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Best Photos of 2021: My Favorites of the Year /  by Todd Henson

This time of year is when some of us look back at what we’ve created and attempt to pick out the best of it, or at least our favorites. So today I’m sharing my 10 favorite photographs created in 2021. Some years it can be a challenge to find 10 photographs worthy of showing, and others it can be a challenge to narrow them down to just 10. Thankfully, this was a year when I had more than 10 to choose from.

If this is your first time seeing my work, thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy it. And if you’ve seen these all before as they were first posted throughout the year then I hope you enjoy this brief look back.

Click on any of the photos for a larger view. Below each photo is the name of the image and a link back to the blog post where it first appeared, along with the month I created it, and a link to purchase the photo as wall art or on various products (the puzzles are very cool).

 

South Fork Rapids, January (available for purchase)

Storms on Jupiter, March (available for purchase)

Mid-May Blooms, May (available for purchase)

And there they are. I’m happy with how this collection turned out and I hope you enjoyed viewing them. It’s been another tough year for many, but I’m happy to report it’s been a relatively good one for me. Any year I can create and share is a worthwhile year. And I very much appreciate you spending a little time here. Thanks very much!

How has your year been? Did you put together any lists of favorites, whether they’re photographs or paintings created, books read, or anything else? If so feel free to share them in the comments below. Unfortunately, this comment system doesn’t provide a link back with your name or nice looking links, so please feel free to leave the actual https address in the comment.

Thanks again, and here’s to a fantastic 2022!

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Best Photos of 2020: My Favorites of the Year /  by Todd Henson

Well, 2020 is almost over and what a year it’s been, eh? Certainly a unique one for most of us. I wonder how we’ll look back on these times 10 or 20 years from now. How much will we have forgotten, how quickly will we move on? Given time for reflection, and time to learn and understand, how will history judge us and what we’ve done and gone through? As the saying goes, only time will tell.

Now that we’ve thought about the future and how we’ll judge ourselves in the past, let’s try a little exercise. But we’ll keep it simple and focused. We’ll look back over the course of this single year and look at our photographic output. How well did we do? Did we produce anything of worth? And can we single out our 10 favorite images created this year?

This can be a difficult process, with some years more difficult than others. I like to limit myself to 10 images to force myself to think more critically about my work. Usually I’ve produced several thousand images over the course of 12 months, so narrowing in on just 10 favorites is not easy. But this year it was perhaps a little easier than others as I didn’t produce nearly as many images. One thing this has taught me is that I much prefer the difficulty of sorting through many, many images from a productive year than that of sorting threw fewer images from a year that felt unproductive and uninspired. But thankfully, I did feel some brief moments of inspiration this year, so my favorite photos will tend to cluster around those times.

I feel I’ve rambled on enough, so let’s get to the photography. Below are my favorite photographs created in 2020, ordered chronologically. Below each image is its title, a link to the post where I first shared it this year, the month I created the photograph, and in some cases a link to my online store where you can purchase the image on wall art or a variety of products. Click on any of the images for a larger view.

 

Flight of the Northern Pintail, January

 

Great Blue Stretching, January

 

Resting on the Rail, September

Creekside in Autumn, September

Feasting on Fungus, October

Creekside in Autumn Redux, October

Through the Woods Darkly, October

Crossing Powell’s Creek, November

How was your year and how did you feel about what you were able to create or accomplish? Let me know in the comments below.

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

And thank you for helping make this a better year than it would have been without you!!

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Best Photos of 2020: Newly Processed From Years Past /  by Todd Henson

It’s that time of year to look back on what we’ve accomplished. In this post I’m focusing on my favorite photographs originally shot in previous years, but newly processed this year. It’s not at all uncommon for me to let a photo sit for quite some time before I finally create something from it. And sometimes I’ll go back and reprocess an old photo. As I age I learn more and my tastes change so I may create something different today than I would have years ago.

Included below each image are links to the post where it appeared this year, the year I first shot the image, and in some cases a link to my online store where you can purchase the image as wall art or on a variety of products. Please check them out.

Harvesting Gold (2009) (available for purchase)

Hypnotic Pink (2009) (available for purchase)

To The Falls (2009)

Male Red-winged Blackbird Display (2010)

Pewee on a Perch (2010)

A Fly on the Rail (2017)

Masonic Temple (2019)

I hope you’ve enjoyed this brief look back. Next week I’ll follow this up with my favorite photographs created in 2020.

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