by NIck Kelsh | Jan 9, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#13. Leila Thompson Flavell I’ve known several photographers like Leila. They only shoot good photographs. Or at least they create the illusion that they only shoot good photographs. They actually shoot some marginal photographs like the rest of us but they...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#14. Vicki Finlay She spent a few hours at the arboretum and found this treasure. I love the idea that the composition and lighting simply reinforce how beautiful and exquisite the flowers are. They all become one, in the same spirit. It’s a joy to shoot a...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 7, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#15. Lorie Caruso Mutschler She got a make-up kit for her birthday and immediately became time to do great grandma’s make-up. One minute these little ones are squirming around in their diapers and the next minute they’re doing great grandma’s makeup. It’s hard...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 6, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#16. Nicole Ethridge The girls were a little younger then, but there they are still in the dark, alone but together. It’s silly of me, of course, to point out that photographs help preserve memories. But it’s a very different experience to say it than to see it...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 5, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#17. Terri Van Den Einde I like this photograph so much because it’s dramatic and well-composed. Obviously, the lighting is beautiful, too. But the photograph itself is so unusual. We’ve had so many pictures of football players posted here over the years and...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 4, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#18. Belinda Anne Stanley I honestly hate to come off as sounding so clinical here. This is such a wonderful example of getting close to your subject in the interest of telling a story. What do you show? What do you not show? The answer is often show what you...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 3, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#19. Connie Nothdurft Erikson Personally, I would’ve waited until a tornado blew by before I pushed the button, but to each her own. But seriously, I’ve never seen this situation before – a rainbow and lightning in the same 125th of a second. I’m not sure...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 2, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#20. Susan DiCamillo Hats off to Susan for recognizing real life and having the good sense to simply record it simply. There’s nothing fancy going on here. It is what it is. Susan’s friend brought her son to work. What a great image of our times. It’s...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 1, 2022 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#21. Brenda Akins No bus, no picture. Or at least, no story. But when you put all of these elements together it’s a beautiful story and I don’t believe we’ve ever seen quite this exact version over the years. Saying goodbye to his toys on the first day of...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 30, 2021 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#22. Kathy Doten This is a beautiful image. I don’t have much else to say here that won’t be distracting. Here’s what Kathy said: “My last visit with my Mom (she died from COVID April 2020) taken as a selfie and my most cherished picture.” Are you seeing our Daily...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 29, 2021 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#23. Judy Connick This is straight out of Ansel Adams’s playbook. Don’t over expose the highlights and hold detail in your shadows. If you can pull that off you have grabbed your viewers by their hearts and minds. (With a modern digital camera you start by...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 28, 2021 | Top 50 2021, Uncategorized
#24. Louise Rodgers Sumner You should’ve seen the dog when they read A Cat in the Hat. Actually, it’s better this way. Look at the look on that dog’s face! Precious is certainly one word for it. But let me just say what Louise has done to perfection here. She...
