Each year at about this time I participate in the annual ritual of selecting a set of favorite photographs from the past year. It is a really interesting task – to review a year’s worth of photographs and relive some of the experiences and places from which they came. But it is also a daunting task! It is hard to be objective about my own photography, and I invariably end up with a list of possible candidates that is way too long.

This years way-too-long list included 60 photographs! The usual process is to strip images out of this set one by one until a reasonable number remain and there is a good balance among different sorts of photographs. But saying “no” to a photograph that I like is often pretty difficult. Yesterday I tried to opposite approach – instead of identifying what I might dismiss, I went through and simply picked the photographs that I was (fairly) certain would have to be included. There were a dozen, though after some further thought and getting feedback from others, there might actually be a dozen and a half.

So here is a set of thumbnails of the full 60 photo set. I’d love to hear what on this list jumps out at you? Do you have favorites? Are there some here that you remembered from when I first shared them? Thanks in advance! (Click the image to see a larger version.)

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