Today, May 29, a jury meeting took place at the Moscow Headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society.
Annual photo competition "The Most beautiful country" is a large-scale media project of the Russian Geographical Society dedicated to the preservation wildlife Russia and fostering a caring attitude towards environment. There are no restrictions on the age or place of residence of participants in the competition rules. The main condition is that the photographs must be taken only on the territory of Russia.
The competition works were evaluated by the President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu, producer, CEO OJSC "Channel One" Konstantin Ernst, director Andrei Konchalovsky, art critic, general director of the Tretyakov Gallery Zelfira Tregulova, sculptor and artist Dashi Namdakov, famous photographers Ivan Kurinnoy, Denis Budkov, Andrey Narchuk. The chairman of the jury, as in previous years, was famous photographer wildlife Sergey Gorshkov.
The jury members selected the winners in the categories “Indigenous and small peoples of Russia”, “Russia in persons”, “Landscape”, “Wild animals”, “Birds”, “ Undersea world", "Bird's eye view of Russia", "Cultural heritage", "The world is in our hands", "Caves", "Macroworld", "These funny animals". In addition, the best work of a young photographer under the age of 16 was determined .
“We chose three photographs out of ten in each category, but often it was possible to choose five best photographs,” emphasized Konstantin Ernst. “It seems to me that having such high quality photographs, the Russian Geographical Society can distribute its annual photo album around the world so that not only residents of our country, but also foreigners can see the unique beauty of Russia."
"Photo - amazing view art, which allows those who have vision, a sense of taste and professionalism to isolate some interesting angles, moments, motives and arrange it all in the camera window,” noted Zelfira Tregulova. – This is truly a rare form of realization of that creativity and that aesthetic sense that so many people have. And when we're talking about about photographing rare predators or diving under water, then this is also a kind of overcoming oneself, which not everyone is capable of.”
Andrei Konchalovsky noted that photographs that captured moments of life inner world person, character, emotion of a situation, more interesting than just beautiful portraits or landscapes. The director also emphasized that when evaluating children's photographs, he paid attention not so much to aesthetics, but to the child's ability to see the world from an unusual angle, inaccessible to an adult.
“Someone runs through volcanoes, someone watches for a bear at the exit of a den, someone practically does not rise from under the water for three years to photograph strange sea animals, something that no one has yet been able to do. And all this is dedicated to this to show how beautiful nature, people, and history of our country are,” summed up President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu.
Sergei Shoigu proposed holding a separate photo competition for children starting next year, as well as introducing a new category into the “Most Beautiful Country” competition - amateur photography taken in mobile phone. This means that next year not only owners of professional photographic equipment, but also owners of smartphones will be able to take part in the creative competition.
The award ceremony for the winners will take place in the fall. Photos of the 2018 competition finalists can be seen at.
Let us remind you that the IV photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country” was held from December 19, 2017 to April 3, 2018. The portal received more than 45 thousand photographs. The jury meeting was preceded by the work of an expert commission, whose members spent a month and a half selecting photographs of the finalists.
The selection of the works of finalists and winners took place anonymously - when evaluating the photographs, experts and jury members saw only the photographs themselves, but not the names of their authors.
Opening: October 14, 2019
Application date: until February 16, 2020
Contribution: for free
Awards: 250,000 ₽ in each category, valuable prizes
Photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country” is a large-scale event of the Russian Geographical Society, uniting best photographers Russia.
The Russian Geographical Society has always strived to tell about the nature, history and culture of our country. For this, the best writers, artists, journalists and, of course, photographers were involved.
The first Photo Contest was held in 2015. 25 thousand photographers from all over the world took part in it, uploading about 200 thousand photographs to the project website. The oldest participant in the first Photo Contest was 98 years old, and the youngest was only 4 years old.
In just five years of the competition’s existence, participants sent more than 440 thousand photographs to it.
The project caused a great public outcry and became an annual project, and exhibitions of the works of its finalists and winners are successfully exhibited all over the world.
The works submitted to the Photo Competition are evaluated by a Jury, which includes famous public figures, famous photographers and representatives of the art world. The primary selection of photographs is carried out by Expert commission, which involves reputable photographers and heads of the country's largest photo services.
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Nominations
- Scenery
Footage demonstrating the grandeur, diversity and beauty of our country’s landscapes and its nature. - Wild animals
The photographs presented in this section reflect unique moments from the life of wild animals in natural environment a habitat. - Macroworld
Shots that convey in detail the grace and complex organization of a world that is difficult to see with the naked eye, but can be “caught” with professional macro equipment. - Undersea world
The life of underwater inhabitants, dangerous predators and harmless mollusks, a fascinating presentation of unusual angles and underwater landscapes. - These funny animals
Footage that captures funny and unusual moments from the life of wild animals. - Photo project
A series of photographs (from 4 to 10 works), united by a common theme or visual design. This can be a photo essay on the topic of any of the competition nominations: footage from the life of a wild animal, visual research natural phenomenon etc. - Russia from a bird's eye view
Panoramic views taken in flight over the vast Russian expanses. The subject of photography can be landscapes, settlements, animals, etc. - Many-faced Russia
The diversity of peoples inhabiting Russia and their cultures. Faces, characters, national color, expressed through rituals, life, clothing. - Living Archive
Modern photographic compositions that replicate archival photographs. On a special page for this nomination, participants in the Photo Contest are provided with a set of photographs of Russia late XIX- the first half of the 20th century from the archives of the Russian Geographical Society and the archives of the nomination partners. Contemporary photographs taken in the same place, if possible from the same angle, as the corresponding archival photographs are accepted for the Photo Competition. Photo compositions based on archival photographs that are not presented on the nomination page are not accepted for participation in the Photo Contest. - Filmed on a smartphone
Photos taken with a smartphone and reflecting any of the competition nominations. - Russian water energy
A special nomination dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the official partner of the competition, PJSC RusHydro. The works presented in the nomination must reflect the work of a hydroelectric power station (hereinafter referred to as HPP) and may contain: an image appearance HPP "RusHydro"; landscape shots with the presence of the RusHydro hydroelectric power station; image of the unique technical equipment of the RusHydro HPP (units, control panels, machine rooms, etc.), image of power engineers during work (portraits and reportage photographs) at the RusHydro hydroelectric station. - People's Choice Award
The winner of the prize is determined by open voting on the Photo Contest website from among the finalists in all categories.
Winners of the photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country – 2019”
Meeting autumn and winter
© Elena Pakhalyuk
Winner of the Landscape category
Peak Cosmos
© Trashin Alexander
Winner of the “From Dusk Till Dawn” nomination
At dusk
© Yuri Sorokin
Winner of the "Birds" category
In the fog
© Andrey Kuznetsov
Winner of the “Macroworld” nomination
Spawning
© Mikhail Korostelev
Winner of the “Underwater World” nomination
When your favorite track is on your headphones
© Pavel Vanifatov
Winner of the category “These Funny Animals”
On the border of two habitats
© Andrey Maksimov
Winner of the nomination “Bird's Eye View of Russia”
Joy
© Pavel Smertin
Winner of the “Many Faces of Russia” nomination
Spring
© Sergey Zelenin
Winner of the category “Shot on a Smartphone”
New moon among skyscrapers
© Igor Gorshkov
Winner of the category "Architecture"
Don't touch my child!
© Vladimir Omelin
Winner of the “Wild Animals” nomination
Roerich's trends
© Vitaly Berkov
Winner of the nomination “Wildlife Art (art photo)”
"The most beautiful country" 2017. For six months, Russian photographers, as well as amateur photographers from other countries, sent their works to participate in this competition. In total, about 50 thousand images were uploaded to the project website.
My heartbreaking portrait of a bear, which I called “No Hope,” won in the sad category “The world is in our hands.” I entered two photographs in this nomination and twenty more in others. There were beautiful birds, huge whales and killer whales, bright landscapes of Kamchatka. I'll show you everything under the cut.
The Russian Geographical Society's photo competition "The Most Beautiful Country" is dedicated to preserving Russia's wildlife and fostering respect for the environment through the art of photography.
The rules of the creative competition have no restrictions on the age or place of residence of participants. The works were evaluated by a professional jury, which included famous Russian photographers. The judges determined best works in 12 categories, in another one the winner was chosen by Internet users by voting on the website.
This year, four new nominations appeared at the competition: “Bird's Eye View of Russia”, “From Dusk to Dawn”, “Caves of Russia”, “Cultural Heritage of Russia”. Among the nominations there are also well-known ones: “Peoples of Russia”, “The most beautiful country. Landscape”, “The world is in our hands”, “Wild animals”, “Underwater world”, “Birds”, “Macroworld”, “Young photographer” and "People's Choice Award".
I'm showing you what I sent.
Wild animals
It so happened that all my photographs submitted for this nomination were taken in Kamchatka. I haven't gotten around to these posts yet. The first two show brown bears on Kuril Lake in the Kronotsky State Natural Biosphere Reserve.
This one is my favorite :)) This is exactly what an animal should look like in its habitat!
And here the mother teaches the little one to fish
This photo shows a whole family of killer whales from a July trip with Misha korostelev
..and here’s another gorgeous humpback whale tail. ⠀
The world is in our hands
Yes, yes, this is the most banal thing that can be sent from our region. But it’s symbolic and fits the nomination perfectly. On the picture
The photo is the winner in the “The world is in our hands” category. I was very worried about the photo with the bear - it was painfully provocative and flashy. It seemed that there was no place for such stories in this competition.
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On August 26, 2015, the powerful typhoon Goni hit the Primorsky Territory. In the city of Ussuriysk, a mini-zoo with brown bears was flooded, which had the fate of facing the blow of the elements face to face. Food was sent to the animals by motorboat. A few days later, thanks to activists, 18 small animals were removed from the zoo; 14 bears remained in the flooded area. At noon on September 2, the evacuation began. The bears, who had swallowed too much water from the ridge, were taken out by boats and helicopters. I will remember this look all my life.
Birds
I sent eight photos here. I really hoped for the birds. Of course, six of them are from Vladivostok, one photo is about the Kamchatka hatchet.
By the way, this photo not long ago brought me first place in a photo competition nikonofficial
I l in the heart of the image. This is how I got my first macro lens AF-S mikro nikkor 105mm 1: 2.8G ED.
Hatchet
Battle of white-tailed and Steller's eagles. Golden Horn Bay.
Russia from a bird's eye view
The “Bird's Eye View of Russia” category also included footage taken by drone. I sent four photos with the hope of a picture of the protected Petrov Island in the Primorsky Territory. It’s probably not at all like Russian places, more like Thailand.
The other three photos show a couple of killer whales and a gray whale, which I was lucky to meet during a summer expedition to Kamchatka
The most beautiful country. Scenery
All the landscapes that were sent to the Russian Geographical Society photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country - 2017” were taken in Kamchatka, and over the course of just one day, at the foot of the Avachinsky volcano;)) ⠀ ⠀On this day, Volcano Day was celebrated on the peninsula. I sent four pictures.
In the first photo, the dog enjoys the view of the Koryakskaya Sopka volcano from the heights of the Avachinsky volcano. Height 1600 m.
And this is Mount Camel, which is located between the Koryaksky and Avachinsky volcanoes. Sunset and fog took their toll. 
..also Mount Verulud. A loving couple who happened to be in the right place at the right time was captured on camera. I found them a little later on Instagram using a geotag!
This was the first time I had seen such a phenomenon while shooting the night sky! This is the Moon rising from behind the shoulder of the Avachinsky volcano. The beam in the photo was movable. I have in
The acceptance of works for the IV photo competition of the Russian Geographical Society “The Most Beautiful Country” has begun.
This large-scale media project is aimed at preserving the natural and cultural heritage of Russia and promoting respect for the environment through the art of photography.
There are no restrictions on the age or place of residence of participants in the competition rules. The main condition is that photographs must be taken only on the territory of our country.
“Hidden.”
The first photo competition took place in 2015. 25 thousand photographers from all over the world took part in it, uploading about 200 thousand photographs to the project website. The oldest participant in the first photo competition was 98 years old, and the youngest was only 4 years old.
The project caused a great public outcry and became an annual project, and exhibitions of the works of its finalists and winners are successfully exhibited all over the world.
Yes, in 2017 best photos according to the Russian Geographical Society, one could admire it at international airports and Russian cultural centers abroad, on Moscow boulevards and the main streets of our country, as well as in 15 countries around the world. In total, the exhibition was viewed by about seven million people. In addition, the “Morning of Russia” program of the “Russia 1” channel spoke about the progress of the project.
Exhibition of the Russian Geographical Society on Arbat. Photo: Nikolay Razuvaev
Every year, new nominations appear in the photo competition, allowing photographers to express themselves and show the multifaceted beauty of our country. At the same time, the well-proven categories “Landscape”, “Underwater World”, “Cultural Heritage” and a number of others are preserved.
In pursuit of unique personnel, many project participants organized special expeditions, which, in their own words, became a real adventure for them and the most significant story of the year.
For example, photographs for the “Caves of Russia” nomination were literally taken from underground.
"Icy River"
And in order to take amazing shots of sea lions, sea lions and seals, photographers went to the remote island of Moneron, which is a natural phenomenon of the Far East.
"Beach Season" Photo: Andrey Sidorov, finalist of the II photo competition of the Russian Geographical Society “The Most Beautiful Country”
However, as the experience of our photographers shows, you can take a successful shot at home. So, the author of this beautiful and tender photo was going to capture the flight of sakura petals in his native Grozny, he lay down under a tree and pointed the lens upward. And suddenly in the viewfinder I saw an owl sitting on a branch and looking straight into the camera.
"The owl is the owner of the sakura."
The jury of the photo competition included the President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu, Russian wildlife photographer Sergei Gorshkov, sculptor and artist Dashi Namdakov, as well as other famous people.
Meeting of the jury of the Russian Geographical Society photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country”. Photo: Vadim Grishankin
The initial selection of photographs will be carried out by independent experts, including famous photographers and heads of the largest photo services in the country.
Expert commission of the Russian Geographical Society photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country”. Photo: Nikolay Razuvaev
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PHOTO CONTEST SITE(here you will find detailed description nominations, information about the stages of the competition and others necessary information about the project).
The Russian Geographical Society announced the start of accepting works for the IV photo competition “The Most Beautiful Country”. You can apply to participate. The main rule of the competition is that photographs must be taken only on the territory of our country; there are no restrictions on age or place of residence of participants.
Every year, new nominations appear in the photo competition, allowing photographers to express themselves and show the multifaceted beauty of our country. At the same time, the well-proven categories “Landscape”, “Underwater World”, “Cultural Heritage” and a number of others are preserved.
The jury of the photo competition included the President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu, Russian wildlife photographer Sergei Gorshkov, sculptor and artist Dashi Namdakov, as well as other famous people. The initial selection of photographs will be carried out by independent experts, including famous photographers and heads of the largest photo services in the country. Acceptance of works will last until March 31, 2018, and valuable prizes await the winners. All this time we will keep you up to date and publish the best submitted works.
The “Most Beautiful Country” photo competition is aimed at preserving the natural and cultural heritage of Russia and fostering respect for the environment through the art of photography.
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