Favorite Shots from 2022
This is going to be a short newsletter. We’ve had some family emergencies lately, and I haven’t been able to sit down and write this as I should. But I didn’t want to miss a newsletter, so in this issue I’ll quickly show you a few images that I’m sorting through trying to select my favorites of 2022.
This is an exercise that I do every year, and if you’d like to read about my process, I wrote about it last year at this time in my Favorite Images of 2021 newsletter. After I’m done, I always post all the images on my website with descriptions of them. So, I’ll wait to do the final descriptions until then. Here are a few thoughts about this year and a few images.
Before I dive into this, you can still get my 2023 calendars.
So far this year, I have my favorite images narrowed down to 32 images. I like to select one image from each month and there are a few months that that is going to be hard this year.
There are other months that I have lots of photos to select from. The five images below come from February. I like all of them for different reasons and I’m not sure which one I’ll select as my favorite.
In March, I went to the Badlands and Black Hills. I’m leaning towards the following image of a white cedar tree against a golden background
But it could easily be one of the others.
Selecting favorite images seems so final, because I have to pick just one from each month to continue this project as I’ve been doing it since 2011. But, April seems easy. I was in the Smoky Mountains and had the perfect sunrise at one of the iconic spots in the park.
May, June and July are sparse for images, but by August I have four that are going to be hard to select from. All of these could easily be my favorite for different reasons.
One of the easiest comes from September. My kid and I went camping and he got up to watch and photograph the sunrise with me.
October is really hard. There are so many shots that I’m not going to post them all. I don’t know how I’m going to pick. But November has a clear winner. I’ve been trying to get a good winter shot of a red cabin on a lake just off the Gunflint Trail for years. This year I timed it perfectly. We had a big snowstorm before the lake frozen.
We’re not done with December, yet, so I don’t know. But so far there are two clear front runners. I’ve done a similar composition to the one on the left in the past, so I’m leaning towards the fish house shot.
It seems I have my work cut out for me.
Until next time
I hope you enjoyed this brief newsletter. If you are gearing up for winter photography, you may want to watch this video about winter clothing choices and read about the gloves that I use.
I’ll see you again in two weeks.