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Arnold Plotnick USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement People Amateur "Angle of the Morning" Achieving some sharp angles while engrossed in a cellphone |
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Andreas Timar Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence People Amateur "Chess in the water" People at the Szecheny Baths in Budapest play chess in the warm thermal water. |
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Lukasz Zietara Poland 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction People Amateur "A Thought" |
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Judith A. Taylor UK Honorable Mention People Amateur "Pick up thy chair" Street scene, Geneva (Switzerland) |
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Kim SignoretPaar USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Portrait of a couple" Traveling together ... in Seville, Spain. |
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Steven Hauptman USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Sour Note Dave McMurray" Detroit, with its many famous nightclubs attracts the best in the jazz genre. |
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Kenichiro Tsukada Japan Honorable Mention People Amateur "Under the Beam" |
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Alex Bogaard USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "You can always Dance" Cuban dancer practicing in an old abandoned theatre. Main source of light is an open doorway. |
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Fernando Senior Chile Honorable Mention People Amateur "Embrace" What the world needs more of. |
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Stephen Buhagiar Malta Honorable Mention People Amateur "Burden and light" The contrast between the penitent's physical suffering, the child carrying the lantern with an undertone of social commentary suggested by the disability symbol. |
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Ronaldo Andrade Brazil Honorable Mention People Amateur "Mar de Dentro" Pescador de camarão na Baia Sul em Florianópolis - Santa Catarina - Brasil |
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Allan Syphers USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "All In" A card game in Boston's Chinatown |
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Carolyn Knorr USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Nod to Mondrian" View from above the boardwalk in Virgina Beach. |
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Romy Klein USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "The Bathers" |
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Carlton Johnson USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Dreams" Passenger on a Staten Island Ferry passing the Statue of Liberty. |
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Lucy Hong Siek Canada Honorable Mention People Amateur "A good nap" A gentleman taking a short nap on the bench during a photo exhibition. |
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James Lindsay UK Honorable Mention People Amateur "Lamu" For export only |
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Alex Bogaard USA Nominee People Amateur "Product Testing" Farm boss tests his tobacco crop. The leaves were hanging on drying racks moments before. |
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Alexander George USA Nominee People Amateur "Divination by Tarot" Tarot Reader |
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Alexander George USA Nominee People Amateur "Remembrance of Things Past" Outdoor Cafe with an Elderly Lady and two younger ladies |
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Allan Syphers USA Nominee People Amateur "Fish Story" A family fishing off a dock in Rockport, Maine |
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Allan Syphers USA Nominee People Amateur "Christmas Parade" A Christmas parade at Universal Studios in Hollywood |
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Allan Syphers USA Nominee People Amateur "Lunch Break At The Orphanage" The cook in his 'kitchen' at lunchtime at the Mukaa Children's Orphanage in Mukaa, Kenya |
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Allan Syphers USA Nominee People Amateur "Passage" A man descending the lobby stair at The Philadelphia Museum Of Art |
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Andreas Timar Germany Nominee People Amateur "Protected" the young woman walked in front of a bank poster at exactly the right time |
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Andreas Lange Germany Nominee People Amateur "At the pier" |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee People Amateur "Bringing Out the Flavors" |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee People Amateur "Lost in the City" |
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Anne Eigen USA Nominee People Amateur "Going Somewhere" |
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Annemarie Jung Luxembourg Nominee People Amateur "At the museum" Scene at the Schirn Museum in Francfort, Germany |
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Anthony Iacuzzi USA Nominee People Amateur "Untitled" Shadows of pedestrians on wet pavement. |
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Arnold Plotnick USA Nominee People Amateur "A Mother's Son" A mother comforts her forlorn son on the subway in New York |
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Barbara Maker USA Nominee People Amateur "Domino Dudes" Caught them |
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Barbara Maker USA Nominee People Amateur "Can I Help You" Be With you in a Minute |
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Barbara Maker USA Nominee People Amateur "Girls day Out" Love Shows |
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Bob Pullein New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "A fine edge" |
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Bob Pullein New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "Whirling Dervish" |
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Budd Parker USA Nominee People Amateur "Love" |
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Catherine Presmyk USA Nominee People Amateur "Boy Doesn't Meet Girl" Cell phone culture takes its toll |
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Chuck LaChance USA Nominee People Amateur "Mona Lisa Smile" Two beauties grace the Louve. |
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Chuck LaChance USA Nominee People Amateur "Lost In the Haze" Hazed and confused. |
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Chuck LaChance USA Nominee People Amateur "Three Men In Search of an Exit" Men with no direction. |
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Claudia Zeien USA Nominee People Amateur "Spider Men" Window washers at work in Boston |
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Claudia Zeien USA Nominee People Amateur "The March of the Height Brigade" Traversing the Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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Corey Anka Australia Nominee People Amateur "A man & his Toothpick " Vendor in Bia street, Hanoi |
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Corey Anka Australia Nominee People Amateur "Steps of Contemplation" |
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Dave Rudin USA Nominee People Amateur "Carnevale, Venice, Italy, 2024" |
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Dave Cohen USA Nominee People Amateur "Sneak Peek" |
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Douglas Caroli USA Nominee People Amateur "A Man and His Rocks" Mt. Etna, Sicily |
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Douglas Caroli USA Nominee People Amateur "Swan Lake Anyone?" Yoga Class, The South Street Seaport, NYC |
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Douglas Caroli USA Nominee People Amateur "Enigma" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC |
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Elisabeth Fiorioli Austria Nominee People Amateur "Angry" walking behind aman in the streets of Bordeaux |
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Eric Wiles USA Nominee People Amateur "Fog Walk" Walking in the dense Fog at the coast in NorCal |
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Erik Olson USA Nominee People Amateur "VIC with GUY" |
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Frank Proost Luxembourg Nominee People Amateur "OMG" It will forever remain a mystery |
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Gary Matson USA Nominee People Amateur "Juggler" |
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Harald Weimann Germany Nominee People Amateur "Abandon" Javea Spain |
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Heather Firth USA Nominee People Amateur "Friendly Play" Erotic theater inflicts no shame upon our beating hearts_Lust and Spirit play fair game_Centerstage to lover's Art. Poem excerpt: Turgescent Top. ©Heather Firth |
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Heiko Riekers Germany Nominee People Amateur "Between" At baltic sea side on the beach |
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Ilene Fox USA Nominee People Amateur "Checked Out" What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. |
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Ilene Fox USA Nominee People Amateur "Reflecting" On the streets of New York |
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Jack Weingarten USA Nominee People Amateur "Woman Feeding Pigeons" Woman feeding pigeons in Krakow |
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Jack Weingarten USA Nominee People Amateur "Shopkeeper in Krakow" Shopkeeper resting in front of her store in Krakow |
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Jack Weingarten USA Nominee People Amateur "Engrossed in a Good Book" Engrossed in this book, perhaps she was an expectant mother |
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James Lindsay UK Nominee People Amateur "Bride and Groom" Istanbul bride and groom |
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James Lindsay UK Nominee People Amateur "Steps" pigeons in Istanbul |
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James Knauf USA Nominee People Amateur "Old Woman Walking" An old woman walking |
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James Lee USA Nominee People Amateur "Day of Dead Girl" Strange Scenes at Dia de los Muertos Celebrations. |
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James Peterson USA Nominee People Amateur "Tom, The Desert Rat" Tom, The Desert Rat |
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James Lindsay UK Nominee People Amateur "Bangkok back streets" Bangkok back streets |
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James Patrick Conway Brazil Nominee People Amateur "Mother & daughter" |
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Jens Winkler Germany Nominee People Amateur "Crossing the Bridge" People of Venice on their way through the city |
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Jens Winkler Germany Nominee People Amateur "Foggy Venice #1" A foggy February morning in Venice |
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Jessica Margo USA Nominee People Amateur "Al Fresco" This classy couple dining out during the Feast of San Genaro evokes some nostalgia for a time gone b |
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Jhinku Banerjee India Nominee People Amateur "Texture of Age" An elderly woman in Rajasthan with the wrinkles on her face resembled with the texture of the tree |
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Jonathan Chua Singapore Nominee People Amateur "The Monk In AngKor Wat" Monks at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap Cambodia, participating in daily life & religious rituals. |
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Karen Corrigan USA Nominee People Amateur "Worker" Shoecare |
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Karin Nordlander USA Nominee People Amateur "Waiting" Waiting |
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Karin Nordlander USA Nominee People Amateur "High Risk Job" High Risk Job |
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Kenichiro Tsukada Japan Nominee People Amateur "Through Rain and Care" |
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Kenneth Tyson USA Nominee People Amateur "The lonely man" |
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Kenneth Osborn USA Nominee People Amateur "To Dance is to Live" At the Albany Bulb Art and Dance Festival viewed thru nature's lens of tall grass |
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Kip Harris Canada Nominee People Amateur "Andre, Coffee Grower, San Miguel Escobar" André is part of a coffee collective near Antigua, Guatemala. |
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Kylo-Patrick Hart USA Nominee People Amateur "Prodigious" Intriguing participant in a late-afternoon procession through the streets of Frankfurt, Germany. |
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Marina Onken USA Nominee People Amateur "Snow Treats" |
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Marina Onken USA Nominee People Amateur "Dimension" |
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Marina Onken USA Nominee People Amateur "Ohmmmm" |
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Martin Miklas Slovakia Nominee People Amateur "Manuelas everyday routine" 89 years old Manuela has been drying and selling fish since she was 7. This ancestral tradition is a feminine skill that has been passed down from mothers to daughters over the years. It is still aliv |
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Matthew DeZee USA Nominee People Amateur "Alleyway" |
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Melinda Goodall USA Nominee People Amateur "Italian Wedding" A roofless cathedral serves as a Renaissance venue for this elegant Italian wedding. |
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Michael Rausch USA Nominee People Amateur "The Cleaner" Cleaning the empty lobby early in the morning. |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee People Amateur "Solitudes" Sometimes we can be many and act as if we are alone. |
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Nicolas Blaiotta Spain Nominee People Amateur "Wondering" The streets and alleys of Hanoi are full of narrow halls where light filters and creates ambience |
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Patti Lamm USA Nominee People Amateur "The Passenger" Shadows and light cast mystery over a woman's face as she was caught in a candid moment. |
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Patti Lamm USA Nominee People Amateur "Door E" Arcs, stripes, and converging lines create a dynamic, high-contrast urban scene. |
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Peter Gottfried Maicher Austria Nominee People Amateur "We Are Ready Soon" |
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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee People Amateur "Against The Chill" Oslo, Norway |
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Raymond Germann USA Nominee People Amateur "Bridal Party" |
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Raymond Germann USA Nominee People Amateur "Drummers, Chicago" |
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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee People Amateur "Christmas stress" |
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Rimita Sen India Nominee People Amateur "Devotee" It all about features in a face. Which makes it different from the others. |
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Robert Bolton UK Nominee People Amateur "Getting Ready" A Balinese dancer doing her makeup and getting ready to dance. Taken in April 2025. |
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Romy Klein USA Nominee People Amateur "All Tired" |
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Romy Klein USA Nominee People Amateur "Cafecito " |
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Romy Klein USA Nominee People Amateur "Behave! " |
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Ronaldo Andrade Brazil Nominee People Amateur "Pescadores do Rio Mekong" Pescadores do Delta do Rio Mekong no Vietnã |
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Sajeesh R India Nominee People Amateur "Swirl of God" Kelan Theyyam in motion—belief spinning into form under the night sky. |
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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Nominee People Amateur "The skeleton tribes" Originating from Papua New Guinea, the Skeleton tribe's symbolic body art represents both protectio |
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Sharlene Holliday USA Nominee People Amateur "Visual Treasure" Scene from the New York City Public Library |
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Shoichi Toki Japan Nominee People Amateur "Spirit" |
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Sudhir Yadav India Nominee People Amateur "Through the Eyes of Faith and Wonder" In Nachang Temple's glow, a mother bows in prayer, her toddler marveling at the world around. Light streams through an arched window, uniting devotion and discovery in a timeless moment. |
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Tracey Suba Canada Nominee People Amateur "Pride Package" Revellers celebrate at Toronto's three day Pride festival. |
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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee People Amateur "Basic Living" Monochrome captures the mood of working class life |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee People Amateur "Elegant Rider" Artistic portrait of a Paso Fino breed rider |
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Wayne Palmer USA Nominee People Amateur "Visiting The Lion" In London, England |
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William Shoop USA Nominee People Amateur "15 Minutes of Fame" In a sport where timing is everything there's always a chance for fifteen minutes of fame. |
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Yogesh Mokashi India Nominee People Amateur "Carrom Club" Competing for the prize |
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