Following the best nine of Instagram and VERO, I’d thought I’d pick out some of my favourite images from 2022.

I haven’t chosen a specific number of images but I’ve tried to be as selective as I can.

Bucket list moments

Bucket list items ticked off this year include:

Photographing fireworks at Cromer on New Year’s Day. This was very enjoyable and the shot below is one of my favourites:

New Year’s Day fireworks at Cromer

The next bucket list item was getting the opportunity to photograph sea eagles off the Isle of Mull. .

‘The’ shot everyone wants…

Exhibition achievement

Thanks to try Wife Kathryn suggesting I enter one of those images into the club for consideration at the annual exhibition, the shot below was highly commended and won the nature and wildlife trophy!

Trophy Winner at Annual Exhibition: ‘Where Eagles Glare’

Sunrise shots

The year started brilliantly with one of my favourite shots on a club sunrise trip to Bawdsey Suffolk!

I bagged many sunrise shots during the year with the following three amongst my favourites:

Aldeburgh Suffolk
How Hill
Southwold on Christmas Eve Morning

Sunset shots

The following images were amongst my favourites:

Caister-on-Sea
Aldeburgh (Fuji handheld shot)
Eaton Park Norwich
Brancaster, North Norfolk Coast

Wildlife shots

Aside from the amazing trip to photograph sea eagles, I grabbed Canadian geese, a puffin, a red kite, a swan and a Robin:

Canadian Geese at Snettisham , underlit by evening sun
Puffin at Treshnish, off Isle of Mull
Red Kite, near Leeds
‘Runway Swan’ at Hickling Nature Reserve
Robin from Strumpshaw Fen RSPB

Holidays

Our three week epic trip to Scotland had the sea eagles and puffin experiences but also delivered a set of awesome landscapes:

Photographer’s Dream Location: Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris
Neist Point, Isle of Skye
Me taking the shot above…
The Famous Quiraing
Me on Quiraing
Opportune roadside shot Loch Slapin
Sunrise at Corpach nr Fort William
Reflections of Ben Nevis at Corpach
Opportune roadside shot, Loch Eil, Fort William

North Wales

Two weeks in North Wales brought plenty of photo opportunities with these ones being my favourites:

Trefor
Sunrise at the Lone Tree, Llyn Padarn, Llanberis
Cwm Idwal
Watkin Path

Suffolk

A long weekend in Suffolk saw us pack a lot in with the highlight being Flatford and Aldeburgh:

Flatford, composition pointed out by Kathryn
‘Scallop Splendour’ (Aldeburgh)

Reflections

All in all, an amazing year with some great images captured.

I shall now start to think about what I’d like to achieve in 2023 with some trips already being planned.

Onwards and upwards…