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 XV 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 - 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
The finalists of the Golden Turtle XV photo contest are as follows:
| Niclas Ahlberg | Sweden |
| Nafis Ameen | Bangladesh |
| Aitor Badiola | Spain |
| Mauro Battistelli | Italy |
| Paolo Bausani | Italy |
| Gregory Bonnet | France |
| Maxime Briola | France |
| Denis Budkov | Russia |
| Nuno Cabrita | Portugal |
| Changyin Cai | China |
| Alessandro Carboni | Italy |
| Marc Casanovas | Spain |
| Saurabh Chakraborty | India |
| Elisa Confortini | Italy |
| Csaba Daroczi | Hungary |
| Francis De Andres | Spain |
| Nicolas de Vaulx | France |
| Joel Delmas | France |
| Marina Deriglazova | Russia |
| Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco | Spain |
| Ismael Dominguez Gutierrez | Spain |
| Lalith Ekanayake | Sri Lanka |
| Andrea Falcomata | Italy |
| Wei Fu | Thailand |
| Rob Garcia-Roa | Spain |
| Arkaprava Ghosh | India |
| Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona | Spain |
| Andrey Grachev | Russia |
| Keith Horton | Australia |
| Jiri Hrebicek | Czech Republic |
| Marek Jackowski | Poland |
| Gergo Kartyas | Hungary |
| Asela Karunaratne | Sri Lanka |
| Norbert Kaszas | Hungary |
| Md Imrul Kayes | Bangladesh |
| Tibor Kercz | Hungary |
| Szilveszter Kis | Romania |
| Dmitry Kokh | Russia |
| Terje Kolaas | Norway |
| Kai Kolodziej | Austria |
| Tamas Koncz-Bisztricz | Hungary |
| Alexey Korolev | Russia |
| Mikhail Korostelev | Russia |
| Vladislav Kostylev | Russia |
| Mikhail Kryukov | Russia |
| Oleg Kugaev | Russia |
| Nadezhda Kulagina | Kazakhstan |
| Javier Lafuente | Spain |
| Taichang Li | China |
| Song Lin | China |
| Tibor Litauszki | Hungary |
| Nathan Livartowski | France |
| Cesar Llaneza | Spain |
| Magnus Lundgren | Sweden |
| Pardis Maaleki | Iran |
| Krisztina Macsai | Hungary |
| Ashane Marasinghe | Sri Lanka |
| Krasimir Matarov | Bulgaria |
| Bence Mate | Hungary |
| Vladimir Mats | Russia |
| Babak Mehrafshar | Iran |
| Luca Melcarne | France |
| Violeta Milutinovic | Serbia |
| Sergey Miroshnik | Ukraine |
| Mohammad Hossein Moheimani | Iran |
| Nadezhda Moiseeva | Russia |
| Kevin Morgans | United Kingdom |
| Siro S. Moya Alvarez | Spain |
| Kallol Mukherjee | India |
| Andrey Narchuk | Russia |
| Ivan Naumenko | Russia |
| Tatiana Nerikova | Russia |
| Yegor Nikiforov | Russia |
| Darina Obrezkova | Russia |
| Elena Pakhalyuk | Russia |
| Anna Pakutina | Russia |
| Alexey Perelygin | Russia |
| Carlos Perez Naval | Spain |
| Alexey Permyakov | Russia |
| Oleg Pershin | Russia |
| Jose Pesquero | Spain |
| Remi Pichard | Belgium |
| Mateusz Piesiak | Poland |
| Andrey Podkorytov | Russia |
| Jacinto Policarpo | Portugal |
| Scott Portelli | Australia |
| Imre Potyo | Hungary |
| Andrea Pozzi | Italy |
| Pratik Pradhan | Italy |
| Yuri Pritisk | Russia |
| Hira Punjabi | India |
| Zhang Qiang | China |
| Nicolas Remy | Australia |
| Geoffrey Reynaud | Canada |
| Sudith Rodrigo | Sri Lanka |
| Alexander Rudny | Russia |
| Remo Savisaar | Estonia |
| Michele Sbrilli | Italy |
| Dave Shaffer | USA |
| Nilesh Shah | India |
| Manoj Shah | Kenya |
| Sergey Shanin | Russia |
| Konstantin Shatenev | Russia |
| Andrey Shpatak | Russia |
| Andrey Sidorov | Russia |
| Prelena Soma Owen | South Africa |
| Martin Steenhaut | Belgium |
| Nikolay Stepanenko | Russia |
| Mario Suarez | Spain |
| Irma Szabo | Hungary |
| Geza Attila Szabo | Hungary |
| Gabor Szerencsi | Hungary |
| Sergio Tapia | Spain |
| Simona Tedesco | Italy |
| Todor Tilev | Ireland |
| Marc Tisseau | France |
| Haiyuan Tong | China |
| Grigory Tsidulko | Russia |
| Yulia Utyurina | Russia |
| Kirill Uyutnov | Russia |
| Pasquale Vassallo | Italy |
| Ekaterina Vasyagina | Russia |
| Thomas Vijayan | Canada |
| Marc Weber | France |
| Yung Sen Wu | Taiwan |
| Liu Xiang | China |
| Alexey Zozulya | Russia |
| Valeria Zvereva | Russia |
| Pawel Zygmunt | Ireland |
"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