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 XIV photo contest are as follows:
"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 13
The Portrait of the Animal - 15
Animal in the Environment - 13
The underwater world - 15
Microcosm - 14
Magic of Plants - 14
Landscape - 14
Humans and nature - 15
New technologies in wildlife photography - 16
Art and Nature's Image - 14
Reserved Russia - 13
Nature through the eyes of youth - 17
Nature through the eyes of children - 17
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XIV photo contest are as follows:
| Yongqing Bao | China |
| Loulou Beavers | Netherlands |
| Alexandre Bes | France |
| Denis Budkov | Russia |
| Songda Cai | China |
| Elisa Confortini | Italy |
| Pietro Cremone | Italy |
| Juan Cuetos | Spain |
| Oscar Diez | Spain |
| Marcin Dobas | Poland |
| Michal Dobes | Czech Republic |
| Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco | Spain |
| Ismael Dominguez Gutierrez | Spain |
| Feng Du | China |
| Adam Fath | Hungary |
| Rafael Fernandez Caballero | Spain |
| Jie Fischer | USA |
| Tobias Friedrich | Germany |
| Barathieu Gabriel | France |
| Hoarau Galice | Norway |
| Marchione Giacomo | Italy |
| Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona | Spain |
| Andrey Grachev | Russia |
| Pol Gregory | France |
| Riehle Gunther | Germany |
| Olivier Gutfreund | France |
| Dirk Hoogenstein | Netherlands |
| Deying Huang | China |
| Lakshitha Karunarathna | Sri Lanka |
| Norbert Kaszas | Hungary |
| Tibor Kercz | Hungary |
| Istvan Kerekes | Hungary |
| Arthur Keutgen | Belgium |
| Dmitry Kokh | Russia |
| Terje Kolaas | Norway |
| Tamas Koncz-Bisztricz | Hungary |
| Mikhail Korostelev | Russia |
| Vladislav Kostylev | Russia |
| Nadezhda Kulagina | Kazakhstan |
| Andrey Kuznetsov | Russia |
| Javier Lafuente | Spain |
| Gayola Leo | France |
| Binyuan Li | China |
| Jing Li | China |
| Shanyuan Li | China |
| Tibor Litauszki | Hungary |
| Hannes Lochner | South Africa |
| Rooman Luc | Belgium |
| Vyacheslav Luzanov | Russia |
| Pintao Lv | China |
| Pavel Lychkousky | Belarus |
| Ashane Marasinghe | Sri Lanka |
| Bence Mate | Hungary |
| Fauzan Maududdin | Indonesia |
| Ignacio Medem | Spain |
| Swayamsiddha Mohapatra | India |
| Kallol Mukherjee | India |
| Mohammad Murad | Kuwait |
| Bertold Nagy | Hungary |
| Andrey Narchuk | Russia |
| Ivan Naumenko | Russia |
| Tatyana Nerikova | Russia |
| Vladimir Neymorovets | Russia |
| Michael Nitin | UAE |
| Sondre Osthus | Norway |
| Elena Ovsyankina | Russia |
| Silvano Paiola | Italy |
| Andrey Parshin | Russia |
| Alex Permiakov | Russia |
| Oleg Pershin | Russia |
| Jose Pesquero | Spain |
| Mateusz Piesiak | Poland |
| Juan Pablo Plaza Pozo | Spain |
| Scott Portelli | Australia |
| Andrea Pozzi | Italy |
| Hira Punjabi | India |
| Zhang Qiang | China |
| Julian Rad | Austria |
| Milan Radisics | Hungary |
| Balazs Ravasz | Hungary |
| Jose Luis Ruiz Jimenez | Spain |
| Yevhen Samuchenko | Ukraine |
| Aneesh Sankarankutty | India |
| Claudia Sanz Adriana | Argentina |
| Sergey Savvi | Russia |
| Alexandra Sazonova | Russia |
| Sergey Shanin | Russia |
| Konstantin Shatenev | Russia |
| Yori Smityk | Russia |
| Henley Spiers | United Kingdom |
| Marco Steiner | Austria |
| Nikolay Stepanenko | Russia |
| Nataliya Sudets | Russia |
| Chamara Sulakkhana | Sri Lanka |
| Irma Szabo | Hungary |
| Sergio Tapia | Spain |
| Santo Tirnetta | Italy |
| Csaba Tokolyi | Hungary |
| Victor Tyakht | Russia |
| Mikhail Ustyuzhanin | Russia |
| Kirill Uyutnov | Russia |
| Libor Vaicenbacher | Czech Republic |
| Thomas Vijayan | Canada |
| Neil Villard | Switzerland |
| Francesco Visintin | Italy |
| Alexey Volkov | Russia |
| Hongwei Wang | China |
| Roman Willi | Switzerland |
| Tianyi Xiong | China |
| Gennady Yusin | Russia |
| Fred Zacek | Estonia |
| Sven Zacek | Estonia |
| Ze Zhang | China |
| Guiming Zhang | China |
| Claudio Zori | Italy |
| Igor Zubkov | Russia |
"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 13
The Portrait of the Animal - 15
Animal in the Environment - 13
The underwater world - 15
Microcosm - 14
Magic of Plants - 14
Landscape - 14
Humans and nature - 15
New technologies in wildlife photography - 16
Art and Nature's Image - 14
Reserved Russia - 13
Nature through the eyes of youth - 17
Nature through the eyes of children - 17