The Year’s Best - 2011
I wanted to put together a little collection of my favorite images of 2011. They’re in a slideshow format, so there isn’t a big write up of commentary and technical details with each one—just what you see in the captions. So take a look, most of them should be familiar to you but there are some there that may not!
“2011 was a year in which I grew immensely in photography.” That’s something I say every year, except with 2009, 2010, etc. at the beginning. I think that for the rest of my life, I’ll probably be saying the same thing too. That is the great thing about photography, you’ve always got to be evolving, changing and adapting and that suits me very well.
This year I had the great fortune of traveling to some great new places, shooting some great new perspectives of old haunts and even getting in some portrait work. I’ve me some amazing people along the way and loved every bit of it.
I had a tough time trimming the list down, but my blog helped out by limiting the number of images I could include in the slide show :-)
![12/7, 70 Years Later
Today, December 7, marks the 70 year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That day, all eight U.S. Navy Battleships were damaged with four being sunken and 188 aircraft were also destroyed. But most importantly, 2,402 American lives were lost that day. Franklin D. Roosevelt would go on to call December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy,” and the next day the United States declared war on Japan.
The vessel pictured, USS North Carolina (BB-55), was commissioned in 1941 and would go on to take part in every major Pacific naval offensive during World War II. The highly decorated ship won 15 Battle Stars and was known as a protector of the aircraft carriers. Six times during the war, Japanese radio claimed to have sunk the North Carolina, but she remained resilient.
The battleship was decommissioned in 1947 and rested in the Inactive Reserve Fleet in New Jersey for the next 14 years. In 1958, news of the North Carolina’s impending scrapping broke and a statewide campaign began to raise funds to bring the ship to North Carolina. She arrived at her current place in Wilmington, NC in 1961. It is now a National Historic Landmark and can be visited and toured by the public.
[You can find out more at www.battleshipnc.com]
The shot- Nikon D90, Rokinon 8mm lens. 3 exposure HDR, handheld. Photomatix & Photoshop.
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12/7, 70 Years Later
Today, December 7, marks the 70 year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That day, all eight U.S. Navy Battleships were damaged with four being sunken and 188 aircraft were also destroyed. But most importantly, 2,402 American lives were lost that day. Franklin D. Roosevelt would go on to call December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy,” and the next day the United States declared war on Japan.
The vessel pictured, USS North Carolina (BB-55), was commissioned in 1941 and would go on to take part in every major Pacific naval offensive during World War II. The highly decorated ship won 15 Battle Stars and was known as a protector of the aircraft carriers. Six times during the war, Japanese radio claimed to have sunk the North Carolina, but she remained resilient.
The battleship was decommissioned in 1947 and rested in the Inactive Reserve Fleet in New Jersey for the next 14 years. In 1958, news of the North Carolina’s impending scrapping broke and a statewide campaign began to raise funds to bring the ship to North Carolina. She arrived at her current place in Wilmington, NC in 1961. It is now a National Historic Landmark and can be visited and toured by the public.
[You can find out more at www.battleshipnc.com]
The shot- Nikon D90, Rokinon 8mm lens. 3 exposure HDR, handheld. Photomatix & Photoshop.
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