Some of My Favorite Pictures from 2009

Here is yet another post that is overdue. A choice few pictures from this past year that I really enjoy looking at.

I know I’ve posted this picture before, but it is tied with the Boston City Skyline panorama taken at the same time as being my absolute favorite from this past year. You can read about it at the link above.

-Easily coming in second is this picture that Debbie took on the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo walk back in July. This was shot through a chainlink fence and I love the way the chainlink fence adds a subtle nearly undetectable layer of depth and texture to the photo.

- OK the rest are in no particular order, just a few others that I consider to be among my favorites of the year.

This one of Jonathan was taken one morning while waiting for the bus to come. I was eager to get out and try out a lens that I had just bought used. So I grabbed the tripod and dragged it to the bus stop to get a shot in front of the burning bush. The lens is an old school manual focus 105mm 2.8 Nikon lens that I mounted to my 7D with an adapter. I was pretty close to Jonathan when I took the shot so the result is an almost too shallow depth of field with a manual focus lens. I was probably more than just a little lucky that his eyes are so sharp, the fron half of his nose is soft and the focus already drops of significantly at his temple, that and his blue eyes definitely have a way of drawing right to the subject of the picture though. 

-Here is another one that I have posted before but I just love it. We had a great day with Angela and Justin and produced a ton of great stuff at the same time. I look forward to being able to work with both of them again in the future. I believe one of the reasons I like the image so much is the sort of clasic feel it has to it. Angela just behind Justin having a slight timid look and Justin giving a pretty confident serious don’t mess with us look.

-I hope to get more just like this one throughout the coming year. One of my New Years goals is to get cracking on organizing, displaying, and getting into albums and books all of our personal pictures as well as taking more and more. This one was captured by balancing my D300 on a stone wall along side a river then running back to the Adirondack chairs in the middle of the park and sitting down before the click, It only took three tries. I believe it was in Peterburough, NH while we were on the tail end of one of our aimless weekend drives.