{"id":153,"date":"2009-01-11T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2021-09-18T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:54:55","slug":"my-top-10-photos-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2009\/01\/11\/my-top-10-photos-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 10 Photos of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t considered doing a post summing up my year in photography, but today I saw a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillprice.com\/\">Phill Price<\/a> reminding people to submit their Top Ten to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmg-galleries.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/blog-project-your-best-photos-from-2008\/\">Jim M. Goldstein&#8217;s blog project<\/a>. I&#8217;ve run across Jim&#8217;s blog before, but for some reason I haven&#8217;t subscribed in Google Reader. Well, that has been fixed. <\/p>\n<p>I usually find it hard to pick shots I like. The shots I like are often not the ones that get the most views or faves. I went through my Zooomr photostream and picked the ones I like best that were also favorites of the Zooomr community. So here are my best shots of 2008, in no particular order: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dreaming of Summer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/6266689\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6266689_815a37d520.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Dreaming of Summer\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nElk Lake, Oregon. One of my favorite places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing Stars<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/4604761\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/4604761_6a2da4945e.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Seeing Stars\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy wife always has fresh flowers in the house, so I get a lot of opportunities to take flower shots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barack Obama, plate 6<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/6156974\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6156974_83827c2659.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Barack Obama, plate 6\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had to include one of these shots. I was one of the highlights of the year for me, and the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to Earth<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/5982411\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/5982411_7104234893.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Return to Earth\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMorrison Planetarium, Academy of Sciences, San Francisco<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heartland Dreams<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/5630338\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/5630338_1ba01c5d33.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Heartland Dreams\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSomewhere near Southwick, Idaho. Another shot from our summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you hold in<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/4418038\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/4418038_f6ab627167.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"What do you hold in\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA fence post near Petaluma, CA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everything you want<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/5670542\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/5670542_e003327d4a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Everything you want\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTaken in Redding, CA at the Sundial Bridge. Also from the summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>untitled<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/5279569\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/5279569_fec28e8dcc.jpg\" width=\"355\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother shot of flowers in my house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visual Pollution<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/4530161\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/4530161_e4d7e0b733.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Visual Pollution\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPower lines in Petaluma, CA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benches<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/ghegenbart\/6291910\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6291910_51b7fc248d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Benches\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPetaluma, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t considered doing a post summing up my year in photography, but today I saw a tweet from Phill Price reminding people to submit their Top Ten to Jim M. Goldstein&#8217;s blog project. I&#8217;ve run across Jim&#8217;s blog before, but for some reason I haven&#8217;t subscribed in Google Reader. Well, that has been fixed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2009\/01\/11\/my-top-10-photos-of-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Top 10 Photos of 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10,24,2,42],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}