Many of these other stories are “best” shot, this post is about my favorite picture that I took in 2009. It does not mean the best, does not mean it is perfect, it means that when I look back at the year, this is the picture that is my favorite. It just that it makes me smile for a variety of reasons.
My favorite of the year is one I took a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. I received a gift from the wife in 2007 of a Digital SLR after I wore out my Canon P&S. Up until recently I was still using it as a very expensive P&S. I would try things with the settings, but I did not know what the end result would be of the changes I was making. I did lots of reading on DGrin to learn about it more and more. Then in December of 2009 the “penny dropped”; things made sense I understood the controls and how they interact with each other. Not going to say I am an expert or fully fluent with them, but I finally internalized how they interacted and was able to start predicting how things would turn out and what changes to make after looking at the preview display. I still had to take many photos to get a few good ones, but the success rate went from 1 in 20 on a good day to 1 in 3 or 4.
I was in Vegas for two weeks for work, I wanted to take some photos of the architecture and landscape at night. So I went out on a Saturday night after a rain shower and took pictures. I posted the straight out of camera keepers to SmugMug and sent a link to the L&T wife. She really liked the images and indicated that one was her favorite, not of the batch but as art not just my photo. So I got it printed on metal, as suggested by a friend, and turned around very quickly by SmugMug and gave it to her as a gift on December 25. I think that it is very cool that I was able to use her gift to me to create a gift for her.
So while it might not be perfect, the image and experience is my favorite of 2009.
Click for larger imageWhat is yours?