Challenge: share your favourite photo for 2016?

[Tronhard]

NOT a competition, but a sharing...

The Rules:
1. It must have been taken in 2016
2. Please give us some context: Why, where and how was the photo taken
3. Why do you consider it your favourite?

cheers: Trev

[NorthernFocus]

This one is easy. No matter how many images I shoot of wildlife, etc, I'm still like anyone who shoots with a cell phone. My favorite photo has personal context and involves my family.

Taken on a hike ashore during one of our boat trips on Prince William Sound. Shot handheld with Nikon D810 and 24-120mm lens. Three frames stitched together in LR.

Why it's my favorite? Taken on a perfect day during a favorite activity in my favorite place in all the world, Prince William Sound. And the person in the photo is my bride of 35 years and counting. She loved this particular spot and was happy that day. So I was too.

[Tronhard]

Well Dzn, that is a corker start to the series and perfectly presented!!!

The scenery itself is stunning, and with such personal connection I can see why you would cherish it [
QUOTE=NorthernFocus;648574]This one is easy. No matter how many images I shoot of wildlife, etc, I'm still like anyone who shoots with a cell phone. My favorite photo has personal context and involves my family.

Taken on a hike ashore during one of our boat trips on Prince William Sound. Shot handheld with Nikon D810 and 24-120mm lens. Three frames stitched together in LR.

Why it's my favorite? Taken on a perfect day during a favorite activity in my favorite place in all the world, Prince William Sound. And the person in the photo is my bride of 35 years and counting. She loved this particular spot and was happy that day. So I was too.

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[mugge]

This photo was taken on our last Easter Holidays. This region was devastated by bushfires in 2009. Many died (173 dead and 414 injured). This is a lovely view of a fire prone country. This is the first time we have been back to the region. People will not talk about it either.
untitled- by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

[Tronhard]

Ah, the Lucky Country is going through some tough times at the moment, and it's been tough for a while... I hope things cool down and perk up for you all over there soon, but with summer just started, bush fires already in the news and the hottest year on record AGAIN, it's not looking promising.

This photo was taken on our last Easter Holidays. This region was devastated by bushfires in 2009. Many died (173 dead and 414 injured). This is a lovely view of a fire prone country. This is the first time we have been back to the region. People will not talk about it either.
untitled- by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

[binsurf]

Took this shot while walking in the woods near my place with my wife. As we walked along, this chipmunk chirped, skittered to the log he's on and stayed there with his (or her) tail wrapped around him/her. It was amazing as he just sat there while my wife and I took photos of him. It's rare that a chipmunk will pose for photos. It's my favourite for that reason.

[Mike Buckley]

Nice of you to start the thread, Trev!

This one is my favorite of the year because:
-- The photo is also one of my top five favorites made in my makeshift studio, making it my most recent benchmark since I seriously began studying studio photography about 4 1/2 years ago;
-- The photo is in a bit of a different style from my norm and has caused me to consider other similarly creative directions I might go;
-- The photo made it possible for me to combine two of my hobbies: photography and wine; and
-- The photo is the result of a lighting scheme that I had never used. That scheme produced very pleasing results I had no idea to expect but hope to predictably obtain in future photos.

[rpcrowe]

Being a favorite photo for me, certainly doesn't mean that it is the best photo.

This quick shot is our setup at the Korean Airlines Baggage Terminal of Los Angeles International Airlines.



The ladies are all members of our Maltese Rescue California group (my wife, Judy, is in the purple shirt) and are set up to greet and receive the first of twenty dogs our group rescued from a Korean Meat Market this summer. We rescued a total of well over 200 dogs this year and they are still coming in...

[Jimr1961]

Let's see. I was with the one I love. In the mountains I love. Viewing the alpenglow I love. Yup, that qualifies.
This was shot from Moose Lake looking South over the Middle Fork Kaweah River toward the Great Western Divide. We were chasing down the light on the second day of a backpacking trip. We arrived just as the sun was getting low and the mountains lit up. I had no time to take off my pack, so I just went for it hand held. Best alpenglow capture I've made yet.

[NorthernFocus]

What's making this thread IMO are the stories along with the shots. Interesting to learn a bit more about what's important to each of us. Keep them coming folks.

[pnodrog]

Taken early in the morning near Barmera South Australia. Nikon D800 Nikor 28-300 at 32mm on tripod Auto ISO140 manual exposure f8 1/320. It was the start of a great day of photography on an enjoyable trip driving back to Sydney from Adelaide. A couple taken at the end of the day may be considered more successful photography wise but this is the one I like most.


Reflection pond beside Murray River by Paul Gordon, on Flickr

[chauncey]

one of my smoke creations

[Dave A]

Taken this summer at our family camping reunion. My 6 year old niece.
It's my favorite image I have taken this year because I haven't done much in the way of portraits, especially close ups, because I find them intimidating to shoot. They can be difficult to get right and if not done well make the subject look unnatural or just plain bad. Since this image I have decided to keep at it and hopefully improve.

I love the attitude in this image. She surprised me.

Dave

[LePetomane]

For me it is one from Minnesota and one from Wyoming. The first one is from Duluth. It was late January and we were staying at a B&B. We were walking into town and past the canal when I took this shot very quickly because my hands were so cold.



Here is my favorite Wyoming shot. There was an old car get together at the Bighorn Smoke House in the large metropolis of Bighorn, Wyoming. This is the hood ornament of a 1956 Chevy Nomad.

[NorthernFocus]

A good example of how imagery can stir memories/emotions. The first car I remember was our family's old green and white Chevy Nomad. I vividly remember the hood ornament. Perhaps it was more significant to me because my dad was a pilot too. Wow. Childhood flooding back as I sit here....

[John 2]

Probably not my best image but the most satisfying of 2016 and therefore I guess, my favourite. Grouse are very shy and rather than fly off, go to ground and disappear when spooked. It needed patience, persistence and several visits to the area (the local fells) before I captured anything worth keeping. Out of quite a few exposures, I managed just three of which this is one.

[LePetomane]

John, that is a beautiful photograph. Well done.

[NorthernFocus]

John, that is a beautiful photograph. Well done.

I agree. Excellent. And no doubt all the more rewarding for the wait. Understandable fave.

[marlunn]

Ah well now, I actually have two but if I can only have one then its this 'one'

A club Trophy challenge to create a triptych, the person who started the challenge and judged it is a long time respected photographer in Wales and was a Welsh Photographic Federation Judge as well as having half the alphabet after his name in relation to Associateships etc. of various National and International photographic bodies.

The shots were taken at a waterfall area that is very popular with photographers and I wanted something different and reflecting the feeling I had while there. My intent was to get a 'Japanese' painting feel and make a 'art' image rather than just a 'photographic' image. I printed it on a Platinum Etching art paper with a light texture and it seem to fit the image well.

This won the Trophy competition in the club and susequently the judge asked me for a copy as he and his wife liked it so much - it now hangs framed on their wall. Thats a first for me !