These are the 10 best photos I took in 2008.  I’ve put then in a slide show on Flickr.  “The Nubble has been judged by me to be my best:

Look at all ten on FLickr and tell me what you think.  If you have trouble opening them from the link let me know and I can post them all to the blog.

For those of you keeping score.  I took about 5500 digital pictures in 2008 and kept about 4000 of them on my computer.  I uploaded about 1000 to Flickr to share as albums or to illustrate blog stories.

I use the camera as a fair witness, for snapshots, to remember facts and to try to take memorable pictures.  These are the winners in the memorable pictures category.

Of the top photos of 2008 about half were cropped and a few were color corrected.  With computers and software it is now very easy to digitally adjust photos. This results in better photos but less truth.   I’ll write more about photos as evidence in my next post.