my current top five photos are an interesting study in the number 2:
2 flowers
2 eyes
2 photos about leaves
2 black and whites (mostly)
2 people (both eye shots are of my wife)
2 lenses used
2 repeated challenge topics
2 locations (my kitchen and my in-laws house)
2 alligators (both in wildlife challenges)
3 skies
all have water except for the one of the waterbird
the first three taken with the Tokina 12-24 (my favorite lens)
the last two taken with the Nikon 70-200VR (my second favorite lens)
You like finding/using lines in your compositions?
Actually, now that I think about it a little more, all 5 of those photos are made with what I consider to be exceptional light. It may not be as obvious with the fisheye shot, but that was late afternoon sun that made me stop to take some shots.
---- 3 long exposures
3 shots with water
3 shots with architecture
3 with D50
2 shots of San Francisco
2 shots on Treasure Island
2 with D200
I dunno what else. My top two images I went back the next day and shot more to try and get it just right, I ended up using my third shot and my second shot I took from the first minutes at each location, lol.
I am extremely reluctant to admit this, but there is a unshakable feeling that I tend towards gold/yellow tones in all five of these. it is actually quite amazing and obvious. Oh well. And two others in my top 10 are gold/yellow as well.....
And this is not intentional...these just happen to be the ones of my many entries that have found themelves at the top. Must ponder mineself....
Errrgh, I've always had trouble finding a pattern connecting my phtots together, and I still really don't think there is one. Oh well, I'll try...ahem! 3 of the 5 are a mono/duotone, 2 of them have patterns, 2 of them have kids in it, and 3 of them were submitted to challenges with over 375 paticipants. Yup, that's about as good as I can do, lol.
