And without further ado (and because I really don’t have anything else to write here), I present you with my favorite photos of 2011:

Tough because that’s a lot of photos to just pick a “few” from. That’s right I crunched the numbers, and for 2010 (thus far) I had roughly 2,813 photos published in the paper and on the Kitsap Sun website (the majority of course were online in photo galleries etc). My co-photog Larry is sitting right around 2,882 published photos for the year.

As for the the number of photos Larry and I actually shot this year that we have saved into our archiving system…yeah these numbers made me fear for the longevity of the shutters on our cameras…so roughly (because I’m just going by the # of items in the 2010 archive and am having to take the average of some of the months that the computer is refusing to calculate the file size) our combined total is around 145,000 images. I’m keeping who’s totals were what to myself since Larry and I always blame the other for shooting too much and taking up the most space on the hardrive…let’s just say it’s pretty evenish…but maybe leaning towards me a bit.

If we had been shooting film, we would have burned through 6,042 rolls of 24 exposure rolls (not counting the ones that the film processor “ate”). And at $2.00 a roll would have cost the company $12,084.

Okay enough with the scary numbers, what am I a mathematician?!?!

Ultimately it’s fun to look back and remember what I saw and captured this past year.

And of course it’s the perfect time to make a few resolutions on photos that I hope to shoot next year!

~Meegan

***All photos copyright Meegan M. Reid, Herald Journal, Kitsap Sun.***

***All photos copyright Meegan M. Reid,  Herald Journal, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Midland Daily News.***