[GaliWalker]

Here's the thread for your best THREE photos of 2020. Feel free to only post your best one (or two), if you think you have a clear winner. Previous years' threads here: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. To reiterate, the guidelines are that you decide the criteria for why it makes your top-3, technically or otherwise. However, please let us know that reason.

[GaliWalker]

I have a single photo to post as my best one, taken relatively later in the year on Nov 21:

For a few years now I've been trending more and more towards including myself in my landscape photos. These aren't the traditional 'selfie' - oh, how I hate that word - because my aim isn't to take a photo of myself but rather to provide the viewer with a connection to the scene. I still want the photograph to be a landscape picture, so I usually want myself to be as small as possible. To do this I invested in a long range remote shutter release at the beginning of the year, which I have since used heavily. Now, a few words about the photograph itself: The location is North Fork Mountain, in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. I had this exact image in mind before I began the hike, and I wanted to take it around sunrise. The camera was set up on a tripod on a broad rocky spire, called Chimney Top, which required a short scramble to get atop. To get into position myself, I scrambled off Chimney Top, then made my way through some woods to get to the base of the horn I'm standing on. Another scramble to get atop that and I was finally able to take the shot. I'd set a 3sec timer on the remote, which allowed me to fire off the shot, and then strike a pose. This shot is my favorite of the year for all the planning that went into it, followed by the effort to actually take it. The end result was all I could have hoped for.

[Schroder]

I've always struggled with night photography. I finally have one I thought came out pretty well of my boat on anchor

Here's one I like for the drama of the sunrise over Three Fingers in the smoke of the forest fires

And one more

[coldrain108]

Marco Island FLA

Summerland living up to it's name

Good morning!

[InFlight]

Water Theme: Two from Mount Rainer and one from the Washington Coast.

Madcap Falls, Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainer NP

Mount Rainer and Nisqually River from Wonderland Trail

I used a blender filter (ND6 to 0) on the Camera, to help balance the bright sky to darker foreground in this last photo.

Ocean Shores in December

[Cyclopath]

You asked for the best photos of 2020, which is a different thing from our favorite photos of 2020. Since you asked for best, I think I can only respond with my NEOWISE photos. It's such a rare thing to even see, let alone get a good photo of.

From North Mountain Lookout

Of North Mountain Lookout

From West Seattle, seems to be a rocket launch in the bottom left

EDIT: The colors show up very differently here (dull and muted) vs on Flickr. Not sure why?

[Backpacker Joe]

I didnt have any. I cant really take pictures any longer. Using a magnafying glass I can kind of see yours. Nice pics. THanks for posting.

[GaliWalker]

Such a shame BPJ. Thanks for responding.

[TheWanderingIndian]

All taken with a camera on a phone Nature does most the work... 5/10

7/19

9/6