India Wins

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All,

It gives me great pleasure to share the results of the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique (FIAP)'s 15th Nature Colour Print Biennia world cup that was held at Bangalore between the 10th and 11th of this month, 32 countries had participated in this world cup.

The great news is, India was placed first in the projected images section (projected images section had twenty images from each country and this section where I represented India ) and India had presented the theme " Birds with prey" for this section. Also India won Gold (second place) in the print images section (print images had 10 images from each country), For the prints section India had presented the theme " mammals with prey" .

here is winning image attached. This is Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher.

Our BPN members Kiran Poonacha , Niaranjan Sant were also part of team. Big congrats to them too.

Special Thanks to ODKF and Adesh Shivkar who given me this image. I am in debt to both of them for rest of my life.

Cheers
Harshad

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Congrats Harshad. This is a fine image that deserves it.

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, Super big congrats! A fantastic image and well deserved win!!:)

[Harshad Barve]

Sorry Peter , Forgot to add
D300, 600mm, ISO 400 , F8 , 1/20 , tripod

[Mital Patel]

huge congrats bhai on the winning and i am sure here the image shows the declaration why you want to go back with your old nikon buddy from canon :)

[Dumay de Boulle]

Congrats Harshad... Always a pleasure looking at your work

[Amano Samarpan]

A slightly wider aperture might have appreciably softened the background without loosing detail in the bird ... yet this is an excellent image!
Were you in a hide?
Congrats
Amano

[Tony Whitehead]

Well done to all, Harshad. Great to see one of your kingfishers again.

[Nico Steenberg]

Harshad, this is a stunning shot, go and have a drink on this one

[Morkel Erasmus]

BIG congrats Bhai - this is one killer image and thoroughly deserves it...spellbinding colours

[Doug Brown]

Head angle aside, this is one fine image! Congrats on the win! Good to see you posting again!

[Randy Stout]

Congrats Harshad, captured beautifully captured, with soft light and vibrant colors.

I might clean up the small gray spot to the right of his rump, but really a fine shot!

Randy

[Mike Fuhr]

Congrats, Harshadbhai!!

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations Harshad. Well done... this one had to be a winner.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Congrats Bhai... I always loved this image..

[Richard Mc Donald]

The images coming from you guys in India is nothing but outstanding and for that a big and sincere thank you as I enjoy each and every one.

Congratulations Harshad, what a great achievement!

[Giulio Zanni]

Congratulations Harshad, amazing image!

[zethar zethar]

Wow. Remarkable shot in all respects.