Nature FIRST…

Through my photography, I hope to broaden awareness and inspire others to share my love for animals, our planet and its resources.

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

About Me (Denise Ippolito)

I am a full-time award-winning professional photographer, workshop leader, and artist living in New Jersey. I travel extensively presenting slide lectures and seminars and teaching photography and Photoshop. My workshops feature a variety of subjects including: avian, wildlife, flowers, landscape and creative photography.

Awards:

First Place "Winged Life" category winner for the BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition.

(2) Time category winner in the prestigious Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition.

1) Category for "Art in Nature"

2) Category for “Birds”

(2) Time Highly Honored award winner in Windland Smith Rice Nature's Best competition.

1) Creative Digital

2) Polar Passion

People's Choice Awards Top 50 Images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

Multiple PSA awards, local awards, etc…

Publications:

Wall Street Journal

Nature’s Best Magazine

Wild Galapagos magazine

GEO magazine

Powder magazine

Outdoor Photographer magazine

The Open University of Israel textbooks

Wonders book by California Academy of Sciences….and many more.

Additional honors:

My images have hung in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., The San Diego Natural History Museum. I’ve been featured in a Sierra Club Documentary for the preservation of the Florida Everglades and most recently, I have appeared in an episode of Xploration Awesome Planet for Fox 5 television. My latest accolades include two sets of Forever Stamps with the United States Postal Service.

One of my favorite new roles is to serve on a judging panel for international photography competitions. If you would like me to be a judge for your competition, please get in touch.

Having two category winning images hang in the Smithsonian is certainly a highlight in my career. Having a Forever Stamp Collection with the US Postal Service is the cherry on top!

I have recently licensed 20 flower images to be used by the U.S. Postal Service for two different US postal stamp projects. The first project is a set of tulip stamps titled “Tulip Blossoms” which is part of their Forever Stamp Collection. This series includes ten of my favorite tulip images, and went on sale in 2023. The second- ten images (shown below) are an assortment of close-up dahlia shots, slated for 2025.