Nature nominees
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Title: Polihale I 8 vertical images timed for water motion then stitched together to achieve a near 180 degree panorama of Polihale on Kauai's west side.
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Title: Atlantic Horizon Cape Cod, USA
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Title: Pines In Fog Maine, USA
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Title: Jesus
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Title: Snowy Wood Heavy snow blankets the hills around Eaglesham and coats the trunks and branches of a little island woodland catching the last golden light of day.
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Title: Grass and Pond, Isle of Skye
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Title: Sentinel Cherry, (30 Minutes at Peak Bloom) This photograph was taken at the peak bloom of the cherry trees in 2009 at the Tidal Basin in Washington DC. During the creation of this photograph an estimated 1000 tourists would have walked through the scene. This photograph is part of an ongoing book project which will benefit the Trust for The National Mall and their efforts at rehabilitating and maintaining the National Mall and its monuments.
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Title: Electric Shack I captured this image during one of the most amazing lightning storms to hit Southern California in recent history. The historical shack at Windansea Beach in La Jolla can be seen in the foreground.
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Title: Green Almond This image was captured while swimming in Nicaragua with a 100mm. Moments after this image was shot one of the worst storms I've ever witnessed rolled in.
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Title: Bush Island Sant’Andrea, Italy, 2011
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Title: Anxious native tree Tree is frightened by a huge rock on Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
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Title: Mother fig tree Huge fig tree protecting a cultivated field in Tigray, Ethiopia.
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Title: Paradise Recreio dos Bandeirantes in Rio de Janeiro, beautiful and little known.
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Title: Bauxite in Provence dead trees in a pond, bauxite mining, Provence, Bouches du Rhone, France september 2010
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Title: Winter web
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Title: Maybreeze 5
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Title: Cockscomb and Grasshopper Crofton, MD
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Title: honey bees (2) honey bees in my fence
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Title: Predator Predators attacking smaller fish
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Title: Orchid
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Title: Dead Sunflowers Dead sunflower field outside of the Ford Motor Company world headquarters in Dearborn, MI 360 Panoramic photo.
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Title: Sun Field Sunflower field outside of the Ford Motor Company world headquarters in Dearborn, MI.
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Title: Ladakh 02
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Title: cloud nature's dance
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Title: jellyfish (1)
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Title: One Looking for a place to be quiet, the wild life refuge, going into a meditation...opening up my eyes and that one was there.
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Title: fjord reflections in a fjord, western Norway
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Title: Geysir 2 Iceland
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Title: Geysir 3 Iceland
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Title: Jellyfish (2)
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Title: Prophecy? A foggy sunrise creates an ominous vision
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Title: erosion 2
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Title: Erosion 3 Humankind tries to hold off mother nature but always fails in time
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Title: Manchester Dawn over the Atlantic
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Title: Firestarter Northern Territory, Australia
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Title: Fyans Sunrise Lake Fyans, Victoria
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Title: Salmonworld Atlantic salmon qualify our freshwater resources
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Title: Isla
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Title: El Calafate The Perito Moreno glacier, the south side, where people go to walk the glacier.
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Title: Torres del Paine, Chili Pehoe Lake viewed from the west on a windy day.
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Title: After the storm Denti della vecchia, Ticino, Switzerland
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Title: Dark Cave A completely lightpainted image of a cave at Avalon, NSW
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Title: Bubble Coral Plerogyra sinuosa
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Title: Glacier NP Sunrise over St. Marys Lake, Glacier NP, MT
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Title: deap sea
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Title: Namibia dunes Namibia dunes
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Title: Ice Castle Iceberg detail, Antarctica. From the series (a work in progress) "ICE: Visions of Polar Transformation" which is part of the ongoing project Life On Thin Ice™.
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Title: A Place to Dream
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Title: Campaspie River Rochester, Australia
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Title: Freezing Loch. Freezing Loch with Liathach in the background, Torridon Hills, Northwest Highlands, Scotland
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Title: One rock Asturias, Spain
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Title: rooked tree El Hierro Island
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Title: Two Yellow Mushrooms
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Title: White Mushroom Upside Down
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Title: Lotus-Study4 Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington DC
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Title: PETRIFIED FOREST
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Title: Pylon The manmade landscape
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Title: Stendhal Syndrome
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Title: Tuscany
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Title: Wheat Fields n7
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Title: IMPERMANENCE Stone trown in the water of a lake - Fusine Lakes- Northern Italy
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Title: WATERCOLORS Winter shot in Raccolana Valley (Ud) - Northern Italy
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Title: Dyrhólaey
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Title: Great Glen Glen Affric, Scotland
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Title: Pink Dresses. Surreal Landscape, with dresses as flowers. Created using digital Photography and a modified Flatbed-scanner.
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Title: Float
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Title: Southern Beauty Otago Region, South Island, New Zealand
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Title: Dragonfly
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Title: Grasshoppers
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Title: landscape
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Title: ISLAND ISLAND, March2011, canon eos 7d + 10-17 Tokina - 1/160s f22 100iso
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Title: Nicaragua_01 Tobacco field on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua 2009
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Title: Space Rabbit
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Title: Element 01 The Namib desert in Africa is said to be the oldest desert on earth. This image is the first element in a four part series of the strongest elements that have shaped our planet as individuals, water, fire, deserts, and ice but also, how they share an over-powering connection between them. Our environment and climate dictates how we adapt, how we grow food and how we live – we are at the mercy of what that element dictates, not only as individuals, but also as communities, and as a global society.
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Title: Element 04 The Arctic hosts the largest icebergs in the northern hemisphere, this image is the fourth element in a four part series of the strongest elements that have shaped our planet as individuals, water, fire, deserts, and ice but also, how they share an over-powering connection between them. Our environment and climate dictates how we adapt, how we grow food and how we live – we are at the mercy of what that element dictates, not only as individuals, but also as communities, and as a global society.
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Title: Lunar lake Lunar landscape at the top of a mountain
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Title: Volcanic beach2 Ice shells on volcanic beach
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Title: Volcanic beach3 Ice shells on volcanic beach
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Title: East Passage Sunrise A Winter sunrise over the East Passage of Narragansett Bay in Southern Rhode Island illuminates the horizon in brilliant color.
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Title: Lilies of the Pond Simplicity in nature is so powerful. I was shooting the fall colors in Acadia National Park, Maine, and wanted something special. On a hike the previous day, I noticed this delicate composition of reeds and lilies in a shallow pond, but was unable to shoot as the wind was strong. I hiked back in, and the stillness of the late afternoon had completely transformed the shot. The reeds reflected perfectly, and the multi-colored lilies added a special element to their tranquil moment. The silence of the day was broken only by my shutter. This image captured my feelings of our delicate, fragile planet in a simplistic abstract.
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Title: Pele's Whisper The feeling I had on this early morning is hard to describe. As I hiked out under moonlight over the smoldering crunchy lava, an eerie electricity filled the air and I couldn’t help but think that something momentous was in store. It wasn’t until much later that I realized what may have been responsible for that feeling. A mate of mine informed me of the story of Pele, the Goddess of Fire in Hawai’ian folklore. A volatile and, at times, vindictive goddess, Pele took pleasure in her power to both destroy the land and also create it. Legend has it that she and her sister Namaka-o-kaha’l, Goddess of Water and Sea, constantly sabotaged each other causing Pele to move down the island chain before finally claiming the Mauna Loa mountain on The Big Island. You can visualize her fair profile in the upper left–it’s as if she is blowing, or whispering, into the ocean causing the steam to part on the surface of the water below. I get chills every time I look at it. It’s my shot of a lifetime.
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Title: Pristine These pristine waterfalls have to be one of the most amazing places on the planet. The mossy garden in the foreground and the huge logs perfectly framed this shot. Volcanic activity from millions of years ago had formed the perfect terrace for the water to flow down and the long exposure helped capture softness and the serenity of the area. Heavy snowfall the previous night opened nature’s flood gates, allowing me to set up my tripod in a virtual cloud of mist. Just looking at this shot takes me back to the area, and I can almost feel my lungs filling with the fresh mist.
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Title: Sand and Sea Twilight over Stonetool Sandblow
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Title: Sand and Sea 2 Twilight over Stonetool Sandblow 2
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Title: Insect catterpiller insect enjoying with flower
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Title: Volcanic Meander
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Title: Spiny A Florida Spiny Orb Weaver looks like he's smiling as he hangs on his web.
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Title: Edwards Lane Edwards Lane New England Australia
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Title: Downdraft Taken with pinhole lens
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Title: Sky High
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Title: Desire Canyonlands National Park, UT
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Title: The Subway Station
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Title: Vu Ja De Targhee National Forest, Idaho
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Title: Crater Islandia
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Title: Reflections - Rydal Water - The Lake District - England Taken on a beautiful misty day in spring
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Title: Spring Mist - Rydal Water - England Taken on a beautiful misty spring morning
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Title: Red Hibiscus Beauty of Nature
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Title: Jellyfish Lake Situated on a uninhabited archipelagos off the coast of Korror (Micronesia) this lagoon was cut off from the sea, forming a lake which now hosts thousands of jellyfish.
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Title: Tangled Schooling Thread-fin Pearl Perches at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
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Title: dutch sky
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Title: Poppies & Barley Poppies & Barley, Pimperne, Dorset.
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Title: Salisbury tulips Easter tulips in Salisbury, England.
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Title: Complex Systems Dorset Complex Systems Dorset
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Title: Misty Avenue 3 The Stavnes Avenue near Son in Norway spring 2007.
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Title: Tree of Life # 1
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Title: Tree of Life #3
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Title: SAR - Search and Rescue View of a castaway
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Title: Foss
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Title: Ice
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Title: Source Hver
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Title: Hosta Early spring, Hosta in morning light.
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Title: Landingsite
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Title: MEDOW
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