Best of 2008!

[Nike]

Following ukanfoff's suggestion - here's the thread for your best of 2008!

Show us 5-10 photos that you concider your best of 2008, well presented, and maybe also share some thoughts about your choice.
What were your goals, what did you learn, what did you focus on...

for inspiration:

best of 2007

best of 2006

[stine]

great idea to have a little best of gallery going on here.

here's mine. took me quite a while to figure out which photos i liked best. if you have followed my thread here, there probably isn't much new in here, but i hope i have a nice little collection to start this off anyway.

"happy new year!"





"sunwheel"





"instant enlightenment"





"craning its neck"





"fragile"





"trooper"





"wasp bath"





"montegues vs. capulets"





"emil"





"frosty flower"

[ukanfoff]

nice color and composition.

[ukanfoff]

Photographed a lot of stuff this year.
hope yall like it.

[ukanfoff]

epic thread fail.

[purplerose]

Gah! Don't close the thread yet. I still have a zillion photos to process from 2008 *faints*


Awesome posts from 2 of my favorite photogs here.

[Nike]

hehe, I'm also still organizing my 2008 chaos on 3 different harddisks. Give me a few days to join in

And this thread is not a fail, alone because of the fact that stine and you have posted awesome photos already! Great work, both of you!

[purplerose]

2008 was a very, very busy year for me. My goals from the beginning to the end were as follows: finding my true photographic voice and trying to create a sense of fantasy, mystery and intrigue using simple objects from my world.

Out of all the photos I took, here are my top 10 (in no order) based on the 2 reasons above.

No Trespassing



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Osmosis



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Drop Into Eternity



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Cradle



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Veneration



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Intimates V



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Flow



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Ambrosia



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Desires I



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Star Grid



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Wishing everyone the best for 2009! Feels like I'm growing up with a large family.

[ukanfoff]

way awesome. awesome colors n awesome composition.

[Grumbledook]

good stuff rose

[purplerose]

Thanks guys.

Your turn Nike... we wanna see some awesomeness!

If anyone is reading this and not posting something, shame on you...

[Nike]

wow rose, that's a good collection!

Sorry if I can't come up with much awesomeness, 2008 has been mostly experimenting with photography and getting to know my tools better. I set a focus on landscapes and animals. This year's been more of a learning process.

rise


for an aquarium fish database


oxygen


my exit, unobserved


forget-me-not


dead wood


Clouds Upon Parnassos


dawn of the gods II


Throne of Zeus


fairy forest

[purplerose]

Really nice Nike! I'm glad something from the Aquarium made it to your list.

[Barbaari]

You people have so great photos that it is beyond my reason Especially Purplerose's macrophotos are just amazing. I hope I can do something like that in the future.

This year I don't post anything in this thread because I only started photographing seriously at the end of 2008 so I don't have much anything... but maybe next year I have something.

[EvrEst]

great work so far on the thread. i wish more of the die hards had posted their work! Im going to have to get involved i need motivators to make me get off my ass and put comps like above out! all of you have some amazing work. real masters of color and balance.