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 XIII 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 - 25
The Portrait of the Animal - 22
Animal in the Environment - 23
The underwater world - 27
Microcosm - 24
Landscape - 25
Humans and nature - 24
New technologies in wildlife photography - 25
Art and Nature's Image - 20
Reserved Russia - 18
Nature through the eyes of youth - 20
Nature through the eyes of children - 19
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XIII photo contest are as follows:
| Dmitry Arkhipov | Russia |
| Sumanta Basu | India |
| Giuseppe Bonali | Italy |
| Songda Cai | China |
| Marc Casanovas Felix | Spain |
| Chantal Cenker | Austria |
| Sanz Adriana Claudia | Argentina |
| Parry Craig | Australia |
| Pietro Cremone | Italy |
| Csaba Daroczi | Hungary |
| Anup Deodhar | India |
| Marina Deriglazova | Russia |
| Michal Dobes | Czech Republic |
| Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco | Spain |
| Michel d'Oultremont | Belgium |
| Marcio Antonio Esteves Cabral | Brasil |
| Aleksandr Fedosov | Russia |
| Nataliya Fedosova | Russia |
| Isaac Fernandez Galisteo | Spain |
| Joaquin Figueredo Gonzalez | Spain |
| Giovanni Frescura | Italy |
| David Frutos Egea | Spain |
| Arthur Gergardt | Ukraine |
| Nikolay Gernet | Russia |
| Viraj Arun Ghaisas | India |
| Massimo Giorgetta | Italy |
| Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona | Spain |
| Svetlana Gorbatykh | Russia |
| Vitaly Gorshkov | Russia |
| Marc Graf | Austria |
| Jose Manuel Grandio | Spain |
| Alessandro Grasso | Italy |
| David Greyo | Switzerland |
| Andreas Hemb | Sweden |
| Javier Herranz Casellas | Spain |
| Dirk Hoogenstein | Netherlands |
| Svetlana Ivanenko | Russia |
| Behzad Jahangirzadeh Khiavi | Iran |
| Arnfinn Johansen | Norway |
| Aranya Karighattam | USA |
| Sergey Karpukhin | Russia |
| Tibor Kercz | Hungary |
| Kai Kolodziej | Austria |
| Tamas Koncz-Bisztricz | Hungary |
| MdZakirul Mazed Konok | Bangladesh |
| Mikhail Korostelev | Russia |
| Daniil Korzhonov | Russia |
| Fedor Lashkov | Russia |
| Florian Ledoux | France |
| Antonio Leiva Sanchez | Spain |
| Tibor Litauszki | Hungary |
| Nathan Livartowski | France |
| Davide Lombroso | Italy |
| Kirsi MacKenzie | Finland |
| Marco Maggesi | Italy |
| Chaideer Mahyuddin | Indonesia |
| Neha Manoj | Kenya |
| Gennadiy Meshcheryakov | Russia |
| Tamara Morozova | Russia |
| Kallol Mukherjee | India |
| Valtteri Mulkahainen | Finland |
| Viktoriya Narchuk | Russia |
| Ivan Naumenko | Russia |
| Egor Nikiforov | Russia |
| Victor Ortega | Spain |
| Diez Oscar | Spain |
| Yelena Pakhalyuk | Russia |
| Agorastos Papatsanis | Greece |
| Haresh Dhirajlal Pateel | India |
| Jeremy Patton | France |
| Aleksandr Perevozov | Russia |
| Jose Pesquero | Spain |
| Mateusz Piesiak | Poland |
| Juan Pablo Plaza Pozo | Spain |
| Dario Podesta | Argentina |
| Andrey Podkorytov | Russia |
| Scott Portelli | Australia |
| Imre Potyo | Hungary |
| Pratik Pradhan | India |
| Andrey Prutenskiy | Russia |
| Hira Punjabi | India |
| Dani Salgado | Spain |
| Yevhen Samuchenko | Ukraine |
| Suarez Gonzalez Samuel | Spain |
| Aneesh Sankarankutty | India |
| Sergey Savvi | Russia |
| Andrey Shpatak | Russia |
| Roman Shteynbrekher | Russia |
| Zhou Shunhua | China |
| Martin Siering | Germany |
| Yuriy Sorokin | Russia |
| Giedrius Stakauskas | United Kingdom |
| Mario Suarez Porras | Spain |
| Geza Attila Szabo | Hungary |
| Sergio Tapia | Spain |
| Marc Tisseau | France |
| Domenico Tripodi | Italy |
| Sergey Uryadnikov | Russia |
| Thomas Vijayan | Canada |
| Alexey Volkov | Russia |
| Anton Voronin | Russia |
| Ian Wade | United Kingdom |
| Christian Wappl | Austria |
| Marc Weber | France |
| Paweł Wrona | Poland |
| Fred Zacek | Estonia |
| Evalotta Zacek | Estonia |
| Valeriya Zvereva | 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 - 25
The Portrait of the Animal - 22
Animal in the Environment - 23
The underwater world - 27
Microcosm - 24
Landscape - 25
Humans and nature - 24
New technologies in wildlife photography - 25
Art and Nature's Image - 20
Reserved Russia - 18
Nature through the eyes of youth - 20
Nature through the eyes of children - 19