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Adrian Per Romania 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "A women carrying the water" In Mehedinti Forest , people are caring water from the farest Springs. Here a women through the foggy winter forest/

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Jeff Olson USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Gone Fishing"

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Debi Bradway USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Oh La La" Light painting on the Columbia river

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Jill Mudge USA Honorable Mention "A Moment" A Peaceful Moment between Friends

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Zita Quentin USA Honorable Mention "Spotted Hyena" Spotted hyena kicking up some dust at the waiting hole as it walks into the dark

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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention "Triple Threats"

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Cuneyt Gumushaneli Turkey Honorable Mention "Alone in Emptiness" Photo was taken in front of Haydar Aliyev Center ,Baku

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Barbara Corvino Italy Honorable Mention "Entering the cathedral"

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Kristine Hinrichs USA Honorable Mention "Coming and Going" Shadow and realism at the University of Chicago

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Renate Wasinger Germany Honorable Mention "Pensive"

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Sandra Jasmin Nieuwenhuijsen Canada Honorable Mention "Passage" Figures—solid and ephemeral—share the same path, as light sculpts a scene where art, presence, and absence collide.

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Honorable Mention "Save Me" Bodoe midsummer

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Elmo Tide USA Honorable Mention "Untitled #2"

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Jeffrey Andrews USA Honorable Mention "Dancing Boy"

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James Lindsay UK Honorable Mention "Sunset" Playing football on the beach at sunset in Thailand

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Hans Bauer Germany Honorable Mention "Devil's nights" Large and powerful, repulsive and ugly, with horns on his head, an image, as if from hell, he himsel

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Matthew Barry USA Honorable Mention "Edge of the Abyss" The Edge at Hudson Yards in NYC. A moment of fog, light, and a simple darkening of the scene.

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Colin Page UK Honorable Mention "Over Under" Cleaners on the glass floor taken from underneath.

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Ulf Finndahl Sweden Honorable Mention "Alone" A lone figure framed by a fence, isolation in an open square.

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Dave Cohen USA Honorable Mention "Tunnel Vision"

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Harald Weimann Germany Honorable Mention "Out of the fog" Germany Odenwald

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Steve Gelineau USA Honorable Mention "Watch Your Step" Danger lurks in the shadow of the stairs. Better be careful!

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Sharon Feder USA Honorable Mention "Early Morning in the Park" Rocky Mountain National Park

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Andreas Timar Germany Honorable Mention "Curved lights on the ceiling" The photo was taken in an underpass when a pedestrian was standing in the entrance

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C E Morse USA Honorable Mention "Terison Twins" Aerial view of two apple trees in the snow

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Antonio Denti Italy Honorable Mention "Sede Vacante" (Vatican) In the time with no Pope, a usually monumental, eternal space turns trembling, feverish

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Andreas Timar Germany Nominee "Behind the frosted glass window" Two construction workers sat behind the frosted glass window.

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Arnold Plotnick USA Nominee "In Pursuit" To chase, and to be chased

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Barbara Corvino Italy Nominee "Father and son"

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee "Key West Sunset" As the sun slowly set beyond Higgs Pier in Key West I waited for the ship to sail by to capture it inside the sun

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Carina Vogel USA Nominee "Passage" human - architecture, black - white, real - reflection

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Carol Zulman USA Nominee "Faith"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "The Flight of the Seagulls" Two seagulls play with the light and shadows with the clouds andpeeping sun.

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Christine Jacobson New Zealand Nominee "Beach pause" Late afternoon at the beach on a sunny autumn day

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "Walls Can't Stop Me"

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Diane DeQuevedo Klein USA Nominee "Not One Step Further!"

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Dragos Mandache Spain Nominee "Cathedral of Lleida" "When time comes to reach for a star"

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Eddy Verloes Belgium Nominee "Nostalgia" 2024, Belgium

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Elisabeth Fiorioli Austria Nominee "Little feather" zu wenig Regen

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Erik Olson USA Nominee "The dancers at point reyes"

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Gerald McDowell USA Nominee "Light & Motion-2"

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Ira Dwoskin USA Nominee "Man on an Escalator"

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James Lindsay UK Nominee "Reflection " Horse on beach

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James Lindsay UK Nominee "Sunset chats" Chatting in the sea at sunset in Thailand

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James Lee USA Nominee "Flying Under the Bridge" The birds flew into the picture without any instruction.

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James Patrick Conway Brazil Nominee "Going home"

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Javier Herranz Casellas Spain Nominee "Dragon-fly" A dragonfly tries to land on the tip of a plant.

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Joao Coelho Portugal Nominee "Spaceport" Moving towards the light in an urban landscape that resembles a spaceport

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John Portlock UK Nominee "Beach Walk" Into the sun

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Zabriskie Easter"

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Ken To Hong Kong Nominee "Inner Child"

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Kenichiro Tsukada Japan Nominee "Shadow Between Structures"

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Kenichiro Tsukada Japan Nominee "Spotlight in Silence"

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Klaus Spindler Germany Nominee "Passage into the light" Museum visit

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Klaus Spindler Germany Nominee "Number 5"

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee "In or Out?" Sequestered room. Dania, FL 2025

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Lucy Hong Siek Canada Nominee "Walking into the light" An elegant lady walking into the afternoon sunlight.

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Lukasz Zietara Poland Nominee "Pram"

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Madeleine Corbeil USA Nominee "Sunset in Aruba" Family vacation in Aruba included a sunset cruise

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Michael Mannix USA Nominee "Sunsetting on Kiawah Island" The bathing is done and the families are “sunsetting” on a late fall afternoon on the beach.

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Michael J Locke UK Nominee "Florence Trim?"

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Intrigue" The silhouettes sometimes circulate on different levels and in opposite directions.

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Towards the light" When life acts up, it's better to look for the light.

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Face to face" Our various emotions can take on many faces, depending on what we are willing to let show or not.

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Michiko Ôtomo Canada Nominee "Welcome to the tunnel" Here, unique characters welcome visitors... This photo was taken in Leake Street Arches in London, UK.

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee "Moon Flight" Glossy Ibis flying past the moon

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Patrick Betthaus Germany Nominee "Ego" This photo is part of the series EGO, which Patrick Betthaus began in 2022.

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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee "Snowflakes and Umbrellas" Oslo, Norway

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Rebekah Helton USA Nominee "Aquarium Visitor" A silhouette of a person admiring the majestic beauty of aquatic animals.

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Robert Meyers-Lussier USA Nominee "Luminescence and Shadow: A Winter Garden Study" Winter night at the St. Louis Botanical Garden, where an angel’s shadow towers across a lit facade.

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Robin Zygelman USA Nominee "Lost in the City" Lost in the city's rhythm,where the noise outside echoes the silence within

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Robin Zygelman USA Nominee "Ascending Illusions" Rising beyond reality, where motion and light blur the boundaries of imaginations

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Sandra Jasmin Nieuwenhuijsen Canada Nominee "Descent" A different journey—light and shadow transform each passage into its own fleeting story in the Spanish town of Altea.

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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Nominee "Morning Prayer " As the first light touches the earth, the world comes alive in perfect harmony. Under the vast embrace of an ancient tree, monks gather in prayer, their silhouettes blending with the rising mist. Elep

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Slobodan Blagojevic USA Nominee "Into the Light" Nothing is as black as it seems.

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "Colobus Tails"

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Stephen Buhagiar Malta Nominee "Chit chat in the rain" Two gentlemen are having a chat on a rainy day whilst enjoying the view from the village of Sillico.

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Steve Gelineau USA Nominee "Monkey Business" Aerial agility on display.

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Steve Gelineau USA Nominee "Sunset Pier" Sun sets over the Naples Florida fishing pier.

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee "Bird on the wire" Flying solo

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee "Beach Kick" Practice makes perfect

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee "Parallel lines" So much in common, but, they will never meet.

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Sven Thamm Germany Nominee "Deer at dawn" Deer eating at dawn. A quiet moment in the morning before the hustle of the day begins.

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Mesmeric" Three boys turn up at dawn to fish in Cote d'Azure but are mesmerised by the ocean

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "Sun Down Camels" Journey back home. Sahara Desert

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "Three Camels, One Boy"

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Zita Quentin USA Nominee "Elephant" An old elephant is drinking at the watering hole while another animal kicks up dust

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