It's hard to believe that the decade is over and the Roaring 20s are here again! I always enjoy the year end review threads where people pull out their favorite 10-ish images from the last year. I was waiting to see if someone else would start such a thread and I haven't seen it and so I will jump in here.
The point is merely to show your favorite images from the preceding year and hopefully a little bit about what you remember about them and the lenses you used to make them. I won't set an exact number of photos to share. If you only have one that's fine, but probably shouldn't go over about 12 to avoid blitzing the thread with a million photos.
I'll start...
This one was taken in January. It was a cold evening and I was heading home from work and happened to have my K3 and DA 15 limited with me. The sunset was just fantastic and so I stopped by a scrubby field to take the image.
Tractor at Sunset (DFA 24-70)
Spring at Monticello (DFA 24-70) -- happened to visit Monticello with my family and it was the perfect spring day with minimal crowds there.
Peaks of Otter and Abbot Lake (DFA 24-70) My family and I rode the shuttle up Sharp Top Mountain and then hiked down. This is the view from the top...
Sunrise and Soybeans (DFA 15-30mm)
Jellyfish at Sunrise (DFA 15-30mm) Visited Kiawah Island in June with my family and I got up early and went down to the beach to take photos and this jellyfish caught my eye.
Sunflower (FA 31) There is a farmer who plants a field of sunflowers close to where I live and so I went there and tried to catch the sun filtering through a sunflower. This was the best I could get.
Tractor in the Mist (DFA 15-30mm)
Road to the Sunset (DA *55) Just the road that goes by my home. Saw an amazing sunset starting and decided to walk down it a little and see how I could frame it. This was the best I could do.
Staunton River at Sunrise (DFA 24-70)
Smith Mountain Lake (FA 31 limited) Drove up to the lake one morning and was treated to quite a sunrise. Fortunately the FA 31 was up to the task of capturing it.
Railroad Tracks at Dawn (DFA 24-70) Once again, just taken around the corner from my home. Just a matter of waking up early enough to see the sun in the right spot.
And just for good measure, our family was given the most amazing gift of a baby girl this year. Elise has already brought lots of joy into our family.
Sisters (DA *55)
I don't know if those are the best images I took last year. Maybe, maybe not, but I think they do a fairly decent job of representing the things I have seen in the little slice of rural Virginia I drive through every morning. A surprising number are taken with zooms. I like primes a lot and often got out with them in mornings to shoot, but zooms are still what I use when I'm hiking or just want flexibility. And honestly, the DFA 15-30 and 24-70 are very nice lenses.
Anyway, I have babbled on enough here. Please share your favorite images from last year, regardless of quality. It really is more about the journey the destination and I hope we share the enjoyment of image creation together.
Edit: Des suggested that I add the links to past Year End Threads (which he kindly tracked down for me), so here they are:
Year End Review: Your Favorite Photos of 2018 Year in Review: Share Your 12 Favorites of 2017 Favorite Images From 2016 Best Ten Photos of 2015! Favorite Ten Photos of 2014 Top Ten 2013
Last edited by Rondec; 01-07-2020 at 08:22 PM.