Best non-av photos of 2012
Let's see 'em! Your best (try to limit to 5ish) non aviation shots of 2012. Anything, as long as it isn't aviation/spotting themed is fair game - think travel, landscape, in studio, family, friends, etc Of course we love to hear any good stories that go with the shot.
Here are mine:
A couple I've done some work with on and off this year. Super impressive.
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The Up Side is Down...I noticed the sound of news choppers hovering over the neighborhood but ignored them for awhile, figuring there was just a backup on the nearby bridge to downtown and a slow news day. Curiosity got the better of me after awhile, so I grabbed the camera and went for a drive. Lo and behold several blocks down the street was this wreck. It was both pouring and snowing at the same time, a rare combo for Seattle. My understanding was no one had life threatening injuries.
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Taken just after sunrise on a rainy day in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. I had arrived on the 787 the day before and hadn't adjusted at all to the time change, leaving me up since the wee hours of the morning. Around 0430 foot traffic toward a very large mosque up the street started really picking up. Since it was raining everyone had umbrellas; most were solid black. I really liked the contrast against the tiles of the hotel sidewalk and started shooting it, but the black of the umbrella was too strong. Finally, this yellow one came along after about an hour.
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The firstborn of some very good friends of my wife & I, and only four days old.
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Bamboo forest, Kyoto Japan. Kyoto has two big illumination events a year...one in the spring and one in the winter. I was extremely happy to be able to catch the last day of the winter Hanatouro. It was everything I hoped it would be; just phenomenally cool. Noting the large amount of DSLRs in the bamboo forests I really wanted to try to do something different.
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