This post represents the eighth annual installment in my “Adams Dozen” tradition. Whereby, as each year ends, I choose a dozen of my favorite photographs from the past year.
In the first installment of this series, I stated that choosing twelve photographs was “not as hard as I thought it might be”. However, it is my impression that the selection becomes more difficult each year. I do not have a clue why this seems so, but I struggled this year to narrow the group down to just a dozen.
I could have filled out my selection just using photos from our trip to the Grand Canyon and other places in the southwest but I worked to pick images from throughout the year. The first of this set was made back in January and the last two about six weeks ago in mid-November.
Without further ado, here are the twelve photographs, representing roughly one-percent* of my “keepers” for the year:
Ice Abstract
Spring Runoff
Untitled
Frosted Whiteface Mating Wheel
Bluet
Grand Canyon (from the North Rim)
Canyon Light (Grand Canyon from the Colorado River)
Capitol Reef NP
Tower Ruin - Mesa Verde NP
Great Sand Dunes NP
Grange Hall, East Washington, NH
Church Interior
* For those who are keeping track, my Lightroom catalog says that I made 10,733 exposure this year. Of that number I finalized 1542 (about 14%) of them. The former number is a bit lower than it has been in the past (the average for the five previous years is about 13,800) and the latter number is a bit higher than usual (again the average for the past five years is 10.7%).