Nature winners
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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Title: Moai Statues & Milky Way on Rapa Nui This long exposure of Moai Statues against the Milky Way was the photographic culmination of my visit to Easter Island. My goal was to highlight the mysterious legacy of the statues that so many over the course of time have connected to some sort of relation to alien origin. Of course we now know that isn't the case, and through this image I tried to connect human-made objects with their eternal ties to their natural environment of Rapa Nui, and against the eternal night sky and the universe. It was a night I will never forget as a local Moai guide got me into the national park after hours, and we had a short window to capture some long exposure images before we "lost the light."
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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Title: Total Eclipse in Exmouth After 1400km drive in the night through the wildlife of Australian outback, the effort was rewarded with this shot of the sun hidden in one of the rare hybrid eclipses
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3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Title: Taking the Edge Off The last sun rays hitting the ridge in the Dolomites, Italian Alps.
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Honorable Mention Title: Caddo delight Caddo lake in autumn gets transformed with mesmerizing colors, as golden light drapes the Spanish moss and the ancient Cypress that dot the lake
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Honorable Mention Title: A Line in the Snow The shadow lines make a stark contrast to the white snow
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Honorable Mention Title: Golden Elm Early morning back light on an iconic Elm in Cook's Meadow, Yosemite National Park, CA
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Honorable Mention Title: Time Tunnel From a trip to Greenland in July 2023. The textures, shapes and colors of the icebergs are wonderful and make for otherworldly abstracts.
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Honorable Mention Title: Orne Harbor Sentinal aside the entrance to Orne Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula
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Honorable Mention Title: Smokey Serenity Smoke from nearby forrest fires paints the Jasper National Park landscape
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Honorable Mention Title: Strike A highly unusual lightening storm over Santa Barbara's beach at sundown
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Honorable Mention Title: Global Warming Very clear that global warming is happening
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Honorable Mention Title: Standing Tall A saguaro cactus of the Sonoran desert proudly stands its ground
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Honorable Mention Title: LeConte Glacier Iceberg Iceberg floating in LeConte Bay in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska
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Honorable Mention Title: an eye in the field After a rain a little lake comes up on the field
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Honorable Mention Title: Skógafoss, Iceland Skógafoss, Iceland
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Honorable Mention Title: Generations The bubbles in the massive Soul Nebula are formed by the stellar winds from older stars which help create new stars out of the dust and gases seen in this image.
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Honorable Mention Title: Alien Mushroom From the badlands of northwestern New Mexico
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Honorable Mention Title: Frozen Cranberry Ice crystalized around one of the last remaining cranberries as winter hits.
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Honorable Mention Title: seascape
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Honorable Mention Title: Hvalnesviti, Iceland Hvalnesviti, Iceland
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Honorable Mention Title: Luminous Skies A burst of auroral corona at Abisko National Park
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Honorable Mention Title: Scoresby Sound 5138 Scoresby Sound 5138
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Honorable Mention Title: Under A Sea Fan Sky
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Honorable Mention Title: Ethereal
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Honorable Mention Title: Alone in Hurricane Winds Piece of glacier blown out to sea during hurricane winds at Diamond Beach in Iceland
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Honorable Mention Title: Something blue
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