This should be a fun and informative challenge. Thanks for hosting Sharon.

Your egret image is beautiful....what a terrific job in capturing it.

My most current favorite image is a shot taken at Paul's Lake at sunrise Oct. 13, 2017. I was hoping to capture the fall colors surrounding the lake that are often a beautiful yellow. On this morning I loved the light and color of it and concentrated on that as the sun was not yet high enough to capture the true bright colors of the trees. Settings: f/11 1/100 ISO 800. PP in Corel Paint Shop Pro X9.

"Best" can be pretty subjective.
In this one it is because of the content and the relationship of that content to me.

This is the first time we we had seen our grandaughter. She was about 35 hours old.

Just a snapshot in available light in the hospital.
Canon EOS 5D + EF35mm f/2 lens
1/15 @ ƒ/2.0 and F=35mm, ISO 800, Flash (off, did not fire)
Hand held, and probably shooting aperure priority.
In hindsight I should have kicked the ISO up to 1600 at least.

This should be a fun and informative challenge. Thanks for hosting Sharon.

Your egret image is beautiful....what a terrific job in capturing it.

My most current favorite image is a shot taken at Paul's Lake at sunrise Oct. 13, 2017. I was hoping to capture the fall colors surrounding the lake that are often a beautiful yellow. On this morning I loved the light and color of it and concentrated on that as the sun was not yet high enough to capture the true bright colors of the trees. Settings: f/11 1/100 ISO 800. PP in Corel Paint Shop Pro X9.

This challenge is "Pick your best photos". What I want you to do is to pick out some of your very best photos and post them one or two maximum at a time. I would like you to say something about each picture including why you like the picture and if you wish you can add your settings, filters, etc. to help us understand what you did. Positive critiquing and/or feedback is greatly appreciated. I have been with the UHH for many years and have watched how the original Hoggers have grown in their photography and editing akilla. Also as of the last year or so we have had many new photographers join in and it has been a wonderful complement to the challenges! So pick out some of your best pictures (that is the hardest part) and start posting them to the challenge . Don't forget that Digital Art is photos, abstracts, HDR, etc. Whatever you enjoy doing in photography. Remember it is a good idea to just post one at a time (2 if you wish) so you can comment and we can reply to each picture. And most important...lets have some fun.

The attached is one of my favorite and best photos of birds in flight. I had been practicing panning and deleting a lot of photos. But this one is one of about 6 photos taken in burst mode. I happened to take the photo to the TexNep photography meeting to be critiqued by a couple of professional nature photographers and I got a very good critique which encouraged me to continue photographing birds in flight and nature in general.

Cheers!
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