Your Personal Best for 2008 Goes Here

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Jack Dempsey
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Each year around the holiday season, we tend to dwell on the best and worst of what the calender served us for the past twelve months. Well, we are going to concentrate on the positive stuff with this thread.:-D

Whether it be your favorite aquatic or general image you made in 2008, we want you to share it here. It can be an award winning photo, a published photo, or just a shot that has captured the best mood you saw. Whatever.

Here's the guidelines:

1. This is YOUR personal favorite image. It may not be all that technically correct, but it is the shot you feel good about.

2. Only one image allowed. So you may have to do some real soul searching for this thread.

3. And you can't make post without an explanation for why you have selected this as your personal favorite.

Let's have some fun for the holiday season and reminisce with our favorite captures.

Who's going first????:-D
 
This was my favorite shot of the year (so far). It is an albino rattlesnake kept at a small roadside zoo here in Maryland. This shot showed me the high ISO capabilities of the Nikon D3. The reptile house is small and very dark with just enough light in the enclosure for me to get a decent focus on the eye. I find the albino form of this snake more intimidating than the normal coloration. Sometimes I look at the photo and wish the small twig was not there, but other times I feel it adds to the shot. Mainly I like it because it has a very cool snake as the subject!

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Need to keep this thread going. I'll add mine.

It's tough to pick one shot, especially when you take so many over the last ten plus months. I thought maybe I should consider a shot that took a lot of patience, like the bald eagle swooping down in the river to catch a catfish. Or waiting over an hour for the newly hatched baby eaglet to pop up from the huge nest and show it's head. They were both special shots for me. And it's easy to pick a recent shot because it's still fresh in the memory. Perhaps that's why I'm thinking about the mantis holding lunch in its grasp that I caught in a nearby bush. That will always be one of my favorites.

No, I want to thank Ron for recently reminding me of my favorite capture to date in 2008. It was that closeup of my snarly toothed Neolamprologus Nigriventris peeking out of it's cave. I caught the exact image and mood, the best I could with that shot.

Using a single SB800 offering just enough light to illuminate his eyes and teeth provided the image I was seeing. He looked like a dragon peeking out of it's hiding place just before the assault.

My favorite shot for 2008...
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I am going to have to say this is my personal best this year. When I took this pic, I had only owned the camera for a little over 4 mnths and just purchased my 300mm zoom lens and was excited to use it. When I got home and downloaded the pictures I was scanning through the pics and did a double take when it popped up on the screen. It was almost near perfect that I could not believe it. I zoomed in to see if it was a fluke and the picture turned out to have great detail.

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ok, i can't pick one i consider the 'best' but i like this one a lot and i'm tired of looking! it's a profile of a sumatran tigress shot through a mesh wire fence in the early morning. i was able to minimize/eliminate the fence in pp. i also have many shots of her 3 cubs but this one struck me as 'special' for some reason...

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Since all my shots are stunners (people have had to go to the ER after seeing some of
my work) finding one that I consider best will be an involved, time-consuming process,
but I'll see what I can do, Bobby! LOL

Wow, guys! Some superb shots so far! :)
 
This photo was recently posted, but I really like it and consider it my best ever. It was a really lucky shot, one of several dozen I took on a rainy day in July at the Annapolis Royal Historical Garden in Nova Scotia. I love how the backgroung came out so dark.

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