon.

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Nluz Love Spain Nominee "La bola del mundo"

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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Moffat Boulders"

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Paul A Wright UK Nominee "Seaside landscape" 1960s adapted, manual focus lens, Fujifilm film simulation, image straight out of camera.

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Paulo Olivier Hanshing Chile Nominee "Desierto Vivo" Una tarde con mucho viento en las dunas de Atacama, ideal para ver la vida propia que tiene la arena

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Paulo Olivier Hanshing Chile Nominee "La Intimidad de los Andes" Una mirada íntima de la luz de la cordillera de los Andes, Atacama, Chile.

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Peter Paluzzi USA Nominee "Sea Sprites" Spritely reflections dancing on the ocean surface.

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Richard Mack USA Nominee "The Last Light / Lonely Cloud" From a series done in Rocky Mountain National Park, July 2023

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Richard Dweck USA Nominee "Hanging"

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Rie Asada Japan Nominee "Tree of the Starry Sky" Trees with distinctive branches were reaching for the stars.

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Robert Tardio USA Nominee "Tuscan Farms"

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Robyn Finlayson Australia Nominee "Remnants" In the Northernmost dunes of K'gari - world's largest sand island

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Roger Gottlieb USA Nominee "One tree"

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Ross Deverson Canada Nominee "A River runs through it" Prague is often overcrowded, but peaceful corners do exist shown in this multiple exposure image.

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee "Stuck" Maroc

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Sandra Petrowitz Germany Nominee "Silence" Hoarfrost on trees in the Bavarian countryside, Germany

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Sergio Cabello UK Nominee "Highlands Keeper" Standing as a sentinel over the rugged landscape

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Shota Kizu Japan Nominee "Hill of Seven Stars" From Biei,Hokkaido.

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Stanislaw Chomicki Germany Nominee "The River"

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Stephen Lang USA Nominee "Convergence #2"

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Follow The Light" Peering inside a Big Sur sea cave with a setting winter sun beaming through.

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Mountains on a Mirror" The magnificence of Torres del Paine, National Park, Chile

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Rain Dance" A passing storm seen in the UKs Lake District

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Stone Peng USA Nominee "Family in Sand Dune"

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Suzan Mandla Canada Nominee "Frozen Fossil" Close up of an ice formation on the Ottawa River reminiscent of a dinosaur.

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Timothy Cotter USA Nominee "Dust Storm"

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Tjitske van Leeuwen Netherlands Nominee "Tree - Petten #01" The silence of trees

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Tjitske van Leeuwen Netherlands Nominee "Tree - Petten #02" The silence of trees

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Tom Krausz Germany Nominee "Indian pacific" A wooden peace, looks like an animal of primeval times.

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "TORII" God's place

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Integration" everything was beautiful

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Japan’s simple" Japanese simplicity comes from wabi-sabi

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Japan's beauty" I met beauty

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Ton Dirven Netherlands Nominee "Climate Change"

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Torleif Lie Norway Nominee "Desert Melodies #3" Aerial photography, sand dunes, Western Australia

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Walter Fox USA Nominee "Desert Road" Along the loneliest road on America

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Wilfried Beege Germany Nominee "Styxx" Beege Wilfried Styxx

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Will Enos USA Nominee "The Bridge" Fall in the Canyon and a bridge over the stream

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Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee "Morning Mt Fuji" Morning Mt Fuji

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