I think I’ve already posted my best and favorite images from 2024 to [Capture Challenge] Charge your battery and take some photos so I figured I’d throw up a few woulda/coulda/shoulda shots here.
To make sure I didn’t re-post any images from that other thread, I skimmed through the last year on that thread. Folks posted a lot of bangers last year! 
So, in reverse chronological order (for no particular reason)…
This is a different view of a boat abandoned on a roadside, which I did post another image of.
You are a super hero (?)
I find myself wondering what got there first, the boat or the tag on the wall… 
This next one (as well as a barred owl that my wife saw in our yard while I wasn’t home) caused a full-on GAS attack:
I had to crop in pretty hard, and it was a battle to try to retain any image quality. Somehow, I resisted getting that 100-400 mm zoom that I was craving. I may come to regret that in the future, since it was on sale at the time.
When we got back from a vacation in August, I backed off the exposure a bit on a sunset shot with some strong rays, and the result was pretty insane…
But the clouds…ACK! They look like smears of peanut butter, or worse. I’ll probably put this one up as a play raw, once I have enough time on my hands to actually study people’s edits.
My goal with this one was to have the stump in sunlight and the background in shade. Given the characteristics of the location, that will only happen on certain days within a short time window. I haven’t worked out the required vertical angle of the sun yet.
Sure, I could somewhat fake it in editing, but I’m taking it as a personal challenge to get it right in camera. Maybe in 2025…
Anyway.
Truth in advertising…
