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FRAMES Magazine & Podcast

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Hahnemühle

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Pixpa

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Digital Camera World

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Photography Course . net

International Discovery of the Year

Nudity here is natural, like the air and water that tenderly welcomes them from an early age. What really counts is pure freedom in the constant search for the joy and pleasure they draw from every play

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The freedom of nudity

João Coelho

Angola

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Discovery of the Year

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Shanghai Street

Jiabin Zhu

China

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Silver

The Colour Studies blend traditional techniques of macro photography and DoF with experiments of layering and blending, creating unpredictable images that explore the nuances of surface, colour, and texture. These images blur the boundary between photography and art.

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Colour Study Series

Paul Gravett

Canada

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Bronze

The earth is warming up.
Snow is rare : it hides in every possible corner .
But as Shakespeare would have said : 
" Where does the white go, when the snow melts ? "

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Snow Prints

Gilles Ducheix

France

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Surveillance

Michael Jurek

Germany

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"reflections" of the famous Incan stone with 12 corners in Cusco, Peru. An example of exceptional Incan masonry art.

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Incan Fractals

Konrad Weeber

United States of America

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This image shows a mixture of molten urea and resorcinol at a Scale of reproduction 20x / Magnification approx. 250:1 and was taken with my polarizing microscope "Carl Zeiss Jena JENALB-Pol".

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Microcrystals in polarized light.

Peter Juzak

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People's Vote Award

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I am back

Lu Zhang

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For the Assignment of  Miniature Toy figures, captured a series of miniature Toy figures with different  storytelling setting photos to promote the Brand " Preiser " Miniature  Toy 
 Figure.

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Preiser Miniature Toy Figures

Leka Huie

Hong Kong

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Wonderball

Yevhen Kostiuk

Ukraine

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Lives

Canbo Zhu

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Two Women in the Pool

These pictures present heart shaped trees in the four different seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter in 2022) We can see how weather influences on the plant conditions. And it affects on our general health or sensation too.

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The weather and heart conditions

Kamil Knychalski

Poland

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A photo of the Tempodrom, taken during pouring rain. I was particularly interested in the handrails leading up the stairs, giving a somewhat unusual addition to the actual building.

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Tempodrom Berlin

Jens Winkler

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Beautiful dome of Baha'i Temple in Santiago de Chile

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We Are All One

Dorota Yamadag

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Combining and merging as many as 30 individual photographs taken at each architectural setting to create a seamless, single panoramic image not achievable with traditional photography, this series captures views from above and below architectural master works we might otherwise have overlooked.

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Looking Up/Looking Down

Steve Majsak

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Swoosh !

In modern cities, we are dwelling in architectures with geometry, lines and acute angles.  They create environments, which define and confine our behaviour.  We, on one hand, feel secure by knowing how we are supposed to act, on the other hand, we are "confined" by these "cold walls"

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Geometry

Lawrence Cheung

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