Lots of things to wrap up for the end of the year. Beyond the mundane is reviewing my photographs and picking the best of 2007. This is a bigger task than I thought it might be when I first considered coming to this choice.
My library has 10,504 photographs, 5,304 from 2007. Of those 5,304 I have flagged 123 as “favourites.” 123 0f 5,304 isn’t too bad, just about 2.3%. But it’s still a number larger than 1, and 1 seems a long way to go.
To get closer what I’ve chosen to do is look for the best of category. I categorize all of my pictures as part of my tagging process. As all my photographs are already categorized this should make the task a little easier. My current list includes nineteen subjects:
- Art / artistic
- Beach
- Buildings
- Car
- Cityscape
- Cottage
- Family
- Flowers
- Food
- Garden
- Golf
- Historic sites
- House
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Resort
- Sunset
- Winterscape
- Terrior
For the most part a category is closely related to a physical subject, with the exception of Terrior which is more about feeling. Terrior:
is a group of vineyards (or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation, and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions, grapes and wine making savoir-faire, which contribute to give its specific personality to the wine [1].
But I use the term in its broader context “goût de terroir” which is the characteristic taste and flavor imparted to a wine by the environment in which it is produced. Translating this to a photograph, it means to me, a picture that in some way captures a representative sense or feeling of a place or moment. A taste.
Of the 123 photographs, 77 are from three categories: Landscape (35); Cityscape (24); and Family (18). Seven of the nineteen categories have no pictures this year. This is because none in that category were that great and didn’t make the initial cut or I just didn’t take any.
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