Yes, this is the mandatory “best of the year” blog post with the photos that I liked the most. You must be tired of tweets, RSS feeds and blogs announcing “best of 2010″ features so I appreciate your visit to this post.
I’ll start with the image that I liked the most from 2010
Our Galactic Neighborhood
I took this photo at the hills of Azul, 300km south of Buenos Aires. The skies were dramatically dark and the sight of the Milky Way was impressive. I had never seen a shot with the Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds in the same landscape and this was my chance to do it. It won some astrophotography awards with this picture, including picture of the week at Ice In Space and Amateur Photo of the Day.
The Forest's Energy
This photo is from a small forest near Miramar, Argentina. The forest has allegedly some magical powers, there is a geomagnetic anomaly that produces energy and people go there to embrace the trees, do new age rituals and heal their minds and bodies. I went to take pictures and this is the way I depicted the “energy” that this interesting place has.
Strike One
I was trying to photograph distant lightning at the horizon from the beach. I never noticed I was under a huge storm cell until I saw the cloud in the camera LCD!. The storm came my way and believe it or not I had to run. It wasn’t fun to be chased by a storm while carrying a big metal tripod. The photo was chosen by Flickr staff and featured in the Flickr blog. Works for me!
Moonrise by the Candlelights
This photo shows the moon rising above rocks at the beach, the light on the rocks comes from a nearby fire. It was chosen by Scott Bourne to introduce me as one of the finalists for emerging photographer of the year. I didn’t win but I’m very happy I got that far. When I took the photo I didn’t see it as something very special but everybody seems to like it and it has grown on me.
Miramar Equinox
I was happy to find these rocks because they looked like fingers and I thought it would be a good idea to point them to the sun as it was rising. What I didn’t expect was the reflection from high clouds in the tidal pools at the rocks. I think I took thousands of photos and this was the one I liked the most. It’s what it is all about.
Geyser Rock
This rock has a hole at one side and another one at the top. When the waves hit the front hole water enters the rock and the pressure makes the water exit thru the top hole as a Geyser. The conditions for this are not very common and I think the shot was never tried at night. I used a flashlight to paint the splash and let the camera do the rest. I think I will try again with a closer framing for now I just like this shot.
Here we go again!
After 4 days waking up at 5am wanting to photograph the sunrise only to find clouds and nothing interest it finally happened. I got a nice sunrise with some beautiful clouds and the luck to find two crossing waves just in front of my camera. This is why the photo is called “here we go again” because no matter how bad the conditions are there is always tomorrow and the only secret is to be there when it happens.
Thank you for reading this boring post and happy 2011!
More photos at my site: http://www.luisargerich.com
Really beautiful images. Strike One is special!!
Good work here, Luis, congratulations!