Friday, January 1, 2010

A Quick Look Back



I had a bit too much time on my hands for the first weekend of the year; my wife was not feeling well with a cold and we cancelled our plans to travel up the coast for a few days, where I might have had a chance for some new work; so instead, I put together this little retrospective of some personal favorites from the past year's blog posts. I've been debating whether to actually put this up or not, but finally decided that although a few of you may have been around from the beginning and have seen all of these images, many more probably have not. Not all were created in 2009 of course, but they were all posted here at some point during the year. I know I don't often dig back into the older posts on most of the blogs I frequent, so I assume other people don't do a lot of that either:) Hopefully they are worth another quick look, anyway.
I borrowed this idea from one of the photo blogs that I always read by Patrick Morand of French Landscapes, who posted his own 15 favorites of the past year last week, so I thought would give it a go also. BTW, Patrick lives in the south of France, near St. Tropez and makes really awesome seascapes and pastoral landscape images of his home area... be sure to give his work a look.

12 comments:

Carolyn Ford said...

Wow! Fabulous slide show of some amazing photographs! Take more, take more, take more...these are so beautiful!

Unknown said...

Thank you very much Mark :)

The slide is a beautiful idea and that's real pleasure to view all these beauties once more.

Wish you an amazing 2010 !

Gaelyn said...

These images are all worthy of looking at many times. Must have been hard to just pick a few.

Amy Lilley Designs said...

ahhhhhhhhh, a feast for the eyes... a wonderful break from the wintry Northeast...your portfolio...UNIQUE...OUTSTANDING...
have been here from the beginning, but will never tire of looking @ your work!!!

roentare said...

Mark

Simply marvelous way to showcase your work and your blog is one of the most impressive spiritual feat I have to go through every week

Ashrays said...

Happy New Year and all the best for the forthcoming one to you and yours Mark hope it's a good one!

Sorry I haven't stopped by for a wee while! I never get tired of viewing your work so enjoyed the slide show!

storybeader said...

it's a great idea, and I see some of my favorite images. Thanks for the tour - good luck for the future. Hope the wife is feeling better. {:-D

betchai said...

it's always great to see your pictures, your pictures are always amazing and inspiring, though they are all great, but you make me wish to go back to death valley and try again, haha!

Unknown said...

"The Photographic Aspect" has been included in this weeks A Sunday Drive. I hope this helps to attract even more new visitors (not to mention customers!) here.

http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-drive_10.html

Andy Richards said...

Nice Show, Mark. I have seen all of these, and YES, they were worth a second look!

Unknown said...

As an ex-pro and hard to please i want to thank you for sharing your classic gifts. I loved your control of 'saturation' and composition to keep the eye on a happy tour of every image. I shall of course be back, and do some delving. Maybe I should thank your wife for catching a cold; hope she is well now, and can think of other ways of getting you to rifle the archives. Go well, Bob

kyungmee said...

wow..great capture! I feel I missed a lot of your work here.. I need to catch up!