(I’ve closed comments on this post, since the voting deadline has passed. You can see the final selections here. Thanks to all of you who voted!)
Happy New Year!
It’s become a New Year’s tradition on this blog to pick my best images from the past year, and once again I’m inviting you to help me make these difficult choices. I’ve posted 40 of my best photographs from 2018 below, in chronological order. After you look through these, please post a comment listing your ten favorites.
You don’t have to list your ten favorites in any order, or even name them – just numbers will do. (The numbers are in the captions underneath the photographs. Also, you can click on the images to see them larger.) Once the votes are in I’ll post the top ten or twelve on this blog, and submit the final group to Jim Goldstein’s blog project, where he’ll be showcasing the best images of the year from over 300 photographers.
The voting deadline is this Wednesday, January 2nd, at midnight Pacific time.
As always, I reserve the right to override the votes if one of my favorites gets panned. But I’ve rarely had to exercise this power because my readers have excellent taste. 🙂
Thanks for your input — I appreciate your help!
— Michael Frye
1. Three Brothers at night, Yosemite
2. Misty moonrise, Half Dome and the Merced River, Yosemite
3. Oaks and sunbeams, Sierra foothills, California
4. Lunar eclipse sequence over the Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley
5. Ripples under a dusk sky, Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley
6. Geese taking flight at sunset, San Joaquin Valley, California
7. Sunbeams above a flock of Ross’s geese, San Joaquin Valley, California
8. Ross’s geese resting and preening, San Joaquin Valley, California
9. Milky Way over the Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley
10. Diagonal dunes, dawn, Death Valley
11. Milky Way over Yosemite Valley
12. Half Dome and clouds at sunset from Glacier Point, Yosemite
13. Rainbow over Yosemite Valley
14. Half Dome and Bridalveil Fall from Tunnel View at dusk, Yosemite
15. Clearing rain storm with lupines and oaks, Redwood National Park, California
16. Milky Way over a high-country lake, Yosemite
17. Columbine hybrids, Inyo NF, California
18. Cathedral Range and reflections at sunset, Yosemite
19. Paintbrush and peak, sunrise, Inyo NF, California
20. Mule deer bucks, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite
21. Milky Way, peaks, and reflections, Inyo NF, California
22. Petroglyphs and Milky Way, Owens Valley, California
23. Storm clouds over Mono Lake, California
24. Head frame and steam hoist at night, Bodie SHP, California
25. Aspen kaleidoscope, Uncompahgre NF, Colorado
26. Cattails and aspen reflections, Colorado
27. Autumn hillside in the fog, Colorado
28. Aspens and conifers in a snowstorm, Colorado
29. Sunbeams and aspens, Colorado
30. Aspens above Grant Lake, Inyo NF, California
31. Leaves and reflections, Yosemite
32. Rocks and ripples in the Merced River, Yosemite
33. Cottonwood leaves swirling in the Merced River, Yosemite
34. Ice formations, Tuolumne River, Yosemite
35. Misty sunrise, Half Dome and the Merced River, Yosemite
36. Pines, oak, and mist, Yosemite
37. Sandhill cranes at sunrise, San Joaquin Valley, California
38. Ross’s geese at sunset, San Joaquin Valley, California
39. El Capitan and the Merced River at sunset, Yosemite
40. Oak tree above a fog layer, Mariposa County, California
Related Posts: My Top Photographs of 2017; My Top Photographs of 2016; My Top Photographs of 2015
Michael Frye is a professional photographer specializing in landscapes and nature. He is the author or principal photographer of The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite, Yosemite Meditations, Yosemite Meditations for Women, Yosemite Meditations for Adventurers, and Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters. He has also written three eBooks: Light & Land: Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom, Exposure for Outdoor Photography, and Landscapes in Lightroom: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide. Michael has written numerous magazine articles on the art and technique of photography, and his images have been published in over thirty countries around the world. Michael has lived either in or near Yosemite National Park since 1983, currently residing just outside the park in Mariposa, California.
(I’ve closed comments on this post, since the voting deadline has passed. You can see the final selections here. Thanks to all of you who voted!)
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Trey Steinhart
http://www.sagephotographystudio.com
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I like them all but my favorites are:
1 Best overall
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your Art.
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My 11 favorite picks are
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Here’s my favorites. 1,9, 12, 16, 19, 27, 28, 31, 33 & 36. Can’t wait to see others favorites. Have a Happy New Year!
These are always hard to choose! I picked the ones I did because of some combinations of: they remind me of what I love about the area photographed, they are different from other images I’ve seen of yours, they are different than what I see by others.
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All great but my 10 choice is 1-2-3-4-10-12-16-19-29-35
Andy
1,5,13,20,23,26,31,33,36,38.
Thank you for your inspired work.
3, 11, 12, 13, 17, 31, 33, 36, 39, 40
#9, #11, #21, #39
Number 1, 3, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 26, 29, 35
Picking 10 was not easy.
2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 33, 36
1,2,7,12,14,16,17,19,33,35
Hard to choose, but here are my selections:
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1, 5, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 33, 38, 31 you had a year anyone would proud of. Tough to choose only 10.
Thanks for another great year Michael. I’ve been looking forward to this! My only disappointment is the lack of Rhodies and Redwoods this year. 🙁
1,10,12,13,14,15,19,20,36,37
3,10,12,20,21,24,27,33,36,37 What a wonderful collection of images. Difficult to select only 10.
2,4,5,9,15,16,17,20,21,24
1, 9, 11, 13, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 39
1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 16, 24, 31
Michael, I love following your work. Very inspiring! Thank you. My favorites are:
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Thank you for the inspiration Michael, I just wish I could spend more time pursuing my own efforts to capture evocative landscapes. As others noted tough choices, however, these are the ones that inspire me to get out there and shoot. 3, 6, 16, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 36, and 39
As usual, stunning and memorable images of places I love. What an inspiration! My choices:
40, 35, 36, 33, 26, 20, 19, 16, 15, 9
Great work as always, which makes it hard to choose. My favs are: 1,12,13,16,21,24,26,33,35,39
Michael, all are marvelous, as always !
3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 25, 31, 36
Happy New Year to you !
Dale
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Michael, my favorites are: 1, 4, 10, 12, 13, 21, 23, 29, 33, and 36. I picked those because each of those photographs had brief, fleeting drama that you captured and composed perfectly: rainbows, God rays, swirling mist, storm clouds and light just touching the edges of the subject. All of these are very inspirational!
My Picks, for all it’s worth, are:
1, 9, 12, 4, 15, 16, 33, 37, 19, 38
As usual, very difficult to narrow it down to only 10 images.
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Also, I need to up my game!
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Here are my picks; it was VERY hard:
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My choices in this order: 12, 29, 35, 36, 16
Ha, “Great minds …” Happy New Year! 🙂
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That was a very good year. Wishing you and yours all the best in a very Happy New Year!
10, 33, 34, 3, 4, 15, 24, 26, 28, 19
1,2,4,6,9,12,13,23,36,40
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I always look forward to this email. There are many lovely images again this year, Michael! Thanks for sharing your world and work with us.
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As usual; you make it difficult to pick just 10.
My votes are as follows: 4,8,9,12,16,26,34.36,37,& 40.
Loved the Yosemite pictures because I was born there. 2,11,15,16,21,22,28,29,36,1
9, 12, 13, 14, 16
21, 24, 33, 26, 38
I like numbers 9, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 25, 29, 31, and 35 best. But who could argue with any choices?
2, 9, 12, 13, 14, 21, 23, 29, 35, 39
Beautiful!
2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 33,35
1,15,11,2,19,21,17,16,13,26
3,8,9,11,12,16,23,31,33,36. Happy New Year. Thanks for letting us vote, it is a great New Year tradition!
All excellent, with 26 being a pure gem!
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Thanks Michael for another great year of images…Marlin
2,5,112,13,15,20,24,26,35,36
Love them all – hard to pick ten!
4, 8, 12, 13, 21, 24,25 39, 33, 23
hike!
All are beautiful – as always – but here are my favorites.
3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 19, 27, 36
1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 20, 24, 29, 33, 39
My favorites are these six:
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Thank you for sharing your work with us throughout the year. Wishing you and your family a wonderful 2019!
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Tough choices – especially when you go back over them a second and third time. (Do you get runner-ups)?
After agonizing, I came up with: 1,2,9,10,12.16,32, 35,36 & 39
Great photography!
5,11,12,14,15,16,27,29,33,35. In general loved all the fog and mist images – something I would like to get better at!
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There are some amazing images in your presentation. There are many images that appear to be far too manipulated in post processing.
All exceptional images! My picks: 3, 5, 10, 14, 15, 19, 27, 33, 39, 40
Happy New Year to you, Claudia and the family. All the best in 2019.
This year, as always, was so difficult to choose only ten.
The absolute number one choice was 36. The other nine choices, not in any particular order are 1, 2, 6, 12, 13, 17, 22, 35, 39. The other image for someone who only picked nine numbers would be 19.
Fabulous fog photos. My favorites are:
2, 4, 8, 9, 15, 13, 16, 19, 20, 38.
Beautiful set of pictures as usual. My favorites are: 3, 4, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 29, 33, and 37. Cheers for a happy New Year and more great photos!
Well done, Michael!
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25,26,3,4,5,12,16,19,23,31. Happy New Year to you and Claudia.
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It’s difficult to narrow it down! Here goes: 1, 5, 11, 12, 19, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37
Thanks for caring so deeply for those without voices…nature and wildlife. Your photos show that passion. My vote….1,4,6,9,10,12,19,23,29 and 40.
As usual it is absolutely inspirational looking at your work. Thank you for once again allowing us to vote. My choices are 2,5,9,12,16,20,23,24,32,and 37.
37, 35, 31, 28, 23, 20, 16, 12, 3, 8.
VERY hard to pick. My favorites are:
4, 6, 8, 15, 16, 19, 21, 31, 33, 38. Happy New Year to you and Claudia!
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Beautiful images. These are the ones that stand out to me personally:
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As always, really tough to limit to ten.
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Aloha and mahalo Michael for sharing your art with us throughout the year. my favorites are 1,2,3,5,16,21,22,31,34,and 35 – with next favorites being 11 and 38.
Very hard for me to choose but here goes:
5, 9, 16, 18, 29(!), 32, 33, 36, 35, 39
Challenge to pick only ten:
2,7,9,11,12,16,19,24,35 and 39
Here you go Michael:4,12,13,16,19,29,31,33,35, and 36.
Thank you for posting them, and happy new year.
Hardest year to pick 10, Michael.
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Here are my top 10–wish 10 could be 12.
1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 16, 20, 37. Happy New Year!
1, 11, 19, 20, 24, 26, 32, 33, 36, 37
Wishing you and Claudia a healthy and joyous 2019!
Always so hard to pick. My favorites 1, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 24, 34, 35 Wishing you and Claudia a Healthy and Happy New Year!
Micheal here are my favourites
3,4,9,12,15,27,29,36,38
1,2,14,21,27,35,39
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This was so hard as and choosing 10 was very difficult.
3, 5, 9, 12, 13, 24, 25, 35, 36, 39.
Hi, Michael: Another great year, as usual! Here is my list: 2, 4, 9, 12, 15, 23, 25, 27, 36, 39.
Happy New Year!
13, 16, 18, 19, 23, 26, 31, 33, 35, 38.
Happy New Year to you, Claudia and Rider!
Amazing images, as always. Thank you for sharing them, Michael.
My picks are: 5,10,23,26,27,32,33,35,36,38
Happy New Year!
Congrats on another phenomenal year of creating images! My picks, in no particular order are 4, 9, 12, 13, 19, 25, 29, 15, 16, 38
1,2,12,13,16,20,27,33,35,36
3, 5, 7, 12, 14, 15, 23, 31, 36, 40
Happy New Year!
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Ian on January 2019 My Favorites
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Thank you for another inspired year!
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Thank you Michael for another year of inspirational and brilliant photography!
My choices are: 3,4,6,9,21,22,24,26,29.& 39.
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Extraordinary as always.
Very hard choices!
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I like them all but my 10 favorites are:
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You have some amazing photos. Here are my favorites:
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1,2,3,8,12,19,20,21,33,35
11, 12, 13, 19, 29, 35, 39, 9, 17, 20
Hi Michael. I loved seeing you’re beautiful photos and that you came to the San Joaquin Valley to do your work!.
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Congrats to this excellent portfolio! My choices:
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Awesome set of images, Michael!
My favorites:
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Happy New Year!
1.3.11.12.16.18.19.26.29.35. Thankyou for your wonderful images
Simply beautiful, Michael. If I had taken one of these, last year would have been a photographic success. Many thanks for all your contributions to landscape photography. Looking forward to your posts in 2019!
5, 10, 12, 19, 15, 25, 27, 35, 37, 38
Incredible, all:
2,3,14,16,18,19,24,33,35,39
Inspirational!!!!
5, 9, 12, 18, 29, 33, 35, 36, 39.
It was a hard job: 2,5,9,10,12,23,27,29,37,38.
Sehr schöne Fotos. Die Besten sind, 3, 12,13,15,19,21,26,33.37.38.
Einfach fantastisc!
3,5,25,26,30,31,33,35,38,39
3, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 28, 40
Choosing 20 was easy, 15 was hard, and 10 was … ugh! 🙂
Michael, have you tried doing a similar project over larger chunks of time? Say, best images over the past X years? 5 or even 10 years? Just curious.
Very nice work. My favorites are
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Michael, these are my favourites:
5,8,12,15,9,27,29.31.34.36
Great images!
11, 16, 21, 27, 31, 33, 36, 3, 4, 19
4, 9, 13, 15, 16, 20, 23, 26, 28, 37
Amazing photos of CA and CO. How about TX?
https://www.cfitchfoto.com/
Scott
9, 10, 14,15,17,19,25,29,32,33
All are beautiful! Here’s my favorites:
1, 4, 9, 14, 21, 27, 35, 36, 39, 40
1, 2, 12, 13, 14, 18, 33, 35, 37, 38
4, 5, 8, 11, 38, 7, 9, 13, 16, 21
As usual many excellent photos. MY choices are 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 27, 29, 36, 37.
My favorite New Year’s Day activity!
3,5,10,13,16,19,20,26,28,31.
Here are my favorites in order:
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My top five are 16, 19, 31, 33, and 36… Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year, Michael!
They are all great shots!! My picks are 2, 4, 9, 11, 12, 16, 32, 33, 19, 40.
Best of luck and Happy New Year!!!
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Michael, as always, this is SO hard! But I have pared down my favorites to these ten: 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 26, 27, 33, 35, 36.
Hi Michael, difficult to pick 10 because they are all great. But these are my top picks.
1, 2, 12, 16, 19, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40
Happy New Year
Greetings from Austria
Guenther
1, 11, 12, 16, 19, 26, 29, 37, 39
Thank you for sharing your images and knowledge. Happy new year!
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Hope this helps. Happy New Year.
1,5,8,12,13,19,20,29,34,39
1,2,5,9,12,19,22,26,31,40
1, 3, 15, 16, 19, 20, 30, 33, 36, 38
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 13,19, 20, 33, 38
Thank you for another inspirational year, and best wishes for 2019!
thanks for sharing your photos. I sélected: 2, 3, 4, 9, 16, 26, 29, 33,
35, 36.
from Montreal.
5,6,8,9,11,12,19,20,27,37
Difficult only to pick 10
Happy New Year from Denmark
It’s hard to choose :
5, 6, 8, 10, 20, 23, 28, 33, 38, 40
38, 37, 30, 28, 27, 26, 25, 17, 15, 1
All beautiful – my favorites: 36, 29, 28, 27, 26, 19, 15, 6, 5, and 1. Thank you for sharing them with the world!
Michael, thank you for all you do for photography.
1, 5, 12, 14, 24, 25, 26, 35, 39, 40.
3, 6, 12, 16, 17, 19, 27, 29, 33, 35
My favorites are 1,2, 12, 16, 21, 33, 35, 20, 8, 4
Just a suggestion: could you have the submit comment at the top of the list instead of the bottom of everyone’s listings. I almost gave up.
Love your photos.
2,4,12,13,16,18,23,25,29,37
Fabulous images and a great New Year tradition!
6/18,20, 23, 26, 28, 32 Looke like you had a very good year, well done.
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So many beautiful images. So difficult to choose 10:
1, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 27, 29
Wonderful collection!
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Here are my favorites. 2,3,14.15,20,26,27,36,37,40.
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Happy New Year Michael and Claudia! You do make this difficult, don’t you?
My selections are: 3,4,8,12,13,26,28,31,35,and 38.
If I had to do this again I suspect at least half of these would be eliminated and another 5 selected…I guess that makes it pretty subjective, huh?
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2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 29 and 35.
Thank you for all of these great images.
Wow, a great crop! 35, 39, 12, favs
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Another great year and a challenge to choose just 10 favorites.
3,4,5,8,13,15,19,29,33,35
Another set of fantastic images.
2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 16, 24, 25, 32, 40
3, 4, 5, 12, 14, 16, 23, 26, 27, 38.
Thank you, such beauty captured for us.
Very difficult assignment. Awesome images! Thanks!
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Thanks for the great images! Peter
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I had to go through them several times to find 10 of them. Four of them were a “wow” right from the start. The others are second favorites. Normally I have a hard time narrowing down my choices.
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Hi Michael, wishing you and your family a happy healthy New Year. This is always such a difficult choice… Your photography is so good. Had to go back a few times to eliminate. I think I’ve made up my mind on the following top 10, here it goes: 1, 9, 10, 11, 16, 22, 27, 31, 33, 36.
Thank you for the opportunity to vote and keep up the great work. You are an inspiration. Cheers!
Happy New Year Michael! As always, great photos – so hard to decide 10 best. My favorites are 1,17,19,20,24,26,33,35,36,38.
I must have looked at them all at least 20 times. So very hard to choose only ten from that great lineup! Thank you for this opportunity, and happy 2019 to you and Claudia! My choices are: 5, 16, 19, 24, 28, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38
Thank you Michael for adding such joy to our lives – your photography is simply outstanding in every way! My votes:
1,2,4,8.11.12.15.16.19.29
4,5,11,14,16,17,21,23,24,28,35
Michael, will you please tell us what are your favorite images from 2018 are ?? All the images are wonderful, but my
favorites are 5, 12, 20, 34, and 35.
As always, they are all fantastic, but my choices for ten most fantastic are: 3, 6, 8, 11, 16, 17, 20, 26, 38, and 39.
Hard to pick. I like them all. Favorites are: 1,3,4,9,16,19,29,33,35 and 38.
Oh the nights spent up all night!!!! Such dedication. I LOVE watching it!!!
My favourite is: 19, then the geese – 8 and 38, then the river 32, then lupins, 15.
Thank you so very much for your images and your commentary.
3,5,10,12,14,15,19,26,31 and 40
This is my favorite part of the new year! Thank you for the fun. 13, 16, 19, 29, 31, 33, 35, 11, 15, 21
Tom
Favorites are 2,5,10,12,15,16,25,27,37,38
My favorites are (not in order of liking): 15, 16, 19, 28, 33
Wow! All Fantastic- 1 , 16, 39
3,4,5,9,11,17,18,26,32,33
6,10,12,19,22,26,28,31,36, & 40
4,16,19,20,21,25,29,30,35,38
My choices, which were hard to make
1,2,5,13,14,15,29,31,35,39
Can I choose 40? It would be easy then. OK, Here are mine.
2,8,15,16,17,19,29,33,35,39
Comment10,16,23,24,26,30,35,36,38,40
My favourites, not in the order listed, are: 1, 4, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 35
In no particular order.
2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19 25,31, 35, 36
All are great shots. #33 I would have cropped the swirl out of the bottom. Found it very distracting while I felt the Aspens and their reflections were the real focus of the image.
Tough choices, but here goes:2,4,7,11,13,19,33,34,36, &38.
3, 33, 8, 16, 15, 35, 17, 7, 13, 36
In my preferred order (best to “worst”)
1. 12 Halfdome and clouds (20% better than any of the rest in my opinion)
2. 13 Rainbow over Yosemite
3. 19 Paintbrush and peak, InyoNF
4. 29 Sunbeams and Aspens
5. 39 El Capitan at sunset
6. 28 Aspens and conifers in a Snowstorm
7. 35 Misty sunrise Halfdome and Merced river
8. 31 Leaves and reflections
9. Rocks and Ripples in the Merced
10. Cottonwood leaves swirling in the Merced
1,4,6,7,8,10,19,22,26,31,33
These are all lovely, evocative and inspiring images, so it’s hard to pick just 10. I love all the mist and backlighting. My faves are: 1,5,9,15,16,20,21,27,35,36.
1, 2, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 29, 35, 39
Again a great year for you! Well Done!
1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 16, 20, 31, 33, 35 and many others too!
4,9,12,19,35,38,36,33,23,15
9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 29, 33, 34,35,36
Great work all the way around, but here are my faves:
1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 16, 19, 29, 31
Very good images
3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 26, 28, 38
Enjoyed
2, 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 25, 30, 31, 36
1,4,6,10,12,13,16,21,32,34
1,12,13,14,16,21,25,33,35,39
3, 12, 16, 17, 19, 24, 28, 31, 36, 38
7, 9, 13, 22, 23, 27, 32, 34, 36, 37
All of the above and more are my desktop pictures. Happy New Year!
1,2,5,12,16,20,13,26,33,38
Hi Michael,
I like:
16,18,19,23,31,33,35,40
Have a good New Year
2-4-5-9-16-19-23-29-33-35
Outstanding!
1, 10, 11, 12, 25, 27, 28, 34, 36, 37
As always, so difficult to pick just 10, Michael. Happy New Year to you and Claudia!
2, 5, 6, 10, 14, 27, 32, 34, 37, 40
1, 5, 12, 16, 19, 25, 26, 32, 36, 38
36, 33, 26, 21, 19, 16, 11, 9, 5, 12
Here are my top ten, Michael:
5
10
12
15
16
19
25
26
33
37
Amazing photos as always!
1,2,3,4,11,12,14,20,30,34
1, 4, 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 26, 30, 33
2,4,9,10,12,16,21,33,35,37
Wonderful images. My favorites:
2, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 25, 31, 35, 39
Happy New Year!
2,3,12,13,16,17,31,35,36,39
All Great,as usual!
So hard to choose!
Happy New Year!!
Thanks so much for sharing with us. So difficult to pick 10 best but here goes:
7, 10, 4, 22, 26, 27, 38, 33, 36, 29
All great! Here are my favorites:
1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 18, 21, 26, 35, and 38
Thanks for sharing.
All of the photos are amazing, so if I have to choose…1,3,4,9,13,16,23,25,28,35
1, 4, 8, 14, 15, 17, 19, 24, 33
All fabulous but my favorites