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Skimming the surface

Beverly Peterson Stearns

United States of America

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A child tries to catch the rays of the sun pouring through the star-shaped openings in the roof of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. She ignores Rodin's "Walking Man, on a Column" and the ancient text on the nearby stone.

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Nominee

Catching the sunshine

A Mobula ray glides through the Sea of Cortes, one of its key migration routes.

Bronze

The I'iwi, one of Hawaii's native honeycreepers, is gently banded and checked for disease and parasites by a field researcher at the Hakalau Forest Refuge. Once common in the islands, it is now threatened by mosquito-borne malaria and loss of habitat.

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Threatened beauty

On the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan war, a man continues to search for relatives.

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Searching

Like a jade pendant, this chrysalis  is the jewel case from which an exquisite Monarch butterfly will emerge.