Boarding the 'Best of 2010' Train

I know this has been and is going to be overdone this week, but I really do think it's fun to look back on a year and compile your favorite photographs. I haven't done as much photography this year as I would have liked, but I still got behind my lens several times and really enjoyed making beautiful photographs.
Here are my favorites from the year, in chronological order: 

My favorite of Ilarene and Jason's engagement photos - and just so happens it's the one they sent out with their announcements, too.

One of many family shots I took at my cousins' family reunion during the summer - this is Melissa and her family

My friend Aaron contacted me last-minute to photograph his wedding at the Mount Timpanogos temple here in Utah. It was a beautiful spring day, with gorgeous flowers all around the temple. This was a really fun shoot.

Ilarene's bridals were taken up in Salt Lake, here at the capitol building and then at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It turned out to be a really stormy day, but we still managed to take some awesome photographs.

                                             

Ilarene and Jason's wedding day! I want to frame this photo of the Salt Lake temple, I love it so much. I took it while the couple was getting some much-needed nourishment, and I was chilling on the grass next to the temple. I ended up loving this unique angle of it.

Same wedding day - looking together at the temple. I love the sun burst.

A very hot fall day up in the canyon. Dylan and I went for a Sunday picnic up there, and to see the beautiful changing leaves. I think I have a little crush on sun flare.

We went down to the Manti temple one weekend in the fall, and got to do a session there, and then take mounds of photographs (that is, it would be mounds if we still printed every photo we took) of the beautiful temple. It was a special mission from my sister-in-law, Kristen, but I also wanted more temple photographs, taken by me. I would love to take photographs of every temple - wouldn't that be a fun expedition?

                            

Dylan's brother's little baby girl on her blessing day. I got to take some wonderful shots of this little cutie before they blessed her. Her little smile is heart-warming.

Feeding giraffes! Yes, this was one of the highlights of the year, and possibly my life. We took tons of pictures of us actually feeding the giraffes, but I wanted some of just the giraffes, too. She was looking at me! :)

Oh Kauai, how I miss you. This is my favorite of the whole trip - that red rock next to the green blue water, and the waves crashing into the rock. Plus, the fact that I had to lean out of a moving helicopter to take it, straight down, adds to its appeal.

Sunset - and sun flare - oh boy. I have a problem.

Wailua Falls. Before Dylan ventured out (almost) over the edge of the falls.

At the Luau. I love light drawing photographs, and the fire portions of this luau helped me accomplish this. I love the effect it has, and the fact that I could create a photograph from more than what our eyes even could see.

Thank you for a wonderful year, 2010, and devoted readers. I hope that next year I have more photo jobs to post about, and also that I MAKE more photo work for myself - landscape and nature photography really are what started me into loving photography, and I need to get out there and practice that more often. I would love to photograph any special events in your life, or take photos of things around where I live that you'd love a print of. I'm up for anything :)
And next year around this time? Who knows where we'll be. Not Utah, we know that. I can't wait for new adventures in 2011!
Happy New Year, everyone.