Judge: Joe Decker
| Award | Title | Maker |
| Pictorial | ||
| 1st | Glorious Falls | Scott Marmer |
| 2nd | Spider | Radka Tezaur |
| 3rd | Sand Goes with the Flow | Elaine Heron |
| HM | multitasking | Bill Jackson |
| HM | Fourth Floor Walk-up 22 Rue Bonaparte, Paris | Bill Jackson |
| HM | Sierra Winter | Caroline Lambert |
| HM | Helping Hands | Ira Greenberg |
| HM | Big Day | Nicholas Fullagar |
| HM | Saint Barbara’s Church | Radka Tezaur |
| HM | San Jose City Hall | Scott Marmer |
| HM | Gravitational Anomalies #1 | Vardan Aroustamian |
| Monochrome | ||
| 1st | Reflections, Portland | Susan Diederichsen |
| 2nd | Simplicity | Xavier Cohen |
| 3rd | Entwined 1 | Bill Jackson |
| HM | Eastern Sierra Reflections | Laurie Naiman |
| HM | Sand Hill | Nicholas Fullagar |
| HM | Thistles | Radka Tezaur |
| HM | Gravity Defied | Scott Marmer |
| HM | Anvil Clouds over Northern California Coastline, Davenport CA | Srividya Narasimhan |
| HM | Sand dune patterns | Srividya Narasimhan |
| Nature | ||
| 1st | Mother and Baby, Orangutan, Borneo, Malaysia. | Shinnan Kiang |
| 2nd | Adelie Penguins Diving | Elaine Heron |
| 3rd | Waiting for the Hyenas to Finish | Hilari Hardin |
| HM | Forster’s Tern with a courtship fish (Sterna forsteri) | Charlene Yoshizu |
| HM | West, East and Merrick Buttes, Monument Valley | Dan Hartford |
| HM | American bison mother nurses her calf, Alberta, Canada (Bison bison) | Judy Kramer |
| HM | Relaxing in Hot Spring, Japanese Snow Monkey, Japan | Lucy Kiang |
| Creative | ||
| 1st | what water chooses to reflect | Thomas Farrell |
| 2nd | Up from the Deep | Susan Diederichsen |
| 3rd | Moon eclipse sequence | Xavier Cohen |
| HM | The Apocalypse | Bill Jackson |
| HM | Pointedly | Branko Radonjic |
| HM | Meticulous | Charlene Yoshizu |
| HM | Purple Green Plate | Dan Hartford |
| HM | Night trail at Escalante National Monument | Xavier Cohen |
| Travel | ||
| 1st | Springtime at the Louvre Paris France | Bill Jackson |
| 2nd | Horseback Riding at Skogarfoss in Iceland | Elaine Heron |
| 3rd | What are these people up to? | Srividya Narasimhan |
| HM | A Sinking Tide Lowers All Ships, Panama City, Panama | Scott Marmer |
| HM | Exploring Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona | Shinnan Kiang |
| HM | Torii, Japan | Srividya Narasimhan |
| Photojournalism | ||
| IoY | iPad Generation Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs | Deborah Plumley |
| 2nd | Pantanal Cattle Drive | Elaine Heron |
| 3rd | Herschel Walker is Pumped Up to Fight in Strikeforce | Scott Marmer |
| HM | Santa Festival clothed and unclothed December 10 2011 San Francisco California | Bill Jackson |
| HM | Crowd Watching Sacramento Air Show | Etsuko Kaizuka |
| HM | Stanford women celebrate victory that breaks UConn’s 90-game basketball win streak. | Judy Kramer |
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