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| Hattie |
It's a tough statement to make when you take photographs every single day, but these are the 21 favorite photos (as of this moment) I shot in the year that just ended. I participated in the 365 project on Flickr as well, and these photos were probably all in
this larger, daily-photo set.
Hattie was my favorite portrait of the year (see my 100 Strangers project
here). She is 88, cares for her blind husband in Granger, Texas, and was dressed up for an outing to the HEB grocery in Taylor when I asked to take her photo.
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| Newly-hatched cardinals |
I had just seen a cardinal mother outside my window leave her nest with a chunk of eggshell in her mouth and knew I had to take this shot of the fresh baby birds. The third, unhatched egg? It's not a cardinal. See the full story in photos of the birds developing
here.
My wife and I went to see Tom Petty perform in Austin, Texas, but found
ourselves instead mesmerized by the woman interpreting the show for the
hearing impaired. Her name is
Barbie and she is now my friend on Facebook.
I was looking to shoot some sort of daily photo at sunset when my son took off across this field behind our house. The light was perfect and reminded me of an
Andrew Wyeth painting and/or a shot from a recent
Terrence Malick film.
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| Sign language |
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| My Wyeth painting |
See my full set of top photos from 2012
here. Happy New Year!
The folks over at Storyfinds.com are highlighting the new e-edition of my novel-in-stories Evacuation Plan today on their site as part of their Award-Winning Books Week. The novel won the North Texas Book Award and garnered some good attention. (Look on the right of this page for more info!)
