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.

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.

C2 – Birds. Óscar Díez. Shadows in the saline.

C3 – Mammals. Ingrid Vekemans. Baby Gorilla.

C4 – Invertebrates. Roman Korlaga. Sieckolorov.

C5 – Other Animals. Waldemar Gras. Anguis fragilis.

C6 – Vegetation&Fungi. Elisabeth Liljenberg. Forest dweller.

C7 – Artistic&abstract. Hakan Liljenberg. Silouette.

C8 – Human &Nature. Anna Liisa Pirhonen. Fox cub.

Young Edition. Lasse Kurkela. Autumn morning.

OVERALL WINNERS

2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition. Adult Edition:

Óscar Díez. Spain. AEFONA.

Shadows in the saline. Cash prize 3.000 euro.

2017 IFWP Photograph of the Year Competition. Young Edition:

Lasse Kurkela. Finland. FNPA Soumen Luonnonvalokuvaajat

Autumn morning. Gear and booksprize 500 euro.

From our council we congratulate all the participants, the category winners as well as the overall winners.

IFWP Congress is one of our classic activities that take place every year. We want 2018 to be another good one to remember. To know more about
http://www.ifwp-photo.org/congress

In the past 8 years the organizers were:

2010    30th Meeting. Czech Republic, Jeseniky Mountains, September 22-26. Org KFP
2011    31th Meeting. Austria, Tyrol, June 22-26.  Org VTNÖ
2012    32th Meeting. Finland, Kuhmo, June 27-July 1.  Org FNPA
2013    33th Meeting. Poland, Biebrzansky NP, April 24-28.  Org ZPFP
2014    34th Meeting. France, Hauteluce - Savoie, June 18-22.  Org ASCPF
2015    35th Meeting. Spain, La Alberca, Salamanca, April 30-May 03.  Org AEFONA
2016    36th Meeting. Slovakia, Vysoke Tatry Mountains.  Org SAPF.
2017    37th Meeting. Spain, Bocairent, Sierra Mariola Natural Park.  Org AEFONA.

The IFWP Congress takes place in a different country each year, in the area chosen by the organizers, usually in a nature reserve or another place interesting to nature photographers. It is very interesting if the participants have access to wildlife (hides or not), macro possibilities, landscape...

Also we need a presentation room for about 80 people, depending on the organizer´s plan for several lectures and also the IFWP General Assembly Meeting.

For 2018 one possible month to find dates is May, so that there is time enough for the organizers to plan a program. It would be very interesting to have the 2019 congress announced at the end of the next congress.

All associations with more than a year belonging to IFWP interested in holding the congress in their country please contact:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We´ll provide a guide about how to proceed and the needs for the congress.