Some Pictures I’ve Liked volume 52

Fifty-two weeks of “Some Pictures I’ve Liked” — that adds up to a year of showcasing some great pictures from around the photoblog world and elsewhere. By my count, I’ve listed 556 pictures, give our take, and have a few more this week. Not a bad run.

I’m going to take a break from this weekly list for a little while, but that doesn’t mean a break from visiting my favorite photography sites and searching for more; I plan to keep the same daily rotation and will call out a picture or two each day with the pictures I post of my own. Perhaps after the holidays I’ll start this up again, or perhaps I’ll be inspired to add a twist to it to keep it fresh each week.

Until then, enjoy the 19 pictures listed below!

• Spectacles from WHATEVERLAND; wonderful glow and shadows, hard to believe this still life is actually a miniature scene.
• winter bough from Mad Media Studios; subtle vignette, chilly tones.
• Untitled #20 from serial photographer; the path through the fog is so bright.
• Asakusa from dreamprovised; I love the depth of field and the subtle repetition in the characters on the drawers.
• gf+ from wvallen; oh those beautiful bokeh!
• ready to go… from incidence; Vitaly is one of my most dependable readers of this site, and especially of this feature; he and the missus are on their way to Togo for the winter. Good luck, Vitaly, and godspeed! Come back with lots of magical pictures!
• I Love Underground from Wiolka Kowalska; a classic busking scene on the Underground — makes me nostalgic for the time in my life that I spent under London.
• Neglected from Paxton Prints; great textures.
• Where ya’ goin’? from 6oh lens; pigeons made magical.
• aquarium poissons from kea; wow. Check out the whole series of magical aquarium pictures, it was hard to select just one.
• untitled (vandyck print) from bea; a typically dream-like and haunting image from another of my favorite sites and visitors.
• Customers at The Grill, LaCrosse and Christmas decorations, Krueger’s Korner Klub, LaCrosse from Fourteen Places to Eat; cozy and warm for the holidays (though I’m afraid I’d have nightmares after a few nickel taps under the steady gaze of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen …)
• Interior, Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire from philmorris; wonderful and subtle tone.
• The Redhead, Part 1 from straymatter; great portrait, wonderful use of light and shadow.
• le luco from Mv; there’s something subtly melancholic about this playground picture, perhaps caused by the wistful little girl in the red coat.
• Kay from cpl; one of a very nice series of guitar studies, the stray loop of string from the tuning peg makes this one stand out for me.
• 色葉散る - It scatters the color leaf from Million-Year Picnic; a wonderful contrast of texture and color. (My English translation comes from the little gizmo at Freetranslation.com; I’m sure the original is a little subtler.)
• Foxtails at the Erwinna Covered Bridge from A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania; the colors, the shadows, the reflection — how better to go out on a break from this feature than this incredible shot? Ah.