Your best picture of 2018

[Britishbane]

I want to see your best (single) photo from 2018, cycling related or otherwise.

Here's mine. The family and I spent a little over a week in Montana with a trip to Bowman Lake in GNP being the clear highlight:

[robin3mj]

Curiously, as someone whose strength has been more in landscape photography, all my best ones this year were of people (my kids, a couple great weddings, etc), which I'm not inclined to share here.

However, I did snap this one up in Shenandoah this spring, and printed it out 24x36" and am pretty pleased with it.

PS- that is a tremendous shot, BB.

[TTX1]

I submit two for your consideration:

From PMC weekend - Saturday night at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy after the band called it quits and much of the crowd turned in for the night...


From a Sunday AM ride this past fall...


Both straight outta the iPhone, no filters, etc.

[Matthew Strongin]

I didn't find any really great photos in my Flickr this year, but this one fairly well captures mornings in Miami. Particularly how calm everything is before all the crazies wake up.

[DCT]

Greensboro, Vermont

[Saab2000]

If I can only pick one this was the highlight, taken at the World Cycling Championships men's professional race. It was a great trip and we clearly had fantastic weather.

[bigbill]

This may be one of my all time favorite pictures. This is my USNA Midshipman son and a man named RV Burgin. RV is 96 and was a WW2 Marine in the Pacific Island Campaign. He fought on Peleliu and Okinawa, received a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts. I grew up around RV and we all knew he was a Marine in WW2 but he never talked about it. It wasn't until Tom Hanks and others started interviewing Pacific Campaign Veterans for the mini series The Pacific that he started telling his story. He was portrayed in the miniseries in the character "Burgie". He met his wife while on liberty in Australia and brought her to the US after the war. He lost her a few years ago and a stroke has taken his ability to speak, but his mind is still razor sharp and he communicates through writing and head nods. It would be incredible if he lived another 4 years to be my son's first salute when he graduates from the Naval Academy.

[summilux]

The family took a Christmas 2017/18 trip to India. This teacher was on the steps of the Ganges River in the holy city of Varnasi giving out blessings.

[nachetetm]

A bit cliché, but...

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