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Mark Seawell USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "The Long & Winding Road" Low cloud and mist in Hang Giang |
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David Frutos Egea Spain 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Antarctica #3" |
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Jan Banning Netherlands Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Ascension" Hokkaido |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Between the clouds" Beautiful rocks and cloud-like water |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Camelthorn Tree" Ancient camelthorn tree |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Beautiful snowstorm" A blizzard was blowing all around, but one place was shining beautifully. |
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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Fog in the morning" |
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Craig Mole USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Mono Lake Cloudburst" Mono Lake Cloudburst |
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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Moon Over Lake 1" Short Poems on Nature (1) |
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Gary Lopez USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Shin Shin" The silence of a rare heavy snowfall in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Eric Hagemann USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Neptunes Finger" Neptune's finger rises from the deep |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Pico do Arieiro" Above the mountain tops at Pico do Arieiro, Madeira, Portugal |
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Mark Seawell USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Luna_5367, 2023" Photo of the Moon, realized moving the camera and without post production |
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Gene Sellers USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Across Burning Sands" |
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Clyde Butcher USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Conservation 5" |
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Valentin Uta France Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ephemeral Elegance" Snowy ridges captured in their fleeting perfection, frozen between shadow and light. |
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Allen Russ USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Going To The Other Side" What is on the other side of this life...? |
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Jeff Schewe USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Tabular Iceberg - Antarctica" |
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Arthur Mavros Australia Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Renaissance" French for Rebirth, this image evokes the primal and elemental seascape as a womb. |
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Aaron Citti Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Faded" Taken on a USA trip |
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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Early winter morgen" analog techique middle format |
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Alfonso Calero Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Far Faroes" Photographed from the James Bond Island for Daniel Craig's last scene. |
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Allen Russ USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Cypress sonata" |
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Ann Co USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Clouds of Half Dome" Yosemite in Black & White |
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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee Nature Professional "Joshua Tree" |
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Beyti Barbaros USA Nominee Nature Professional "Bring it down" A gentle reminder from heavens that we are just so powerless |
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Bob Keller USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Sand Dune" Tracks in the sand dunes on a beach in Coporta, Portugal. |
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Clyde Butcher USA Nominee Nature Professional "Little Butternut Key 1" |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee Nature Professional "Clearing Storm Yosemite Valley" Clearing Storm Yosemite Valley |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee Nature Professional "Cathedral Spires In Fog" Cathedral Spires In Fog |
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Craig Mole USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ahwahnee Meadow Mist" Ahwahnee Meadow Mist |
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Danielle Austen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Whispered Memories" Foggy winter afternoon at Round Valley Reservoir, New Jersey. |
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David Fonda USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "26th Street Pier NYC" 26th Street Pier NYC |
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Dragomir Vukovic USA Nominee Nature Professional "Island One" Quiet island magic |
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Eric Klemm Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Untitled #6" The images are from famous parks and gardens in Versailles, France and Schwetzingen, Germany. |
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Evelien Sikkema Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Break in the clouds" Break in the clouds |
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Gabriella Giannini USA Nominee Nature Professional "Calm" |
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Gaudenz Danuser Switzerland Nominee Nature Professional "Otherspace" blurring line between reality and dreams / |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Extra Crispy" |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Hoodoo? You Do" |
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Gene Sellers USA Nominee Nature Professional "Long March" |
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Gray Eaton UK Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Glacier Ice " Black Diamond Beach |
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Hal Tearse USA Nominee Nature Professional "Desert " Racetrack Playa- Death Valley NP |
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Jaap Bijsterbosch Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Lost Pebble" Strange Balance |
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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Clouds Gathering" The beauty that storm clouds add to the cliffs and sea! |
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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Whitefish Gradient" Under a bright sky, mountains recede in the distance toward Glacier National Park |
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Jamie Leasure USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Naked" Bare trees set in a sparse landscape |
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Jean-Marc La-Roque Australia Nominee Nature Professional "Lake Pamamaroo" Menindee lake NSW Australia |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach - Iceland" |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mono Lake" |
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Jeff Schewe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Monterey Cypress Skeleton" |
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Jeroen den Uijl Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Sometimes it snows in April" Sometimes it snows in April |
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Jeroen den Uijl Netherlands Nominee Nature Professional "Sometimes it snows in April too" Sometimes it snows in April too |
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Joel Simpson USA Nominee Nature Professional "Zhangjiajie" Zhangjiajie, China—3000-ft towers, inspiration for floating mountains of "Avatar" |
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John Rees USA Nominee Nature Professional "Millcreeck #1" Forestry culling or deadwood at dusk |
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John Siskin USA Nominee Nature Professional "Lightning" |
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John W. McDermott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Fortress of Solitude" Glacier National Park, Montana, USA |
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Keith Tsuji Hong Kong Nominee Nature Professional "Storm" A storm approaches Hong Kong |
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Kevin Vandivier USA Nominee Nature Professional "Arch Beach Low Tide" Arch Beach on the Oregon coast at low tide |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee Nature Professional "Mystical Layers Rising" St Thomas Church in Slovenia, surrounded by fog |
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Kimara Wilhite USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ribeira da Janela" Ribeira da Janela, Madeira, Portugal |
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Leland Bobbe USA Nominee Nature Professional "Dancing Trees" |
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Lou Fischer USA Nominee Nature Professional "Twinn Peaks " |
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Maria Marriott USA Nominee Nature Professional "Midnight Flow" Location: Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Mark Seawell USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Antarctica #1" |
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Matthias David Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Antarctica #2" |
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Mauro Zorer Italy Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "The only way is up" |
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Michael Hart USA Nominee Nature Professional "The Last Witness" |
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Michael Hart USA Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Clouds, Kyleakin" Storm Clouds, Kyleakin, Isle of Skye |
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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Connection" Sierra Nevada |
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Michael Elkan Canada Nominee Nature Professional "Dune" Death Valley |
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Mickey Strider USA Nominee Nature Professional "Swami's" Swami's Beach in Encinitas, California |
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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Mirror of the Silence" Sogn og Fjordane, Norway (April 2017) |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Nature Professional "In Love" Baobab Tree Madagascar |
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Olivia Ogren-Hrejsa USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Night Troll 2 Iceland" |
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Paul Foley Australia Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Glass House Mountains" |
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Remuna Beca USA Nominee Nature Professional "Nature Reflected" Mirrored reflections and drifting mist transform Yosemite’s grandeur into a dreamscape. |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Forest Impression" Impression of Canadian Forest |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Newgrange Raindrops" Raindrops at Newgrange, Ireland |
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Richard Daley USA Nominee Nature Professional "Forest Trail" Forest trail at Pixie Forest |
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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Nature Professional "Storm Island" |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Beached" Tree stump on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Robert Nowak USA Nominee Nature Professional "Sentinels" Driftwood on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Nature Professional "Ladakh" India |
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Rodrigo Palma Mexico Nominee Nature Professional "White Pocket" Landscape of the beautiful White Pocket site in Utah |
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Roy Pope USA Nominee Nature Professional "Skeleton Saguaro,Moon,Superstition Mountains Apache Junction" Skeleton Saguaro,Moon,Superstition Mountains_Apache Junction, Arizona |
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Seizo Mori Japan Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Lightbeams Over Chelan" Lightbeam shine breifly illuminating a stand of trees, Lake Chelan, Washington State |
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Stephen Matera USA Nominee Nature Professional "Winter's Rage" Fierce ridgetop winds blow snow on Shuksan Arm, North Cascades, Washington State |
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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Nature Professional "Drifting" Its wind creating art, forming, reforming, wind carves its dunes just so. |
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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Above & Below" |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Mirror" After the waves have subsided, a mirror-like beauty remains. |
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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee Nature Professional "Only 1 left" Maybe everyone was there, but now I'm alone. |
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Uwe Winkler Germany Nominee Nature Professional "Embraced" Fog engulfs valley and forest in Tyrol. |
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Valentin Uta France Nominee Nature Professional "The Forgotten" A lone frozen relic, standing against time in a snowy desert. |
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Valentin Uta France Nominee Nature Professional "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 Nature Professional "Desert Drama" A very close look at a Joshua Tree |
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Will Enos USA Nominee Nature Professional "Woodland Boardwalk" A woodland boardwalk stretches out into the fog. |
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