My best (?) photos of 2023
I follow a few photographers on YouTube and a day or so ago I watched a video where one of them explained how he always looked back over the photographs he'd taken during the year and chose his 10 favourites. I thought I try the same exercise and I've put them in a Flickr Album (Link here...)
To be honest, looking back through them in this way, I was a bit disappointed with the photos taken this year. However, on thinking about it, I haven't been out specifically to take photographs. The professional landscape photographers I follow go to specific locations, spend time on their own scouting around, then set up the camera on a tripod and choose the ideal camera settings. Of course they also have newer and better cameras and lenses and filters which helps.
Meanwhile I'll go for a walk somewhere with my husband and just snatch shots as I see them. Mostly the photos are illustrative rather than intended to stand as images in their own right, so I suppose it's not surprising I don't have any stunners amongst them.
Perhaps in 2024 I ought to make the effort to go out alone with my camera sometimes, specifically to take photos? There's no real reason why I haven't been doing that, though the weather sometimes dictates that the only fine day is the day in the week is the day we go for a walk.
To be honest, looking back through them in this way, I was a bit disappointed with the photos taken this year. However, on thinking about it, I haven't been out specifically to take photographs. The professional landscape photographers I follow go to specific locations, spend time on their own scouting around, then set up the camera on a tripod and choose the ideal camera settings. Of course they also have newer and better cameras and lenses and filters which helps.
Meanwhile I'll go for a walk somewhere with my husband and just snatch shots as I see them. Mostly the photos are illustrative rather than intended to stand as images in their own right, so I suppose it's not surprising I don't have any stunners amongst them.
Perhaps in 2024 I ought to make the effort to go out alone with my camera sometimes, specifically to take photos? There's no real reason why I haven't been doing that, though the weather sometimes dictates that the only fine day is the day in the week is the day we go for a walk.