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Favorites Photos of 2017

It’s that time of the year to look back and choose some favorites. Here’s a tidy 2 dozen of my personal sentimental favorites. All four seasons of my ordinary hikes are represented. Most were taken close to home, demonstrating that the wonders of creation can always be found near your own backyard.

A click on any photo will enlarge your view and give you a slide show format.

Moving Along

Ice Bauble

Forest on Watercolor

Ghost in the Water

Lines to the Past

Protector

Female Eastern Swallowtail

Spring Up

Ordered Reds

Blackwater Falls

Mamma Snapper

Great Blue

Young Barred Owl on the Hunt

Purple Toadstool

Canadian Lilly Twins

Ruby Meadowhawk (female)

Green Eyed Hornet

Yellow Tiger

Peaceful

Summer Finale

New Day of Wonder

Soothing flow

Morning by Morning

Wild Geranium

Upon a Deeper Look, What Do You See?

Fracture

Shot RAW, ISO 100, 1/8 sec at f11, 135mm, lightly processed in Lr.

Emanate

Shot RAW, ISO 100, 1/1250 sec at f7.1,68mm. Lightly processed on Lr.

Nikon D5200 Bright sun, Mid-afternoon.

Forest in Watercolor

1/160,f9, ISO 200, 210mm

Hiking with my grandson, I took a picture to show in the LCD screen that the log in the pond was not an Alligator. In that shot I notice that the clear blue sky, harsh light and stiff breeze combined to make a remarkable abstract on the pond surface. So what you see here is out of the camera, sharpened in Lr. I did take the liberty of flipping the photo vertically so that we are viewing it right side up.

Ghost Water

Winter Ghosts in the Water

Another Wordless Wednesday

The Thrill of the Capture

Looking back over a year of photos is the thrill of the capture and the agony of delete. Each week, photos are culled, choices made and posted. Thinning the selection even more poses quite a challenge. I thought this year I’d chose an even 2 dozen. This year I decided to enter 3 photo exhibitions and stretch myself and my skill. Four ribbons graced my photos so my eye and craft is improving. But for these I put some of the  technical aside and held on to some of my own emotion attachments and just chose my favorites.

Enjoy! Happy New Year! Wondering what we’ll be capturing together in a new year.

Ash Cave

Grace in Style

Rocks Ice and Water

Cedar Falls, Hocking Hills State Park

Its a Daisy Life

Lift Off

Good-Bye

Halloween Pennant

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV

Camera Shy

Blue Hen Falls – Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Blending In

Falling Waters (1)

Water Falling #1 captured from one of this year’s fall hikes. This small shelf is found below Dundee Falls, a local hike at the Beach City Wildlife Area.

 

It’s All About Nature

Slump Rock, Old Man’s Cave, Lower Falls

One of many rock formations along the trails of Hocking Hills State Park, Logan Ohio.

This October reflection is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: It’s All About Nature

A Look Back, A New Look Going Forward.

WordPress congratulated me a little while back on my 5 years of blogging. An automated nod for sure. Ordinaryhiker was my original title for a blog that was to be a nature journal. It is still the underlying identity of this blog. My original blog featured my writings to camp directors and staff; from that came my blogger identity as “making camp”. Ordinaryhiker never took off due to circumstances unforeseen. Primarily recovering from the misadventures of lung surgery.

In March, I decided to blog again as a way to share and get some feedback on my photos, as a new photo hobbyist. Looking for a blog title that sounded photo worthy, I choose Snap Shot. It took off more than I would imagine. In the process, I realized that while I take on a variety of subjects, I am primarily a nature photographer …  the ordinary hiker.

So, with the start of the new year, I am reverting back to being the Ordinary Hiker. Snap Shots by Wm. Roloff Photography. Changes will be on the way, a new gravatar etc.,. Thanks to you all who have made my photo journey such a joy and contributed to my growth.

As my first post of the new year I’m choosing 20 (if I can 🙂 ) of my favorite photos from last year. They are in no particular order but I would be curious to know your favorites.

Happy New Year. Looking forward to the journey. – Bill

Fall On the Clear Fork

Mound/Wood Ant

Wood Nymph Class

Camera Hike Across the Swingiong Bridge

Summer Night Serenade

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror…I Cor 13:12

Joe-Pye Weed replaces the milkweed flower as butterfly super food.

Labor Day Monarch Release

Hmm, Should I or should I not…

End of Summer’s Bloom

Soothing Flow

Careful! The Bridges You Cross

Wisp for the Wind

Crystal Curtain

Munch, munch.

“Be Still” Sunday

Be still, and know that I am God; I will exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! Psalm 46:10