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Mark Seawell USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Deep in the earth" I chance upon poetry embedded...deep in the earth |
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Michael Venz New Zealand 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "The Long & Winding Road" Low cloud and mist in Hang Giang |
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David Frutos Egea Spain 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "19 VS 1" Nature is very cruel. Only a few meters of distance make the difference between life and death. |
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Matthias David Germany Honorable Mention "Antarctica #3" |
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Jan Banning Netherlands Honorable Mention "Mozambique. Monapo River Dam." Mozambique. Monapo River Dam near Nampula, built in 1958–59 during Portuguese colonial rule. |
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Michael Elkan Canada Honorable Mention "Ascension" Hokkaido |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention "Shadow of the Desert" In the shadows of the Sahara, the wind draws a line - at once abstract, musical, and human. A shape that evokes silence and grace, halfway between sand and soul. |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Honorable Mention "Between the clouds" Beautiful rocks and cloud-like water |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention "Waves of Shadows" Shapes sculpted by wind and light, where snow turns into a mesmerizing abstraction. |
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Richard Daley USA Honorable Mention "Camelthorn Tree" Ancient camelthorn tree |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention "Facing the Colossus" A tiny snowboarder before the immensity of the mountain, a reminder of nature’s overwhelming power. |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Honorable Mention "Beautiful snowstorm" A blizzard was blowing all around, but one place was shining beautifully. |
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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Honorable Mention "Fog in the morning" |
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Craig Mole USA Honorable Mention "Mono Lake Cloudburst" Mono Lake Cloudburst |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Honorable Mention "Moon Over Lake 1" Short Poems on Nature (1) |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention "Lambda Centauri" It took 6,000 years for the faint light of this star nursery to reach Earth. |
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David Fonda USA Honorable Mention "Zion Accretion" Ponderosa Pines find scant purchase on the many layered outcroppings in Zion National Park, Utah. |
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Mickey Strider USA Honorable Mention "Shin Shin" The silence of a rare heavy snowfall in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Eric Hagemann USA Honorable Mention "Neptunes Finger" Neptune's finger rises from the deep |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Honorable Mention "Pico do Arieiro" Above the mountain tops at Pico do Arieiro, Madeira, Portugal |
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Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention "On Reflection" First day of December and the Wasatch Mountains have long shed the coat of autumn and the slumber of winter has arrived...on reflection |
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Edoardo Romagnoli Italy Honorable Mention "Luna_5367, 2023" Photo of the Moon, realized moving the camera and without post production |
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Gene Sellers USA Honorable Mention "Across Burning Sands" |
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Clyde Butcher USA Honorable Mention "Conservation 5" |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention "Ephemeral Elegance" Snowy ridges captured in their fleeting perfection, frozen between shadow and light. |
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Allen Russ USA Honorable Mention "Remnants" From the series "Attrition" which documents the erosion of barrier island ecosystems in Botany Bay SC |
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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention "Cove and Texture at Glasheen Beach, County Clare, Ireland" From the continuing series, The West of Ireland |
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Dragomir Vukovic USA Honorable Mention "Going To The Other Side" What is on the other side of this life...? |
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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention "Tabular Iceberg - Antarctica" |
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Arthur Mavros Australia Honorable Mention "Renaissance" French for Rebirth, this image evokes the primal and elemental seascape as a womb. |
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Aaron Citti Australia Nominee "Faded" Taken on a USA trip |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee "Early winter morgen" analog techique middle format |
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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee "Far Faroes" Photographed from the James Bond Island for Daniel Craig's last scene. |
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Allen Russ USA Nominee "Tidal Cloak" From the series "Attrition" which documents the erosion of barrier island ecosystems in Botany Bay S |
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Allen Russ USA Nominee "Drifting Oak" From the series "Attrition" which documents the erosion of barrier island ecosystems in Botany Bay S |
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Allen Russ USA Nominee "Solitude Oak" From the series "Attrition" which documents the erosion of barrier island ecosystems in Botany Bay S |
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Anastasia Woolmington Australia Nominee "Cypress sonata" |
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Ann Co USA Nominee "The Clouds of Half Dome" Yosemite in Black & White |
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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee "Joshua Tree" |
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Beyti Barbaros USA Nominee "Bring it down" A gentle reminder from heavens that we are just so powerless |
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Bob Keller USA Nominee "Summit Awakening" Early morning image of sunlight hitting Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the 48 United States. |
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Brian LaCas Canada Nominee "Sand Dune" Tracks in the sand dunes on a beach in Coporta, Portugal. |
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Clyde Butcher USA Nominee "Little Butternut Key 1" |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee "Clearing Storm Yosemite Valley" Clearing Storm Yosemite Valley |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee "Cathedral Spires In Fog" Cathedral Spires In Fog |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee "Ahwahnee Meadow Mist" Ahwahnee Meadow Mist |
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Danielle Austen USA Nominee "Whispered Memories" Foggy winter afternoon at Round Valley Reservoir, New Jersey. |
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David Fonda USA Nominee "Delicate Arch Contours" This unparalleled view of Delicate Arch, emblem of Arches National Park and the State of Utah, highl |
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David Fonda USA Nominee "Delicate Arch Radiance" This unparalleled view of Delicate Arch, emblem of Arches National Park and the State of Utah, highl |
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David Fonda USA Nominee "Steps to the Sky" Highlighted in the afternoon sun, pillars of stone align into steps to the sky in Arches National Pa |
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Douglas Dubler USA Nominee "26th Street Pier NYC" 26th Street Pier NYC |
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Dragomir Vukovic USA Nominee "Island One" Quiet island magic |
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Eric Klemm Canada Nominee "Untitled #6" The images are from famous parks and gardens in Versailles, France and Schwetzingen, Germany. |
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Evelien Sikkema Netherlands Nominee "Break in the clouds" Break in the clouds |
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Gabriella Giannini USA Nominee "Calm" |
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Gaudenz Danuser Switzerland Nominee "Otherspace" blurring line between reality and dreams / |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Extra Crispy" |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Hoodoo? You Do" |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Long March" |
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Gray Eaton UK Nominee "Touched by Mermaid's Fingers" I wanted a low perspective image of waves crashing towards the camera. |
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Hal Tearse USA Nominee "Glacier Ice " Black Diamond Beach |
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Hal Tearse USA Nominee "Desert " Racetrack Playa- Death Valley NP |
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Jaap Bijsterbosch Netherlands Nominee "Lost Pebble" Strange Balance |
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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee "Storm Clouds Gathering" The beauty that storm clouds add to the cliffs and sea! |
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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee "Sea Storm Approaching" Dramatic Storm Clouds with rain coming from the sea! Clouds instantly change the perspective of an image! natures paint brushes! |
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Jamie Leasure USA Nominee "Whitefish Gradient" Under a bright sky, mountains recede in the distance toward Glacier National Park |
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Jamie Leasure USA Nominee "Marching Orders" Trees tall and short, bare and evergreen, define this land on the Idaho plains |
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Jay Drew New Zealand Nominee "Naked" Bare trees set in a sparse landscape |
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Jean-Marc La-Roque Australia Nominee "Lake Pamamaroo" Menindee lake NSW Australia |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach - Iceland" |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Mono Lake" |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee "Monterey Cypress Skeleton" |
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Jeroen den Uijl Netherlands Nominee "Sometimes it snows in April" Sometimes it snows in April |
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Jeroen den Uijl Netherlands Nominee "Sometimes it snows in April too" Sometimes it snows in April too |
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Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Zhangjiajie" Zhangjiajie, China—3000-ft towers, inspiration for floating mountains of "Avatar" |
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John Rees USA Nominee "Millcreeck #1" Forestry culling or deadwood at dusk |
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John Siskin USA Nominee "Lightning" |
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John W. McDermott USA Nominee "Fortress of Solitude" Glacier National Park, Montana, USA |
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Keith Tsuji Hong Kong Nominee "Storm" A storm approaches Hong Kong |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee "Arch Beach Low Tide" Arch Beach on the Oregon coast at low tide |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Mystical Layers Rising" St Thomas Church in Slovenia, surrounded by fog |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee "Ribeira da Janela" Ribeira da Janela, Madeira, Portugal |
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Leland Bobbe USA Nominee "Dancing Trees" |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Twinn Peaks " |
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Maria Marriott USA Nominee "Midnight Flow" Location: Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Yin and Yang" A tug of war between light and darkness was everywhere in the dunes of Death Valley, yin and yang manifest. |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee "Moon over Death Valley" For a moment my attention was distracted from the sand dunes in front of me to a spectacular moment as the one chapter beginning with sunrise and another ending..moonset over Death Valley. |
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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee "Birch Dancers" An old, sprawling birch atop Slopovo Hill (Slovakia), captured with a fisheye lens, appeared like a group of dancers. It was a magical moment on a cold and misty day. |
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Martin Seitlinger Austria Nominee "Dolomites, stone and silence" This work explores the dialogue between power and pause, landscape and inner stillness. |
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Matthias David Germany Nominee "Antarctica #1" |
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Matthias David Germany Nominee "Antarctica #2" |
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Mauro Zorer Italy Nominee "Roots" Between heaven and earth the roots expand on the surface in search of water and nourishment. |
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Mia Segaert Belgium Nominee "The only way is up" |
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Michael Hart USA Nominee "The Last Witness" |
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Michael Hart USA Nominee "Storm Clouds, Kyleakin" Storm Clouds, Kyleakin, Isle of Skye |
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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Connection" Sierra Nevada |
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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee "Dune" Death Valley |
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Mickey Strider USA Nominee "Swami's" Swami's Beach in Encinitas, California |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee "Slot light" When I shot this image of the slot light in Arizona I saw this image of a horse's head with the main of the horse being lit from the natural light. The afternoon light was remarkable. |
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Mustafa Demirors Sweden Nominee "Mirror of the Silence" Sogn og Fjordane, Norway (April 2017) |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee "In Love" Baobab Tree Madagascar |
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Olivia Ogren-Hrejsa USA Nominee "Winding Through The Landscape" Unimpressive from the ground, a small creek in a suburban park takes on the shape of a ribbon twisting through an untouched landscape when viewed from the sky. |
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Orjan Henriksson Sweden Nominee "Night Troll 2 Iceland" |
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Paul Foley Australia Nominee "Drowning Tree" I am attracted by the timeless and ever-changing place where the sea washes across the edge of land. |
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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Glass House Mountains" |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee "Nature Reflected" Mirrored reflections and drifting mist transform Yosemite’s grandeur into a dreamscape. |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee "Forest Impression" Impression of Canadian Forest |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee "Newgrange Raindrops" Raindrops at Newgrange, Ireland |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee "Forest Trail" Forest trail at Pixie Forest |
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Robert Maynard UK Nominee "Storm Island" |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Beached" Tree stump on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee "Sentinels" Driftwood on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Ladakh" India |
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Rodrigo Palma Mexico Nominee "White Pocket" Landscape of the beautiful White Pocket site in Utah |
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Roy Pope USA Nominee "Skeleton Saguaro,Moon,Superstition Mountains Apache Junction" Skeleton Saguaro,Moon,Superstition Mountains_Apache Junction, Arizona |
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Seizo Mori Japan Nominee "Deep forest" This photo was taken in the fog. The photo was taken with an emphasis on equivalence. I aimed to approach the essence of the subject by obscuring parts of it with fog. |
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Shankar Subramanian India Nominee "Peyto Lake" Peyto Lake, nestled in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, is renowned for its striking turquoise color and wolf-head shape. Fed by glacial melt, its vibrant hue captivates visitors year-round. A po |
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Stephen Matera USA Nominee "Creek's Bend" A hot spring fed creek winding through a stand of dead trees, Yellowstone National Park |
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Stephen Matera USA Nominee "Lightbeams Over Chelan" Lightbeam shine breifly illuminating a stand of trees, Lake Chelan, Washington State |
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Stephen Matera USA Nominee "Winter's Rage" Fierce ridgetop winds blow snow on Shuksan Arm, North Cascades, Washington State |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee "Drifting" Its wind creating art, forming, reforming, wind carves its dunes just so. |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Grandma's Hands" “If I get to heaven I'll look for Grandma's hands” —Bill Withers, Grandma’s Hands |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee "Secret Light of the Ancient Cypress" Coastal fog blows in over the bluffs on a winter morning opening a rare interdimensional light gate. |
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Suzy Corby Spain Nominee "Above & Below" |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Mirror" After the waves have subsided, a mirror-like beauty remains. |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "Only 1 left" Maybe everyone was there, but now I'm alone. |
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Uwe Winkler Germany Nominee "Embraced" Fog engulfs valley and forest in Tyrol. |
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Valentin Uta France Nominee "The Forgotten" A lone frozen relic, standing against time in a snowy desert. |
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Valentin Uta France Nominee "Dune's Edge" At the edge of day and night, the Sahara reveals its endless patterns - etched by wind, shaped by time. A moment where texture becomes light, and silence becomes form. |
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Will Enos USA Nominee "Desert Drama" A very close look at a Joshua Tree |
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Will Enos USA Nominee "Woodland Boardwalk" A woodland boardwalk stretches out into the fog. |
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