Thought I’d post some of my favorite shots from 2006 and here they are (in no particular order). I apologize in advance for posting so many… was difficult to choose; I’ve seen so many amazing things this year!

Cheetah at the Memphis Zoo, sometime in March.

Primate at the Memphis Zoo, again, I believe in March.

My little-big brother’s wedding. -sniff- April.

Some big rodeo championship in Franklin, TN… May.

Palms on the shores of Bagamoyo, Tanzania… June.

Not entirely sure what this is, but I like it. I think it may be a robber fly. July.

Gazing out into the Indian Ocean. Stonetown, Zanzibar. June.

A dandelion I shot for a macro contest. August.

A little bit of snow! A lot for this area, actually. I shot this hurrying to my car after leaving work early. On the UT Martin Campus. February.

Gummy Demise. Poor gummy bears, found dead on the campus of UT Martin. July.

Bagamoyo Mission, Bagamoyo, TZ. June.

Backlit. On the campus of Gibson County High School… Pioneer Homestead. April.

High key studio shot. Yummy girlie beer and it looks pretty too! August.

Looking out into the Indian Ocean at my resort in Bagamoyo, TZ. June.

Gibson County Courthouse, Trenton, TN. April.

Zebra love. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. June.

Tarangire River, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. June.

Wildebeests and a Gazelle. Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. June.

Eric Schenkman “lead guitarist” of the Spin Doctors. Soybean Festival. September.

Mark White, “lead bassist” of the Spin Doctors. Soybean Festival. September.

Chris Barron, “lead vocalist” of the Spin Doctors. Soybean Festival. September.

Danny Chauncey, guitarist, .38 Special. Soybean Festival. September.

Vocalist/guitarist, Don Barnes and guitarist, Danny Chauncey, .38 Special.  Soybean Fest. September.

Danny Chauncey, guitarist, .38 Special. Soybean Fest. September.

Newborn Raven. November. Kay, I think maybe I made my logo a little too big. hehe Opps.

Loretta Lynn’s dude ranch. Hurricane Mills, TN. After we transported some dogs on their way to a no-kill shelter. October.

  

I accomplished a lot today, of course, there’s still so much left to do.

I did, however, finally finish selecting and touching up/resizing images to submit for a call to entries. That was tough! Selecting the images firstly, and after those were finally chosen (I was limited to 10) I had to remove borders and signature stamps. Instead of searching them out on my hard drives or DVDs, I just downloaded them from my gallery and some of the images downloaded were currupt. Eep! I thought Photoshop was dying on me. It was frightening. I jumped on Jeff’s computer and found the same problem there. Time was ticking away. Redownloaded the problem images and everything was fine. I finished my submission with four minutes to spare!

Between Jeff helping me chose and scrutinizing my images (okay, I was scrutinizing them more than him probably, but he gave some too!) and my Business Comm prof. helping me proof my application as well as writing me a tremendously kind letter of recommendation, I believe I have a strong entry. Wish me luck!

At any rate, here are screenies of my submissions. It is for a nature org. Ten were to be of just our best/favorite work, and five were thematic. For the theme, I chose “dramatic flora”. Dramatic because of the lighting, color and contrast. Did I mention how difficult it was to limit myself to only 15 total images? Very! That’s why it’s taken me so long to decide. I had an idea to begin with of which I might like to submit, but there were many more than 15! Glad that’s over.

The “best 10″.

And the flora themed submissions.

The flora were far easier to chose than the “10 best”, fortunately.

I’m thinking about doing some still lifes this weekend. How refreshing it will be to take non-ports for a change!

Happy weekend!

R