Your favourite photo of 2017 (taken by you), and why

[lynnb]

Let's end the year by sharing which photo is your favourite of all the photos you've taken in 2017 - and why.

Please don't confuse this with 'your best photograph', although it might well be.. I think 'favourite' is the more interesting choice!

(I ran a similar thread last year - link here)

A Happy New Year to all!

 

[o-Tom-atic]

The Great journey.

It was a goose following me in the park. The picture was so random, but a the end turned out really great! :-D

 

[Keith]

Probably this photo I took of my sheep Minty a few weeks ago. He slept like this a lot ... totally relaxed and looking pretty much like he'd fallen out of a helicopter and landed in my yard!

Sadly he had to be put down a week ago because of his age and declining mobility ... it was a very hard decision and I'm still missing him a lot. He had the most beautiful nature along with a level of quirkiness that endeared him to all who met him.

 

[Richard G]

This is the bottom of the steps of the Town Hall near work in Richmond. It is the opposite of the great Italianate Victorian town halls in inner Melbourne, painfully plain. Neither I nor anyone else could have often noticed this decoration, and it is all there is. And when I walk past now it is an effort to find what I saw that sunny afternoon during the several weeks over summer when the sun hits the south face of a building in Melbourne. It was the first roll in a newly acquired Barnack with a good 1951 Elmar. I was pleased to see it and capture this on film when everything was against the hope of a good subject here.

 

[Erik van Straten]

It is my mother, 88 years old.

Leica M2, Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid, 400-2TMY.

Erik.

 

[maddoc]

201710-01-nikonosV-DELTA3200-1600-27copy by Gabor Samjeske, on Flickr

 

[jamin-b]

On holiday with my 4 girls in SF, we drove out Point Reyes for a day long hike, and on the way back decided to take the "shorter" way back to the parking lot, which was an arduous, winding road but my girls were singing and laughing the whole way up. This photo evokes for me the joys of family, youth and vacation...
NDF_8836 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr

 

[lynnb]

This picture of my wife, taken at home early in the year. When I took this we didn't know what a difficult year lay ahead of us, following eight years caring for our ill daughters. She deserves a medal for all the love, effort and self-sacrifice she has put in to caring for and supporting our girls.

portrait #013 by lynnb's snaps, on Flickr
124G Fomapan 200 in Fomadon LQN

 

[Rick Waldroup]

This was shot at an anti-racism rally in downtown Dallas, Texas. The rally was in response to a local group protesting the city government's plan to relocate several Civil War memorial statues.

Amidst all the shouting, cursing, and an occasional skirmish here and there between the different groups, I came across this trio of young people calmly sitting in a tree watching everything. If ever there was a true "calm in the middle of a storm" moment, this was it.

 

[MV72]

My two sons. One lives in Canada and the other was just back from a 16 month bicycle tour on the American continent.
We managed to find time for a holiday with the four of us which is usually hard to arrange.
I enjoyed capturing their happiness to be together.

 

[valdas]

Probably this one of my son, taken with Fuji GA645 on expired film:

I think it was a bit of luck to freeze that happy moment/emotion and that’s why it is my favorite.

 

[citizen99]

Finzels Reach Bridge construction, Bristol, 1 Feb 2017 by John Hancock, on Flickr

I like this because it shows regeneration on land and water, with a bit of colour on a February day.

 

[jsrockit]

Probably this one of my son, taken with Fuji GA645 on expired film:

I think I was a bit of luck to freeze that happy moment/emotion and that’s why it is my favorite.

Very nice...

 

[JP Owens]

Probably this one. It's just a photo of a random kid at a county fair, but the intensity of the young man in the middle of all the intense color just seems to make it for me.

 

[jamin-b]

Probably this one of my son, taken with Fuji GA645 on expired film:

I think I was a bit of luck to freeze that happy moment/emotion and that’s why it is my favorite.

Awesome!!!

 

[daveleo]

My niece Emma going to a prom.
Very independent and spunky and the family is finally embracing her assertive independence.
Has been my favorite young person since, at 5 years old, she enjoyed sharing my plate of calamari (!!).
.

 

[Steveh]

For various reasons I haven't done as much photography as I'd have liked this year but I think this one is my favourite from 2017 - I love the light, the colours and the painterly feel to it, particularly the poise and stillness of the woman in orange.

 

[mcfingon]

Hello Lynn, my favourite of 2017 taken on the last day thereof, and because the absurd appearance of water-walking canoeists amused me. All the best to all RFF members for 2018.

Leica M6 Elmar-M 50/2.8 Delta 100

 

[blumoon]

My sweet girl Izzy

[/url]Izzy and Miss Piggy 4-9-2017 [/IMG]

 

[dmr]

It's very difficult to pick absolute favorites. Two shots stand out as those I like very much, the one of the Roseman Bridge, and the one I shot coming across a very peaceful scene way out in the Middle Of Nowhere ...