Another brilliant set, full of variety!

Have to say the Glasgow footbridge shot is particulalry stunning, and the Kelpies reflection such a unique take on a hugely photographed location. But really enjoyed seeing them all

Such great bird images ... the heron and bittern are fabulous.

Hadn't realised that, But have always admired your commitment to film, so maybe shows there's a certain something about the medium or approach when using film

No need to be gentle, I think many of us will be in real ' I wish I'd taken that' territory

Great variety again (is this something PentaxUser folk are particularly good at??) , but summer evening meadow, catch a falling star, riverside portrait and Mill sunset are all absolutely top knot here. And I love the Cwmorthin shot, having been there earlier this year and got nothing half as good

Great stuff

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Fascinating set, but the IR church is just brilliant,

Just my reaction

Such quality here. Davidtrout's really on to something encouraging us to post collections like his. Just great to see the variety of Photographic styles, and quality of images, of the folk here.

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So glad you posted these. Really, really engaging set and shows off your eye Lenny

Feb is fab, and I absolutely love November, such a great feel to that image, but great images all round.

August really made me smile

Really great to see these, and to have the info on such a positive Photographic year for you Jonathan. Such a great sense of the variety of your travels, and some absolutely cracking images . The bike and the chair particularly appeal - real showstoppers for me.

OK, so following Davidtrout posting his fabulous set of personal 'best of 2016' images, here's my take. No comparisons with David's excellence please

These represent my 12 favourite images from this year - not my 'best of each month' (some of them were taken on the same day!), or necessarily even my best quality 12. But images I really enjoyed making for reason's I'll try to give in wee summaries.


12. Sutton Beach
Possibly the most boring beach in Britain for standard landscape photography, so you have to try something different. And going for the swoosh left me with very wet boots and trousers on a cold March day .





11. Fellside
Taken whilst climbing Hallin Fell on the east side of Ullswater to snap the standard (wonderful) wide landscape image from it's top, I took this study of the hillside across the valley. This was the moment that cemented a growing interest in abstract landscape images, which I've dabbled with ever since.





10. Curtain
Snow showers over the Arenigs, Snowdonia, on an April day of incredible changing weather conditions - snow, hail, rain, wind, bright sunshine... the lot. I've done fewer B&W conversions this year, but felt it worked for this.





9. New Red Sandstone
Abstract of the fabulously weathered and patterned rocks at Merkland Point on the Isle of Arran. Taken early one morning on a family holiday. I could have spent all day there





8. Bracken in the bracken
Our dog, in classic 'hoping for biscuit' mode. I had the Ricoh GR in my pocket, without which there are quite a few images like this I would have missed this year.





7. Storm over Y Garn
Looking south from the middle of Snowdonia to Cadair Idris in the distance, shortly before I took #10. Another lesson in how great rapidly changing weather is for landscape images.





6. Tryfan
A much photographed mountain, but a 4:30am start and hike up the hill in freezing April conditions was rewarded with this .





5. Autumn Birch
Image of a tree 2 minutes from our house, which I love due to its wonderful shape. But I've never been able to get a decent image of it due to clutter in it's background and difficult angles. October brought an opportunity for a more abstract image, and having staked the tree out for so long I'm quietly satisfied with this.





4. Samarian Tree
The Samaria Gorge in Crete is just astonishing (go if you can!!!). I was really pleased to spot this moment as changing light falls into its depths.





3. Pen yr Ole Wen
Another from 'that day' in Snowdonia, which was actually on a photography workshop run by Greg Whitton. Going on a couple of workshops this year has been great fun, forcing me to get out and seriously snap and really helping me focus my photography. I like this particular image as I went a bit off piste compared to the other folk on the workshop, who all stayed the other side of a wee ridge, facing 180 degrees in the other direction. They missed this





2. Sea of light

The Hope Valley from Mam Tor during a decent temperature inversion is one of the great sights of the Peak District. I've a set of images from this morning in September, all of which I really like, but this was the moment the rising sun lit up the surface of the fog. Just magical.





1. A rock, two trees and some bur-reed
This is an image of two much photographed trees reflected in Llyn y Dywarchen, again in Snowdonia (although not on 'the day' :wink. It's my favourite of my own images from 2016 as it's an abstract landscape image, it's in 4x5 portrait (a format I'm increasingly drawn to) and I had to work bloomin hard to make it work, getting the angles exactly right, getting the filtering right (polariser and ND), and being patient with the light. One of the few times I've genuinely pre-visualised what I wanted and then got there






Thanks for looking everyone, and happy photography in 2017!

Really enjoyed these David, and no doubt I'll dip in again a few times

Just wonderful variety - you have the eye for so many styles of photography - and your characteristic tip top quality.

I'm not sure it's really appropriate to single any out - but Crys Campos, Pastel Morning and Three Generations absolutely grab me

Many thanks for posting. Need to get round to doing something similar in the next day or too.