Your Favourite Image?

[ReeRay 351]

Steady hand required

 

[Betty LaRue 3,080]

This is one of my favorites. I had never been out of the 48 states, and had only ever dreamed about seeing a tropical island.  I only had to take about 15 steps from the veranda of the vacation cottage my sister & I rented to take this image with my Nikon D800 on a tripod, at 3 a.m. It was magical.
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
 

Edited November 28, 2020 by Betty LaRue

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

If it were not so painful to do so, I'd pat myself on the back for starting this post. We are seeing some outstanding captures. 😎

[Ognyan Yosifov 80]

I found this file in a forgotten folder on my computer, staying there for the last 6+ years...

I quite love the colours and how the tiny meadow flowers add up to the pink girl's bike.

 

 

[Inchiquin 885]

Oh dear, how do you choose between many favourites? I've picked this one because it illustrates so many concepts: beauty, peace, solitude, the insignificance of humans in the landscape, and for today's world, self-isolation and social distancing.

 

 

Alan

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

4 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

This is one of my favorites. I had never been out of the 48 states, and had only ever dreamed about seeing a tropical island.  I only had to take about 15 steps from the veranda of the vacation cottage my sister & I rented to take this image with my Nikon D800 on a tripod, at 3 a.m. It was magical.
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
 

 

A perfect moonscape, Betty. I've been to the other US Virgins, but not St. Croix. 

[Bryan 14,273]

Great shot Edo !

 

My favourite comes from the days when I was fit enough to carry a heavy camera and lenses up the wonderfully named Helvellyn, climb down Swirral Edge and return over Striding Edge, the memory is as important as the image.

 

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

Oh my, Bryan. I was never young enough to go there. 😲

[spacecadet 3,781]

1 minute ago, Ed Rooney said:

Oh my, Bryan. I was never young enough to go there. 😲

I've admired it respectfully from a distance. Probably with a glass in my hand and I don't mean the field variety.🍷

Edited November 28, 2020 by spacecadet

[meanderingemu 1,109]

Some wonderful images.  Great idea Ed.  

 

This is probably my favourite for what i like.  I appreciate the details of difference part of the quotidien .  Not my best technical image, and not even the one that was licensed of the Zagreb Santa tram, but as soon as i saw this the first time i would plan to be at that corner around calculated schedule time until i got one i liked.  

 

 

Edited November 28, 2020 by meanderingemu

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

29 minutes ago, meanderingemu said:

Some wonderful images.  Great idea Ed.  

 

This is probably my favourite for what i like.  I appreciate the details of difference part of the quotidien .  Not my best technical image, and not even the one that was licensed of the Zagreb Santa tram, but as soon as i saw this the first time i would plan to be at that corner around calculated schedule time until i got one i liked.  

 

 

 

LOL Go Santa!

[Michael Ventura 5,645]

This is tough. Like asking who is your favorite kid.  This one does come to mind as it just came together so nicely.  I stumbled on this coffee shop in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana that was having an informal Cajun music jam session.  I felt like it said so much about the sense of place.  I was on an assignment from a U.S. newspaper travel section and they ran this the full top half of the opening page of that section, which just made my day! 

 

[Ognyan Yosifov 80]

6 hours ago, Ognyan Yosifov said:

I found this file in a forgotten folder on my computer, staying there for the last 6+ years...

I quite love the colours and how the tiny meadow flowers add up to the pink girl's bike.

P.S. Oh, I've misunderstood the topic.

       It's my favourite from the recent submissions...

 

 

 

[Allan Bell 2,406]

 

 

 

This is one of the first images I successfully uploaded to Alamy back in 2008. I liked it then and still like it now although there a a lot more that I like but as this was in the first 10 images sent to alamy that is why I selected it.

 

Allan

 

Edited November 29, 2020 by Allan Bell
Realised image was squashed. Now corrected.

[Betty LaRue 3,080]

10 hours ago, Michael Ventura said:

This is tough. Like asking who is your favorite kid.  This one does come to mind as it just came together so nicely.  I stumbled on this coffee shop in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana that was having an informal Cajun music jam session.  I felt like it said so much about the sense of place.  I was on an assignment from a U.S. newspaper travel section and they ran this the full top half of the opening page of that section, which just made my day! 

 

At first look, Michael, I thought the man in the wall picture has a hold on the fiddler’s hat!   Very nice image. Where’s my Po’ Boy.

[Bella 77]

Not my favourite but a favourite from my Alamy pics. More about the experience really. Niagara Falls was amazing to see half frozen but hard for me to capture the beauty. It was down to -20C this day!

It's funny how sometimes the picture info stays on and sometimes it doesn't.

[Sally R 519]

On 28/11/2020 at 10:08, gvallee said:

Very ethereal, moody, atmospheric (oops, getting carried away with my string of keywords). I like it.

Actually, I just had a peep at your tags. Perhaps add 'Motion Blur'. There has been searches for that in the past.

Thanks Gen, that's a good idea. I'll add 'Motion Blur' in. That image was one of my first three submitted to Alamy and I was doing too many keywords then, so want to go back over a number of images to remove tags that might not be so helpful and improve on the ones I have used.

[Chuck Nacke 1,020]

On 27/11/2020 at 10:58, Ed Rooney said:

Not favourites, just one. And why. 

 

Here's mine. Men pouring bronze at a foundry in Rome. It was captured on film in the late 1960s, but except for the newspaper hat it could have been the Middle Ages. We Humans have been doing this dangerous manual deed for over 5000 years.

 

Ed (Edo)

 

Since you are into music, Jazz and film  check out Alamy Image 2APX45D

Shot with a Nikon F, 200mm f4 Nikkor on Ektachrome 200 and I

Hope you remember Ernestine, she was a wonderful person with

a great voice.

 

Sorry have not spent the time to learn how to insert an image into the forum....

 

Chuck

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

I remember her well, Chuck--great snap. 200mm? Really? 

 

Edited November 29, 2020 by Ed Rooney

[AlbertSnapper 2,625]

22 hours ago, Bryan said:

Great shot Edo !

 

My favourite comes from the days when I was fit enough to carry a heavy camera and lenses up the wonderfully named Helvellyn, climb down Swirral Edge and return over Striding Edge, the memory is as important as the image.

 

 

I remember hiking along that ridge as a young soldier.

The weather was awful, cold and ice/snow about. The locals told us to not to go up, but our officer in charge insisted we go up and walk.

Couldn't see a damn thing !

Edited November 29, 2020 by AlbertSnapper

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

Save us from those younger offices, Albert. I learned to pay attention to the crusty older sergeants. (me a PJ, not a trooper)

Edited November 29, 2020 by Ed Rooney

[Bryan 14,273]

1 hour ago, AlbertSnapper said:

 

I remember hiking along that ridge as a young soldier.

The weather was awful, cold and ice/snow about. The locals told us to not to go up, but our officer in charge insisted we go up and walk.

Couldn't see a damn thing !

 

Crackers, it's plenty scary in full sun ! (but maybe better if you can't see the drop 🙃)

Edited November 29, 2020 by Bryan

[spacecadet 3,781]

Can I have another go? Also Porto.

 

It's even got a brutalist bridge. Perfect.

Edited November 29, 2020 by spacecadet

[Michael Ventura 5,645]

11 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

At first look, Michael, I thought the man in the wall picture has a hold on the fiddler’s hat!   Very nice image. Where’s my Po’ Boy.

 

I do love a good Po' Boy sandwich!  Not a great place to be if on a diet but the food of Louisiana is sure tasty!

[Ed Rooney 3,608]

Mark, I understand why you and others might want to put up more than one capture . . . but please all: don't do that. It kills the concept. And we already have another post like that. Naughty boy! 

 

MV, I was saving my po' boy experience for my trip to New Orleans. But I never got to go. So I've never had one.

 

Edo