Image Of The Year 2008 Chris van Rooyen

[James Shadle]

Please join me in congratulating Chris van Rooyen for having his image "Banking Bearded Vulture" selected as the BirdPhotographers.net Image Of The Year!

Chris is being awarded a lifetime membership to BPN, BPN Logo Gear and a five day Tampa Bay area workshop/tour with James Shadle via "The Hooptie Deux". His winning image is also our Ezine cover for March 2009.

The image of the year contest is one of the benefits of being a BPN member. Only BPN members qualify to participate in the Image of The Week and Image Of The Year contest.

Selecting our first IOTY was not an easy process. First our moderator team nominated one image from each forum. Once the nominated images were compiled, anything that could identify the image owner (watermarks, signature, file name, etc) was removed.

The nominated list of now anonymous images went to the ownership group for final voting.
So many great images and only one IOTY winner.

Congratulations Chris!!

 

[Dan Brown]

Congratulations Chris! Fabulous image!

 

[Ian McHenry]

Congratulations Chris.
Brilliant in flight image.
Ian Mc

 

[Grady Weed]

Simply stunning Chris. Way to go.

 

[Lance Peters]

Stunning image - well done chris

 

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks guys! I'm completely overwhelmed by this honour...a bit speechless....

 

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Congrats Chris on a awesome image!

 

[Richard Waas]

Way to go, Chris! A well deserved honor........

 

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Very well deserved. Big Congrats.

 

[Ramon M. Casares]

More than deserved Chris, all of your images were images of the year to me I became a real fan of your work during these last months! Congratulations!

 

[Mike Moats]

Great Honor Chris, Congrats!

 

[Krijn Trimbos]

What can I say other than you have set the bar for making killer images a lot higher for years to come here at BPN. Very well deserved, and big congrats on your win!!!

 

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congrats Chris! Very nice choice from a tough field!

 

[denise ippolito]

Chris, This is well deserved!!! Big Congratulations!!!

 

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks again everyone!! Now to get from Africa to Florida.....

 

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Chris! I'm very happy for you!

 

[Daniel Cadieux]

Woohoo!! Congratulations Chris. Well deserved for sure. Your contributions to BPN have been second to none. Very well done, and most of all...keep up the great work

 

[peter delaney]

congrats...Mr Van Rooyen

 

[Tony Whitehead]

Congratulations, Chris. Very well deserved - you set the bar very high!

 

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Superb!
A lovely image. A great Win. Well deserved. I love the colours, sharpness, wing spread, pose...in sort everything. Congratulations on a very fine image.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi