IFWP CONTEST CLOSED
IFWP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR CONTEST CLOSED
Once the contest is closed, we are happy and grateful for the registered participation. More than two thousand pictures have been uploaded in all categories. Exactly two thousand and eleven photographs (2011) have been submitted to the contest in its eight categories.
By Associations, the Finnish Nature Photographers Association and the Polish one (ZPFP), have contributed with thirty four (34) competitors each. After them, the Spanish (AEFONA) with twenty three (23) and the Belgian (BVNF) with sixteen (16). The other member Associations have allocated the rest of participants, forty six (46) up to one hundred and three (153) photographers from thirteen (13) Associations and fifteen (15) nationalities.
The jury of the contest have already begun the first phase of the selection and we look forward to hearing the results of their deliberations.
Congratulations to all the members for the high participation and good luck!
IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition
You can win a prize of 3.000€ in photographic gear in the General Edition. Young photographers can get a reward of 500€ in photographic gear or books in Young Edition (born after 1996).
The competition is open from 1st of May 2017 at zero hour to 10th of June 2017 at midnight to all participants officially registered in an IFWP association at the date of entry.
It is an online competition, the participants shall find the rules, select and upload their images in this site:
All uploaded images must have been taken after 10th of June 2013 at midnight and the categories are:
C1 - Landscapes
C2 - Birds
C3 - Mammals
C4 - Invertebrates
C5 - Other animals
C6 - Vegetation and Fungi
C7 - Artistic and Abstract
C8 - Human and Nature
The Competition Managers of 2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year are a very compromised couple, AEFONA members, both nature photographers: Maruchi Morillo and Vicente González: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., this adress will be used to call for the original of the select photos. Add it to your contacts list to make sure you receive our emails without delay.
2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition
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).
C1 – Landscapes
C2 – Birds
C3 – Mammals
C4 – Invertebrates
C5 – Other Animals
C6 – Vegetation + Fungi
C7 – Artistic and abstract
C8 – Human and Nature
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Newsletter IFWP
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.
- 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
