What is your best photo you have taken in 2013 and why?

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza

Caporegime
Joined
7 Apr 2008
Posts
25,083
Location
Lorville - Hurston
As the title says please post your favourite picture you have taken this year and why?

I'll go first. Try and follow this format

Picture:

A Journey in life by jonneymendoza, on Flickr

Caption:
I climbed a mountain in the Philippines with just a pair of flip flops. it was difficult and a struggle as i was carrying all my camera gear with me and tripod as well. Just like my journey to the top of the mountain to get this shot, it is like a journey in life. You will have things that will weigh you down. things that give you a disadvantage but if you continue to climb and move forward in life, you will be rewarded.

Reason:
Both the journey to even take this picture as well as how the actual image came out easily becomes number 1 pic i have taken this year by a long shot.

Many of my other pics only required a tiny effort just to go to a particular place and take it but this was hard. Climbing a small mountain in flip flops in 30c temperature with a backpack full of my heavy lenses and camera(5d3, 70-200f.28, 16-35 f2.8) is no easy task and the view as you can see was breathtaking!
 
Last edited:
If you ditched all the picture from just above the girls head to the bottom and kept the top 3rd it would look a much better capture to me.
 
Hmmm very good question, and a difficult choice. I'll post one up later, but quite possibly something from my Iceland or New York trip :)


Also cracking photo Jonny :)
 
cheers thanks!

This is not a critic thread either because a persons favourite picture could be just a blank wall! If that person has a story to tell behind that blank wall that makes it his or hers favourite shot of the year then so be it!

The story of the image and its surroundings can help decide what your favourite picture of the year is.

This thread is not a strictly *whats your most viewed/liked image ever* but simply put it, what is "Your" favourite image :)
 

When the Sun goes down, the lightning comes out to play by Steve ten Have, on Flickr

Caption: Sitting on the roof of one of my dads hangars in the middle of a storm is not one of my brightest moments in life but I think the result of the experience was potentially worth it. It was one of those rare moments where a blistering lightening strike repeated moments later. I was very lucky to have set up when and where I had - it only happened twice.

Reason: Well I kind of hope the image speaks for itself. It easily my best lightening shot but this year has been a little lackluster photography wise so I count myself lucky to have been in the right place at the right time.

D300s - Sigma 10-20mm, no filters and only a tiny little bit of correction colour wise.

Oh and much love for the shot Jonney - most excellent.
 
Last edited:
Johnny I really like the shot. It has a nice travelling feel and mood to it. It also makes my eyes wonder through it, from the path, to the girl to the distant landscape. Like it.

Steve, fantastic sky. There was a competition somewhere I can't remember recently with a "angry skies" theme, this would be the ticket! :)

Not to mooch over which I took this year I like (my first year / few months with a DSLR).
 
This is my pick for the year. Just love the feel, the contrast of the colors between the subject and background and their expressions are just great fun.

I also like it because it proves that quality isn't everything, composition and subject matter much more. This was taken with one of my cheapest lenses (55-250) through a car window! :)


Lionesses by ajyoung, on Flickr
 
This my favourite, it was taken in a graveyard on a foggy night. Everything came together just right for the shot, I thought I was alone when I heard this guys footsteps outside the graveyard and he walked across an old stone bridge into the fog to give me the perfect framing for the photograph.


Day 113 by 42zx, on Flickr
 
Genoma said:
This is my pick for the year. Just love the feel, the contrast of the colors between the subject and background and their expressions are just great fun.

I also like it because it proves that quality isn't everything, composition and subject matter much more. This was taken with one of my cheapest lenses (55-250) through a car window! :)
Click to expand...

would have been better if you taken it using a ultra wide angle lens :) :D

CGrieves said:
Jonney, I like it just as you originally posted- after all, it's a story, not a landscape.
Click to expand...

Thanks!
 
jonneymendoza said:
Caption:
I climbed a mountain in the Philippines with just a pair of flip flops. it was difficult and a struggle as i was carrying all my camera gear with me and tripod as well. Just like my journey to the top of the mountain to get this shot, it is like a journey in life. You will have things that will weigh you down. things that give you a disadvantage but if you continue to climb and move forward in life, you will be rewarded.
Click to expand...

Mountain? It's a hill and not that hard to climb as the two 3 year girls in the picture prove ;):p

Nice picture though despite the Ray Mears tale of survival to climb a hill :p

Love those Lions Genoma, love the contrast and processing. :)
 
This is my current favourite.

I keep a large white umbrella in the boot of my car, I bought it 2 and a half years ago when I got the car. The idea is just in case it rains, just in case the client doesn’t have an umbrella, I would have one.

I have been very lucky in terms of weather when shooting. There have been a couple of times where I did get the umbrella out but never actually had rained that stopped me shooting or cause the bride to move inside, until this one.

On this occasion it poured down so fast, I saw the rain like a wall of water fall moving across the field towards us when I was shooting the formals. So the umbrella finally got some proper use and kept the bride dry.

Later on in the evening.

I told them I have an idea for a shot (I seen a similar image years ago and stuck in my head), and I want to do my own take on it. I have wanted to do it ever since I got the umbrella but never really had the chance because it never rained. Until this day.

So I told the bride about it, and asked if she would indulge me for 5 mins in the evening outside. We walked over a car park, I set it up, fired off a test shot. Checked and needed a tripod. Went back to get tripod, came back and knocked a beer over because it was that dark.

I shot 4 shots, this was the 3rd one. Not much processing needed, it looks like this on the LCD.

6L0zO0G.jpg
 
Given I've only recently taken up photography and I've taken a lot of pictures in the past year I found it quite hard to whittle down my personal favourite.

In the end I opted for this:



And the reasoning behind my choice is the fact I left my house with a picture in my mind of the exact shot I was after.

Several hours later I'd achieved exactly the result I was after :)
 
It's been a very quiet photography year for me. I've been stuck at my desk thesis writing for most of the year, so I think this is my favourite shot simply because it's from my first photo jaunt after handing in and it felt great just to be out with the camera without an accompanying feeling of guilt -

golitha_ii_by_hairytoes-d6rbcci.jpg
 
King4aDay said:
It's been a very quiet photography year for me. I've been stuck at my desk thesis writing for most of the year, so I think this is my favourite shot simply because it's from my first photo jaunt after handing in and it felt great just to be out with the camera without an accompanying feeling of guilt -

golitha_ii_by_hairytoes-d6rbcci.jpg
Click to expand...

That is a brilliant shot!
 
I had just bought my first dslr - a Nikon D7000 (thanks guys for advising me to get one) and taken a few local shots. A cousin of mine had quit her job to study photography full-time (at the age of 50!). So she saw one of my pictures and gave encouraging advice.
I found a local landscape photographer advertising workshops in Snowdonia, enlisted and this was my first image from our first location. It is a panoramic of 6 images I shot, as I had a 17-55mm DX lens with a 20 year old cp filter. I had never been to this location before and wanted to capture all its beauty. My tutor, Richard Outram was encouraging and I met a lovely group of people passionate about landscape photography, like myself.


Panorama1 by Shaggy James, on Flickr
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom