Help me pick a picture of the year for 2009 :-)
Because I like to organize things, I have a Flickr collection just for the pictures that I think are the best ones I took in a given year. Here’s the link to the 2009 set if you’d like to peruse them. :-)
Anyway, I’ve narrowed 2009 down to my favorite few nine pictures. I don’t really stick to one area when I’m taking pictures, so I tried to get a decent cross-section from different categories. Please please click here and scroll all the way to the bottom to leave a comment voting on which one is your most favorite–I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Category: Cameraphone
A handful of light
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Category: Buildings
Colosseum at sunset
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Category: Landscapes
Positano and the Amalfi Coast
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Category: Children
Precious handful
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Category: Wildlife
Sunrise flight
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Category: Light
A master craftsman's office
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Category: Dark
The Dawn Patrol
Category: Nature
Flowering dogwood
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Category: Travel
Vatican Museum statue
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2009 in review
2009 was, pretty much without a doubt, the best and craziest year of my life. It wasn’t the easiest, but I had ridiculous amounts of fun living it.
Snapshots:
I acquired a number of colorful shirts while playing on several kickball and dodgeball teams in the winter, spring, and summer.
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Early April found me on the slopes, taking pictures of a coworker’s son snowboarding in exchange for a free lift ticket and rental, and also managing to hurt myself pretty badly after doing a faceplant into a mountain. Whoops.
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Later in the month, I headed to the California Auto Museum for a photo workshop, and lots of drooling over lovely classic cars.
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In May, I went to the Gladding, McBean factory with a photo group to take lots of pretty pictures.
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June brought my school’s graduation, which I had a really good time photographing.
Graduation.
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In September, I was a fairly busy bee. Besides the school year gearing up, I went on a number of adventures:
I jumped out of a plane,
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went to the Reno Balloon Races,
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and hit up the Sacramento Zoo a second year in a row for their free zoo day.
Om nom nom nom.
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Travel:
I also got to satisfy my itchy travel feet a bit in 2009! In August I went to London… and I just now realized that I never did write blog posts up on that trip… whoops!
To be fair, I wasn’t really thrilled with most of my pictures. Alas.
Fountain in Trafalgar Square.
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On the same trip, I also went to Amsterdam.
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In November, I went on an absolutely awesome trip to Italy with two of my favorite people.
Colosseum at sunset.
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Two weirdos.
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And last but not least, I bought a ticket to fly to Dublin next summer, on the first leg of a trip I’ve wanted to take more or less since I was 16:
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Death and Life:
In June, I had to say goodbye to my kitty, Stein. I miss him tons.
Stein and his pet ferret.
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Because life just isn’t the same without a cat hogging the bed, I decided it’d take two beasties to compensate for Stein. So I adopted two feral kittens–Jem and Scout.
They're considerably larger than this now--that's a one-cat window these days.
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I think that’s more or less it for 2009! In my next post, I’ll post what I felt were my best shots of 2009.
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My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-)
My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I took this yesterday on Christmas, when I was playing with my niece. I loved watching her fascination with the “other baby”–she was giving it big, sloppy kisses on the glass! I missed getting a picture of that, but at least I did get a nice reflection shot. I love how her hands look like they’re glowing–that’s just how the light was reflecting. So neat. :-)
Fire truck
Here’s one last one from Gladding, McBean. They used this fire truck to ferry people from the factory back to the tour meeting area. So neat.
Om nom nom nom
Senior day pics013 (Custom), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I took this picture last May at our senior breakfast… OK, so I’m just now getting around to getting them uploaded. My cop-out excuse is that Flickr is blocked at our school. :-) Anyway, I’m not especially thrilled with how any of the student shots came out from the senior breakfast, but I did like the food shots. And now I want strawberries, darn it.
More pictures are here at my gallery for work pictures. :-)
My leopard, let me show you him
Randomness 015, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I went to the Sac Zoo again this year for Smithsonian’s Free Museum Day a couple of weeks ago, and took this. Isn’t he gorgeous? I love this shot. :-)
Yolo Wildlife Area
Went out this morning and took pictures of the sunrise and the birds at the Yolo Wildlife Area about 10 miles from my house. I’m nowhere near being done going through everything, but when they come off my camera looking like this, I know it’s going to be a good day.
Click on the picture and take a look at the full-size shot. Wow. Just wow.
(OK, so I cropped this, but not by much.)
Annie in a Basket
Annie-in-a-basket 002, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I am an evil, evil person. I stuck my niece in a laundry basket and took pictures… Click here for a few more. :-D
