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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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2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition

Published: Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:57
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INVITATION

The International Federation of Wildlife and Nature Photography invites our members of each association to participate in the 2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition, open from 1st of May 2017 at zero hour to 10th of June 2017 at midnight.

The 2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition is open to all participants officially registered in an IFWP association at the date of entry.

It is an online competition, the participants shall select and upload their images in this site: http://ifwp.pixall.es

All uploaded images must have been taken after 10th of June 2013 at midnight.

There are several categories for different disciplines in nature photography in which photographers of any age can participate and IFWP will announce a Category winner, and 3 Finalist in each category in both Editions, General and Young (born after 1996).

From the category winners the jury will chose the picture to be the 2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year in both Editions, General and Young (born after 1996).
 
 
CATEGORIES

C1 – Landscapes
C2 – Birds
C3 – Mammals
C4 – Invertebrates
C5 – Other Animals
C6 – Vegetation + Fungi
C7 – Artistic and abstract
C8 – Human and Nature
 
  Christoph Ruisz, VTNÖ, Austria - White Beauty.  Winner 2016 Photograph of the Year 2016
 

Newsletter IFWP

Published: Thursday, 27 April 2017 02:11
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Dear friends and companions, it is our pleasure to send you an IFWP newsletter again.

We expect from you, delegates, to make sure that our information reaches your members via Mail, Website news, Association Newsletter, Facebook of the association... It is important for our future to keep all informed and connected. Please contact to your respective board members or person in charge of sending/uploading news in your own associations.

We will welcome any news coming from our associations members and will upload to our website and Facebook pages. In some associations there is a person in charge of sending us a brief about their activities.

We have had some problems with our website. Our team has been solving them for some days. Our website is based in Joomla, not easy to find experts. Now is working fine. We are updating contents step by step.

  • Clubs welcome. We are very happy to welcome back ZPFP the Polish Association of Nature Photographers and to welcome a new one, AFEP, Pure State Photography Association, from Asturias Spain. We have more clubs about to come, just complimenting our requests.
  • Competition. It is planned to start in 1st May 2017 and end by 10th June 2017. Our rules have been reviewed and approved by the council, the categories extended to 8, the prizes highly improved and we are contacting the jury members and the manager of the competition. Very soon it will be announced and linked in our website and Pixall platform.
  • Congress. Expected to be at the end of September. We are still expecting some proposals of associations members to organize it.
  • Facebook pages. Thanks to Dirk Cleiren from Belgium (BVNF) we have now three Facebook pages, one more focused to spread our news from the website, another more participative for members sharing and one for the conservation group activities.           

       Fanpage IFWP

       Facebook Group IFWP Meetings

       Fanpage IFWP Conservaton

  • Teaching. Very soon we start to upload photographic lessons in our website. This is a free service to support all those photographers getting started and also those who want to keep growing. Is importatnt that this information reaches to all our individual members, who are the final users of the project.
  • Conservation. We start a new project called “Agreements for Conservation”. It has our council approval and is opened to all members for cooperation.
    The idea is to make special agreements with conservation Foundations and associations that own land in order to build hides and allow them to get income from our photographers. The requests are:
           - Land owned or managed by conservation initiatives.
           - They have to manage all permissions for photographing wildlife.
           - With stablished fixed prizes for the hides hiring we contribute to their incomes for conservation, helping them to preserve, buy more land...
           - Promote nature photography.
           - Promote the use between our members.
           - Special fees, conditions and discounts for our members.

    We are starting with Victoria Laporta Foundation, in Alicante, Spain. Soon there will be a complete article about species, hides, how to get there... Some of our     members from several countries have tried already the hides as they were in Alicante for holidays: Fundación Victoria Laporta

 

We hope this mail finds everyone ok. Best Wishes.
 
 
 
 
 

  

 

 

NEW BOARD IN ASCPF

Published: Monday, 10 April 2017 19:30
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From France, our colleagues to inform that ASCPF has renewed its Board. It is now composed of:

  • President: Franck Lesueur
  • Vice-presidents : Jean-Pierre Mériaux and Pascale Hervieu
  • Secretary : Loïc de la Rancheraye
  • Deputy secretary : Yvon Houzier
  • Treasurer : Marc Bia
  • Deputy treasurer : Gérald de Possesse

Congratulatios to new Board!!!

 

 

NEW WEB TEAM

Published: Thursday, 06 April 2017 08:30
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Dear colleagues:
 
Since the beginning of the year a new team, led by Almudena Marcos (AEFONA), has begun to manage the IFWP website and social networks.
 
The beginnings have been difficult. As many of you have seen, during last weeks, our web has been down and, after a hard work, now it is already visible, clean and operational.
Our goal, shared by our new President Jose B. Ruiz, is that the website were the showcase and the voice of the Federation, your voice, and for this, we appreciate all the help you can give us.
 
A new email is available to send us any information, activity or proposal that you consider to be of interest to all, in order to publish them on social networks.
 
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We appreciate the trust placed in us.
 
 

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