Your favourite photo( taken by yourself) of 2021

keps · 10-12-2021 10:30pm #1

It has been a strange couple of years - with the covid virus dominating our lives.

But we all kept going out with our cameras.

What was your favourite picture of the last 12 months?

keps · 10-12-2021 10:37pm

I do think my perceptions have been altered by the 'almost surreal' events which have unfolded since Covid 19 arrived.

My fav of the year reflects that - I think

The sad death of the one-day mushrooms

Adrian.Sadlier · 11-12-2021 12:40am

I can't pick between these two shots, both taken within a few minutes of each other, at the end of February.

They are not my technically my best shots, by a mile. But I keep harping back to them. I can't get their faces out of my head.

They sum up the "elephant in the room" for me, the "pandemic". The first I call "Loneliness of Lockdown" and the second "What happens next?".

I talked to the elderly man and his story brought home how we have abandoned the elderly. And I left him, feeling I have failed the older part of our nation.

The second is of a young girl, riding free in the sunshine, in a park with her mom. Normally, she would have a smile on her face, showing the exuberance and joie de vivre of youth. Instead it shows the uncertanancy and fear we have foisted on the young, because of our own fears of our mortality. Not theirs. And I went home, feeling ashamed.

keps · 11-12-2021 12:59am

@Adrian

the backlight in that photo of the young girl cyclist is stunning

BeardySi · 21-12-2021 11:58am

Lots of good ones this year, but I keep coming back to this. Taken on Kodak gold 200 on my OM-2.

As close to straight out of the camera as you get with only a minor colour correction to account for the scanner overcompensating for the large dark areas.