Landscape 2008 Jeffrey Sipress

[James Shadle]

Congratulations Jeffrey Sipress! Your image "The High Sierra" was selected as the Landscape Image Of The Year!

Congratulations Steve Bein! "A dull day at Mono Lake" 2nd Place
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5323&highlight=dull+Mono+Lake
Congratulations Kaushik Balakumar! "An HDR attempt" 3rd Place
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19315&highlight=Kaushik

[Alfred Forns]

Big Congrats Jeffrey !!!

Impressive runner's up !! Well done !!

[Lance Peters]

Congrats Jeff - a Fav of mine thats for sure. :)

Congrats runners up :)

[Grady Weed]

Cool image Jeff.....cool image, great colors, clarity rocks. Paul, you didn't do so bad either my friend. That storm would have scared me to death, and then to run toward it to get in your jeep.

[Grady Weed]

Steve, your image made me quiet, a very hard thing to do, ask James. The solitude, peacefulness, the inner self searching the image evokes. The mono lake image should be in a museum. Seriously. It is very good. Print that one out and hang it in your study room. You can't help but relax looking at it.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Congrats Jeff on a great image

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Outstanding colors and composition.
congrats

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great Comp! COngratulations!

[Mike Moats]

Sweet shot Jeffrey, well done and congrats!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congrats Jeffrey! This one stood out from the rest. Just stunning!

[denise ippolito]

Big Congrats!!! Nicely done!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Jeffrey, Steve and Kaushik!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations to all. All very worthy :-)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Congratulations Jeffrey!

Well deserved.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Maxis Gamez]

Congrats.....!

[Roger Clark]

Jeffrey.
Beautiful! Wish I was there (and it was summer). Congratulations!

[Kaushik Balakumar]

This again came as a total surprise. Thank you BPN for honouring me with the 3rd place.
Congrats Jeffrey and Steve for the well deserved IOTYs.

[Fabs Forns]

Terrific work, guys, congratulations!

[Jeffrey Sipress]

What a surprise! I didn't know it for a few days until a friend told me. My sincere thanks to all the moderators and members here for this honor. My congrats to Steve and Kaushik.

I joined this forum last year to learn more about wildlife and bird photography. Boy, was I humbled by the talent here and the amount of stuff I needed to learn. Last May I went to Africa on my first photo safari and it was successful because of all the great advice I got here. Obviously, I've primarily been a landscape and nature photographer. In fact, I moderate the landscape forum at FredMiranda.com. I'm still practicing on birds, but have little opportunity to be near good locations for that. I'm working on it when I can, and because of you here, I've spent a ton of dough on big lenses and other equipment! I am going to shoot grizzlies, black bears, and eagles in northern British Columbia in May.

If you want to see my work it's on my My Photo Site (http://jeffreysipress.com),.

Thanks so much.

[Don Lacy]

Congrats to all the winers.

[amal sircar]

Excellent image. Very good composition,exposure,colours and details.