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"Natures Glory​​" 2019 Theme Winners

​ ​No matter where we are nature is present. From the depths of a tropical rain forest to a small garden in the middle of a city, our life here is totally dependent its beautiful rhythms, seasons and fragile balance.  ​​​

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Aurora Over Sandvikholmen BY ​Wojciech ​Kruczynski

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Our First Place Winner was submitted by 
Wojciech Kruczynski​​​​​​​ from Piastow  Poland
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I am an amateur landscape photographer from Poland, also known as Swen Stroop.  My favorite places to take my pictures is Iceland, Scotland and Norway (especially the Hebrides and Lofoten Islands).  I always spend my vacations in these locations, on feet with backpack or on my bicycle, struggling with rain, cold wind and ugly midges.  I can't imagine something more beautiful and pleasant than this.

Visit more of Wojciech's amazing  ​work online at:
www.stroop.pl

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Fly Geyser ​BY Deryk Baumgärtner

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 Our Second Place Winner was submitted by 
Deryk Baumgärtner​​​​​​​ from Cologne Germany


I’am a travel and landscape photographer. I’am based in Cologne / Germany and my journey into photography actually started way before I ever picked up a camera. I was actually always into art and drawing and that’s pretty much what I was focused on throughout school. As a photographer I love the challenge of trying to include just enough subjects into the frame to plant a seed of a story and then make the viewer to imagine the rest. I want my viewers to feel like they are right in the middle of the scene.

Visit more 
of Deryk's amazing  ​work online at:
www.deryk.photography

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Luminosity​​ by Craig Bill

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Our Third Place Winner was submitted by 
Craig Bill​​​ ​​​from Austin Texas

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My name is Craig Bill and I am a landscape photographer residing in Austin, Texas.   Photography, I feel in my life, has always seemed a relevant and appropriate tool for expression - especially for our planet.  Technological advances in this industry not only allow me to appreciate and utilize past techniques, but embrace the future of photographic science... one without limitations.  I do enjoy being part of the entire artistic process from travel and capture to printing and fashioning artworks.  “Painting or drawing with light”, a literal definition of photography, does not seem to grasp the entire concept as it applies to this art. Rather, maybe, the endless waiting, driving, freezing, and starving might convey a better picture sometimes... all for seeking and capturing fleeting atmosphere, light and land - tiny moments in time and space.   Using different tools of cameras, filters, time, light, space and patience I hope to share images that we may not easily or not at all experience directly, but are there - waiting to be discovered.


Visit more of Craig​'s amazing  ​work online at:
www.CraigBill.com

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Fighting By Hendy ​Lie

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Our  Honorable Mention Winner was also submitted by 
Hendy Lie​​​​​​ from Sambas, West Kalimantan Indonesia


I am photographer from Indonesia,I spend more of my time capturing small insects, including photos of animals and have participated in several international photo contests.
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Theme Shortlist

Below are the amazing  images that shortlisted into the top tier of this themes competition.  A  big congratulations to all  of the talented photographers that participated! 

Deryk Baumgaertner - GlenCoe
Deryk Baumgaertner - The maple tree
Judith Kuhn - Hidden Vestrahorn
Ahmed Elsakhawy - Merge-of-beauty
Carla Vaughan - Boneyard Beach
Julio Castro - A Dream Come True
Ahmed Elsakhawy - Nature-Glory
Carlo Cinthi - Lunch break
Aman Wilson - Upside Down
Carlene Kanellis - Rebirth awaits
Addison Likins - Tree Line
Christos Tsamadias - Abandoned yet Alive!
ChunYang Hou - Surprised
Craig Bill - Canyonscape
ChunYang Hou - The Other Side of Survival
Julio Castro - Arches Paradise
Diane Christiansen - Sultry Garden
Willy LABOULLE - Wild power and charisma
Jochen Bongaerts - Shelter
Carlo Cinthi - Hunt in the rain
Jiancheng Mo - Burning Sky
Eric Tischler - Give Mama a Kiss
Greg Buening - Come Into My Parlor
Yevhen Samuchenko - Under Aurora bridge
Judith Kuhn - The dark hedges
Hendy Lie - Curve Love
Hin Mun Lee - Sunny Glory
Jackie Hopfinger - The Amazing Aurora Borealisrora Borealis
Willy LABOULLE - Sublime nature of highlands in Iceland
Jonk - Garage Belgium
Akira Sato - Beautiful night
Julio Castro - Exploring the Moon
Sandi Little - Eagle Standoff
Yevhen Samuchenko - Calmness of Eternity
Josip Miskovic - Going Home
Judith Kuhn - The right moment
Wojciech Kruczynski - Besseggen and Gjende
Julia Raithel - Colorful beauty
Sergio Pucci - Fire Volcano
Wojciech Kruczynski - Segla winter panorama
Matt Davies - Messor Barbarous Ant Queen with Eggs
Wojciech Kruczynski - Tugeneset aurora
Livinus Bleyen - Hvitserkur Aurora
Marco De Maio - Echo of the sea
Sergio Pucci - Lake Atitlan
Paolo Felletti - Flapping of wings
Robert Nowak - Lupine Falls
W Goodwin - In the Hall of the Shrimp King
Rosemary Miklitsch - Wind and Water
Marty Pearson - Irish Stream
Robert Romano - Refracted Sunlight on Stone

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