Martin’s Personal Top Ten Photos For 2019 (Podcast 692)

Terrific images. I like Shirahige Falls and the Sea, Rocks, and Cormorant best.

Here’s my selection for 2019. Enjoy!

https://www.chm-photography.com/blog/between-here-and-there-top-ten-2019/

And good luck on your tours!
C.

Fantastic images as always. Here are my two reviews – one for the year, the other for the debate.

https://www.jsmphotography.co.uk/2019

https://www.jsmphotography.co.uk/The2010s

One of the highlights of my year to see your top ten Martin. Always great to see someone else’s take on the world around us, Your winter shots always amaze me, something we don’t really get round my way, and at present our country is on fire in all directions, Seeing all that water locked up there in snow and ice gives mixed feelings at present with all the drought and fires we’ve had here, but great work and any work that stirs emotions has power to it. My favourite is the cormorant there and knowing that it was taken as a long exposure and little movement it the bird is a great effort. One day I’ll get over there for one of your winter land tours. They always sound so good and the feedback from all the participants is always glowing. Great work and a great for the year there as always.
This is my sixth year of doing my top ten images and as always I can see the improvement from each year, this year it seems my photography is moving in a different direction from the images I‘ve selected so totally unintentional but by doing the top ten each year I can see how my style and image quality has changed thought out a short time. Well worth doing thou as you say hard to cut down to the final ten but that last few is where I find I learn the most about my work so the pain is worth it.

https://glennsmithphotography.zenfolio.com/blog/2020/1/my-top-ten-images-from-2019

It’s always great to see everyone else’s top ten images as well, Everyone has such different styles and takes on photography which is what makes it all so interesting. Christian Meermann with all Black and White images, something I can never get my head around, I just don’t seem to be able to visualise images into Black and white but when I see someone else’s its always like wow, I’ve done a few in black and white at times particularly old historic buildings and machinery, but I can never seem to get anything else quite right black and white, but I’m OK with that, but certainly appreciate it when others can get it right like Christian’s work here. Steven Martin has the most amazing colourful interiors well worth seeing makes you want to go and see the buildings in person so again that emotional pull of photography. That’s all part of the magic of photography no matter what genre it is or you work towards yourself it’s always good to look at others work and study their work and see what works and what doesn’t.
Have a great year there. Thanks for all the work you put in to get these podcasts out.
Glenn.

Hi Martin,

I love the Flamingoes in the Mist image.

Not my biggest year for photography, but still got the opportunity to spend some weekends and evenings.

Most of my images where captured from a road trip back in May of 2019.

The kite, curlew and the guy walking his dogs where all opportunity captures, which was my biggest lesson for 2019… Always look back and always have the camera ready.

https://500px.com/lkasper/galleries/2019-top-ten

Lloyd

Regarding your renewed film interest, are you using a commercial company to scan or are you doing your own scans. If so what type of scanner are you using.

Konichiwa Martin!

I always enjoy seeing your year end photos. Thanks for posting them. My favorites of your post are: Flamingos and Heads Up! The cranes in the mist reminds me how cold it was on that bridge during our tour. Your photo manages to make me forget how many people where there so that’s a good thing.

If I may, here is a link to my 2019 Favorites. A number of them are from the tour I did with you so Thank You very much!
https://www.davidrecht.net/Image-Galleries/2019-Images/

Martin, I usually watch / listen to your podcasts on my phone, but I had to check these out on my 27″ iMac screen and I’m glad I did, because they are fantastic! I would like to tell you which of them is my favourite, but that’s impossible because I really like each one for different reasons., although I can certainly understand why you had the lion on your desktop for a long time, as it gives me a feeling of peaceful happiness.

My top ten photos (plus a ‘bonus’ image) are included here for you and any of your followers that may be interested to peruse. https://wilddrakephotography.com/2019/12/21/top-ten-favourite-images-of-2019/

I hope you have a great 2010!

Drake

Very interesting images. They inspire me to be more creative. Thanks!

Martin, another great year of photography. I particularly like the dancing cranes and the flamingoes in the mist. It is amazing how well you consistently capture subtle gradations of white. My top ten for 2019 are posted at https://photos.kotler.org/TopTen/2019/index.html

Great pictures. Can’t imagine how lucky and persistent you need to be for those animal shots!