As is the tradition, I have posted my page of Favorite Photographs of 2009 – perhaps erring on the side of posting too many images, but I’m not feeling like a careful editor today.
Enjoy!
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
(Updated on 1/14/09 to add comments to some of the photographs.)
Since it is the last day of 2008 I guess it is “now or never” if I’m to put together the obligatory “best of the year” list. I thought of doing a “Best 10” or “Best of Each Month” or similar, but I finally gave up and just tossed a whole bunch of links in here, undoubtedly forgetting to include a few other favorites. (A few have 2007 dates – they were published here for the first time in 2008.) Despite the fact that there might seem to be a slight hint of grumbling in that first paragraph – just my sense of humor at work – I look forward to this end-of-the-year ritual every year. It is really great fun going back and reminding myself of what I’ve seen and photographed, and I frequently rediscover an image that I had somehow forgotten or overlooked.
By the way, if this is the first time you have visited my my blog…
Every year around this time I slog through all of my RAW files from the previous year – largely because I’ve learned that I can discover interesting photographs that I originally overlooked. (The most recent photo on this page is one I shot last January.)
One product of this task is my annual “favorites” page. I’m working on creating the list this week, and my plan is to post it here before January 1.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
It is that time of the year… time for lists of “the best” this and that from 2006. I think such lists are actually a bit of fun and even useful in that they can provide a chance to remember and reflect upon things from the past year that might well othwise be forgotten. (Right now I’m going through thousands of exposures from the past year and rediscovering a number of images that I overlooked, didn’t understand, or didn’t know how to process at the time – and I think I’ve discovered a few nice ones…)
Later this week I’m going to post my own little “favorites” list, but to get the ball rolling, here is a pointer to a Best Of list from The Online Photographer‘s Mike Johnston: The Year in Photography. As a Canon user, I actually enjoy seeing that there are no Canon cameras in his list of best cameras of the year – I think that the increasingly competitive dSLR market is going to be a great thing for photography and photographers. I don’t desire and cannot imagine a world in which Canon vanquishes the competition. :-)
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
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