Review of the year 2023

[sirch]

Happy New Year!

It is always good to reflect and take stock of the year gone by and see just how much we have achieved. Below are a small selection of photos from 2023 that caught the staff's eye, there is so much great photography being posted on this site that it is impossible to showcase it all and a massive thank you to everyone who has posted photos and threads and made this such a great place to visit.

Who do you think deserves a mention? Which great images have we missed? Feel free to post links in this thread.


Top Posters (ex.staff)


Most Liked (ex. staff)


Challenges
As usual we have had the 52 and Film Phototographer of the year, and this year @lindsay ran Digital Photographer of the year. There is also the New Old Film challenge and its digital equivalent. ~Gav also ran the Nifty Fifty challenge in week 50

ASBOs ...
~STFPhotography earned himself an ASBO this year by a good margin for managing to get reported no less that 8 times.

Honourable mention
This gets a special mention because it is a perfect example of TP at it best, @FishyFish bought a Chroma Large Format camera (made by @stevelmx5 ) from @ChrisR and in a few months he is producing work like this, well done guys


Graveyard crucifixes by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

 

[sirch]

January

@FishyFish
Somewhere on Coruscant by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

@mstphoto
Dawn, Aberdeen Beach by Mike Stephen, on Flickr


@cargo

 

[sirch]

February

@G.K.Jnr.
Coffee And Text-03721ip by G.K.Jnr., on Flickr


@jpgreenwood
JAY_2656-2 by jason greenwood, on Flickr

@d00d

@Baloo
Talland Bay by R Hillman, on Flickr

@Merlin5

Megaphone by Merlin 5, on Flickr

@CavGez - a year long solargraph

 

[sirch]

March

@garryknight

Everything But Your Age by Garry Knight, on Flickr

@nickjohnwatson


@the black fox
run boy run by jeff cohen, on Flickr


@cruso
R7G_4868 by kevin robinson, on Flickr

@justpix

 

[sirch]

April

@badlywornroy

@cymruchris -the set works well - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...m-acton-london-pic-heavy.748235/#post-9309010

@Steelo

Sligachan sunrise by Martin Steele, on Flickr

@linearamp

@mav
Stunning Barn Owl by robb d, on Flickr

@imattersuk
Battersea Inside by Total Photo, on Flickr

 

[sirch]

May,

@Ed Sutton - Dave started a new project

Down by the River - a problematic project

I've been walking this short stretch of my local river for some years on and off, taking photos because I'm convinced there's something to be done with it. But what, and how? I've tried photographing 'stuff'. At some point I thought I'd concentrate on where houses back on to the footpath...

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@Gav.



@pooley

 

[sirch]

June

@Rincewind

@Crotal Bell

@Paul Iddon

And Paul has branched out into Drone work

The General Drone-Related Thread

The Ribble Steam Railway and Museum is an active Heritage Railway, running Steam Engines every weekend from Easter to October (plus Halloween and Santa Specials.). With a museum, workshop, passenger train and a children's playground it's a great day out for the family and train enthusiasts. As...

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@Pomo


@dancook - and congratulations to his wife

@-Oy-

@Paulie-W

 

[sirch]

July

@bass_junkie83



@paddyfrog

@snerkler



@mex

 

[sirch]

August

Thanks to @Garry Edwards for a free e-book

Beginner - FREE e-book about photography for beginners

As per the title, I’ve written a book for beginners, free to Talk Photography members for a limited time. I’ve written this book because all of the other books for beginners that I’ve seen seem to me to include far too much detail, far too soon, and just confuse people. This one teaches the...

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@richardhurst


@ancient_mariner


@Danny-K


@Merlin5

 

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September

@JasonPC



@cookyboy

@Stuart Philpott


@SDawes

@dragonfly

@delb0y

 

[sirch]

October

@Trappe



@smr


@gramps - just one of many great street photos

 

[sirch]

November

@Son_of_Thor


@ukaskew



@Tringa


@pentaxpete - good set - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/me-in-action-brentwood-remembrance-sunday.754755/

@Jammy Dodger

 

[sirch]

December

@woof woof

@Dale.

@The Useless Snapper

@Gav.



@Danny-K

 

[Topsy]

Thanks Chris (@sirch) a nice reflaetoin on some of the great photos from the year.

 

[Nod]

Some great images above!

Humbled (a little!) by all the likes and embarrassed (a little!) by the post count. Hopefully, there'll be some more photos from me over the next 12 months...

As always, thanks again to all the staff and posters of inspirational shots.

 

[Cobra]

Well done everyone
And thanks Chris ( @sirch ) for collating all the staff submissions, through the year.

 

[G.K.Jnr.]

Many thanks Chris ( @sirch ) for all your hard work and for including one of my pic's in the above selections.

 

[gramps]

Great review and some good work on display.

 

[mstphoto]

Lots of amazing images here.
Thanks for selecting one of my seascapes - much appreciated.
Happy New Year to you all

 

[ajophotog]

Superb year and great photos everyone.

 

[Sky]

Some great pics there - well done everyone.

 

[Gav.]

Thank you to all the staff at TP, @sirch thank you for the mention above

Great images this year, nice work all.

 

[justpix]

I am very happy in this forum, thanks to you all !

 

[Dale.]

Great job other Chris and everybody else involved. Thanks for the mention too.

Happy New Year everyone.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Once again the annual round up shows the diversity of really good photography to be found on TP.

And thanks to @sirch for taking the time to put this review together, and for the mention - even though that new project of mine has fizzled out.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Thanks for summarising the year so neatly Chris, and for all the work you and the team put in behind the scenes.

 

[sirch]

Superb year and great photos everyone.

Including yours Alby, which I would have included but it seems you have had a flickr clear out

 

[LeeRatters]

Nice round up @sirch

Well done everyone. Mentioned or not. A forum is only worth what is put into it.

 

[Steelo]

Thanks for the mention @sirch in what's another great yearly round up. Some of the talent on here is better than you see in competition winning collections. Well done to all, mentioned or otherwise.

 

[Marino]

Happy new Year everyone!
@sirch thanks very much for taking the time to post all these amazing pictures.
Well done too all the people taking these lovely pictures and for sharing with us!

 

[Cobra]

Superb year and great photos everyone.

I know someone that would have got a mention, but they removed the image that was "tagged"

edit too slow

 

[ajophotog]

I know someone that would have got a mention, but they removed the image that was "tagged"

edit too slow

haha never mind Chris, its all a bit of fun for me. good to see some fine photos though.

 

[Jammy Dodger]

Great review by Chris & thanks for the selection; really has 'picked me up'

 

[tarric]

I would just like to add my thanks to the Admin and Moderators for the site. There are many extremely talented members on the site who I strive to match but rarely do.

 

[imattersuk]

Thanks Chris and all the TP staff.

 

[Cobra]

Keep it up guys, the staff thread is now open, and we are on the look out for 2024 mentions

 

[garryknight]

Great to see so many wonderful photos again and for the first time. Thanks to you, Chris and the other mods for the work you do, and thanks to everyone for making TP the best photography forum. Looking forward to another, better year.

 

[Cloudforest]

Another wonderful year of submissions to the forum. Looking forward to seeing more great images in 2024.

A big thanks too, for all the hard work put in by the all of the TP team.

 

[pooley]

Some great work last year, well done for putting it all together

Mike

 

[Milo King]

Some absolutely stunning captures in this thread!





I really must wonder round the various sections of TP a bit more