FAVORITE FIFTY

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It’s time to share my favorite images for 2019. You can see the selection at the PHOTOGRAPHY tab above. I started this process of displaying a dozen or so images in 2011. I display 122 images over the nine years. Limiting the images of my favorites is difficult. Now I have made it more difficult by selecting my FAVORITE FIFTY (over the last ten years) and displaying them at the tab above, with the same name. I am determined to maintain just fifty images at this tab, regardless of how long I journey this process. I will only add an image when I am able to eliminate an image, hopefully resulting in a better and better FIFTY.

The process I started a decade ago has greatly benefited me - honing my style, learning by reflecting and selecting, and orderly documenting my journey.

It was a year of shooting fewer days, and yielding as much or more satisfying images as any other year. I give thanks to family for making it possible to have focus time capturing a little beauty in nature.

The favorite of the year is influenced by a first for me - capturing the Milky-Way over the water of Lake Champlain at Button Point.

Good Night My Love

The capture was a year in the making - planning the right time, the right location, the right equipment, and learning night capture techniques. Thanks to Jim Nickelson and Shannon Kalahan, night photography experts, for providing needed direction. After some stumbling and two overnight stays at Basin Harbor, I finally identified Button Point as a perfect location for my capture - water, possible reflection, interesting foreground and the Milky-Way over the Adirondacks.

I am not used to this much work with my imaging - I usually take what nature gives at sunrise or sunset looking at potential with water, trees, horizon. Button Point is in a State Park, a mile walk through the woods from my stay at Basin Harbor Resort. The walk back to my night’s stay through the pitch dark with my new head lamp was an interesting experience - I imaged getting lost in the woods, spending the night searching the right direction.

I call the image Good Night My Love for my love of the wonder of water, settling for the night. And, as I reflect more, for the slow goodbye of Patty, entering the ninth year of the dreadful Alzheimer’s disease.