Program for the 38th Congress on Gotland, Sweden
PROGRAM FOR THE 38TH IFWP CONGRESS ON GOTLAND, SWEDEN, AUGUST 22 - 26, 2018
22 August
Early arrivals to Holmhällar
Activity 1:
Free photography all day
Lunch and dinner at Holmhällar
Activity 2:
Separate trip to Stora Karlsö. - Boat leaves 14:00 from Klintehamn. Bus takes you from Visby/airport to Klintehamn at 13:00. Photography. Three course dinner. Photography. Accommodation by the lighthouse.
23 August
Activity 1:
Free morning photography for early arrivals.
Breakfast and lunch at Holmhällar or to go.
Activity 2:
Morning photography on Stora Karlsö, breakfast and return trip by boat to Klintehamn at 10:30 am.
Bus to Holmhällar from Klintehamn.
New arrival to Holmhällar with bus from Visby.
Dinner at Holmhällar and welcome!
Activity 1:
Evening photography with a guide.***
Activity 2:
Sunset photography with filters and nocturnal workshop with José Benito Ruiz.*
24 August
Breakfast at Holmhällar or to go.
Activity 1:
Photography around Holmhällar and southern Gotland with a guide.***
Lunch and dinner at Holmhällar.
Activity 2:
Full day and evening trip to Visby. and Fårö
Bus to Visby (1,5 h). Lunch and visit for 2-3 hours. Bus continues to the island of Fårö and the Ingmar Bergman Center. Tour of the museum and a light dinner. Bus to the stone fields for photography before and at sundown. Bus to Holmhällar (3 hrs, opportunity to get some sleep on the bus:)).
25 August
Breakfast and lunch at Holmhällar or to go.
Early morning photography-landscape with a guide.***
Free time photography.
Visit and coffee at the Lars Jonsson Museum** (14:00-16;30). Hopefully Lars Jonsson will give us an overview of the nature of southern Gotland and guide us in his museum while we drink coffe in his beautiful rose garden.
Gala dinner with speakers, etc. Presentation of the "new" IFWP by José Benito Ruiz, president of the IFWP.
Activity 1:
Evening phography with a guide.***
Activity 2:
Sunset photography with filters and nocturnal workshop with José Benito Ruiz.*
26 August
Breakfast and lunch at Holmhällar or to go.
Activity 1 & 2:
Early morning photography on southern Gotland with a guide.***
Closing of the Congress.
Check-out.
Bus to the Visby ferries and airport.
* José Benito Ruiz - President of the IFWP.
** Lars Jonsson - World reknown bird painter
*** A guide will join you
LInks to follow for more information
Holmhällar: http://www.holmhallar.se/
Visby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby Fårö
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fårö
Stora Karlsö: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora_Karlsö Bergmancentret
Lars Jonsson: http://www.gotland.net/plats/museum-lars-jonssonj Museet
Gotland: http://www.gotland.net
A word of note
Please inform your individual members and keep an eye in our website and Facebook pages. Very soon you will habe the full information and booking page activated.
https://www.facebook.com/internationalfederationofwildlifephotography/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/IFWPgroup/
***Tentative names of some of those who may function as guides for one or more groups are, besides José Benito Ruiz (President of the IFWP, Spain), Pål Hermansen (Vice President, Norway) and Brutus Östling (PhotoNatura, Sweden).
New platform for young photographers
Last January a new platform for young nature photographers was born thanks to 4 people who are deeply connect to photography and nature: Mónica Busquets, Jon A. Juarez, Sergio MarijuánandAdelina Sánchez.
This platform aims to promote respect and love for our environment, but also discovering and showing all its treasures and biodiversity through the photos taken by the upcoming photographers.
Youngnaturephotographers seeks a virtual space via an online community, as well as a platform to facilitate connections and meetings among all members. We want to support the discovery of new environments and the development of creativity and artistic sensibility without forgetting all environmental and conservationist values.
Today our community is based on social media, with Instagram as our busiest platform. Every day @youngnaturephotographers publishes one of the many posted photos by our members (#youngnaturephotographers)
Some of the most active members are: Paloma Lario, Lluc Semis, Marc and Laura Albiac, David Guisande, Sabin Infante, Victor Ortega (Spain), Laurent Dumas (France), Toby Pickard (UK), Ashleigh Scully, Carolina Fraser (USA), Ingo Zahlheimer (Germany), Sara Skidell (Sweden), ... among the almost 700 members.
Besides the daily posts, there are ruffles backed by our partners. To participate one has to be 25 or younger and label their photos with our hashtag. All the photos posted from our members are shown also on Facebook, a very interesting platform full of shared articles and news:www.facebook.com/youngnaturephotographers.
Right on top of our ToDo list there is a new website for our community and a first international meeting planned for this autumn in Berlin (Germany).
Younger than 25 or not we are gonna be happy if you follow us!
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Welcome to ASNP
We are very proud to welcome the Association of Slovenian Nature Photographers to our IFWP!!!
The Association was founded on April 5, 2017 in Ljubljana, where is based.
The Association of Nature Photographers of Slovenia encourage the photographers to improve nature photography and take care of nature conservation.
The purpose of the association is to promote and popularize author nature photography and to create a positive attitude to it, with pictures of nature in society organizing photo contests, exhibitions, screenings and conferences among photographers, to increase interest and make this style of photography more popular and, at the same time, increasing the formation of the members of the association and the community in general.
Until February 15, you have time to participate in their contest Nature Photography of the Year. And, if you want to know our new colleagues much better, this is their website: www.photonature.si
We hope you will develop your projects with us and do not hesitate to suggest us any initiative for makig our Federation stronger.
Welcome ASNP!!!
