In 2011, I took at least one photo on every day of the year and uploaded it to Flickr. A lot of users do projects like this, sometimes called a 365 project. I never really announced that I was doing one but just tried to keep it going for as long as I could. Here is a sample of my best images from last year, one from each month.
- January: Red Crossbill at Seven Presidents Park
- February Tonight's Sunset (2/10/2011)
- March: Sun Rises Over Cape May Point
- April: Snowy Egret
- May: Bleeding hearts
- June: Oriental Beetle
- July: Red-banded Hairstreak
- August: Gray-hooded Gull is not impressed by your Wonder Wheel
- September: Trichopoda pennipes
- October: Hoverfly
- November: Rose and fallen leaves
- December: Douglas Firs
Eight of those twelve images were shot within a short walking distance of my home.
From among those photos, I feel that my best was this image of a hoverfly I took in October. It was feeding on a chrysanthemum in my backyard. A lot of elements came together in a photo that I did not expect to turn out so well: good lighting, enough depth-of-field to keep most of the insect in focus, and a flower whose rays lead the eye naturally to the insect. I blogged about this image
once before.
My best bird photo of the year was probably this photo of a Snowy Egret that I took at the South Cape May Meadows in April.
We are already on our third day of 2012, and I am still reviewing what happened last year. My blogging will turn to things from the new year soon, though.
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