Top 8 pictures of 2006.

These are, in chronological order, the best eight pictures that I took in 2006.

Ida B.
Ida B.
Annie Catches a Snowball
Annie Catches a Snowball
Wakefield Throws a Knuckleball
Wakefield Throws a Knuckleball
Saturn
Saturn
The Thoughtful Skeeballer
The Thoughtful Skeeballer
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Steps
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Steps
Sea Oats
Sea Oats
Common Chicory
Common Chicory

I didn’t take many decent photos after October, probably because I simply didn’t take many photos.

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

11 replies on “Top 8 pictures of 2006.”

  1. a helpful hint: lose the captions. it reduces the number of words the picture is worth from 1000 to around 3 or 4.

  2. The sea oats photo is very nice. There is an old story passed along in my family that the growth of sea oats only occurs by the spreading of the droppings of the redwinged blackbirds. Don’t know if there’s any truth to it, but I’ve been going to Nag’s Head since I was a child in the 1940s and no one has disputed that tale. “Don’t pick the sea oats, they are endangered” …..a family command.

  3. Hey Waldo, you’ve probably mentioned this in a previous post somewhere, but what sort of lens(es) do you use with your camera? I’m assuming that, on the Wakefield photo at least, you’re using something more than the stock setup.

  4. Actually, with the Wakefield photo, we just had awesome seats. :) No, the setup is nothing special: I have a Canon 28-80mm that came with a camera I got many years ago and Canon’s basic telephoto lens. I used the telephoto for the Wakefield photo, but generally just use it to photograph birds. I’d love a portrait lens and a Lensbaby, but not as much as I’d love a house. First things first. :)

  5. Yeah, I’m looking at picking up an XT (like yours) in the next six months, and, being an SLR newbie, I was shocked by some of the lens prices I saw. Good catch on the Lensbaby — very cool, and not too outrageously priced.

    I’m not sure why, but my hobbies seem to be getting more and more expensive. I should look into rock collecting.

  6. *Laugh* I know just what you mean. :)

    I have to recommend the Canon Digital Rebel XT strongly. It’s just an excellent camera. Purely as a hobbyist, I shot 35mm for years, took a photography class last year (er…two years ago now, since it’s January 2) and learned darkroom techniques, and owned a pair of digital cameras before this one. The Digital Rebel is better than shooting film for most of my purposes.

    Lens prices can be pretty jaw-dropping. I’ve been using cheap lenses for years and I couldn’t be happier about it. Professionals can surely look at my images and find distortion or artifacts, but I can’t see ’em. You’d do well to start off with a basic lens, even just the one that comes with the Digital Rebel. You may well find that you never feel the need to upgrade to something fancier.

  7. That picture of Ida should be an album cover. It almost makes me want to break off my two to three year time off from music to form a band in hopes that we might make an album worthy of such a fine cover.

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