Congrats, Pankaj ji, If quality is concerned (whether it's photography or knowledge about orchids or posts or illustrations or thoughts or vision or .....) , there is no one better than you.
On 31 December 2011 20:51, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear All: > > We have now come to the year end, in a few hours it will be midnight in > India and we will usher in the year 2012... > all is merry and scintillating on this east coast... and a bit chilly... > > I take this opportunity to announce the Best Photographer of the year for > 2011 in Best individual photograph category.... > It is our travelling botanist Dr. Pankaj Kumar... Who among us do not know > that he loves Orchids?? It seems to me that he eats, sleeps drinks and > dreams of Orchids ... and he loves them... that love comes across in his > photographs, that are wonderous, precise and technically excellent, they > also showcase his depth of scientific precision. The wide range of > orchids that he showed us also speaks of his passion for his chosen field > in Botany. > > Congratulations Pankaj... > Be happy and warm in the very cold Hong Kong... > > Happy New Year to you and us all. > > Usha di > ====== > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
