Your Best of 2009

I have an odd sense of humor.
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my niece
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chris
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my daughter in the m&m store in nyc
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a foggy morning
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cape hatteras lighthouse in early am
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Great shots everyone! :thumbsup2 This was a lot of fun to review this years photos but very difficult to choose just one from each month. This was my first year having a DSLR so I got to see some improvement over the year mostly due to the kind folks here.

January - When I first got my camera the dog was my favorite subject and the fact that he did not mind.
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February - I love this shot of my 91 year old dad with my DD9.
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March - My oldest DD had her 1940's musical.
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April - We went to Palm Desert and I got a chance to shoot running water.
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May - Our last Brownilympics.
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June - A trip to San Diego and a tour of the USS Midway parked in downtown.
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July - Thanks to Jeff we took a crack at Light Painting
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August - Our trip to WDW. How do you pick just one. I think this one captured the real feel of Sci-Fi Dine-In
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September - Finally a shot from Disneyland made the list. For those of you that have never been, this from the Matterhorn. It is considered one of those hard to get shots.
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October - I got interested in portraits.
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November - We had a local Civil War reenactment.
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December - Our Christmas card shot.
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Great pictures, everyone! Roger, taking September's picture must have been really tough and you nailed it! Awesome photo!
 
I too am quite impressed with the Yetti photo! I tried bringing my DSLR on that trip and I could barely hold onto it, let alone get a good photo!
 
Neat idea. I have to say, I am particularly challenged by the idea of posting a best of each month - there are some months I shoot much more actively, and in those months I may end up with all of my favorite shots of the year from that same month. So to have to distill those months down to 1, and then force a pick from a month I may have only shot a few dozen shots, is a fun exercise.

So, here are not necessarily my best shots of the entire year, but my favorite shots for whatever reason from each month of the year:

January - Watching people watching Epcot's Illuminations:
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February - My cat Mickey illuminated by the light of the television:
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March - A large alligator grabbing a softshell turtle for lunch in the local wetlands:
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April - Exterior hall of Bethesda by the Sea church in Palm Beach, FL:
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May - Hillsboro Lighthouse in Lighthouse Point, FL:
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June - France pavilion in Epcot at night:
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July - shops and walkways in the upscale shopping district of Worth Avenue in Palm Beach:
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August - Green Cay Wetlands, where I shoot most of my birds and wildlife:
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September - Randy of Off Kilter at the Canada Pavilion in Epcot:
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October - Osprey taking off from a perch in Green Cay Wetlands:
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November - wet decks of the HAL Noordam leaving Roadtown, Tortola, BVI near sunset:
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December - Two young blue-winged teals at Green Cay Wetlands:
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Great pictures, everyone! Roger, taking September's picture must have been really tough and you nailed it! Awesome photo!

I too am quite impressed with the Yetti photo! I tried bringing my DSLR on that trip and I could barely hold onto it, let alone get a good photo!

Thank you both. The lighting is a lot better than I would have imagined. It is still a challenge to hang on to your camera while on the ride though.
 
My photography is kinda' like Mark's, where I may take 1000/day and then nothing for a month, so some months are kind of sparse.

January - we had a brief but intense snowstorm, where the snow blew in at about a 30 degree angle:
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February - a cold full moon with some bokeh branches in the foreground:
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March - one of the sparse months when I worked on a Radio Control WDW monorail:
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April - our favorite twin princesses showed us around Pullen Park and I tried photographing daytime motion with a ND filter:
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May - some larger trains, photographed through a polarized window (giving some strange colors):
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June - Pearson's Falls near Saluda NC:
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July - 1969 Corvairs at the convention in Jacksonville FL:
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August - a somewhat abstract fountain in our neighborhood:
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September - a "tilt & shift" image of World Showcase Lagoon:
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October - dawn at St Simon's Island GA:
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November - a ride on an excursion train to Asheville NC
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December - Andie looking angelic:
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This was fun!

January - Snow Day!
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February - Getting to know my camera - I took this on the day I figured out how to use the spot-color feature on my S3. My daughter is also getting to know the (pink) camera she got for Christmas
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March - I have to put more than one here.
Guiness - my sister's Irish Terrier was visiting (along with her "sister" Kelly a Miniature Schnauzer). They were so well behaved I had to shoot some pictures. I loved doing this photos of the dogs! I took a ton of photos and got some really great shots! I love the second one - I gave them both the down command and they laid and naturally extended their paws like that - you can see the bond between them. Sadly, Guiness died unexpectedly this summer. I'm glad I took those pictures.
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April - Candle at church
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May - Memorial Day parade
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June - I cheated and picked two
A deer at Double Diamond Deer Ranch - I learned about deer and got a ton of neat pictures that day
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Shades of things to come - my daughter with a ton of makeup on dance studio picture day
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July - Trip to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park & Vegas - hard to choose just one!
Desert View Watch Tower on the South Rim
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From somewhere on the North Rim
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August
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September - Couldn't pick just one. I like these all for different reasons.
Catching my daughter in action while using spot color.
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Action & Shadows - takes me back to a photography class I once took
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First time across the monkey bars
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October - this was hard - I took a ton of pictures in October and some really good ones! I'm going with this one though. I live in western Pennsylvania - lighthouses around here are rare so I like this picture.
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November - my dog
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December - my kids
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Awesome shots Everyone!!!!!!

I just realized that I don't have anything good from January; just random shots of when we moved into our new apartment.

February:


March:


April:


May:


June:


July:


August:


September:


October (x2.... to make up for January) This was such a hard month to choose from:




November:


December:
 
Not necessarily my best per month but among the favorite of each month.

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Thanks for looking :)
 
I really like this thread. I've enjoyed reviewing the pictures I've taken over the past year and picking my favorites. Here they are:

My favorite T-ball picture:

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AK is my favorite place to take pictures at WDW. Here are a few of my favorites:

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My family on Expedition Everest:
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My favorite picture off of my deck. I took many pictures of sunsets (in seemingly every color this year).

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I absolutely love taking pictures with my 100mm macro. Here are my favorites with this lens:

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Here is a fun shot of a Hot Air Balloon event in my area:

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Here is a picture of "The Bean". This is a piece of modern art in Chicago.

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I spent a morning taking pictures of this swan family. I honestly can't decide which photo I like more (of the two). I like the symmetry of the first photo and the uniqueness of the second. What do you think?

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Here is my favorite picture of a chameleon that was very fun to photograph.

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My favorite castle picture from my August trip.

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