The "best" shot I took last year? Probably not, but definitely one of my favorites.
Why?
Because it's what I really like to do. I'm not good at envisioning what I want to create, or creating for that matter. I don't have the talent of a vawendy or the amazing ability to imagine something from start to finish like tanguera. I just like to shoot, or at least I used to. I like to see the moment the camera catches. Hope to take it up again this coming year, too!
(The guy looking at the camera is the birthday boy, by the way. And they had awesome cupcakes!)
So... moving on...
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but it's actually a great candid. The composition is very good, but most of all it's real and alive. humble but real. the people interact compositionally even though they are not looking at each other (the focus is of course on cupcakes). it's a very interesting tension between art and life.
I need to be a better commenter. This one connected with me and I lingered for a while. I liked it and gave it a 7. I remember thinking that it was a bold choice for the Best Of challenge because I thought many would mistake this as a simple snapshot, and that alone warranted a comment. I had trouble formulating a sentence on why I liked it, so I moved on too quickly -- back to the hundreds of Best of 2012 and December Free Study images still left to vote on.
Had I not been in such a selfish hurry, this is what i might have said:
I love the way this image captures the buzz of birthday activity and the mayhem of the cupcake table. I love the arms, the small girl pressed up to the table. I love the children's faces focused on the cupcakes out of frame and the eye contact with the one adult in frame. A moment well captured.
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