Best of 2008 (Year Two)

"Fading Light" (clicking on the image will take you directly to the Picasa Web Album with the photos)

I finally made up my mind and selected the photos for the "Best of 2008" album (subtitled "Year Two" - because I began to make photos more consciously in 2007, when I bought my first DSLR cameras). Most of the photos appear just the way that I originally published them throughout the year, some of them received additional and/or new editing.

The selection contains all images that I marked as "Pick" in Lightroom and rated with 5 stars. For the selection process, I first filtered the view to show all picks with 4 stars to decide if any of them would be worth a higher rating. After that, I switched to the 5 star view to see if they all really deserve the 5 star rating. Interesting enough, the final selection contains 32 photos, so the total amount is not much different from the 36 photos in the old "Best of 2007 (Year One)" album.

I hope you enjoy the selection!

PS: I created an unpublic album and uploaded the photos, then waited for something like one hour before switching it to public. I did not want my fans on Picasa Web to get an automated notifications when I "recycle" old photos, and I did not want to appear in on my Buzz stream either - because of this blog post. Turns out the one hour wait wasn't long enough. Sorry for the inconvenience if you see the announcement for the album twice now.