I took a lot of photos in 2020. I like a lot of them. I’ve tried my hardest to narrow it down to my 25 30 favourites, and so here they are.
My best photos, 2020
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O Christmas Tree
Christmas morning
We’re up, we’ve had breakfast, and the tree is lit. Merry Christmas to all of you, and happy holidays too.
Christmas morning coffee
The Great Conjunction
Saturn met up with Jupiter tonight, in case you hadn’t heard about it on the news.
It was cloudy here, but only partly cloudy, so I decided I’d take a quick run out of town with my camera equipment, to see if I could get any photos.
I stepped outside and discovered I didn’t need to go anywhere—it was visible from my driveway. So I set up there, and snapped some photos of Jupiter + Saturn in between the clouds.
Jupiter and Saturn at conjunction 
Jupiter and Saturn at conjunction (unprocessed)
In the boxes, top-left to bottom-right, are Callisto, Io, and Europa. Ganymede is too close to Jupiter for my lens to separate it.
The half-moon looked lovely, too, so I got some of the sunshine reflected off it, too.
The Moon, with Earthshine visible 
The Moon
All the photos were taken with my 55–250mm lens, at 250mm, f/5.6, varying times and ISOs.
Crescent moon
Tonight’s moon in a clear black sky.
Frosty morning
Stepping out to check the mail, I noticed the frost on the porch windowpanes, so I grabbed my camera.
I think I like it better in colour, but it’s hard to decide.
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Full size images: Color | Black & white
Nerdy details: 50mm, 1/4000s, f/1.8, ISO 100.
Geminids 2020
The Geminids peak tonight. I went out in the countryside for about half an hour. I saw a few meteors with the naked eye, and I managed to catch a few on camera. This is the brightest one, by far, a greenish streak just above the northeastern horizon.
It was so cold my camera battery—fully charged when I left the house—lasted only 20 minutes. This particular shot was about 10 frames (2½ minutes) before the battery died.
Hoarfrost
Kathleen called at about 3 pm and said, “You should go outside and take some photos of the hoarfrost, since it looks cool right now”.
She was right.
Frosty
My darling wife called me on her way to work this morning to say I should go out and take pictures of my car before the sun came out. I didn’t get the message till 3½ hours later, but fortunately the sky had been cloudy all morning and the nifty frost patterns she’d noticed were still there.
Please enjoy this sunrise
Pinks and oranges aplenty.