Post the best -- or your favorite -- picture you've ever taken.

[Bertha Venation]

Tell us about the circumstances in which it was taken. Weather, family dynamics, political turmoil, animal hilarity, baby sweetness, or even still life. Post your pic, then talk about it. I'll post mine tomorrow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Here you go:

I love going down to the beach to try my luck at getting a great wave shot. I got really lucky with this one:

[Bertha Venation]

2. Nice.

[blueknight]

3. peggy.

what beach is that? i was in laguna beach about 10 years ago, what a beautiful place!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Just my local beach, Manhattan Beach.

Laguna Beach is a lovely place.

my dear blueknight!

[bluesbassman]

4. One of each - Best and Favorite

This shot was taken at the Quinceañera of a friend of our family. Just happened to be in the right spot when she released the dove. I framed an 8x10 and gave it to the family and it sits on their mantel. BTW, my daughter is on the right hand side in the white dress right at the dove's wingtip.


This is my favorite photo as it captures the power and athleticism of my daughter in her sport. I've taken dozens of shots of her throwing in over the years, but just happened to catch this one in her wind-up.

[Bertha Venation]

10. That dove shot is amazing. Well done!

Your daughter is lovely.

[bluesbassman]

26. Thank you Bertha!

Glad you liked the shots.

[cyberswede]

15. I love the lighting on the first one...

The way the subject and the dove are in sunlight, and everyone else is in the shade.

The photo of your daughter is amazing - how can she bend like that?

[bluesbassman]

27. Thanks cyberswede.

Just in the right place at the right time. You relay can't "set up" a shot like that.

I don't know how my daughter does that, didn't get it from me that's for sure!

I love the dancer shot you did. Great pose and lighting. Relative?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. I'm really proud of this one

I took it after a surprise snowfall in Nashville.

[Bertha Venation]

11. That's very nice, Prisoner.

A beautiful rose.

I didn't know it ever snowed in Nashville.

[handmade34]

6. my boys...

met them for breakfast at Arcadia Diner (South Burlington, VT) early one morning last December

[bluedigger]

7. That's a good diner!

Nice looking young men, too.

[Bertha Venation]

12. Nice, very nice.

I love family pictures. This one seems to capture a little mischief on their faces -- is this correct?

[handmade34]

20. mischief is both of their middle names...

it was early and I think I woke them from sleep to tell them to meet us... I would suspect that they had been up drinking half the night... I believe it was the end of finals (University of Vermont-Philosophy major) for the one on the right... and the one on the left is the Artist... they can be quite entertaining when they get together


another favorite of the artist...



the rest of the crew...

[fizzgig]

16. those are some handsome young men

wonderful photo

[Bertha Venation]

9. Here are my two favorites.

This is Daddy (RIP) -- I don't know who the dog is, but Daddy clearly did not like him/her (I can't tell) . . .



And this is Petey. Petey will be eleven years old on 9/11. We were playing with a green feather toy on a stick, and this is the luckiest shot I've ever taken.

[GaYellowDawg]

13. I love this one.

I just really like the angle, and it was a beautiful day.

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[cyberswede]

14. I won second place at the county fair with this one.

It's the only one I've ever entered, so not sure if it's my best, but it is my favorite.

[fizzgig]

17. the ones i REALLY like are not scanned or saved anywhere

that's my next big project.

from what i have it's either this one



or this one

[csziggy]

18. My three favorite pictures

A photo of a colt we raised that went to Reserved World Champion, He was three months old in this shot and was fascinated by our dog. This photo won a prize of a year's worth of feed in the Purina Pet Photo Contest in about 1996.


This is a daughter of the colt in the previous picture with her filly in 2006. The mare is my favorite and the filly was selected by the owner of the stallion to compete in shows to advertise her stallion.


This picture was in one of the photo contests here a month or so ago. These young bluebirds spent ten or fifteen minutes having a good time in the bird bath and I got a whole series of pictures of them. I like this one best of the series.

[cyberswede]

19. Love the bluebirds!

I think I voted for them in the contest.

[csziggy]

22. Thank you - I was flattered by the comments

[handmade34]

21. boy, do I love the shot

of the daughter and her filly... (increases the ache in my soul for my farm) I can just feel the sweat on her back and the smell... ohh
so sweet

I used to bury my face in the cows flank when I milked them

[csziggy]

23. That mare is my favorite ever

Not only is she beautiful but she has a sweet personality. Here's a shot of her when she was a baby:


Even though I am still on my farm, I am missing being able to work with the horses. Now that I have two new knees maybe I can get back to working with the horses once I am recovered. It's been frustrating to see them out in the pasture and not be able to even lead one down the barn aisle!

[HopeHoops]

24. Guy Stuff

[REP]

25. Here's three

One of my favorites:



Anna's hummingbird on my porch

Another one I like a lot:



Bee on a flower at Filoli

One I think turned out well:  



Dendrobium victoriae-reginae, grown by me and shot in my "studio"

[av8rdave]

28. My best

Grand Canyon, 2004. Week long hiking/rafting trip down the Colorado.

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[handmade34]

29. wish I was there...

I don't remember the Colorado being so wet...

[av8rdave]

30. Normally, it's too thick to drink, too thin to plow

But in late May, when this picture was taken, it runs cold, deep and clear. They open the floodgates at the Glenn Canyon Dam, and the river gets a good flushing out.