Robert and Aidan HUGE CONGRATS!!

[Ilija Dukovski]

This information might have been posted somewhere already,
I just got my copy of Audobon magazine, "Birds in focus" awards issue.
I recognized two of the names as members of BPN:
Robert Amoruso 3rd award professional
and
Aidan Briggs, 1st award youth.



Huge congrats!!

[Roger Clark]

Hey, Robert and Aidan, congratulations!:cheers:

Is the a url to the winning images?

Roger

[Sid Garige]

just saw the images. Great job Robert and Aidan. Very well done.

[James Shadle]

Congratulations!
Send me the winning images so I can get them on the Home Page Slide Show.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good stuff guys!! Congratulations:D

[Ilija Dukovski]

Here's the link:

http://audubonmagazine.org/features1...otoawards.html (http://audubonmagazine.org/features1101/photoawards.html)

[Doug Brown]

Way to go guys!

[Rachel Hollander]

Congrats and well done!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Big congrats. Very well deserved.

[Steve Maxson]

Big congrats to you both!!

[Brendan Dozier]

Way to go! congratulations

[Robert Amoruso]

Here is the winning image.

Red-winged Blackbirds (majority)
Yellow-headed Blackbirds (minority)

Hard to see the Yellow-headed Blackbirds in the magazine and even in this JPG. But in hi-res they are visible and I confirmed their presence in other images of the same group at faster shutter speeds.

Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
11-20-2009

Canon 1D Mark III
Canon 600mm f/4 IS L
1/20 sec, f/4
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 160

Thank you Illia for posting this. Wish I had seen it sooner.

Link to magazine http://audubonmagazine.org/features1101/photoawards.html.

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks all! I don't know how I missed this thread!

Here is the image:

[Van Hilliard]

Beautiful work.