These are my favorite photos from 2020.

I wonder if anyone puts much effort into looking at other people's best-of collections? I used to. In addition to the visual feast, I felt I could learn something, not only about photography but also about the person behind the photographs based on what they deemed their most worthy images of the year.

I still enjoy skimming through year-end collections as they pass in front of me, but I confess I don't search them out and study them as closely as I once did.

Regardless of what anyone else may get out of it, I do find this annual ritual personally beneficial. The opportunity to take a look back through a year's worth of one's own work and pull out the photographs that mean the most to me offers a degree of insight. Sort of like the way I used to try to get to "know" a photographer through their favorite images, there seems to be something to learn about myself by going through this process. That's enough reason for me to continue the tradition. I hope it's something I'm motivated to do for as long as I'm creating photos.

Cheers and best wishes for the year to come.

Images appear in the chronological order they were taken