Another morning of spectacular light on Wanstead Flats but at the opposite end of the year. I took all sorts of photos over the course of a couple of days, and this zoomed-in view of sunlight shining through the autumn leaves is the one I liked best. You can see the full series here. |
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
Top ten not bird images from 2017
So here are my final ten images from 2017, none of them featuring birds! I tried to combine the two but it was an impossible task - the styles are very different and I like the process that goes into both. Birds will always be my first love, that feeling of satisfaction from getting a clean and sharp image of a bird with just the right amount of head angle, just the right light and so on, is very hard to beat. It happens so infrequently that when you do get it right you feel like jumping for joy, but landscapes and portraits (which I find very difficult) require a different mindset and different technique and can be equally rewarding. Most of these are taken at the very beginning or very end of the day. As ever it is all about the light.
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Maui sunset for me Jono
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DeleteBologna for me, despite my love of wide, open spaces. I'd been staring into that image for maybe over a minute, just losing myself in the courtyards and crazy angles. So worth all those endless stairs (that I didn't take, haha!)
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, I just Googled the Asinelli Tower...it's incredible! What the heck was going through their minds when they dreamed that one up???
ReplyDeleteImagine what it must have been like when there were 200 towers in the city! There are some old drawings that show this. There's keeping up with the Jones's and then there's keeping up with the Jones's!! Medieval Bologna took this to a whole new level!
DeleteReally difficult to pick a favourite but the sun through the trees on a crisp morning is lovely. And your personal image with daughter Kate is a really sweet photo and one you will look back on in years to come with extreme fondness I’m sure.
ReplyDeleteI like the frosty morning with the sun peeking through the trees. I also like the personal photo of daughter Kate with the white pony - a really sweet image and one that you will no doubt look back on in years to come with much fondness.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots Jono, both the birds and the non-birds. I'm learning to look at birds in light of your enthusiasm. At our beach house there were two hooded plovers nesting this year - in fact they have been coming back for years. What they lack in common sense (why do they lay their eggs in such a visible open space?), they make up for with ferocity and will attack anything that ventures near.
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