OK, here are my first five.
I tried creating a temp album in Flickr to make my choices for this thread - ended up with 50 plus pics (!!!
) and have had a hard time culling down to just 5 or ten choices - not because I thought all were "top notch" pics, but because some represented a first (for me), or because some I just liked, even when the quality was not neccessarily the best.
Anyway, for what it is worth, my first five:
Second time to come across this bird (Bush Stone Curlew), first time to get such a close-up (of any bird).
I had seen this little bird (Double-barred Finch) around my home only two or three times over a 40 yr period (and during most of that time, I was not taking photographs). Then, when finally getting back into photography, it never seemed to be around. Then suddenly I seemed to be seeing it 2 or three times a week. On this occasion, it landed very close to me while I was out, ready, with the K3 iii and the 150-450mm
Monster in hand.
One of my better dragonfly pics:
This one was a lucky frame caught in burst mode as I tried to capture a flurry of doves flying over my back yard.
One of the first blooms of a newly-planted (and only) rose bush in my new garden: