first installment<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\nI 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without further ado, here are the twelve photographs, representing roughly one-percent* of my “keepers” for the year:<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n* 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%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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