So that's Christmas done and dusted, the new year seen in and a whole year ahead of us with the new revamped 365.
This in your opportunity to showcase your favourite upload in the last week.
To do this just click on the arrow beneath your chosen photo, copy the data and paste it in the thread. Let us know why you've chosen it.
It's also not too late to browse the whole of last year's uploads and choose your favourite for last year in this thread .
This is mine for the week. If I'd waited 3 seconds longer I'd have missed it, as the donkey moved. It also got more favs than commentss, something that I've never experienced with a photo before!
I've only been back since the 1st of the year after being pretty absent for a long time (I've been here off/on since 2011), but this is my favorite in the last 4 days
It was a Winter Wonderland at Upper Canada Village complete with a carousel for the children. I like the way the moving horse in front and the Christmas trees behind frame her.
I like this shot because it captures more of the essence of the game for me. In the past, whenever I'd try to shoot an amateur hockey game, I'd use the fastest lens I own, boost the ISO way up, and try to freeze the action. Focus was always a problem with such fast moving and erratic subjects, with the shallow depth of field shooting with the lens aperture wide open. This time I took a different approach, and instead of trying to freeze the action, I tried to emphasize the motion. I think it worked out well.
Probably this one, not because it's the greatest of photographs, but because we are simply so relieved to actually be home and start the journey back to hopefully health.
This is my final shot of the year and it echoes the first shot, which was taken at the same shrine just after midnight on 1st Jan, so the circle is complete :)
A toss up between this one, when the sun came out for about an hour before it set, or my photo from a walk on new years day... I think I like this one best though!
Jackie - thanks for hosting this thread - it's a great forum for people to show-case their images - and how wonderful is it for us to be able to scroll through all of these gorgeous photos each week. :)
My boyfriend and I were out on a walk and came across this bridge. Took some pictures of the river, and when I turned around this lock caught my eye. I could tell it had writing on it, so I sprawled out laying on my side to snap this picture while my boyfriend looked at me like I had lost my mind.
Photo taken on January 2 during an airboat ride in the Everglades. One of my favorites this past week. After all, how many times do you get an alligator staring straight into your camera.
I went to a much bigger falls (80 ft), but couldn't' make it work to my liking with heavy rain and lots of spray. After some thrilling heroics carrying a heavy camera backpack up a muddy slope and skirting the cliff from the other falls, I made it to this amazing little alcove scene just above my original destination.
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I like this shot because it captures more of the essence of the game for me. In the past, whenever I'd try to shoot an amateur hockey game, I'd use the fastest lens I own, boost the ISO way up, and try to freeze the action. Focus was always a problem with such fast moving and erratic subjects, with the shallow depth of field shooting with the lens aperture wide open. This time I took a different approach, and instead of trying to freeze the action, I tried to emphasize the motion. I think it worked out well.
Photo taken on January 2 during an airboat ride in the Everglades. One of my favorites this past week. After all, how many times do you get an alligator staring straight into your camera.
I went to a much bigger falls (80 ft), but couldn't' make it work to my liking with heavy rain and lots of spray. After some thrilling heroics carrying a heavy camera backpack up a muddy slope and skirting the cliff from the other falls, I made it to this amazing little alcove scene just above my original destination.
I like the light, the excitement, message of a new year to come!