My favourite photos of 2023

Posted on December 30th, 2023December 30th, 2023 by Patrick

Aurora Borealis

I took a lot of photos in 2023, some in the daylight, some after dark. Here are some of my favourites.

The moon rising behind a bare tree; the sky is dark blue with purplish clouds

Christmas tree lights, blurred into brightly-coloured circles

Rime ice / hoarfrost on a hedge's branches and berries

A spiderweb covered in frost

Tree branches covered in snow

Sunset clouds, orange against dark blue

Aurora borealis above evergreens

The Milky Way above the prairie.

Sunflowers

Young sapling at the edge of the river

Rays of sun breaking through the clouds (ridiculously over-enhanced)

Milky Way (4-photo vertical panorama)

Jupiter, Europa, Io, Ganymede, Callisto

Semicircular arcs of star trails above a dark lake

The Milky Way with a couple spruces at the very bottom in the foreground

The Milky Way

A fencepost in the foreground; in the background, blurred, is the barn

The barn at my late grandparents' now abandoned farm

An abandoned farmhouse on the side of the highway

Panoramic view of my late grandparents' now abandoned farm

The campfire, bright in the darkness

Craig by firelight

Ray in the firelight

Star trails above the campsite; in the foreground are evergreen branches, lit orange by the fire below

Ukrainian flag

A crow sits on the telephone line, facing to camera left

Lilacs

Aurora Borealis, April 23, 2023

Aurora Borealis, April 23, 2023

One of my photos from the March 23, 2023 aurora show is the cover photo on Westman This Week on April 13, 2023

Close-up of my Banned Books mug; the black lines over Catch 22 and Brave New World have faded to grey

Aurora Borealis

Flamingos on my lawn for my 50th birthday

The Moon

Rime ice (often called hoarfrost) on a branch

Rime ice (often called hoarfrost) on a tree in wintertime

Red berries, their stalks coated in rime ice (often called hoarfrost)

Kathleen stands with her birthday flamingos

Cedric serving a volleyball

Dramatic clouds at sunset

Matt and Elaine smiling for the camera; a mysterious 3rd person behind them is giving both of them bunny ears

Stars and horizon-hugging aurora

Star trails

Frost (or rime ice) coats a spiderweb in the corner of a fence

Rime ice (often called hoarfrost) on the branches of a hedge

Very blurred lights on a Christmas tree

Interested in prints of my photos? Let me know, and we can work something out.

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