The semi-final voting of the Professional Jury of the Golden Turtle photo contest was completed.
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XV photo contest are as follows:
Niclas Ahlberg
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Sweden
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Nafis Ameen
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Bangladesh
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Aitor Badiola
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Spain
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Mauro Battistelli
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Italy
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Paolo Bausani
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Italy
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Gregory Bonnet
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France
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Maxime Briola
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France
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Denis Budkov
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Russia
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Nuno Cabrita
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Portugal
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Changyin Cai
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China
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Alessandro Carboni
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Italy
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Marc Casanovas
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Spain
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Saurabh Chakraborty
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India
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Elisa Confortini
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Italy
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Csaba Daroczi
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Hungary
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Francis De Andres
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Spain
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Nicolas de Vaulx
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France
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Joel Delmas
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France
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Marina Deriglazova
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Russia
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Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco
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Spain
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Ismael Dominguez Gutierrez
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Spain
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Lalith Ekanayake
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Sri Lanka
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Andrea Falcomata
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Italy
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Wei Fu
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Thailand
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Rob Garcia-Roa
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Spain
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Arkaprava Ghosh
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India
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Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona
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Spain
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Andrey Grachev
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Russia
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Keith Horton
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Australia
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Jiri Hrebicek
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Czech Republic
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Marek Jackowski
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Poland
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Gergo Kartyas
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Hungary
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Asela Karunaratne
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Sri Lanka
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Norbert Kaszas
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Hungary
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Md Imrul Kayes
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Bangladesh
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Tibor Kercz
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Hungary
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Szilveszter Kis
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Romania
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Dmitry Kokh
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Russia
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Terje Kolaas
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Norway
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Kai Kolodziej
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Austria
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Tamas Koncz-Bisztricz
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Hungary
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Alexey Korolev
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Russia
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Mikhail Korostelev
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Russia
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Vladislav Kostylev
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Russia
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Mikhail Kryukov
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Russia
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Oleg Kugaev
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Russia
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Nadezhda Kulagina
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Kazakhstan
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Javier Lafuente
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Spain
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Taichang Li
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China
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Song Lin
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China
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Tibor Litauszki
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Hungary
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Nathan Livartowski
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France
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Cesar Llaneza
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Spain
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Magnus Lundgren
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Sweden
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Pardis Maaleki
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Iran
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Krisztina Macsai
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Hungary
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Ashane Marasinghe
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Sri Lanka
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Krasimir Matarov
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Bulgaria
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Bence Mate
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Hungary
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Vladimir Mats
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Russia
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Babak Mehrafshar
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Iran
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Luca Melcarne
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France
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Violeta Milutinovic
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Serbia
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Sergey Miroshnik
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Ukraine
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Mohammad Hossein Moheimani
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Iran
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Nadezhda Moiseeva
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Russia
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Kevin Morgans
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United Kingdom
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Siro S. Moya Alvarez
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Spain
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Kallol Mukherjee
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India
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Andrey Narchuk
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Russia
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Ivan Naumenko
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Russia
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Tatiana Nerikova
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Russia
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Yegor Nikiforov
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Russia
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Darina Obrezkova
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Russia
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Elena Pakhalyuk
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Russia
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Anna Pakutina
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Russia
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Alexey Perelygin
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Russia
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Carlos Perez Naval
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Spain
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Alexey Permyakov
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Russia
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Oleg Pershin
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Russia
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Jose Pesquero
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Spain
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Remi Pichard
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Belgium
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Mateusz Piesiak
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Poland
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Andrey Podkorytov
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Russia
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Jacinto Policarpo
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Portugal
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Scott Portelli
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Australia
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Imre Potyo
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Hungary
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Andrea Pozzi
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Italy
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Pratik Pradhan
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Italy
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Yuri Pritisk
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Russia
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Hira Punjabi
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India
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Zhang Qiang
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China
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Nicolas Remy
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Australia
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Geoffrey Reynaud
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Canada
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Sudith Rodrigo
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Sri Lanka
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Alexander Rudny
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Russia
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Remo Savisaar
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Estonia
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Michele Sbrilli
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Italy
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Dave Shaffer
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USA
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Nilesh Shah
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India
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Manoj Shah
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Kenya
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Sergey Shanin
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Russia
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Konstantin Shatenev
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Russia
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Andrey Shpatak
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Russia
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Andrey Sidorov
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Russia
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Prelena Soma Owen
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South Africa
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Martin Steenhaut
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Belgium
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Nikolay Stepanenko
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Russia
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Mario Suarez
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Spain
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Irma Szabo
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Hungary
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Geza Attila Szabo
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Hungary
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Gabor Szerencsi
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Hungary
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Sergio Tapia
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Spain
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Simona Tedesco
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Italy
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Todor Tilev
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Ireland
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Marc Tisseau
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France
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Haiyuan Tong
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China
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Grigory Tsidulko
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Russia
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Yulia Utyurina
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Russia
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Kirill Uyutnov
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Russia
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Pasquale Vassallo
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Italy
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Ekaterina Vasyagina
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Russia
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Thomas Vijayan
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Canada
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Marc Weber
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France
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Yung Sen Wu
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Taiwan
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Liu Xiang
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China
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Alexey Zozulya
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Russia
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Valeria Zvereva
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Russia
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Pawel Zygmunt
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Ireland
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"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 23
The Portrait of the Animal - 25
Animal in the Environment - 23
The underwater world - 21
Microcosm - 19
Magic of Plants - 19
Landscape - 22
Humans and nature - 20
New technologies in wildlife photography - 20
Art and Nature's Image - 20
Reserved Russia - 15
Nature through the eyes of youth - 19
Nature through the eyes of children - 16