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22 December 2019

Adams Dozen – 2019 Edition

Filed under: Adams Dozen — Frank @ 10:00 PM

It has been my habit at the end of each year to choose an ‘Adams Dozen’ of photos made during the year.

This is my ninth installment. The first iteration was 2011 and for the sake of organization, here is last year’s version. One can find the rest of the years by searching the blog for “Adams Dozen”.

Here is this year’s selection.:

Williamstown, MA

Untitled

Sugar House

Amaryllis

Yellow Warbler

Halloween Pennant (immature male)

Hedgehog Mountain (with camera obscura)

Untitled

Three Peppers

Schoodic Peninsula, ME (with camera obscura)

Atlantic Sunset #2

Cape d'Or Light (with camera obscura)

For those keeping count, my Lightroom catalog says that I made 9648 exposures in 2019 and that I processed 1643 (or 17%) of the photographs. This is about a thousand less total exposures and a couple of percent more processed than last year.

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31 December 2018

Adams Dozen for 2018

Filed under: Adams Dozen — Frank @ 1:00 PM

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%).

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31 December 2017

Adams Dozen — 2017

Filed under: Adams Dozen — Tags: Birds, damselflies, landscapes — Frank @ 10:00 PM

In keeping with a tradition that I began back in 2011 (see this post), here is my “Adams Dozen” for 2017.

It was not an easy selection. (It never is!) I could have easily chosen a dozen just from either the trips* we made this year.

Instead, I tried to choose photos from throughout the year from both “exotic” locations as as well as from the “neighborhood”.

Barred Owl

Pine Bough in Snow

Willet with Prey

Green Anole

Meetinghouse (Greenfield, NH)

Juvenile Green Herons

View of Brattleboro, VT

American Rubyspot (female)

Rutting Bison #2 (Yellowstone NP)

Mountain Bluebird #2 (Yellowstone NP)

Autumnal Abstract

Derelict Truck

*Florida in March or Yellowstone and other points out west in September.

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31 December 2016

Adams Dozen – 2016

Filed under: Adams Dozen — Frank @ 6:00 PM

Well, it is that time of the year… time to choose my “Adams Dozen” for 2016.

Long-time readers will remember that at the end of each year I pick my twelve favorite (best?) photos of the year; a tradition I began back in 2011 (see this post).

In choosing photos for this collection, I did not consider images from the three projects (Barn Board, Autumnal Abstracts – 2016 and ‘Belfries, Spires, Etc.’ that I have been working on this year. The first two projects are more-or-less finished while the third is still a work in progress. These will be presented in due time.

Thus, the photos selected for my Adams Dozen are ‘singletons’ (i.e. not part of any project).

Here they are:

Craig Road Bridge in Autumn

Untitled

School House and Meeting House, Washington, NH

Untitled

Willet Foraging (Captive Island)

Tricolored Heroon (Ding Darling NWR)

Blue Jay

Stream Bluet Mating Wheel

'Sign' of the Times

Pinehole Photo Day - 2016

Blue Equivelent

You Look'n At Me?

I am still having trouble with my gallery software. I have figured out a work around for getting titles displayed but I still am unable to control the order in which the photos are displayed… #$@!&* computers!!!

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