Nature - Professional

Manuel Cosentino Italy 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Behind a Little House"

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Layne Kennedy USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Wrath of Superior" Lake Superior has a reputation for "never giving up her dead." The world's largest inland lake by surface area, can be a force so impressive it boggles the mind. When famed Nor'easters slam...

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Eugenio Opitz Venezuela 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Magic Moment" Late afternoon in Henri Pittier National Park,Aragua state,Venezuela. The Henri Pittier National Park is the first national park of Venezuela.

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Rafal Maleszyk USA Honorable Mention "Funflower's Army" Sunflowers fields are full of potential for every artist. I found this vast filed of large sunflowers in the North Shore of Oahu. I called the image “Army of Sunflowers”. This was a great discovery.

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Nicklas Blom Sweden Honorable Mention "Glacier, Tarfala" Inside a glacier in the northern part of Sweden.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Honorable Mention "Aurora Borealis" Dog team rests beside glowing tent with a stunning show of Northern Lights overhead.

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Mikael Kapanaga Russia Honorable Mention "Four Trees" Peterhof, Russia

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Alexander Korobov Russia Nominee "Stone Silence" Hong Kong China, Lamma Island, Fiber based Silver Print

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Allen Birnbach USA Nominee "Maui Study 1"

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alxs w USA Nominee "Yuccas, AZ" Yuccas: the Cactus with Big Hair.

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Antonio Busiello Italy Nominee "Atitlan Lake" Atitlan lake, Guatemala

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Antonio Busiello Italy Nominee "El Capitan at Night" Long exposure of "el Capitan" at night, Yosemite national park, California.

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Arkadius Zagrabski Germany Nominee "Black Water"

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Asa Karlsson Sweden Nominee "Antelope Cave"

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Bobby Wheat USA Nominee "Primal Pathways" Arizona, United States | Light and shadow collide leading the eye on a journey through layers of time.

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Brian Kosoff USA Nominee "First Light Dune"

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "Melancholy"

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "Sleeping Dreams II"

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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee "Sleeping Dreams"

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Carolyn Guild USA Nominee "Whispering Dunes" The Great Sand Dunes , next to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado

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Cath Evans UK Nominee "Against the Odds" An unusual habitat for a tree. Lake District, Cumbria, UK

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Chris Usher USA Nominee "In Your Shadow"

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Daniel Holmes USA Nominee "On a Desert Highway" A long straight desert highway in Central Nevada under a brooding sky.

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David Jordan Williams USA Nominee "Vines" This image was shot for stock and is part of my Getty Images Collection

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Denis Tremblay Canada Nominee "Boisé" St-Jean-sur-Richelieu

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "Clouds (1)" Unusual clouds over Death Valley National Park, California.

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Dennis Frates USA Nominee "Wavecircle" Wave pattern and sunrise clouds. Maui, Hawaii

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Dilip Bhatia India Nominee "Cloud Waves"

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Emmanuel Coupe Greece Nominee "Paria Plateau II" Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, U.S.A.

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Eugenio Opitz Venezuela Nominee "3 Stones in Choroní River" Henri Pittier National Park,Aragua state,Venezuela. The Henri Pittier National Park is the first national park of Venezuela.

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Fabrizio Intonti Italy Nominee "Carved by the Wind"

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FAHED ALSHAHMAN Kuwait Nominee "Reflection of Life" Germany 2008

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Gary Zuercher USA Nominee "Skull Rock" Joshua Tree National PArk, USA.

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Greg Stroube USA Nominee "Savannah Swamp 2"

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Harjono Djoyobisono Australia Nominee "Mount Bromo" Location: East Java, Indonesia.

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Harry Sandler USA Nominee "BW Landscape" Mesquite Dunes-bw1-stovepippewells-deathvalley

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james williamson UK Nominee "Tree #58" Fallen tree Central Scotland

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Jason Homa USA Nominee "Looking up Redwood Tree" The Forests of California are a place i gravitate to when i want to get out of NYC and connect with the natural world in a meaningful way. This image conveys The Power i feel within the 'Cathedrals...

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jean-charles folliet France Nominee "U.F.O."

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Jim Shoemaker USA Nominee "Snowstorm, Canyonlands National Park" A spring snowstorm obliterates the La Sal Mountains as viewed from Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park.

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John Sylvester Canada Nominee "Winter Shadows" Shadows cast on new fallen snow by trees in a hardwood forest. Strathgartney Park, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Juergen Lechner Germany Nominee "Timeless 1" Long exposure with Hasselblad on Kodak T-Max 100, no editing

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Justin Fabian Canada Nominee "Shift"

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Kate Jordahl USA Nominee "Lone Cloud, Doñana National Park, Spain" from the "Conversation Series"

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Katie Stern USA Nominee "Frozen Reflections"

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Keith Berr USA Nominee "Ghost Ranch" Ghost Ranch panorama, High Desert Home of Georgia O"Keeffe in Santa Fe New Mexico

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Kerry Beckingsale UK Nominee "Coral"

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Louis Montrose USA Nominee "Touareg on the Horizon" The Sahara near Erg Chebbi, Morocco, 2008

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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "Cloudscapes - Mustang XIII" To me Mustang is the real meaning of nature, earth and sky melting together so as to create a natural work of art. It is not only earth, it is not only sky and clouds. it is the whole that creates...

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Martin van Lokven Netherlands Nominee "Cracked Lava Flow I" In September 2009 I visited the Galapagos Islands where I photographed this lava pattern.

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Michael McLaughlin Ireland Nominee "The Garden La Jaÿsinia" La Jaÿsinia alpine botanic garden. This alpine botanic garden was set up in 1906 by Marie-Louise Cognac-Jaÿ who founded La Samaritaine department store in Paris. Location Samoens,Haute-Savoie,the...

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michael molinoff USA Nominee "Quogue Beach After Irene" Quogue Beach -Morning After Irene

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Michel Rajkovic USA Nominee "Delicate" Iceland 2010

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Michel Rajkovic USA Nominee "Gullfoss" Iceland 2010

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michel perrin New Zealand Nominee "Survivor"

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Mike Hollman New Zealand Nominee "Mt Doom" This is Mt Ngauruhoe, (or Mt Doom for those Lord of the Rings fans). Situated on the Central Plateau of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee "Chiaroscuro" Howse River Valley, Alberta, Canada Patience, prevision and a bit of good luck...

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Death Scream" Gull Skeleton Head in Port Hardy, Canada, BC

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee "The Forest (1)" The space in between the trees is what I find interesting.

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Peter Whyte Australia Nominee "Studio Water Study 082" This image is part of a large body of work investigating invisible forces - gravity. It was photographed in a 3x4 metre pool constructed in the studio. From this stochastic model, the images reveal...

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Peter Steinhauer USA Nominee "Temple View, Mt. Agung, Bali, 2010 " Images is part of a book project on Bali, Indonesia

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Pierre Moreau Belgium Nominee "Les Uns Derrière les Autres"

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Quentin Jones Australia Nominee "Rain on Me" A microbust, drops a deluge of rain on a small area of farming land, near Mildura, Victoria.

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Robert Greshoff UK Nominee "Untitled" Still-life

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Russell Stewart Stone UK Nominee "Dark Days, Vik, Iceland" Taken during the eruption 2011, as the ash was falling onto the land, giving a wild and surreal feel to the image

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Sandra Stimac Croatia Nominee "No Way Around " July, 2011. Taken during a visit to Brijuni National Park . Location: Safari park ,National Park Brijuni, Croatia

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Sean Stuchen USA Nominee "Winds of Change" An intense and magical moment in Lago Grey Patagonia Chile.

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Stefan J Nilsson Sweden Nominee "Janus" Ice formation scupted by waves in Tylosand, Sweden

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Stefano Orazzini Italy Nominee "Tuscany Waves"

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Stephen Clough Canada Nominee "Life Behind"

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steve johnsen USA Nominee "Fog in Redwoods" california redwoods afternoon fog

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Sturla Strand Norway Nominee "Foxgloves 2"

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Tatiana Botton USA Nominee "D-Dunes 3" Image Taken in the Namibian Desert during the summer of 2010

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Terry Eggers USA Nominee "Winter Glow" Lone Trees are my thing. This in one shot with themps in the teens. I love the ice and the glow around the tree.

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TOM WUNDRAK Germany Nominee "Frozen Pearl" A sage leaf in a old garden with a frozen drop of water

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Yoshiteru Yamamoto Canada Nominee "English Bay" Morning Spotlight

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Youssef Ismail USA Nominee "Choices" Valley Oak in California Foothills.

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