Fine Art - Amateur

Frank Proost Luxembourg 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "A Soft Reminder In A Sharp World" A soft cloud is floating over a brightly sunlit urban settlement

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Charlie O'Donovan Ireland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Time to Reflect" Axix Delta Thessaloniki, Greece

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Yiorgos Michael USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "A body" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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Jens Winkler Germany Honorable Mention "Morning Traffic" Early morning traffic on Canal Grande in Venice

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Caroline Guinan Ireland Honorable Mention "Dad, Son and Granny " Paper Bag series ,portrait,identify

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Enrica Ridolfi Italy Honorable Mention "A horse with no name" Un cavallo bianco ripreso nel suo recinto

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Mike Seidel Germany Honorable Mention "Body of snow" I see a well shaped body and then again a range of hills in deep snow or a dune landscape

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Hans Bauer Germany Honorable Mention "Is it art ¿" Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

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Yiorgos Michael USA Honorable Mention "A beach" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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Jens Winkler Germany Honorable Mention "Portrait of a Sheep" A portrait of a sheep on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention "The one who went away"

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Tom Marantette USA Honorable Mention "Flying High" One daredevil is flying high for the audience.

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Kaushik Dolui India Honorable Mention "The narrow exit" A narrow pass between two walls.

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Jeffrey Andrews USA Honorable Mention "Passing by a sacred place"

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Gary Horsfall Jamaica Honorable Mention "Indifference"

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Erik Olson USA Honorable Mention "Walking into the light"

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Robin Zygelman USA Honorable Mention "And Now We Dance" Grace Meets Rhythm

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Honorable Mention "Danger"

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Steve Eirschele USA Honorable Mention "Dragon"

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Giorgio Bormida Italy Honorable Mention "Travel"

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Jovelino Matos Almeida Portugal Honorable Mention "Dreaming" in middle mediterrean sea whithout wind I see sailing boats on the distance looking like dreams

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Tracey White UK Honorable Mention "Intuition " White-Tracey Intuition

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Steven Lewis Australia Honorable Mention "Maria " Maria island cottage tasmania

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Steve Burkett USA Honorable Mention "Abandoned" An umbrella abandoned poses on the beach

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Yiorgos Michael USA Honorable Mention "A wall" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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Laura Malaterra Italy Honorable Mention "My Toys, Spennacchietto" Spennacchietto, my favorite soft toy

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Tracey White UK Honorable Mention "Nightfall " White-Tracey Nightfall

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Paul Newton Canada Honorable Mention "Isolated Connections" Isolated Connections depicts power lines vanishing into a Saskatchewan whiteout.

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Ann-Mari Broman USA Honorable Mention "Conversation"

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Jon Meyer USA Honorable Mention "The Hitchhiker" Would you pick him up?

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Honorable Mention "Old Barn" Lofoten wintertime

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Michael Potts USA Honorable Mention "Mortal Coil" From a shoot where the client wanted to "Rise from the Ashes." The soul also rises.

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Alex Tsarfin Israel Nominee "The Muse and the Instrument"

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Alexander George USA Nominee "Another Day at the Pier" A bleak day for fishing

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Alexander George USA Nominee "The Omen" Heron on a Sluice Gate

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Alexander George USA Nominee "Capture" An interactive picture where a street mural combines with a passerby

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Anirudh Koppula Australia Nominee "Me"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee "Agony and Ecstasy"

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Anne Grosse-Leege Germany Nominee "Fisherman's friend"

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Antonio Gesmundo Italy Nominee "La Terrasse du Geant" Punta Helbronner 3.466m - 2025/07/19 (Monte Bianco Cablewayw, Savoy, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France)

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Arnold Plotnick USA Nominee "Her Royal Highness" A royal feline on a balcony in Amsterdam

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Arthur Jacoby USA Nominee "Spectator" Cycling Competition, Velodrome, Dania, FL

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Barry Good USA Nominee "Waiting around..." sometimes shadows and light can be very personal and create it's own presence ...

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Catherine Riddle USA Nominee "Cannery Row" This is a wall of cans in different designs making up the wall of a bowling alley in Nashville, TN

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Chris Blincoe New Zealand Nominee "Fogged in"

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Claudio Casini Italy Nominee "The Pier" It was a windy day, and the sea was very rough. The long exposure turned the high waves into mist.

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Dave Rudin USA Nominee "Nighttime, Venice, Italy, 2024"

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David Jones Australia Nominee "The Jetty" The Jetty, has seen better days

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Diane DeQuevedo Klein USA Nominee "The Lure of the Unkown"

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Dvornik Gabor Hungary Nominee "Styx" After the rain, a lonely river shoreline glistens, where an abandoned boat rests silently

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Gary Levy USA Nominee "Getaway Abuts Get Away" Limousine adjacent to airplane.

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Geoffrey Olsen Canada Nominee "Full Moon Effect " Sometimes it is just worth getting up at 1 in the morning with a full moon filtering through the trees

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee "Making A Grand Entrance"

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Heiko Riekers Germany Nominee "No conversation" At northsea on the dike

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Heiko Riekers Germany Nominee "Game over" At baltic sea side on the beach

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Ivo Mateju Czech Republic Nominee "Jamnik" The village of Jamnik is famous for the Gothic church of St. Primo and Feliciano, which is one of the most photographed places in Slovenia.

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Jacqui Turner USA Nominee "Beyond The Threshold"

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James Knauf USA Nominee "Eye on the City" Overlooking Manhattan

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James Patrick Conway Brazil Nominee "End of nature"

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Jan Lightfoot USA Nominee "The Season of Winter" To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.

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Jeffrey Andrews USA Nominee "Split"

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Jeffrey Andrews USA Nominee "Fingers"

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Jens Winkler Germany Nominee "Foggy Venice #6" A foggy scenery in Pellestrina, Venice

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Jens Winkler Germany Nominee "On the Edge of Turbulence" Two girls in a dangerous place. Fortunately, this was not a real scenery.

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Jim McKinniss USA Nominee "Man in Black with Balloons Birds and Sphere"

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Joan Broch Spain Nominee "Brain rot"

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John Portlock UK Nominee "Steps in the sea" Tide in.

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee "City Scape #1" Line Drawings by Nature and Humans (Ilford Delta 100)

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Kevin Glenn USA Nominee "Catwalk" Tate Modern in Infrared

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Larry Dunn USA Nominee "DV32" 1931 Stutz Bearcat DV32 Convertible Victoria

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Leah Earle USA Nominee "Ghost Ship" The S.S. Point Reyes slowly disintegrates in the flats of Tomales Bay.

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee "No Hiding the Obvious" Miami, FL 2025

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee "Web In Art " Museum visitor captured in this Fine art mixed media web presentation. Miami, FL 2025

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "The Pianist and the Singing Crow"

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McCormick Brubaker USA Nominee "Moon Rise Lecount Hollow" Solitude

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Melissa Lackey USA Nominee "Gentrification" The old meets the new in Charleston SC

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Michael Potts USA Nominee "Soul Mate"

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Michael Scandling USA Nominee "Bay Fantasy Number 1" One view of San Francisco Bay

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Michael Scandling USA Nominee "Mark's Sky" Sky suggested by a certain painter

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Aura" Can we sometimes photograph the aura?

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Nadine Taesler Spain Nominee "Arches"

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Nadja Perez USA Nominee "In Motion" Motion turned into lines of light and shadows

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Narcis Mursa Romania Nominee "The coffins made of lead were lying sound asleep" Taken in orthodox cemetery -Mehedinti County-Drobeta Turnu-Severin City-Romania

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Longwood Nymphs" Women visitors at Longwood Gardens. High Speed film pushed and processed for mood

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Patrick Betthaus Germany Nominee "Fly" This photo was taken in Bochum, Germany.

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Patrick O'Brien USA Nominee "Sami"

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Paul Brou USA Nominee "Garden at The Alhambra"

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Paul Brou USA Nominee "Fontaines des Mers"

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Peter Wingerter Germany Nominee "Endless"

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Rachel Wei Canada Nominee "Meoto Iwa" Meoto Iwa Full View

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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee "Hamburg #2"

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Robert Meyers-Lussier USA Nominee "A Quiet Passage" A lone sail drifts through the haze, charting an unspoken course between the certainty of stone and the infinity of sky

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Rosario Civello Italy Nominee "A Winter Morning"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The cloud climbers"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The photograapher"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The way home"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "Friends"

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Shlomo Nezer USA Nominee "The Man and the Sea" Waling into the wide ocean

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Sonia Aumiller Germany Nominee "Serpent d'Ocean #1" This contemporary artwork by Huang Yong Ping is an enormous snake skeleton that appears at every low

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Steve Eirschele USA Nominee "Weathered by Time"

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Susan Langer USA Nominee "Five Chairs"

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Thomas de Franzoni Italy Nominee "She Has a Tale to Tell" In the tranquil stillness of early morning at Lake Bled, Slovenia, a dense fog blanketed the serene waters, obscuring the landscape in a veil of mystery. As the sun began its ascent, golden light pier

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Thomas de Franzoni Italy Nominee "Threshold of Stillness" Black-and-white composition captures the essence of an early summer morning at Lake Garda. The minimalist approach highlights the interplay between nature’s raw simplicity and dynamic motion, offeri

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "Normandy Lighthouse St Valery" The calm presence of Normandy's lighthouses versus its wild weather is amazing.

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Tobias Wessling Germany Nominee "Shetland" A solitary rock off the Shetland coast, holding its place in the stillness.

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Viktoria Farkas Hungary Nominee "Dancing in the rain" I had the chance to capture this beautiful moment! I loved how her dress fall down.

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Willa Davis USA Nominee "Burnout" Whats left of a burnt out house and the life that once filled it.

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Yiorgos Michael USA Nominee "A figure" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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Yiorgos Michael USA Nominee "A road" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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Yiorgos Michael USA Nominee "A hand" The series explores confinement, escape, and connection in transient spaces, where presence fades.

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