Trip to Sahara
It is a pleasure to announce our: IFWP Congress on trip to Sahara desert. 23-28 October 2019.
JUSTIFICATION
Welcome to a stunning trip to Sahara desert where We will have presentations, IFWP news and projects but... in different places with good photo opportunities.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust Photographic Group (CWTPG) are planning to host the IFWP 2020 congress at Perranporth on the North Cornwall coast 18th to 22nd, May 2020.
But for 2019 we are offering an unprecedent experience, a guided trip to photograph and experience the magical sand dunes of Sahara desert. We are preparing a detailed PDF from our association host Miradas from Ceuta and the photo travel agency that will give us coverage. The trip is totally designed to take photos.
-23rd October. Marrakech. Meeting at 13,00 h. You can start checking flight combinations to Marrakech airport. We leave on a private bus from Marrakech to Ait Ben Haddou World Heritage site at 13,30 h.
We´ll have the chance to photograph magnificent sand dunes, palm trees, camel caravans, cities, people, natural landscapes...
José B. Ruiz will be assisting the trip and taking care as a volunteer as he has been before on the locations. Guaranteed that we will see the best places at the best moments of the day. Also enough time on each locations to experience on our own. We will have a local guide.
This trip has been organized before with great successes. It is the best price for the best quality available in lodging and meals. We will reach the locations on a short walk from our rooms. Miradas association has organized this trip for CEF (the Spanish Confederation of Photography) for 80 participants. No trouble with photos and participants, the Sahara is the biggest warm desert in our planet. The weather won´t be so hot at that time of the year and you´ll have a unique experience.
-Watch the flight combinations to be at Marrakech on 23rd October before 12,30 h, so that you can meet the group at the point we will agree.
-Check if you need Visa or special documents from your country. For many european countries you don´t need.
IFWP Board Meeting
Dear IFWP delegates, some of our board members are meeting 11th to 16th June in Sweden. We have a wide range of subjects to discuss as the increase in participation in our still open Photo Competition, our long term conservation project which pretends to be a referent, our next congress, the last arrangements for our new bank account, and the proposal for a board renewal.
We´ll keep you posted in our website an media:
2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition
Hello everyone!
We are very pleased to invite every photographer from our member associations to participate in this year’s competition,2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition.
The competition is open from May 1st, 2019 to 1st August 2019 at midnight.
The 2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition is open to all participants officially registered in an IFWP member association at the date of entry.
It is an online competition and there is no entry fee. The participants shall select and upload their images at this site: ifwp-photo.fotogenius.
You will find there as well information regarding the rules and all details concerning the different categories to participate in this year’s completion.
There are several categories for different disciplines in nature photography, in which photographers of any age can participate.
The IFWP will announce a category winner and 3 Finalist in each category and in both groups, general and young (born after 2000).
From the category winners the jury will choose the picture to be the 2019 IFWP Photograph of the Year in both Editions, General and Young (born after 2000).
You are all invited!
Good luck to all participants in this year’s competition!
In memoriam
Laurence B. Didion, our fomer president of IFWP, has written some beautiful and shared feelings about our missed friend and companion Karlo.
We will never honour him as much as he deserved.
"Several years ago, as I was coming to visit the IFWP Swedish club PhotoNatura for the first time, an unknown member and his wife volunteered to put me up for a few nights. I did not know then that I was meeting my best photography partner, a man like no one I ever met before. His name was Karlo Pesjak, he was buried some weeks ago and many nature photographers, not only in Sweden, already miss him as much as I do.
We all try to live a loving life, to ve a loving individual. We help others to show our love and to be loved in return. I discovered with time that for Karlo, helping was just motivated by the pleasure of sharing life with fellow humans. He did not try, did not want, was not passionate or excited.
He was simply in love with all forms of live: you, me, this couple walking down the street, this plant here, the fox there, or anything animal, vegetal or ethereal as a beautiful landscape. And because joy suffused his relationship to the whole world he had a great warm sense of humour that showed in his images and in the way he talked about them. Though his eyes, a water spider became a satellite in the night sky, the viewer was turned into a voyeur witnessing two crows private life, common months turned into out-of-space aliens.
His love of life, his trust, allowed him to try and try again, and that is what made him so creative. It is only now,, missing him, that I realise that his art was deeply suffused by his very unique personality. It is only now that I realise how much we (I) can learn from him in relation to creativity and what being a (nature) photographer is about.
I am sure Karlo would smilingly agree with Oscar Wilde saying: «Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. »
Laurence B. Didion"
