The finalists of the photo contest have been announced
The semi-final voting of the Professional Jury of the Golden Turtle photo contest was completed.
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XII photo contest are as follows:
| Fahreza Ahmad | Indonesia |
| Lardeau Annick | Switzerland |
| Vincze Balint | Hungary |
| Romain Barats | France |
| Jordi Benitez | Spain |
| Robert Blanken | Netherlands |
| Vladimir Bogdanov | Russia |
| Justin Bruhn | Australia |
| Marc Casanovas Felix | Spain |
| Luis Antonio Clemente | Spain |
| Marc Costermans | Belgium |
| Jens Cullmann | Germany |
| Isuru Dayananda | Sri Lanka |
| Marina Deriglazova | Russia |
| Oscar Diez | Spain |
| Fabien Dubessy | France |
| Myriam Dupouy | France
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| Marcio Esteves Cabral | Brazil |
| Aleksandr Fedosov | Russia
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| Nikos Fokas | Greece |
| Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona | Spain |
| Jose Manuel Grandio | Spain |
| Alessandro Grasso | Italy |
| David Greyo | Switzerland |
| Vadim Gvon | Russia |
| Andreas Hemb | Sweden |
| Jiri Hrebicek | Czech Republic |
| Yuhui Hu | China |
| Szabo Irma | Hungary |
| Vitaliy Istomin | Russia |
| Kerekes Istvan | Hungary |
| Yuri Ivanov | Russia |
| Behzad Jahangirzadeh Khiavi | Iran |
| Arnfinn Johansen | Norway |
| Tibor Kercz | Hungary |
| Dmitry Kokh | Russia |
| Mike Korostelev | Russia |
| Bo Lei | China |
| Jonathan Lhoir | France |
| Hendy Lie | Indonesia |
| Nathan Livartowski | France |
| Joan de la Malla | Spain |
| Ilya Marchenko | Russia |
| Giacomo Marchione | Italy |
| Bence Mate | Hungary |
| Evgeny Melnikov | Russia |
| Tatiana Nerikova | Russia |
| Yegor Nikiforov
| Russia |
| Andrei Nosik | Russia |
| Bernt Osthus | Norway |
| Francesco Pacienza | Italy |
| Guillaume Paulignan | France |
| Ivan Pedretti | Italy |
| Jose Pesquero | Spain |
| Mateusz Piesiak | Poland |
| Andrea Pozzi | Italy |
| Julian Rad | Austria |
| Milan Radisics | Hungary |
| Gunther Riehle | Germany |
| Aleksandr Ryabenky | Russia |
| Manas Sarkar | India |
| Sergey Savvi | Russia |
| Bernhard Schubert | Austria |
| Sergey Shanin | Russia |
| Konstantin Shatenev | Russia |
| Prelena Soma Owen | South Africa |
| Alexey Suloev | Russia |
| Ilya Timin | Russia |
| Csaba Tokolyi | Hungary |
| Kirill Uyutnov | Russia |
| Ekaterina Vasyagina | Russia |
| Nicolas de Vaulx | France |
| Cyril Verron | France |
| Thomas Vijayan | Canada |
| Anton Voronin | Russia |
| Christian Wappl | Austria |
| Staffan Widstrand | Sweden |
| Vasily Yakovlev | Russia |
| Yunruo Yang | China |
| Aleksandr Yusupov | Russia |
| Sven Zacek | Estonia |
| Igor Zubkov | Russia |
| Valeria Zvereva | Russia |
"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are:Animal Behavior - 43
The Portrait of the Animal - 42
Harmony of Life - 44
The underwater world - 47
Microcosm - 47
Landscape - 48
Humans and nature - 46
New technologies - 43
Art and Nature's Image - 48