2015 Favorites

I wasn’t planning on doing a favorites of 2015 post. First, because I’m of the opinion that feeling good or bad over an arbitrary time period is a waste of time. I live my life and create art as best as I can and I assume that my intentions are ultimately realized.

Second, and probably more important, is that I am notoriously bad at choosing photos that I think are good. My favorites are usually what I shot last week. Picking some images objectively takes a much longer time.

Here is an image I shot at the end of may.

I only decided that it may have some merit last month, yet now it’s on my favorites list.

I was feeling pretty negative about my recent images and I decided to give them a look over to see if my opinions were valid. To my pleasant surprise, there were many that I really liked. So, I decided to make a favorites list after all.

I shot mostly abstracts in 2015. I started experimenting with using flash, initially to balance the foreground with a rising sun, but then started using flash with show shutter speeds giving a mixture sharp and blurred. The image below is a good example of this.

I don’t make new years resolutions, but for what it’s worth, I’d like to do more landscapes in 2016. Here’s one of the few landscapes that made my list.

You can see all of my 2015 favorites here.

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~ by danbaumbach on December 29, 2015.