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A baker's dozen of my favourite shots from this year. Seems I did well with the macro. :D No roller derby stuff this time. I intentionally left them out.

Here's last years thread of the same.

Post your favourite photos of 2014

I'll start with my 12 shots. No BIFs this year. A lot that qualified but nothing that really spoke to me. My first "published" photo. :D My first photograph of an eclipse. The occultation of Saturn by the Moon. (Taken just as Saturn began to pass behind the Moon)...
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Lake Gnotuk and Bullen Merri

Lake Gnotuk and Bullen Merri

Lightning Storm

Lightning Storm

Tongariro Crossing

Tongariro Crossing

Squawk!!!

Squawk!!!

Wellington night life

Wellington night life

Zoooooom

Zoooooom

Apocalypse

Apocalypse

Maratus Literatus peacock spider

Maratus Literatus peacock spider

Blue banded bee

Blue banded bee

A Simatheula jumping spider (bronze sparkly)

A Simatheula jumping spider (bronze sparkly)

Lightning storm over Ardrossan

Lightning storm over Ardrossan

Cuckoo wasp

Cuckoo wasp

Is it a six?

Is it a six?
 
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nzmacro said:
yyr said:
Oh well, maybe I am too uncritical! I had to split mine into colour and B&W. Here are the colour ones :-)
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Not even close to the subjects I take, but I know what I like and heck, I LOVE these. One of the best eyes (or two) for a shot I've seen. Very clever angles, leading lines and use of perspective. Exposures are bang on.

All the best Yaelle, top shooting there.

Danny.
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Thank you Danny. I'm fine as long as there are no flowers, insects or birds in the frame :-D

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Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White
 
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Thank you. You are too kind.

I think you mend this one, it's is from 2014 already



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That Kookie shot is excellent !! and so are all the shots you have posted Geoff. Even the ones I don't comment on, like the old shots you posted the other day from old cameras ;-) :-)

You show life how it actually is and you write things that I wish I could get out of my big gob, but somehow can't find the right words. Its always a pleasure to see what you are posting mate and writting, it really is a treat. So don't you dare change and you won't anyway.

All the best over there Geoff and thanks ..... well for just being you.

Danny.
 
Yes, it has been a tough year. But the kookaburra shot -- I love that too. Took the GX7 when visiting a friend in Melbourne who was looking at m43s with a particular interest in video. We were standing on his landing and the kookaburra was a regular visitor to the tree outside. Click!

I'm after a particular local bird here in the islands but can't even seem to see it let along get an opportunity to photograph it.

Your favorite Yaelle is a fellow inmate of this forum, also in Melbourne, whose name I have instantly forgotten the moment I went to write it. He's a mate of John King, also of this forum, and all three of us went to the National Gallery of Victoria's space in the city square to see cars and innovative art.

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That is one heck of a lightning display and result there Martin. The best I've ever seen and then some.

The E-M10 with the Canon 500 and 800mm lenses. Learn't a heck of a lot about the m4/3 sensor in the Oly this year. No need to replace it anytime soon. Very hard to pick favourites, but a few of them I guess over the last year.

Mum, dad and a mini Stilt

Mum, dad and a mini Stilt

Cormorant fishing

Cormorant fishing

Kingfisher on a dive

Kingfisher on a dive

Spoonbill on take off

Spoonbill on take off

Kingfisher coming in

Kingfisher coming in

Kingfisher and crab toss

Kingfisher and crab toss

Cormorant blasting down the river

Cormorant blasting down the river

Harrier heading this way

Harrier heading this way

Kingfisher discarding the crab shells they can't digest

Kingfisher discarding the crab shells they can't digest

Cormorant with nesting material

Cormorant with nesting material

I do have a thing about sparrows ;-)

I do have a thing about sparrows ;-)



Canada geese heading on in

Canada geese heading on in





That better do it.

All the best folks and some amazing shots in this thread, impressive to see.

Danny.

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The need for speed ..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/130646821@N03/
 

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All good very nice compositions and technically on the ball, but that water lily pic came as a total visual surprise to me. Wonderful work!
 
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Great choices - I've enjoyed all your photos through the year :-) The flamenco dancer is a 'wow' I don't remember seeing that before.

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Thanks - the flamenco was one of the highlights of the Spain trip. I think I posted it while you were otherwise occupied. Here's another from that evening.



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Dear Martin, all,

WOW. Really great pix all around!

Here are a few of my favorites from 2015.

Happy New Year and all the best,

Jeff




St. Petersburg, Russia: Church of our Savior on Spilt Blood


St. Petersburg


St. Petersburg


Rush hour in Geneva.


Celebrating Escalade in Geneva


CERN Building 40 atrium with life-size photo of CMS experiment








Erice, Sicily







































Approach to the Aiguille du Midi - Chamonix, France


Mont Blanc glacier with parasail


Great egret catching fish


Snowy egret


Agave after rainfall


Eels in market in Ortygia, Sicily


Moon and stars over Big Sur, California coastline (Pleiades star cluster to upper right of moon)


Elephant seals at San Simeon, California

Thanks for looking! Jeff
 

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In fact, outstandingly outstanding! I've seen some great shots of yours as you have shown them from time to time, but this set is downright mastery -- just so good.

Thanks for showing your wonderful work which is an inspiration to me -- and to lots of others, I am sure, even if we are not photographing in the same field.

That first picture is simply wonderful -- it sets the bar high and the following pix maintain the standard.

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
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When you set the standard so high, like you continuously do, you can only disappoint. You would think.....Excellent results, Danny..
 
A collective well done to everybody, there is some very good work in this thread.

Some were pictures I was pleased to see again, others are new to me.
 
Thank you, Geoff. It seems we both had odd years, but I always enjoy seeing your work and getting glimpses of a very different life on the other side of the world.
 
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All good, but the first one is really excellent. We can see many of such shots but rarely are the well composed with foregrounds that give depth. The wayyou pointed it with the rotational center just above the horizon and right of the middle gives a great depth with the trees to the left. Really some of the of such shots I have ever seen, with a very nice clarity also.
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Thanks Jorge. Your comments are especially encouraging and meaningful after viewing your awesome contributions elsewhere in this thread.

Lee
 
Really enjoyed your pics!
 
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