Here's mine...

Daschund

Here is my favorite.

RWW

Contemplating Sunrise

These are all so fantastic.. I want to start pointing out images by name, but if I start,. then I won't be able to stop!

Sorry for the break in the flow It's just such an amazing collection

you decide :-)

This is the best I've been able to do so far

Here's my favorite for this year

These aren't terribly exciting but I was proud to get these shooting in the shade of the forrest without a flash and spending 20 minutes inching close enough to get these full frame shots. I had to shoot high ISO and nearly wide open to get anything so the dof wasn't the best but I was happy nonetheless.

Look forward to sharing with each other in 2004!!!

A dear friend of mine died recently. An avid skydiver, he stated in his will that his ashes should be dispersed by his skydiving buddies.
I went to south Florida to be a part of that--here's the resulting images. The cloud of his ashes, the only cloud to be seen, lasted only about 50 seconds.

So this is a bit of a sentimental choice:

Fantastic images in this thread. I do bugs mostly, but here is a toad. I call it "the Prince" because it appears to be twiddling it's thumbs while waiting for a kiss. Since the critters are nocturnal, I brought this one into my "studio" and shot it with a white backboard and then replaced the background in the digital darkroom to give it a natural feel.

you guys are absolutely fantastic, and an inspiration to go out and keep trying.

Wow, these threads contain some of the most stunning images. Great idea!

Hard to choose. Guess it would be this one for its uniqueness:

Here is one of my "happy accidents"

Wow, amazing shots in here!
This is my first animal post, so be kind. Taken today at Bryce Canyon NP, Utah.

Maybe not the best this year but it was a kick meeting those guys for the first time at 13,000 feet.

perhaps not my best technically, but certainly one of my favorites...

After a recent crash of my home PC, I don't have much left to choose from. I just finished going through the FM archives looking for some of my posts. Unfortunately, not all of my posts still contain the shots that were originally imbedded (I really wish I could get the shots of my daughter back). Anyway, here's one I managed to retrieve...Patrick

Female Goldfinch

This is way too hard for me , I have a few pretty good shots from this past year , thanks to all of you here at FM

great thread Todd

J

Hello,

What pictures - thanks to all the folks here for the great images and inspiration through the year!

I enjoy this one, although why did I have to decide to post one right after John McFadden? Tough act to follow.....

Unfortunately I'm away from home, so don't have access to a larger, high-res version, but I reckon this is the best nature photo I took this past year. These little butterflies are about 1/2 an inch in wingspan, maybe up to 3/4 of an inch, no larger. They are also rather active, and hard to catch, so I'm rather proud of getting one - it took several tries over quite a few weeks to get one as good as this!

Handheld, 10D with 100mm f/2.8 Macro (the older version, which I no longer own, in case you are reading my sig ).



Edited by rudiphoto on Dec 30, 2003 at 02:41 PM GMT