Thanks to Doug Brown, Bil Jobes and the BPN Think Tank of moderators.
Please post your most memorable, not necessarily "best", but the one that has that special story or sentiment behind.
One entry per person, please :)
Thanks to Doug Brown, Bil Jobes and the BPN Think Tank of moderators.
Please post your most memorable, not necessarily "best", but the one that has that special story or sentiment behind.
One entry per person, please :)
For me getting a passable image in difficult conditions makes an image memorable.
Had to walk across a beach against a gale force wind off the sea, and then tried to get the wave's impact on the large rock.
Next time use burst mode !!!
Cheers: Ian Mc
This image brings tears to my eyes every time I look at it. It could have been one of the great shots of my photographic lifetime. Close but no cigar! I've been holding onto it for inspiration. I'm thinking maybe I should stop torturing myself and delete it! :D:);):eek:
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From our trip with the kids to the UK. Photography was not able to be a priority and I took my IR camera as I knew a lot of the time we would be in harsh light as it was mid summer. I had hoped for a nice sky at Stonehenge and it all worked out OK but took some patience to achieve a view without lines of people - doesn't look it but we were in quite a crowd.
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My most memorable image was this taken at Arches National Park. I've been wanting to go there so bad. Seeing this place for the first time was breathtaking. I was finally there.
I went to a nearby lake one morning where I go quite often to practice bird photography and I plunked down on the ground to just sit and think for awhile when an entire flock of kildeer, along with their babies, came up out of nowhere and started to feed. This little one walked within mere feet of my 70-200 lens and I barely moved, not wanting the mother to get startled or upset. I don't think I'd ever been so close to such a spindley little bird and it was truly a wonder to watch. The fact that they walked all around me all morning long and never got startled or upset made my day. I still remember seeing this image in my lens and smiling from ear to ear. When they finished feeding, I got up and went back to the car and just sat for the longest time. It's such a privelege to hold a camera up to the miracle of life and take it's portrait.
I'll always remember 2009 as the year of the owl...10 species in one year..many staying around all winter, with many opportunities to photograph them. This Great Grey started it all. Some of you will recognize this photo. Not my best of this owl but one of the better ones.
This is a great idea folks. :)
Here is my absolute fave of 2009! There are a number of reasons why I chose this shot:
1) I totally adore owls, they are my fave birds
2) I worked hard at achieving this image
3) I used manual everything, including focus
4) I am totally stoked that I was privileged to see this
5) Did I say I just LOVE OWLS?
Have a great 2010 everyone!
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This one always brings a smile to my face. The pregant wild mare gave birth two days later. A week after that she and her new foal were in another stallion's band.
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I have one that I always wanted with all the participants legs off the ground at once but it's not handy.
I have a series of these dancing sanderlings that I put into black and white. I have named the set 'Strictly Sanderlings!' (Our version of 'Dancing With The Stars' is 'Strictly Come Dancing'...:D)
To me, this shows them as they really are - almost like little wind-up toys - I almost called the series 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles', for those of you who know your Haruki Murakami!!! :eek:
Merry Christmas everyone!
Warmest regards to all,
Nicki
Your owl is certainly one of the best I've seen. Amazing capture!
I have several photos of killdeer chicks. I photographed some that were just hatched to one day old. I was able to keep my distance with a 100 - 400 IS L. The first one is one of my favorites even though it's moving away from me. and the 2nd one is a family shot. There are 2 newly hatched chicks underneath her.
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I hope you all had as hard a time, choosing the one image, as I did. I thought this was a bad year, until I started to go through some of the images and try to say this is it. There were many to choose from, that were special at the time and continue to be for me. But as we were limited to 2009 images and as we were limited to one, this is what I felt was a very memorable moment.
This image was taken earlier this year at Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach. It is a site my wife and I enjoy visiting, when we do not make it into the field, to watch the interaction of the animals who are free to roam within the park, while the visitors are confined to their "cages" (vehicles).
This is a family image of Jazi, born December 9, 2008, and what is presumed to be her family, who were resting during one of our visits. It's been fun following the adventures of Jazi over the past 12 months as she grows bigger and frolics more.
Hope you enjoy!
Hope you agree that it was a good photo year!
Make A Great Day!
Last edited by Mark Fuge; 12-24-2009 at 08:24 AM.
This was my first opportunity to photograph eagles at close enough range to actually get good details. Blackwater WLR in Maryland . As most of you know eagles can sit for hours on a perch and not do much. I did wait a long time in the rain for this one to take off. I do wish I had my 1.4 TC on at the time, but I am still happy with the image. I even have sold a few!
Before last winter I had never seen a Snowy Owl in the wild. There were several sightings last winter and I went to Long Island a couple of times, sometimes I found one, sometimes three, sometimes I went home without a single image, but always hoped to get one in first light. That morning it happened, a snowy owl was sitting on a dune and I hoped it would stay and got really lucky. :)
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I am with Doug and Harshad on this one. The sun had just come up on a cold crisp morning; you can see some ice crystals on the Harrier's back. There was just a little bit of light and the bird just flew a tad too far past me to have a really nice photo for me. It has got me going back and back again to get the one I want though. Dave
One morning, I had been outside with my camera for a bit. I didn't really find anything photo-worthy; but a little while after I came in, I was very surprised to find this praying mantis on my shirt! My guess is that he really wanted his picture taken! :D Of course I obliged, after taking him back outside and coaxing him off my shirt.
What made this experience even more memorable is the fact that I had only photographed praying mantises twice before, and both of those times the mantis was not at all cooperative. So it was a very memorable experience to make friends with this little guy, and I got a great photo for a bonus. :)
As a serious hobbyist, this year BPN has been a source of inspiration for me. I had the opportunity to post and learn from the critiques as well as study fantastic images of others. I had posted this image recently in ‘eager to learn forum’ and has special significance. It took me three afternoons to plan and position myself and get the image I was looking for. In the end, I was pleased with what I got. It also summarizes the gains from this year’s effort in learning and time well spent in BPN.
For me, 2009 will always be the year that I started doing bird photography. Needless to say, one of the best yrs of my life. This Snowy egret shot has a special place for me as it won the grand prize in a local contest. I had entered it in B&W category and it beat all the color photos as well :-) But many folks on BPN liked the colored version more so I will post both here.
Thx everyone for the critiques and inspiration. Its safe to say that the improvement I am seeing in my work would not have been so without BPN.
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I captured this snowy in late November, 2009, at the Salton Sea - one year after taking up bird photography. This trip was the culmination of my month of field shooting which included 8 days at Bosque. With the help of Jim Neiger and Doug Brown at Bosque, I felt that I really started to learn how to make good bird captures. Thanks to Artie for getting me hooked on the concept of birds as art and for the wealth of knowledge you have shared!!
"It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart, and head." - Henri Cartier Bresson
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My most memorable image for 2009 was witnessing & photographing a Zebra birth! A first in nearly 20 years of traveling to Africa and a first for our guide of 13 years experience.
Moremi Game Reserve- Botswana Sept '09.
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Experience for rest of life Marc :)
Thanks to guide extraordinaire David Cramer, I was able to capture this wild stallion just as the sun was setting on my first day in New Mexico. What a way to start off a trip. I think it's my favorite b/c I had never photographed wild horses before and b/c this scene was so unexpected.
I would say this was my most favourite image. This guy snuck up on me and we played hide and seek for a while before he scampered off.
From May 2009 in a spot that comes close to perfect for Osprey in Maine each Spring for two weeks with the Alewife Run. 1Dmk3 on 500f4, f6.3 at 1/1250 in Manual, hand held. Bob
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