Your favourite photo of 2016 (taken by you), and why

[ornate_wrasse]

This is my favorite image from 2016. I was doing some street photography for a photo workshop and I started to follow a man walking his huge dog. I took a few rather ordinary pictures of the two of them and then, all of a sudden, the dog jumped up to face his master in an act of pure affection. The image seems to capture that most amazing love between a man and his dog and that is what I like about it.

 

[j.scooter]

Nice one!

I love the matching expressions.

 

[mike rosenlof]

I took this in Tokyo, my first time there in nine years. It was a warm night in early October, and many restaurants and bars in the Asakusa area had tables set up outside.

I like it for the feel of the night, for the woman and her partially hidden companion, for the peripheral details in the shadows, the brick sidewalk the kegs and the advertisements.

 

[nikon_sam]

This would be my favorite for the year...
I photographed the man on the right about an hour earlier pushing his cart up hill on the same street. I went walking and later found him sitting by this Metro Station. I had a 24mm lens on the camera and didn't think I had the time to change to my 85mm for a closer look. I walked a little closer focused as quickly as I could and took the shot (which I slightly cropped). I didn't want to embarrass the homeless man or make him feel uncomfortable but he did see me take the shot...I waved and nodded then went on my way...I only got the one shot and was very happy with the result...
What caught my eye was the two men in different situations...one most likely homeless with all his possessions in the cart sitting on a plastic paint bucket and the other man sitting on a newspaper working on his laptop with only a steel beam separating them...

 

[Joe Jesus]

I only took this a few days ago, but its my favorite image of 2016. After a long year of nonstop college and pseudo-full time employment, a couple of friends and I took a trip to North Carolina to hit up the Great Smokey Mountains. It was an 11 hour drive, but completely worth it. This image was taken on an overlook near Cataloochee, at the top of a winding one lane dirt road up the mountain. I propped my D700 against my notebook and set the self timer for the first time since I bought the camera.


I'm the lean bean on the left.

 

[johnno`]

This is my fave, more so for the "I couldn`t care less", Attitude

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Probably this one, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art—a serendipitous moment. This was taken with an M9, but my phone was probably my most successful camera this year.



Villanova, yours is terrific.

 

[kxl]

Robert - I can find no words of my own to say, so I hope you allow me the honor of echoing yours (from "A Lullaby for Surviving").

Wire grass
creek-willow sedge
and sassafras
stanch the sunburnt edge

of evening's western coast. A catbird,
charcoal touched red, ignites the first syllable
of night's original word --

 

[Brian Atherton]

I don’t post images on RFF simply because I wish avoid duplication and complication of posting on more than one website. Everything I want to share goes on my website (below).

A running theme of my work concerns documenting alienation and isolation in cities, especially my home city, London.

A favourite from last year is one I took of a young man outside the Tate Modern Gallery, London, surrounded by crowds, seemingly oblivious to all, hugging a tree. He was with the tree for a number of minutes, shunning all contact with other people going about their business just out of camera shot, preferring the company of the sapling: (asingulareye.wordpress.com\gallery\2016\monochrome\Tate Modern, London, England – 2016)… the image is about half-way down.

Nothing I have taken, though, remotely compares to the power and emotion of Robert Hill Long’s image of his late wife and son. I’m not ashamed to say that reading his explanation reduced me to tears.

Thank you, Robert, for sharing a so raw and meaningful image. I wish you well.

Have a good 2017 everyone.

 

[giulio stucchi]

I could have chosen one of the hundreds portrait of my daughter I took this year, they are of course all very important to me but the winner for this year is the portrait of Matteo and Sandra taken "A La Morte Subite" in Brussels.

I consider it the finest portrait I took last year and it's very important to me as me and Matteo are friends since 20 years now and our friendship has always been something special and very important for both of us.

He didn't always had an easy life and knowing he has now found the right person to share the rest of his life makes me really happy.

I am planning to get this printed as part of my wedding presents for Matteo and Alessandra next May. I' ll be the best man.

m6, summaron 35 2.8, tri-x 400

Giulio

 

[Erik van Straten]

A very good portrait, Giulio! Happy new year!

Erik.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

A fun, but tough question. It's inevitably, going to be a photo from one of my favorite times during the year but there were so many good ones this year I didn't find it easy to choose. But I settled on this one:

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That evening was something else. Well, morning really, and late morning at that -- part of an all night gypsy jazz jam with some absurdly talented musicians and a few other people who quickly bonded into a tight if fleeting clique for a series of all night escapades in the days following this photo. And I see, in this photo, some of the exhaustion and bliss I felt just then.

Such an excellent shot. Great stuff.

 

[Don Parsons]

My favorite

My favorite

I took this picture of my son at the annual EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh, WI this summer. We were walking out to the Warbird area one morning and it started raining, so we ran for the nearest cover. In this case, that happened to be under the wing of a (replica) Titan P-51 Mustang.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

...the portrait of Matteo and Sandra taken "A La Morte Subite" in Brussels.

Haha, I remember this one! Really good shot.

Also, Robert, my condolences for your loss—I hope 2017 is a better year for your family.

 

[muaomicha]

This is my favorite of 2016 (although not my best), because it shows the direction I want to go with my photography: more intimacy, more expression.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

This is my favorite of 2016 (although not my best), because it shows the direction I want to go with my photography: more intimacy, more expression.

That's one hell of a first post. I really like this.

 

[steve kessel]

This one because I found the environment challenging and I enjoy looking at it

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

This is my favorite of 2016 (although not my best), because it shows the direction I want to go with my photography: more intimacy, more expression.

Terrific picture, muaomicha!

 

[airfrogusmc]

 

[ornate_wrasse]

That's quite a powerful image.

Well done.