Golden turtle accepting work. Golden Turtle Wildlife Festival
Opening: December 1, 2018
Application date: until May 31, 2019
Contribution: for free
Awards:$1,000, $2,000, valuable prizes
Nominations
- Reserved Russia
Photographs of animals listed in the Red Book of Russia or regional “Red Books” taken on the territory of nature reserves or national parks of the corresponding region are accepted for participation in the nomination. - Animal portrait
Close-up photography of any wild animals. The main criteria in this nomination are a successful reflection of the character, the “soul” of the animal - through its emotions, eye expression, posture, and gait. - Animals in the habitat
The shots in this category reflect the unity of the animal and its habitat, in artistic and biological aspects. The frame is assessed as a holistic composition created by nature and captured by the photographer. - Microworld
Photographing representatives of the microworld (insects, spiders, invertebrates, small underwater animals) in natural habitats. The depiction of objects at some point in their life, interaction with other individuals, species and the environment is welcome. In this nomination, the priority is the harmony and artistry of the entire composition. - Scenery
The nomination includes landscape photographs showing the beauty and harmony of wild nature. The photographs should not show the presence of human intervention. Works will be judged on the level of artistry and compositional completeness. The geographic location of the shooting point and the type of landscape do not matter. - Undersea world
This category accepts images taken underwater. The competition work should demonstrate the originality of the composition, the complexity of obtaining the frame, and the dramaturgy. Photos showing the uniqueness and vastness of underwater ecosystems are encouraged. - Human and nature
Reporting nomination. This nomination includes photographs about any interaction between wildlife and humans, such as: work in nature reserves; animals and people in zoos; people in the process of preserving wildlife; negative human impact on the environment. - Animal behavior
Photographing wild animals (animals, birds, amphibians, etc.) in natural freedom. In this nomination, the priority is the uniqueness of the frame. The photograph should show an interesting moment in the life of the animal. Dynamic, emotional, memorable and original shots are welcome. - New technologies in wildlife photography
This nomination includes photographs taken using modern remote methods of obtaining images: camera traps, drones and other technical devices. - Art and the image of nature
The main importance in this nomination is the light, structural and graphic solution of the entire composition as a whole. Shots depicting animals, as well as objects in the world of plants and fungi are welcome. - Nature through the eyes of youth
This nomination accepts any wildlife photographs from young photographers aged 13 to 17 years. - Nature through the eyes of children
This nomination accepts any wildlife photographs from young photographers under the age of 12.
Winners of the 2018 Golden Turtle photo contest
Photographer of the Year - Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona
Winners of the nominations:
Nomination "Animal Behavior"
Territory © Bence Mate
Winner
Dodger © Thomas Vijayan
Second place
Hunting © Arnfinn Johansen
Third place
Nomination "Harmony of Life"
sunlight © Fabien Dubessi
Winner
Expectation © Tsaba Tokoli
Second place
Ostrich © Vladimir Bogdanov
Third place
Nomination “Portrait of an Animal”
Doe Winner
Vigilant © Oscar Diez
Second place
Mako shark © Romain Barats
Third place
Nomination "Underwater World"
Red fish spawning © Sergey Shanin
Winner
In depth © Dmitry Kokh
Second place
Tridacna © Francesco Pasienza
Third place
Nomination “Art and Image of Nature”
Autumn palette © Sven Zasek
Winner
Night © Igor Zubkov
Second place
Royal spiral © Jose Pesquero
Third place
Nomination "Microworld"
Road of light © Yuhai Hu
Winner
Bedtime story © Balint Vinže
Second place
Righteous souls © Tatyana Nerikova
Third place
Nomination "Landscape"
Grandfather and grandmother © Manuel Enrique Gonzalez Carmona
Winner
Lunar halo © Vitaly Istomin
Second place
Difference © Ivan Pedretti
Third place
Nomination "Man and Nature"
Graphic arts © Kerekes Istvan
Winner
On Dagobah © Tibor Kerz
Second place
This is my jungle! © Sergey Savvy
Third place
Nomination "New Technologies in Wildlife Photography"
Arctic kindergarten - top view © Ilya Timin
Winner
Seagulls over the lake © Milan Radisic
Second place
Curious bear © Mikhail Korostelev
Third place
Total 92 photos
This unique "Golden Turtle Wildlife Festival" has been held since 2006. The most notable part of its content is a large-scale wildlife-themed photography competition. It so happened that I was not at the last couple of festivals, that’s how the circumstances developed. And by the end of March 2015, I suddenly realized that I could miss it again, and on April 1st I was nevertheless “carried” to this event. This year the festival is taking place at the Museum of Moscow on Zubovsky 2, in the building of the former Provision Warehouses, right on Sadovoy. This delightful, simple and, at the same time, perfect architectural monument of the 1st half of the 19th century in the Empire style is perfectly suited, at least externally and situationally, for holding significant exhibition events. I have never been to the first building of the Provision Warehouses, where the Golden Turtle takes place, and it will be extremely interesting for me, together with you, to explore this new exhibition space in Moscow at the same time.
In 2010, the Golden Turtle Wildlife Festival became officially international. There is a film competition here (since 2011), and since 2013 art design and fine arts competitions have been held. The main objects at the festival are Nature, Art, People. I was most interested in the photo competition and this is what my story (report) will be about. If possible, I will present you with most of the competition photographs, and will focus on those works that I liked the most. Since many names of photographic works, especially by foreign authors, are quite laconic, I will give them my own alternative names at will, leaving, of course, the original ones and will try to unobtrusively express my feelings in order to reflect exactly my vision of the content of the photographic works of this festival. Thus, this will not be an analytical report from the event, but a personal impression of the festival in all its colors, shades, feelings that it evoked. By the way, the festival has been extended until April 12, 2015 and you still have a unique chance to get to this interesting event.
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I will stop a little at the end of my story about the festival and the history of this building, what is connected with it and my impressions of the Provision Warehouses as a new exhibition space, but not at the moment. Now, we will plunge into the world of wild nature, into what surrounds us as city dwellers. We are deprived of a natural connection with living nature and these unique photographs will help us make up for the lack of complete impressions of this World, which still exists, in its indescribable natural beauty.
The exhibition space of the Golden Turtle festival consists of three long elongated sectors-halls, separated by arched brick support structures. Looking from left to right, the first and second sectors are dedicated to the photo competition, and the third is reserved for fine arts and art design. We will begin our inspection by moving to the first sector on the left. This is the kingdom of birds...
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Portrait. Giovanni Prescura. Italy.
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Rivalry. Bence Mate. Hungary.
I would probably call the work “Grace”...)
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Takeoff. Severin Peillet. Switzerland. This is the first winner of the category: Birds. I must say that the information for photographers is concise, but very complete. You can easily find out what camera and lens the photographer used, what the camera settings were, and under what circumstances the story was shot. Under each nomination winner's work there is a sign on the floor with the opinion of a number of festival jury participants about it. Everything is correct, competent and understandable.
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Courtship. Peter Bediarek. Poland.
"Call of nature"...
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Miracle. Le Ngoc Minh. Vietnam. These are hoopoes. Amazing shot!
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Mouth full. Giedrius Stakauskas. Great Britain. This is an Atlantic dead end. Their body length is 30-35 cm, weight 450-500 g. The high, brightly colored beak is strongly compressed from the sides. The back is black, the underparts are white. Paws are orange-red. Puffins walk, fly, swim and dive well using their wings and paws. They feed on small fish and marine invertebrates..., like now...)
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Fight of toadstools. Pier Luigi Rizzato. Italy. The Great Grebe, or Great Grebe (lat. Podiceps cristatus) is a species of aquatic bird from the Grebe family.
"Duel".
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Flamingo Squadron. Pere Sole Isern. Portugal. Winner of the nomination: Harmony of life. This is an aerial photograph. The author does not reveal his equipment or how this amazing shot was captured. One thing is for sure - this is Spain, the swamps of Southern Andalusia.
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Teleportation. Sergei Shanin. Moscow. And, indeed, like moving in space and time.
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Evaporation. Javier Herrance Casellas. Spain. This is a red maple leaf. USA. Florida. Everglades National Park.
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In the fog. Daniele Pantanali. Italy. Winner of the nomination: The magic of plants. Great work.
As festival jury member Nikolai Zinoviev put it: “...True art of nature, nothing superfluous, pure splendor...”. Well, nothing more can be said here, everything is as it is.
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Here, in the foreground, is my favorite photograph of Crimean subjects “Fairy Forest” by Sergei Semenov, familiar from the festival.
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In the fog. Daniele Pantanali. Italy. Winner of the nomination: The magic of plants. Nikolai Solovyov, member of the festival jury: "...The frame is captivating with its tannic quality, striking in its depth and volume. The magic of nature? Yes! Undoubtedly!...".
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Landing. Lorenzo Shabridge. Italy - Pastel mantis. Patrick Goujon. France.
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Ice Line. Alexey Stemmer. Latvia. Winner of the nomination: Microworld. Daniel Baltra, member of the jury: "...A good composition of shapes and colors, a world that is difficult to see with the naked eye...".
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Flight. Huge Fuertes. Spain. Amazing work!
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Together. Daniel Shelmetsi. Hungary. - Caught. Mark Casanovas Felix. Spain.
Here, at least about the top photo, it should be said that it shows fishermen catching whale sharks, the largest sharks in the world...
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Now we have already reached the end of the first hall of the festival and examined the photographic works on only one of its walls. I must say that I deliberately chose a time around 16:00 so that there would be few visitors and there would be an opportunity to take informative shots of general plans of the exhibition space without many visitors.
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Friends. Daniil Lugovoi. Moscow. Symbolic...
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Identification. Daniil Primak. Moscow. Here is the story of an ornithologist about the identification of birds in the Murmansk region. This is a rather rare sparrowhawk.
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Yawn. Jaime Culebras. Spain. This is a ruby-eyed tree frog. Ecuador, Pichincha.
A rare and fascinating shot.
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Rainbow in the jungle. Jaime Culebras. Spain. Ecuadorian Amazon. Rainbow boa.
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Fleeting summer. Egor Nikiforov. Novorossiysk. Lesser Caucasus. Lead Stream. Silver crucian...
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Hawkfish. Hans Gerd Broeder. Germany. The author commented on the photo like this: “Rimskite soldiers defend the castle”...)
"On guard."
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Cat's eye. Sergey Shanin. Moscow. I was amazed by the detail of this photo. And, by the way, it was shot with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 mirrorless camera and an ED 12-40 wide-angle lens. Respect to the author.
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Sailfish and acrobat seals frolic here.
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Queen. Yuri Ivanov. Yegoryevsk. The photo shows a nudibranch. Indonesia. Bali, Tulamben.
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In flight. Denis Degtyarev. Moscow. This romantic creature from the Philippines is just a flatworm
with a laconic Latin name.
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"Dazed" is a cormorant)
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Turtle over volcanic sand. Hardy Benitez. Spain. Tenerife. Green turtle. The author may have deliberately highlighted the golden hue of the turtle's shell in order to attract the attention of the jury members of the Golden Turtle festival. It looks like he succeeded)
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Here, on the column, at the beginning of the first hall, I especially liked the photo work of Cutie-Face by Vladislav Kostylev, I made the title in this material about the Golden Turtle 2015 festival.
Well, aren't they really cute!)?
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We move to the central hall. There is a green aquarium with the offer “Feed the fish and make your wish come true...”. The fish, as usual, feeds for money)
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Lion nomad. Pekka Jarventaus. Sweden. Well, what can I say - he is a Leo and a Leo in Africa!).
Kenya. National Reserve "Masai Mara".
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Mom's tail. Michel Ajej. France.
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Trapped. Viktoras Dubinskas. Lithuania. If you can't see it very clearly, this is a flickering expanse - a sea of wildebeest crossing the crocodile-infested Mara River in the Serengeti.
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Morning in the forest. Konstantin Shatenev. Saint Petersburg. Practically, an archetypal picture in our minds...
Filmed in Karelia.
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"One foot in Paradise...")
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Bear fishing. Stanislav Sedov. Istra. Kamchatka. Kuril Lake.
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The XII International Wildlife Festival GOLDEN TURTLE was held on November 4-18, 2018 in Moscow at the Central House of Artists and will be held from November 30 to January 13, 2019 in St. Petersburg in the “Floors” space.
The festival is an official event of the United Nations Decade for Biodiversity.
This year's motto: “Freedom. Creation. Scale". The key event of the festival will be a large interactive exhibition of the works of finalists and laureates of the international photo competition The Golden Turtle 2018. This year the competition attracted a record number of participants: more than 2,300 authors from 110 countries sent their works. Authors compete in several categories: photography, painting and eco-posters.
“The Golden Turtle 2018 is one of the TOP 3 most prestigious international creative competitions for wildlife photographers. Therefore, the requirements for the level of work are the highest,” says festival president Andrei Sukhinin. - The jury, which includes the highest world-famous photography professionals, evaluated the works according to several criteria at once. This is the level of artistic and technical performance, the biological value of the frame, the creative novelty of the author’s approach to shooting and much more. In addition, all photographs undergo additional examination regarding the ethical treatment of animals during filming, as well as technical examination to assess the level of use of graphic editors when processing images. I especially want to note that it is very important for us that the works are not just beautiful, but carry a certain meaning inherent in the idea of our festival - “Freedom. Creation. Scale".
The GOLDEN TURTLE Wildlife Festival is not a traditional photo exhibition format. The festival area is a place for leisure for the whole family. Guests will find a lot of unforgettable events: interactive trips using augmented reality technologies, master classes for both professional photographers and training programs for beginners, screenings of unique documentaries, creative meetings with famous people-ambassadors of the festival. For the first time this year, visitors will be able to become participants in the Eco-Lecture Hall.
“This year, the special guest of our program” was the famous photographer from the Netherlands, a member of the competition jury, Jan Vermeer. At the festival he will present an exhibition of his works,” says Andrei Sukhinin. “The festival team is trying to make sure that our events are interesting to the widest range of visitors - from professional photographers, people interested in culture and art, to ordinary families who like to spend time interestingly and at the same time usefully"
About the festival:
GOLDEN TURTLE is an international interactive wildlife festival that brings together the best creative works of world-class photographers, artists and designers about the beauty and harmony of the surrounding world. GOLDEN TURTLE is a project whose spirit and philosophy are aimed at preserving nature through art. The main idea of the festival is to increase the beauty and diversity of living nature, to show the pricelessness of this world and to encourage all people to be sensitive and attentive to it.
The key event of the festival will be a large interactive exhibition of works by finalists and laureates of the international competition The Golden Turtle 2018. This year the competition attracted a record number of participating countries: more than 2,300 authors from 110 countries sent their works. Authors compete in several categories: photography, painting and eco-posters.
The history of the festival began 12 years ago with the exhibition of wildlife photography GOLDEN TURTLE. In 2017, the Festival became the official event of the Year of Ecology in Russia. Over 12 years, more than 11,000 authors from 120 countries took part in it, sending more than 100,000 works to the competition.
The GOLDEN TURTLE festival is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection, the Federal Agency for Water Resources, the Federal Agency for Forestry, the Federation Council Committee on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management, and the Government of Buryatia.
