BackdoorArts
Senior Member
As I was looking over my Flickr stuff with my sister in-law over the holidays I started thinking about all the shots I've taken this year, and the many ways in which I have grown as a photographer. I started to wonder about the various shots I took and posted this year (and there were a lot of them), and I started wondering how I might respond were a photographer I admired to come up to me and say...
"Show me your best photo from 2014, and tell me what is so good and/or significant about it"
I've been pondering it ever since, and I will post my answer below, but I wanted to suggest you all to take some time and answer the question as well.
Yes, there are rules, but they are simple:
And my thanks to @wud who inspired a similar idea back in the first couple months of the year. I was always sorry that those threads never persisted.
"Show me your best photo from 2014, and tell me what is so good and/or significant about it"
I've been pondering it ever since, and I will post my answer below, but I wanted to suggest you all to take some time and answer the question as well.
Yes, there are rules, but they are simple:
- You get to define the criteria around which "best" is defined, and it doesn't have to based on any sort of technical merit (i.e. it could be about the importance of the moment and/or the subject and not about anything someone else might observe in the photo)
- You cannot post more than one photo
- You must post an explanation of why you chose that photo with some level of detail as to your reasons
- No commenting - I'd like to preserve this as a sort of Nikonite Yearbook to allow folks to peruse the photos and explanations without anything getting sidetracked, waylaid or otherwise hijacked
And my thanks to @wud who inspired a similar idea back in the first couple months of the year. I was always sorry that those threads never persisted.
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