Avian 2008 Chris van Rooyen

[James Shadle]

Congratulations Chris van Rooyen! Your image "Banking Bearded Vulture" was selected as the Avian Image Of The Year!

Congratulations Chris van Rooyen! "Another Carmine from the Okavango" 2nd Place
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23434&highlight=Carmine+Okavango
Congratulations Ian Colley! "Noisy Miner" 3rd Place
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4334&highlight=Noisy+Miner

[Lance Peters]

Big Congrats Chris - nearly the trifecta :) :)

[Alfred Forns]

Big Congrats Chris !!! Impressive and well deserved !!!

Also impressive runner's up Sensory Overload !!!

[Grady Weed]

All of the choices for consideration and placement here were spectacular. Well deserved.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Agaim, congratulations and well deserve Chris!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Chris,
Congrats! This was my choice! With so great images......this one stood out! Well deserved!

[denise ippolito]

Congratulations!!!Very well deserved!!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks guys, this is one of the best days of my life....

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Chris! Well deserved!

Congratulations to Ian as well!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Chris!! Gold and silver :-)

Excellent image by Ian too, well done!

[Dave Mills]

Hey Chris...Well deserved..Some wonderful images! Congrats!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Chris,
Impressive stuff. Great win. Congratulations!
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Dan Walker]

Congrats, well deserved, I don't think I have seen any of your images that wouldn't be contenders for this!!!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Congratulations! Fantastic images!

[Doug Brown]

Awesome job Chris! Congrats on this photo and many other excellent images!

[Fabs Forns]

Congrats Chris and Ian :)