CDP Theme Day: 2016 Pictures Of The Year

Maybe I lack self-discipline but I'm just not able to pick a single image for the CDP New Year's Day theme. These are some of my favorites, sorted into arbitrary categories. 

First Place: bonfire finale at Artica

Second Place: anti-Trump rally in downtown STL

Best Travel Photos

Der Dicker Engel restaurant in Berlin

  

Chihuly and Seattle, desaturated 

 

On the other hand, best pure use of color

Transit tunnel, Seattle 

Best candid portraits

One day on Art Hill

 

Andy and Audrey

Outside the Rijksmuseum

Best black and white

Airstrip, Clare, Michigan

Levee, Eads Bridge and Arch

 Best performance photo

Finite-Infinite at the 2016 St. Louis Fringe Festival

And finally, best quotation from James Joyce

A bar in Chicago

   

See 2016's best from CDP members around the world here.

Happy 2017 to all.        

Pictures Of The Year

It was a rich visual year for St. Louis Daily Photo. 362 total posts. The ones I'm bringing back today are my favorites.

Above, January 2. Jeff and Josh, jugglers extraordinaire, incite the crowd at First Night in Grand Center    

January 15: Badwater, Death Valley, California, the lowest elevation in the U.S.

March 13: Waiting at the border in Peñas Blancas, Nicaragua, returning to Costa Rica

March 28: at the Missouri Botanical Garden's annual orchid show




March 29: my favorite Arch picture of the year

May 6: 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City

July 2: on the sidelines of the Pridefest parade

July 17: Slut Walk, an anti-rape demonstration

August 3: at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland

August 20: the Color Run, St. Louis

September 15: Balloon Glow in Forest Park

 

October 6: the open kitchen at Julian's restaurant in Kansas City




October 21: Seattle and Mt. Rainier, taken from the Space Needle




October 30: Halloween in St. Louis' Central West End
























December 20: directly underneath the Arch with a fisheye lens