Good morning to you and welcome to a 2020 greatest hits edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, wherein y’all pick your personal favourite shots of the year for a prompt we’re calling; Cream of the crop.
I decided to go with a selection of images which sum up life here in one small corner of Devon, during this surreal and uniquely challenging year.
From the time I spent off work, sitting in the garden for weeks on end, finding new and creative ways to entertain myself; to solitary walks along woodland paths and riverbanks, capturing an unusually quiet and empty version of the world; to bizarre lockdown art projects and video experiments, 2020 was a year which will be hard to forget.
It’s been an absolute pleasure to have your collective company over the last twelve months, however difficult it may have seemed, we made it through.
Now it’s time for you to show off your proudest photographic moments, come on, don’t be shy…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/33725/
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I love that gif, great effect
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Great shots! Whew, marvelous. Happy Holidays! 🎅🎁🎄
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Thank you, and to you, too.
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The link in my reply should work but this is a better one: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/one-month-one-photo/
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They both seem to work fine
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That was a hard one and I tried to limit myself to one photo per month, whittling down my favourites to 12… I hope you like them: https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/39753971/posts/3087130499
I love the variety not just of subjects but of effects you display in your gallery. If I had to pick a favourite it would be the photo of you(?) standing on a beach in a different world with two suns (one of which is a golfball).
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Thank you, yes that’s me on the banks of the River Taw, the one in another dimension. ;~}
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I especially liked the wings on that bumblebee, the view through the droplet and the lightening among many of the others.
https://frankhubeny.blog/2020/12/21/cream-of-the-crop/
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Thank you, Frank.
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The gargoyle and rose is the stand out for me.
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I went from Cream of the Crop to Cream of the Clouds after starting my contribution:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2020/12/21/cream-of-the-clouds/
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