Happy New Year to all participants in the Lens-Artists Challenge. I have the honor of leading off the 2023 Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, “Favorite Images of 2022.” The premise is simple. Simply share your favorite images captured in 2022.
I look forward to seeing everyone’s responses to the challenge each week in this new year. My wife and I returned to the “traveling spirit” in 2022 and visited parts of the world we’d never seen before. To start off my personal favorites of 2022, the panoramic view of Niagara Falls was captured with my cell phone and is comprised of two images stitched together featuring the American Falls in the foreground and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in the background.
As we left New York City on the Carnival Magic, we were escorted on our way by New York’s Finest. I am not sure why we got the police escort out of the city.
In September, as we made our way to New York City, we traveled several scenic highways in both the U.S. and Canada. We started by traveling to Duluth, Minnesota where we picked up the North Shore Scenic Highway on the Minnesota side of Lake Superior.
After a recent update to the photo editor on my Samsung S20U, I started experimenting with some of the artistic filters in the app and spent some time applying the creative filters to cell phone photos captured in 2022.
In May, we visited our son in North Carolina. One of the highlights of the trip was a ride on the short-line New Hope Valley Railway. The short distance through the North Carolina countryside is a pleasant evening diversion.
In March, we visited Las Vegas and I captured this cellpic from our hotel room at Main Street Station in downtown Las Vegas. It is a mix of old and new with the older Plaza Hotel behind the brand-new Circa Resort. That building with the blue and purple exterior lighting in the foreground is Circa’s parking ramp.
One of my favorite images for this year was captured while we were visiting Albuquerque for a family reunion. It’s an example of checking the view opposite the direction of the sun. The light on the clouds was amazing.
I am looking forward to seeing your favorite images from 2022. Be sure to link your post to my original post and use the Lens-Artists tag to help us find your response. Next week, Sofia hosts the challenge. For more information on joining the challenge each week, check here.
John Steiner
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Interesting photos all. I see some of what I thought were your year’s most memorable in there.
This turned out to be a hard post for me. I’d already exhausted my year’s best travel photos, camera photos, phone photos, and photos I most liked on second look. So I’ve now gone with favourite photos that I’ve shown on posts in the last year for your challenge: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/blog-images-from-the-past-year-403-me/
Thanks for taking the time to work out a solution! 😉
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OK I came up with a different angle as I’d hoped to do: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-you-choose-i-cant/
Btw, I forgot to say in my previous comment how much I love that last shot of yours! You’re so right, the best views can sometimes be in the opposite direction 🙂
Great photos John! Happy new year!
Thanks, Aletta! Happy New Year to you as well!
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Nice review of 2022, John.
Mine was already online, but I found a solution: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/monochrome-monday-9-35-and-lens-artists-photo-challenge-231-favorite-images-of-2022/
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interesting theme and images you have chosen for the challenge week, I like them very much john.
here is my contribution to this challenge theme, https://wp.me/pdALlZ-mc.
many greetings robert
Thanks, Robert!
Great panorama picture of Niagara Falls, John! Also liked the photo of the gentleman with the artistic filter. Cool effect!
Thank you!
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Great and lovely photos here.
Nice variation among the ‘scapes, as well as in colour.
The Niagra Falls one almost feels like some sort of fantasy.
Here’s mine for this one:
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Great memories, Love the sunset and the Gentlemen editing. And I wonder what gave you the police escort… Happy New Year!
I will always wonder that myself. Probably just a coincidence of their flight and our departure, but I’ll never know. >grin<
I love the sunset photo!!
Thanks, Nora!
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I like the playing with the phone photo filters, I sometimes do that, it can completely change a photo. And the sunset is wonderful, always a good idea to look around. I have already done a post about my 2022 so I am linking it to this challenge. Happy New Year John.
Thanks, Jude! Yours is a beautiful gallery of Cornwall images!
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Stunning photos, I love what the filters did to the image with the men on the bench.. Like Sarah, I like the colours, especially, the sky in your last image. Here is my contribution for the challenge. Here is my entry.
A beautiful gallery you have, for sure, Bren.
Thank you xx
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Here is my entry for the week. I hope you like my choices.
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Oooh, that Albuquerque sunset! Lovely. Here’s my addition to this weeks fun.
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You obviously had many memorable moments in your year. Here’s mine: https://margaret21.com/2023/01/12/postcards-from-2022/
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Wow!!! The image of the Niagara Falls is amazing and I love the “Gentlemen of Betanzos”, it’s different and very special. Lovely sunsets as well.
Here is my entry from Cyprus: https://maltanita.com/2023/01/12/lens-artists-photo-challenge-231-favorite-images-of-2022/
Thanks, Anita! I just finished a visit to your post. I am in love with those two doggies!
Thank you for your visit John 🐕🐕
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And a second one: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/my-yearbook-arrived/. 😁
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Here is mine for the week
Thanks for sharing, Nora!
Hi John! Love the photo of Niagara Falls! I live so “relatively” close but I have never been, but it is on my list of summer travels! Below is my challenge submission, thanks https://thrumyeyes291981044.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/lens-artist-challenge-231-favorite-pictures-of-2022/
We waited too many years to visit. The views of the falls from both sides of the border are spectacular.
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Happy New Year John. Great challenge to get us started in 2023
Back at you! Thanks!
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The Las Vegas sunset is really mesmerizing, along with the rest of the selection 🙂
Thanks, Hammad!
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John, I enjoyed looking back and seeing your favorites photos from 2022. I especially like the one of the three men with the artistic filter, it looks like a painting. Sorry I was not able to participate since I am in the process of replacing the video card in my PC – ugh!
Good luck on the hardware fix!
Thank you John, I was certainly not expecting this. Hopefully the video/graphics software can be replaced soon, am feeling lost without the PC!
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