2011: My year in photos
It’s the last day of 2011, and for my second review of the year that’s almost behind us, I’ve looked back on all the photos I’ve taken this year and selected a few of my favourites. In this way, I can share with you my year. It’s been a pretty good year for me in some ways – trips to Paris, Mallorca, Madrid and Marbella as well as Liverpool and Cornwall in England. All made for some inspirational scenes which begged to be captured on my camera. But so to does home continue to inspire, the autumnal glow of nearby Clapham Common and Richmond Park offering stimulating riches with which the lens so easily engages. So please enjoy the photos I have set out and in the meantime I trust that all the readers of The Daily Norm will enjoy a superb New Year’s Eve and have a very prosperous 2012. My little online paper has only been running a short while, but I am truly appreciative of all the support garnered so far. Please continue to drop in on my Norm-world in 2012 and help to spread all things artistic, aesthetic and beautiful around the globe. Happy New Year!
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- Starting as I meant to go on… New Year 2011 in Paris
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- First flowers of Spring
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- Close up of a fly highlights the beauty of these otherwise annoying creatures
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- Street furniture in Madrid
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- Spanish Semana Santa (Easter) parades were a wash out in Marbella
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- El Escorial Palace in Madrid – so big it’s cloudy on one end, sunny on the other
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- Inner Temple Gardens in bloom, London
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- The striking architecture of Birmingham’s Selfridges building
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- Marshes on the approach to St Ives, Cornwall
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- St Ives seen from the Tregenna Castle estate
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- Cornish fishing boat off the coast of St Ives
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- Double trouble: seagulls posing on the Cornish coast
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- Tame seal approaches visitors in St Ives
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- The harbour and lighthouse of St Ives at dusk
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- Birthday treat… churros and chocolate in Marbella’s Casco Antiguo
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- Aceitunas y cerveza – makes for the perfect afternoon in the Spanish sun
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- Archetypal white washed mountain village in Andalucia – Ojen
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- The Lambanana in front of Liverpool’s famous Liver building
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- Old building reflected in new: architectural differences at Liverpool’s Albert Dock
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- Shiny new apartment block going up at Liverpool’s Albert Dock
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- Sunset in Mallorca looking over the bay to the lights of Magaluf from the far calmer perspective of the Punta Negra
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- Es Baluard museum of contemporary art, Palma de Mallorca
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- Autumn descends on the streets of Palma de Mallorca
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- Autumn hues blend effortlessly with structural sculpture alongside Palma’s Passeig des Born
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- Dining in the stunning Puerto de Soller, Mallorca
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- Vibrant reds and autumn berries on the hillsides surrounding Soller
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- Fishing in the Puerto de Soller
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- The famous Palma-Soller old tram line
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- The Puerto d’Andratx
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- The coastal colours of Mallorca – you have to see it to believe it.
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- My favourite café chain across Mallorca, Cappuccino – here its scenic branch in the heart of Valldemossa
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- View from the patio gardens outside Chopin’s cell in the Real Cartuja Monastery, Valledemossa
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- Final Mallorcan sunset
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- Wild mushroom in Richmond Park
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- Autumn leaf in Richmond Park
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- Deer in Richmond Park
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- Stag in Richmond Park
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- Afternoon tea by the river in Richmond
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- Autumnal hues in Clapham Common
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- Carpet of leaves (and my shadow)
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- Back in Spain – a glowing bird of paradise
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- Cappuccino – the Marbella branch
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- Back in Paris – the majestic Tour Eiffel rises above Parisian rooftops
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- Tour Eiffel from the Place de la Concorde
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- Notre Dame at Christmas
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- Winter sunset in Clapham, London
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- Christmas day Spanish orange custard dessert, cooked with my mother
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- Christmas 2011
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Beautiful pics! 🙂
beautiful pictures
i wonder how u made the layout for pictures in beautiful way
what code it is??
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Hey it comes automatically with my theme which is Linen. Many thanks for the compliment!
such a lovely blog of photo’s and a year of 2011in review Display. Congrats!
Your photos look great! I posted my year in photos too!
2011 looked to be a lovely, adventurous year for you! thank you for sharing, and best wishes to you in 2012.
Excellent photos. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, you are really beautiful shots there. I can’t list my favorites because it would take too long. What kind of camera do you use? I think that my pictures are not just awful because of my camera, it’s also because I don’t go sightseeing or visiting all these gorgeous places. Nice job in 2011. Hope 2012 is even better. Congrats on FP!
Thanks!! I used a NIKON digital SLR for a few of them, but surprisingly the majority are taken on a standard Sony Cybershot… just a small pocket camera, but I’ve always found Cybershots to be excellent, especially with close up stuff. But yes, it certainly does help to see some great places… Hopefully 2012 will bear fruit too!
i work with exactly the same combination: Nikon D90 and a great little Cybershot as my back-up/quick grab. Have to say I liked my first Sony better, though, because my newer one seems to struggle with close up quality you were talking about. Anyway, your site is fun; I’m just building mine to show my photos and hope it’s as fun to peruse as yours. 🙂
Many thanks! Yeah, I know what you mean with the Cybershot… sometimes I find that you have to be fully zoomed out for a good close up, but that means that you have to hold the camera so close to the object that it can be a problem with shadows. Also if you hold it TOO close it blurs. Still, nothing’s perfect and my Nikon currently has a big piece of fluff somewhere on the lens I can’t get off! Grrr. Thanks a lot for your comments and for dropping by… look forward to seeing your blog as it gets established!
Wow — what incredible memories you have from the year — all well documented!
My fave is the Christmas photo … so beautiful…
Thank you for sharing!
🙂
“Autumn descends on the streets of Palma de Mallorca” is my favorite! Great photography skills.
Mine too! Many thanks!!
Awesome! Love the fly picture and the building under the fly picture.
Nice photos. I just did my photo year in review for the blog yesterday. It’s a great way to look back.
Beautiful and bright photography. Thanks so much for sharing. Connie
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Wonderful pictures!!!
Really like ur pictures 🙂
Nice Photo Collection
Great Post!! Love the photos!!! =)
Gorg! Looks like you’ve had an amazing year!
some wonderful frames you got there, my friend 🙂
awesome pics!!
Wow you have some amazing photos! I love the fall ones, you really captured the colors, hopefully 2012 brings you amazing travels and even more amazing photos from those places!
Many thanks! So many people dislike autumn but I find it a truly inspirational season… especially when it’s sunny. Thanks so much for dropping by!
your pictures are amazing!! wooww!! and seems like you had a great year.. 😀
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed. I’m both jealous of your travels and impressed by these photos. I particularly like the nature pics but I do have a bias there. Nicely done!
Mel
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I’m almost jealous too..hehehe..
Keep do the great pics for this year ^_^
God bless.
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I’m traveling to Andalucia later this year. You’ve given me more reasons to celebrate that decision!
Andalucia is a truly stunning region of Spain… try to catch Seville, Granada and Cordoba if you can!
Great collection of photographs. Each photograph is so beautiful. Great post.
Lovely photos. My favorites…the marsh and the mushroom!
Great pics, I’m miring
Really loving some of your shots! The town of Ojen, the coast of Mallorca, the fishing at Soller, and the Mushroom in Richmond Pk. Also, very wise choice to photograph Magaluf from afar, some of the wildlife are a serious health risk…
Haha wise indeed… we drove within a few metres of Magaluf… it was a dangerous choice of road. Many thanks for the comment!
I love the pictures! I definitely miss the grear outdoors!!
wonderful photos love the blog
Great photos!
This is wonderful and it covers every season AND makes me hungry. Thanks for sharing with the blogosphere.
Good pics 🙂
i love this! you’ve inspired me. i want to make it a point to select 1 photograph for each month of 2012. something representative of that month to share with everybody. a little documentation of my year through pictures. thanks for sharing and great shots!
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Thank you for such stunning fotos! Remarkable…I know I need to travel more with my cameras!
I really like your photos!
Lovely!
Amazing picture. I’ve definately found that the best way to record a year is through pictures…they tell such an amzing story! I’m hoping to better utlize this over the next year on my blog as well. I have a couple tabs on my blog regarding music but also want to get some more pictures up on it. We’ll see what happens! Thanks for sharing yours.
Exquisite photographs of so many fab places. I wish I had the time, money, and freedom to travel.
Very nice work. My favorite is the autumn leaf in the pool of water. I hope my own photoblog turns out this well someday.
That’s my favourite picture too! Thanks a lot for the comment and support and good luck with your blog! I’ll keep an eye out!
beautiful
Love the Notre Dame photo!
Nice 🙂
nice pics!
Gorgeous pictures! I love the picture in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, classic.
Thanks! Just had a look at your blog… your photos put mine to shame!!
What a wonderful idea! Love the recap of your year in photos. Beautiful work! Hope your 2012 continues to be full of travels as well!!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Very good eye! It takes a good eye to make the interesting out of the normal.
love your photography!
wow, you have many of amazing photos and great activities ^_^
Nice pictures! It makes me want to travel!
Great job! Love the deer and the stag. Keep up the good work.
this is the fine art style for pictures! buildings, edges, nature & textures.
Beautiful. I wish I could go to such places.
Nice! Great shots!
Like your post and photos! 😀
These photos are beautiful. It looks like you had a wonderful year! 🙂
Sounds like you had a great year. I enjoyed looking through all of the pictures.
love the pics!
Omg!! Love them. I absolutely love photography. What camera do you use?
Thanks! Mostly just a pocket Sony Cybershot… it’s a great little camera, very reliable, although I also use a Nikon SLR (and, I ought to admit that there are three photos on there taken with a very old iPhone camera!!) Many thanks for your comment, and many many thanks for the comments of everyone below!
Wonderful pictures! What a great way to commemorate the year
Your all photos are meaningful and show your personal experience indirectly. Love to see them. 🙂
bravooo….!! nice shots…
Thanks interesting and beautiful pictures !
Nice site! Lovely photos (love your use or repetition amd reflection), nice artwork and good choice of font for your header! 😀
stunning and it says so much about you as a person. your photos express the love of life. that’s how I see it. Thank you for sharing
val
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Done… I think!
a very nice series … great pictures … a nice idea
Greetings from Germany
anipics 🙂
Thanks! Germany is another place I need to visit in 2012 for inspiration! Have a great 2012 and thanks for stopping by!
Absolutely stunning photographs! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Nice photos 🙂
Amazing photo’s love the water ones 🙂
amazing/////
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Love the photos, my fav has to be Notre Dame……I tried to shoot that years ago with a compact digital camera but the iso settings were all wrong and it ended up looking like I had a bad case of the shakes!
Lol. I know, night time shots are a bit of a nightmare which is a shame, because cities look so beautiful at night, especially at Christmas. Thanks a lot for dropping by!!
Beautiful photographs….you capture all the natural things which we see but never shoot. i love your photography….it awesome !!
good pictures!! keep rocking!!
Love your photography and you are were so blessed to be able to visit such beautiful places.
Blessings to you in 2012!
Tammy
really nice shots right there, i love the beauty of the other wise annoying creature more, can’t imagine just how pretty in a paradoxical kind of way the piece of art looks like… you should look up more of those pictures, will certainly be on the look out. and then there is the design of the Burmingham self ridges. exquisite to say the least… surely lots of images to awe at.
Beautiful photos!
Thanks for sharing.
I love the first picture of berries 🙂
Nice Photo
I love the picture of the tour effiel! very good!
Gorgeous Photos … Thanks for putting them up 🙂
Beautiful! The churros picture made me hungry. 🙂
pic-tastic!
churos! yum! I loved the old tram too. Great shots.
Hi yea great shots, I love your close ups, i find my olympus basic camera just as good as my SLR sometimes. I get a lot of compliments of my own.
Gorgeous photos! Thank you for sharing, and congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
These are stunning photos! it looks like you had a great year.
Lots of very nice pics. When you’ve got a great eye, you can see things that many others can’t, and it shows.
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What an eventful year you’ve had! Superb photos! . . . Thank you for sharing!
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Congratulations on being freshly pressed. Nice work.
Great photo´s! greetings from Aguascalientes, México & happy new year.
Muchas gracias y besitos a México!
Great/Beautiful shots! Luhv it!
-Haleigh ❤ 🙂
congrats on making freshly pressed!
cool!!
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Gorgeous pictures…You have amazing range as a photographer.
Great photos! I noticed that you captured the word – cappuccino – a couple times. Interesting!
Your photos are so beautiful. I especially like the Afternoon tea and The Lambanana 🙂
Some really good photographs, I love the Liverpool ones, but I would as I live very close to the City.
thanx for so gorgeous pictures! i’m waiting “2012: another year in photos”…
Fabulous visuals through a year’s journey. I love how you take the rest of us with you to share in the experience. Thanks for making the world a smaller, happier place.
Looks like you have had a great year. Excellent images and I love the coloured foliage and the autumn hues in some of the images..
Your pictures are amazing! I love the idea of a year in pictures.
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Christina Ciaramella
Thanks for sharing! Particularly like the lone leaf in the rain.
Wonderful! 🙂 Looking forward to reading more in 2012!
You have a pretty good sense of composition, although on occasion you center your subject in the frame (Tram and Autumn Leaf to be specific). In general, you use color and shape to create some outstanding compositions (El Escorial palace and the Madrid streetlamps are very nicely designed).
It is really a great opportunity to travel and make photographs as a way of interpreting and understanding the place, people, and culture you are visiting. How does your experience abroad impact your photography when you return home? Do you look at your own environment differently?
Many thanks! To be honest I don’t really see myself as a photographer and certainly don’t compose my photos from any kind of professional basis – it’s just my artistic eye which guides me. My time abroad always makes me feel slightly down when I get home, like most people, but having a photographic, artistic and written record of my time away gives so much more value to the experience. Having said all that, we are all surrounded by inspirational sights, even on our own home turf. It’s the way light changes, weather effects, the seasons that interests me the most, and those changes occur everywhere. Thanks for stopping by and please keep in touch with the Daily Norm!
You have a great eye, my friend! You have revived the traveling itch that can only be cured with a foreign language phrase book and backpack!
How lucky you are to have seen such beauty! Remarkable photos and, I hope, even more remarkable stories to accompany them. Best to you in 2012!
Beautiful is the eye that sees beauty in the ordinary and the one-time-special. Thanks!
Very natural and beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing..
Amazing pictures. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Beautiful Collection, Christmas pics are awesome !!
Thanx from Texas for beautiful pictures!
Great pictures! I really love your pictures and the composition. Amazing work and keep up!
Adorable it is ! 😀
deer in richmond park…..astounding!!!
Love your pics, especially the ones of Paris, which are so haunting and beautiful. I’ve been living in Europe for over two years now and have so many pictures that it seems a waste to just keep them on my computer. Your photos are so fantastic…you should consider selling prints!
I agree, and sharing my favourite photos online has made taking and collecting photos so rewarding. You should definitely do the same!
Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful work. Maybe the kick start I need to get the ball rolling in 2012 for my own blog.
Sarah
Great pics! The food is making me incredibly hungry! 🙂
Wish my 2011 could be displayed so beautifully. I had to make do with a facebook created collage
Great pics, look forward tomore this year
Excellent pictures!
Suggestion: When you cook with your mother, put her in the pic. Someday you’ll be glad you did. Thank you! 🙂
Thank you for posting these beautiful pictures. It made my day to see them, and I hope I can see such things with my own eyes someday. Until then, I am happy to see through yours. 🙂
You got really intense and good collection! Each has a story of its own. Amazing work 🙂
2011 seems like a great year for you! hope it is gonna be the same in 2012
Love it! Hope you follow my year in photos at http://aphotoaday2012.com/
~ Much love to you!
amazing views) beautiful)
you had a wonderful 2011. hoping for a better 2012. looking forward to more of your photos.
Stunning…. Beautiful
Very nice looking blog, great job
Love the classic Metro picture, has great depth to it. I’m a big fan of Paris, and I find it is one of the most photogenic cities I’ve ever visited – used 2 rolls of 36 films when I was there for a weekend in December.
Love your pictures
Many thanks. Paris is stunning – I’ve been there a lot and every time I feel my fingers itching to photograph at every corner! Thanks for stopping by.