{"id":3602,"date":"2011-01-11T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/2010-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:47:00","slug":"2010-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/2010-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a bit of closure on the old year, I can sum up my photography in 2010 with a few stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I kept about 7500 photos taken in 2010. That means I surely took more than 8,000 photos but probably not 10,000 \u2013 I don\u2019t delete 25% of my photos. (Every one I kept has one or more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/\">tags<\/a> for organizing and finding them later.) <\/li>\n<li>With Merri\u2019s help, I\u2019ve rated 221 photos as 4 out of 5 stars; there are 12 photos with 5 stars \u2013 the best of the lot. All of these have appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/\">my Flickr pages<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/photosbymjh\/\">my Picasa albums<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I take photos every day and the environment around me is my most frequent subject, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/roadrunners\/\">roadrunners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/hawks\/\">hawks<\/a>, and many other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/birds\/\">birds<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/bugs\/\">bugs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/flowers\/\">flowers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/sky\/\">sky<\/a>, and the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/newmexico\/\">New Mexico<\/a> landscape. However, four trips account for many of the photos I kept, including <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/Florida2010\">Florida in May<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/colorado\/\">Colorado<\/a> in June, and DC in October (for <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/TripToDC102010\">a visit<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/WeddingAlbum\">a wedding<\/a>). The lion\u2019s share of the best photos came from 12 days in <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/TripToGuatemala2010\">Guatemala<\/a> at the end of February and the start of March. Among many great subjects, I experienced the chance of a lifetime to photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/lU2v3h4QvWeumw5CBmK5JA?feat=directlink\">a male resplendent quetzal in flight<\/a>. That may not be the best photo of the year, but it is a shining example of being ready for the right time in the right place \u2013 and being lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than <em>tell<\/em> you more about these pictures, let me <em>show<\/em> you what I consider <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\">the twelve best of my 2010 photos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Alameda dragonfly\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alameda dragonfly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC04450.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"curve-billed thrasher\" border=\"0\" alt=\"curve-billed thrasher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC03416.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"sunset unfolding\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sunset unfolding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC02709-Stitch.jpg\" width=\"1021\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"full moon over Weminuche Wilderness\" border=\"0\" alt=\"full moon over Weminuche Wilderness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC02547.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"baby great horned owl with parent\" border=\"0\" alt=\"baby great horned owl with parent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC00733.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"into the light (Kathleen in a Mayan entranceway and arch in Tikal, Guatemala)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"into the light (Kathleen in a Mayan entranceway and arch in Tikal, Guatemala)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC09410.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"thistle\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thistle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC08739.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"master birders (Dave and Miguel)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"master birders (Dave and Miguel)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC08097.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Casa en Las Nubes\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Casa en Las Nubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC07792.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"orchid in Guatemala\" border=\"0\" alt=\"orchid in Guatemala\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC07600.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"church in Antigua, Guatemala\" border=\"0\" alt=\"church in Antigua, Guatemala\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC07692.jpg\" width=\"364\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC08207-WM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"The resplendant quetzal in flight. (Copyright (c) 2010 by Mark Justice Hinton.)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The resplendant quetzal in flight. (Copyright (c) 2010 by Mark Justice Hinton.)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/01\/DSC08207-WM_thumb.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the second edition of my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470917644?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ahwilde-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0470917644\">Digital Cameras &amp; Photography for Dummies<\/a>, came out in November (a couple of the Guatemalan photos made it in the book).<\/p>\n<p> <embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feat=flashalbum&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmarkjusticehinton%2Falbumid%2F5561064092240207777%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed>   <\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 194px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: url(http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; height: 194px\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0px 4px\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_uC0tbxc2DY0\/TSzeU_8oX6E\/AAAAAAAADVI\/QQk9TYbVTa0\/s160-c\/BestOf2010.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px\"><a style=\"color: #4d4d4d; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/BestOf2010?feat=embedwebsite\">Best of 2010<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a bit of closure on the old year, I can sum up my photography in 2010 with a few stats: I kept about 7500 photos taken in 2010. That means I surely took more than 8,000 photos but probably not 10,000 \u2013 I don\u2019t delete 25% of my photos. (Every one I kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/2010-in-photos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010 in Photos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}