Young Wildlife Photographer 2010
Turn your wildlife experiences into photographs and take part in the biggest Baltic wildlife photography competition! The competition will take place all nine countries surrounding the Baltic Sea: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
Guides and Scouts of Finland (SP-FS) are organizing a Baltic Sea - Young Wildlife Photographer 2010 Competition (YWP 2010) in co-operation with WWF and Finnish Nature Photographers Association. SP-FS’s role is to promote the competition among its partner countries, as scouts and guides gather many youth who are also interested in the nature. The competition will be open from 15th of July till 1st of September 2010,
Competition in a nutshell
- The competition is open to all youth of 15-18 years old (in 2010)
- Images can be downloaded free in the internet
- Competition will be run nationally in every nine countries around the Baltic Sea: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia and Finland.
- The competition is national, so all pictures must be taken in the home country. An overall winner will be selected among the national winners.
- The focus is in countries around the Baltic Sea but the competition’s theme is nature in all of its diversity
- Three categories: A) Baltic Sea and human B) Nature in my home country C) Nature by mobile phone.
- Each photographer can download max. 3 photographs per category (9 in total)
- All judgment of national winners will be organized in Finland
- Awards: The best photographers from each country (one in each category) will win a cruise a sailboat cruise on the Baltic Sea including the possibility to learn more about nature photography and explore the nature’s beauty. So in total 27 young people from 9 different countries will be awarded this trip. This trip will take place during summer 2011.
- Overall winner: from 27 best pictures chosen by the professional jury, one overall winner is chosen.
- Overall winner will be awarded with professional camera gear worth more than 3500 euro.
- Winners will be announced during Finlandia Nature Photo Festival in Helsinki on October 17th, 2010.
- All nations can use national winners to raise the awareness of nature and nature photography among youth in their home country – competition will have both national and international challenges.
The competition is in itself an incentive to explore nature, develop oneself as a photographer, learn about the Baltic Sea (from the website) and promote solidarity among partner countries! So we hope that we can spread the word to as many young people as possible.
Read more at www.ywp2010.com
