IFWP - International Federation of Wildlife Photography

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The IFWP, International Federation of Wildlife Photography, was founded in 1978, in France.

The Federation is an organization in which associations with similar aims can join. Actually represents 17 European associations and continuously increasing, with more than 5.000 photographers members. It aims to promote ethic nature photography and conservation of habitats and species.

We are all volunteers in the IFWP and give our time and efforts for the common welfare.

Our activities include:

-Information interchange We keep our association members in touch, updated and informed about each other activities and our Federation ones.

-Congress every year in a different country. A meeting of friendship, learning and photography.

-Competition. Every year the Federation holds a competition online.

-Audiovisuals and exhibitions. Not only from our members, the Federation produces regularly its own publications to show and promote our members work.

A new board has started working on 2017 and our plans in short term are: teaching through articles in our website; create a new group called IFWP Conservation; Solidars, a human chain to help photographers who are in special needs of care; and a committee in charge to attend our young photographers´needs and to promote their interests.

We bring high hopes and plenty of ideas. Let´s enjoy together of our common passion!

All photos on this site are protected by their authors legal rights.

We, photographers, have kindly agreed to allow the Federation to show our work.

All of us hope that you enjoy them and that they help to respect and preserve our Nature.

Thank you.

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Welcome ASAFONA

Published: Wednesday, 08 November 2017 20:27

We are pleased to welcome ASAFONA to our IFWP!!!

ASAFONA is an association from Aragón, in Spain, a nature photographer’s association founded more than 10 years ago.

They are a very active association, they work with their own magazine and publications, that can be seen in this link http://www.asafona.es/revista/

To know more about the new members of the IFWP please check their website http://asafona.es/asociacion/ or find them at their Facebook page https://es-la.facebook.com/asafonafoto/

IFWP Competition 2017

Published: Tuesday, 07 November 2017 00:18

We bring you the video with the winners of the ifwp contest.
Images to enjoy slowly.
¡¡¡Congratulations!!!

IFWP 2017 Competition

Teaching

Published: Monday, 23 October 2017 23:45

We are proud to inaugurate the section Teaching in our website. It is a learning method with a great success in Spain and South America. Maybe you will know part of it, but anyhow it is good to review and soon more contents are going to be uploaded, including new articles and composition theories. First lesson is qualities of light. Improve your photography here.

2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Results

Published: Friday, 20 October 2017 02:55

The online competition was opened from 1st of May 2017 at zero hour to 10th of June 2017 at midnight.

We had 8 categories covering the subjects and sceneries from the natural world as well as artistic expressions and the relationship between human and nature.

We had the highest prizes ever this year, 3.500 euro.The overall winner in General Edition obtains a reward of 3.000 euro in photographic gear. The winner in Young Edition (born after 1996) will get a reward of 500 euro in photographic gear or books.

SPONSOR:

We are so grateful to PHOTOPILLS APP as they have sponsored the competition prizes. http://www.photopills.com

PARTICIPANTS:

More than 2.000 images have been submitted from 14 countries, being Finland, Poland and Spain the most participative countries. Birds, landscape and artistic are the categories with more pictures presented, more than 300 in each of them. By associations the most participative has been the Finnish Nature Photographers Association, close followed by the Polish Nature Photographers Union ZPFP and also AEFONA from Spain.

JURY MEMBERS:

Per Finn Nielsen. Denmark.

Chris Gomersall. UK.

Clay Bolt. USA.

MANAGERS:

We had two dedicated volunteers to manage the competition, Maruchi and Vicente,who have done a GREAT JOB. Without their assistance it couldn´t have been done. We all should thank them for this. Those are their words:

“We want to highlight the quality and respect for nature of this competition. We had a high number of entries although it was restricted to IFWP members. From our point of view the quality standard of the submitted images has been very good and so the selecting and judging process has taken a long time, as they reviewed and evaluated all the pictures. Our work as managers has been very much helped by the digital platform Pixall, a tool easy for both, participants and managers, intuitive to control all data and photos, the juries decissions and the real status of the cometition in every stage. The relationship with the juries has been very constant and they have always been at disposal for any request, small difficulties have found a fast solution.

We want to thank the work and keen accesibility of the jury and also the help from José Pesquero as Pixall platform developer.”

Maruchi and Vicente.

PLATFORM:

We thank José Pesquero and his platform for competitions online Pixall for the great help holding our IFWP 2017 Wildlife Photograph of theYear:http://ifwp.pixall.es

EXHIBITION AND AUDIOVISUAL:

An indoor exhibition has been produced and will be shown in the 37th IFWP congress in Bocairent, Valencia, Spain.

We have produced an audiovisual with the four finalist per category to be hold in Vimeo and shared.

CATEGORY WINNERS:

C1 – Landscapes. Jyrki Lehto. Autumn colors.