Still Life - Professional

Douglas Dubler USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Boathouse Table Central Park" Boathouse NYC Table Stilllife

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Lou Fischer USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Pepper Form"

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Thomas Minczeski USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Agave, Legion of Honor, SF" Mature agave in afternoon sun at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA

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Jacqui Henshaw Australia Honorable Mention "Glass" The Richness of simplicity.

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Susanna Patras USA Honorable Mention "Dancing Tulips no.1"

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Robert Arnold USA Honorable Mention "Floating Leaf Shadow" Floating Leaf

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Heinz Baumann Switzerland Honorable Mention "What Remains #02" 29.05.2024

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Eric Garcia-March USA Honorable Mention "Red Rose" A red rose with one light in the studio.

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Mark Kuhn USA Honorable Mention "Bananas" Bananas are never in short supply in this rural kitchen in Costa Rica

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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Honorable Mention "Arrangement" Still life of flowers and tall bottles

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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Honorable Mention "Magnolia" At the beginning of spring, magnolias blossomed bringing beauty to the sleeping nature.

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Jean Rouzaud France Honorable Mention "Ball in white satin"

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David Skernick USA Honorable Mention "School Bus" I used stacked focusing to get everything in focus for this image.

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Honorable Mention "Stone lips"

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Angelo Brancaccio Italy Honorable Mention "Tools from the past" Colombarolo, Italy, 2024. Some tools from a 19th century barn.

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Heinz Baumann Switzerland Honorable Mention "What Remains #08" 21.06.2024

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Maja Strgar Kurecic Croatia Honorable Mention "Floral Shape" These photos are an ode to the organic, elemental life and the cycle of life

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Simone Madeo Italy Honorable Mention "Iris"

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Michael Barley USA Honorable Mention "Statuary Studio, Rome" Statuary Studio, Rome

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Stone Peng USA Honorable Mention "Dandelion #3" Macro lens Dandelion

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Chieko Tanemura USA Honorable Mention "Tea Table and Chairs"

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Maria Coletsis Canada Honorable Mention "Forest Floor" . Mushrooms appear throughout the imagery as visual anchors, surfacing from below.

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Brian LaCas Canada Honorable Mention "Rope" A rope laying on a beach in Comporta, Portugal.

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Leeanne Mason Australia Honorable Mention "Carrots and Parsnips" Ready for roasting

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Dietmar Tallroth Finland Honorable Mention "Water Plant And Clouds 2" On the ambiguity of perception

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Dianne Yudelson USA Honorable Mention "Zoleta's White Iris"

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Allan Gill Canada Nominee "Bell Flower Floral Xray"

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Anette Jaeger Germany Nominee "Shadow of flowers" The sun shone on small vases with flowers. Interesting shadows formed.

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Angelo Brancaccio Italy Nominee "On the Padana Inferiore road" Cremona, Italy, 2024. The light enters the misty fields through Mustafa's truck.

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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee "Crow feathers and whale"

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Annette Willis Australia Nominee "The Conversation"

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Bowman Ashe USA Nominee "Cactus"

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Bruna Ramos da Fonte Brazil Nominee "Hemingway's Private Readings " The private library of Ernest Hemingway in the bathroom of Finca La Vigía – his famous house in Cuba

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Cara Weston USA Nominee "Escaping Keys, Ca. 2023" A Piano waiting to be restored

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Daniel Barsotti USA Nominee "Shoes and Seeds" From large format series of common object, still lives.

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Dietmar Sorgatz Germany Nominee "Institute of Sounds" Hamburg, 2025

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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee "Harmony " striking black-and-white photograph featuring a close-up of a snail perched on the bent stem of a wilted flower. The flower head droops downward, its petals shriveled and textured, contrasting with th

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Elaine Klein Israel Nominee "Poppy" Poppy

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Elliott Block USA Nominee "Budapest Water Spigot" Water Spigot in a Street in Budapest

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Eric Klemm Canada Nominee "Scissors" Image from the Shadows series inspired by the great French modernist Pierre Dubreuil

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Francois Gueneau France Nominee "The Cross"

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Frank Bevans USA Nominee "Bath night"

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Gene Sellers USA Nominee "Deck Chairs"

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Gene Sellers USA Nominee "First Blooms"

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Log Shadow" Shadows of leaves on end of log along Beaver Pond Trail at Fort Frederick State Park, Big Pool, MD.

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Heinz Baumann Switzerland Nominee "What Remains #04" 31.05.2024

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Heinz Baumann Switzerland Nominee "What Remains #07" 21.06.2024

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "Wrapped" "In a gleaming chaos streaked by shadow and light, our mind drifts toward a deserted, post‑apocalyptic world. A dark dream. Guy Morales"

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Jean Rouzaud France Nominee "Tires "

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Jessica Cardelucci USA Nominee "Plate 23, Strands of Light and Shadow" An unconventional permissionless collaboration with Botto, a decentralized autonomous AI artist.

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Jonathan Knowles UK Nominee "Dickel" Bottle of George Dickel Whiskey in an old distillery environment

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Jonathan Pollock UK Nominee "Harvesting" From soil to soul, home grown, hand picked and a connection with nature

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Plant Spirit #2"

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Justin Pumfrey UK Nominee "Plant spirit #3"

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Leeanne Mason Australia Nominee "Kale Bouquet" A bouquet of Kale

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Leigh Ann Pincus USA Nominee "Fresh Catch" Catch of the day in Naples, Italy

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Leila Daryan USA Nominee "Between" A silence between shore and drowning, where the becoming begins.

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Lou Fischer USA Nominee "Veggie Scapes"

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Luigi Grieco Italy Nominee "Marylin"

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Luigi Grieco Italy Nominee "Shoes"

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Luigi Barbano USA Nominee "The Tree and the Stone"

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Luisa Gonzalez P Canada Nominee "Display case" Chicago, USA. iPhone 15 Pro back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78, expo 1/50

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Marguerite Garth USA Nominee "Sand Verbena" An encaustic series of new beach plant life with elements of the beach embedded in the wax/ resin layers, such as sand. These plants protect against dune erosion, growing the beach

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Marguerite Garth USA Nominee "Beach Bur" An encaustic series of new beach plant life with elements of the beach embedded in the wax/ resin layers, such as sand, sea glass. These plants protect against dune erosion, growing the beach

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Maria Coletsis Canada Nominee "Gills" Mushrooms appear as visual markers, referencing the hidden networks that sustain life.

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Matt Beard USA Nominee "Stem" View of a poppy from below. Film / Ilford 3200. Mamiya RZ67.

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Michael Barley USA Nominee "Unpacking the Good China" Unpacking the Good China

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Michael Barley USA Nominee "The Good Silver" The Good Silver in the American South

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Narinder Sall USA Nominee "Wine Vine 4" Wine Vine 4 image of a grapevine was made at the Becker Vineyards in Fredericksburg, Texas

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Peter Paluzzi USA Nominee "Autumn Leaves" Autumn leaves along the banks of Fjord du Saquenary, Quebec.

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Robert Arnold USA Nominee "Sunglasses" Sunglasses

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Remenants From The Empire" Kolkata, Some items from the British after they left India in a Kolkata Antique shop

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Ron Bambridge UK Nominee "Vintage Scissors" Well used old and broken scissors, part of my Fathers old toolbox

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Simone Madeo Italy Nominee "XIII"

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Stephane Garnavault Switzerland Nominee "Rorschach Flowers 04" Floral and abstract, this series echoes Rorschach tests. Through shadow and symmetry, each image inv

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Stephen Lang USA Nominee "Hosta 1" Hosta Leaf

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Stephen Spartana USA Nominee "Inspired Moment" Nature's travels through time.

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Stone Peng USA Nominee "Dandelion #4" Dandelion #4

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Theresa Tarara USA Nominee "Fennel" Abundance

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Tom Epperson Philippines Nominee "Kookos" This is a still life of a coconut husk

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Towanda Hannah USA Nominee "Grey Time "

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William Stetz USA Nominee "Three Eggs"

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William Stetz USA Nominee "Lakeshore Piles"

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