"highly honored" in the Nature's Best competition

[Sid Garige]

Great to see some familiar names.

Congrats to
Denise Ippolito &
Fabs Frons
Judd Patterson
John Blumenkamp
Grace Scalzo
Rob Palmer
Roger Clark
Peter Delaney
Amy Marques

Awesome job.


PS: I could not upload a PDF file with rest of the photographer. here is a link on my website.
If I missed anyone pls let us know.
http://luminepixels.com/tmp/Highly%20Honored%20Photographers-1.pdf

[Rachel Hollander]

Congrats to all.

Sid - Looks like you missed Peter Delaney.

[Marina Scarr]

Also missed BPN member Amy Marques.

[Sid Garige]

thanks Rachel and Marina.

[Van Hilliard]

Congratulations to everyone involved. This is a very talented group.

[Kerry Perkins]

Wow, big congrats to everyone! BPN is certainly well-represented. :D

[Doug Brown]

Congrats to all of our BPN honorees!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congrats everyone!!! Way to go!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Huge congrats to everyone. Needless to say, it feels great to rub shoulders here with some of the best.

[Roger Clark]

Here is my image that placed:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.africa_2009/web/baby.elephants.c01.17.2009._mg_0130.f-900.html

But a story is behind it showing I can't predict what will get the judge's attention.

I was very busy this spring and as the contest deadline approached, I only had time to get 4 images ready. After getting the 4 complete, I figured I had a little more time so grabbed one more, the baby elephants above. I didn't think it would win because of the clutter of the second baby elephant behind, but submitted it anyway.

I had previously posted this image in the BPN wildlife forum. The image above was reprocessed based on comments on BPN.

Roger

[Harshad Barve]

Congrats to all

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations to all.

[Arthur Morris]

The look on the face of the elephant with the stalk is priceless, amazing, and too cute. The 2nd animal is in a rather pleasing position. Congrats. I never saw the original post. My only comment would have been a wish for a bit more room on our left (for the tree stump).

[Arthur Morris]

Congrats to all and Denise :) This is her honored image. I encouraged her to enter the contest (in part because it has a Digital Creations category). She was thrilled when she learned that she had made the finals and dismayed when she did not win. When they first announced only the category winners she had missed the fine print about "the rest of the honored images being announced soon." I knew that she had a good chance> I am glad that her image was selected and quite proud of her achievement. (I had to in the finals and wound up empty-handed. I won Grand Prize in Wildlife in the first year of this contest before it was a big deal and "Gannets in Love" won the "Art in Nature" category last year.)

Click here (http://www.birdsasart.com/2010/02/02/birds-as-art-bulletin-315/) to learn more about Fractalius and see some more of Denise's great Fracts.

[Shawn Marques]

Congratulations to all of this years winners! A special congratulations to Amy Marques for her cormorant image! :)

[Michael Zajac]

Congratulations to all the Highly Honored Winners. This is a great accomplishment. I can't wait to see all the winning images. A special congratulations to Denise Ippolito, you are the most creative person I know and it is a well deserved honor. Your GBH image rocks!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Ditto Michael and Shawn. It would be great if the honored folks posted their images here below. Please do.

[William Malacarne]

Why not start a separate Forum for just people that win contests etc to post their pictures. The way it is now they get mentioned and posted in more than one place and not everyone gets to hear about them or see them.

Bill

[Shawn Marques]

Ditto Michael and Shawn. It would be great if the honored folks posted their images here below. Please do.


Hi Arthur, I'm sure Amy will when she gets back to Florida. She is on a photography road trip with a couple of friends and is currently in the Blueridge mountains. In fact she was on the road when she got the news.

[Susan Candelario]

Big Congrats to all. It feels good to be a member at BPN with so many talented photographers and artist.

[Nick Palmieri]

Great job gang...Congrats!

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Arthur, I'm sure Amy will when she gets back to Florida. She is on a photography road trip with a couple of friends and is currently in the Blueridge mountains. In fact she was on the road when she got the news.

Thanks Shawn, I look forward to seeing it.

[Morkel Erasmus]

a huge congrats to all on the list!! is there any link where the winning and honoured images can be viewed?

[peter delaney]

It was a great honour to have an image chosen for naturesbest .... a big thanks to each and all on this forum who have freely given their advice and helpful critiques...

congrats to all those on this forum who also made it thru....

[Amy Marques]

What a wonderful surprise it was to find out my image was among the chosen "highly honored" winners. Thank you all for your warm wishes.

Congrats to my fellow photographers who have also been chosen. :)

[Arthur Morris]

Well deserved and worth waiting to see. I love the perfect VERT rule of thirds COMP and the soft light. Mazel tov!

[Sid Garige]

Fantastic images Peter and Amy. Thanks for sharing.

[Arthur Morris]

Peter, Oh my Lord! Is that image posted on BPN??? If yes, please supply a link.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Thx everyone for sharing the images.

Peter, that is one heck of a shot. one that will send chills down anyone's spine.
Amy, just a terrific terrific composition.
Denise, thats creativity at its best.
Roger, that is one great moment captured. cute, funny...has it all IMO.

[Arthur Morris]

I wanted to make sure that nobody missed Roger Clark's too cute image....

[peter delaney]

Hi Arthur
sorry for late response... here is in that link to image....

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?48782-Black-rhino-charge&highlight=

[Russell Johnson]

A little late to the party, my highly commended image in Natures Best: