My favourite images made in 2020
2020 was a year that didn’t have me picking up my camera a lot compared to other years. Maybe it was a lack of motivation due to the circumstances we were all facing or some other reason that doesn’t really come to mind right now.
According to my Lightroom library i made 3806 images for the year 2020, that would be the least amount of images made since 2016 for me and roughly 6700 less than 2019 which by coincidence was the most amount of images made in a year at 10167.
With that said i think i made one of if not my most favourite image in 2020, but you’ll have to wait until the end of this blog to see what that image was ;-).
Looking back at 2020 i obviously didnt get to travel much but i did manage to get in a trip to Bali and Japan before the major restrictions started to set in, in March. Most of the images that make up the 3800 images are from those 2 trips. The rest are predominately made up of my kids futbol matches, some short trips around Sydney/NSW and birthdays.
Here are my favourite images made from 2020, they were made with my Digital (Fujifilm XT-2), 35mm (Contax S2b) and 120mm (Fuji GW690III) cameras.
As i mentioned at the start of the blog, i think i made my all time favourite image. This was while on my 40th birthday trip to Japan in February of 2020.
My wife and I were wondering around Harajuku at the time, i think we were on our way back from the Film Camera Tokyo store wondering the back streets.
I had my trusty Contax S2b with the Carl Zeiss Distagon 35mm f2.8 and some Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400 loaded in at the time.
I saw this store front with cool pink neon lights and with super contrasting yellow interior lighting, i just thought it looked super cool and had to get a shot. I thought to myself, i want to get enough detail of the interior but as it was getting dark i didn’t want to use too low a shutter speed so that id get an image thats as sharp as possible.
Before i had too much time to think about it i saw these 2 girls in the corner of my eye who were shortly going to walk into my path, i remember thinking i have to get them in the shot but i want them to look a little blurred which ended up working well with the shutter speed i ended up using of 1/60th second.
It was low enough to not completely blur them out, removing any form of knowing what it was going past and at the same time allowing me to use an aperture that rendered enough detail in the store.
My only critic about the image is that i wish i was a little further back to have gotten them complete from head to toe and probably that i didn’t take any other images of the store besides that one shot.
I love everything about the shot from the way the film rendered the colours, the way the girls walking past are positioned, how cool the mannequins look in the store front and just the store itself.
This has been my wallpaper on my phone since early March :-D.
I hope you managed to make more images than i did over 2020, if not lets make a New Years resolution to at least top 2020 for the amount of images created.