Hearty congratulations to Dr Pankaj ji and Dinesh. Contribution of both of them is tremendous.. not only in terms of good photographs but also the content, the matter they put in it ..making the pics a pictorial story in itself....Dinesh always comes with innovative idea when it comes to presentation.
Both of them are always the best when it comes to photography but more than that, they are helpful and humble... Regards Prashant On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am just copy pasting from the other thread: > I am a trained botanist and when I take pictures, I know which part is > important for classification of that particular species and what part may > not be of much significance. BUT I AM TRAINED FOR IT. When I see pictures > shared by Dinesh sir, it simply amazes me to see that (I am not > disrespecting) even if he is not trained to do so, he never misses to > present all characters of the particular plant which makes life of people > easier to identify. A good picture may not be good botanically but, still > all his pictures are just perfect. > I have never met him in real, but he had always been there when I was > going through my bad days and so he is infact a very nice person by heart > too. At the same time, we must not forget his contribution to eflora apart > from his photographs is immense too. Not to forget that his was the brain > behind the efloraofindia website. I salute him so being such a kind, > knowledgeable, always ready to help person and ofcourse THE BEST > PHOTOGRAPHER eflora has and the best person I have YET TO MEET in my life > :). > During this long episode of the choosing the best photographer on eflora, > I was trying to make out who should win the title logically. For the > purpose of the same I made an assessment on my own. My method was to put > the name of person and search on eflora. Then choose the tenth post of that > particular person. If the post had pics then I chose those pics, and if > there were no pic then I shifted to next mail. So for it was hard to find a > mail with pic. But for some it was easy. It was also risky because may be > the particular member's 10th post had bad pic but to be consistent I had to > choose that. And trust me, in my assessment, Dinesh sir stood on the top > with his pics of Impatiens chinensis (https://groups.google.com/ > forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/dinesh/ > indiantreepix/pFtpKzRTWaY/UX2sWRu52WoJ) > I love you sir and I miss you. Hope to meet you in real some day. > Ofcourse, there are many good photographers on eflora and I respect them > all, although I am not naming any one of them here, but they know who I am > talking about. So please dont take my mail in negative sense....... > Long live the efloraofindia family. > When Scientists and Citizen Scientists meet, the new branch of MEGASCIENCE > emerges :) > Best regards > Pankaj > > > > > On Saturday, 8 November 2014 12:41:46 UTC+8, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Dear members, >> It gives me great pleasure to announce that Sh. Pankaj Kumar & Sh. Dinesh >> Valke have been 'All time Best Flora photographers' on efloraofindia, >> which has more than 2400 members & has completed around seven & a half >> year. >> This award comes from members for whom Flora & it photography is their >> passion And it is not an award merely based on few photographs but on ones' >> life time photographic contributions of innumerable photographs made on >> efloraofindia. >> Their photographs creates such magic that one forgets about everything >> else for a moment. They have mesmerised many generations of photographers >> by their sheer clarity, sharpness & beauty. >> One is famous for close ups, sharpness & clarity, while other takes pride >> in beauty & simplicity through his marvellous presentations. Both are >> unparallelled & difficult to beat in their areas. They are also perhaps the >> best Flora Photographers in India. >> They are not only the best Flora photographers but also great experts. >> One is one of the finest experts on Orchids, the other is one of the >> finest experts in compilation of vernacular names & bringing Indian Flora >> closer to the masses. >> They should be happy to flaunt their awards for all their hard work, >> money, time & passion. >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or >> Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> >> (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). >> Winner >> of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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