Twelve from 2021

A selection of images from the past year:

It’s usually pretty easy for me to create a gallery of images for the year. This year there was a quite list of candidates that I had to whittle down. It was hard to pick from the images I took of the Maine seacoast, in particular.
Thanks to everyone who stops in to view an image or make a comment. Best wishes for the new year!

Tags: Flowers, ice, Macro, Nature, Photography, Plants, seacoast, waterfall, wildflowers

27 thoughts on “Twelve from 2021”

Mark on December 31, 2021 at 10:08 pm said:

All quite beautiful with wonderful detail. Best you for 2022 Tom.

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- tomwhelan on December 31, 2021 at 10:14 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Mark – my best wishes to you in 2022.
  
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naomisilverart on December 31, 2021 at 11:52 pm said:

Love your work!

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 11:40 am said:
  
  Thanks so much!
  
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Steve Schwartzman on January 1, 2022 at 12:40 am said:

12 from ’21, and a deserving dozen at that.

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 11:39 am said:
  
  Thanks, Steve!
  
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vanadze17 on January 1, 2022 at 4:50 am said:

What a beautiful choice ! I love it. Best wishes for 2022 from France.

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 11:39 am said:
  
  Thanks, and best wishes to you!
  
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Pondok Ratu 354 on January 1, 2022 at 8:14 am said:

Good job

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 1:18 pm said:
  
  Thanks!
  
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Steve Gingold on January 1, 2022 at 12:33 pm said:

Wonderful collection, Tom. Very best wishes to you and your family for 2022. Maybe we can meet up again once the flowers return.

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 12:37 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Steve – and meeting up would be great!
  
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  - Steve Gingold on January 1, 2022 at 6:21 pm said:
    
    If here and in May I can take you to the white lady’s slippers and/or painted trilliums.
  - tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 7:37 pm said:
    
    That would be wonderful 🙂
T.M. Schultze on January 1, 2022 at 2:03 pm said:

The landscapes are excellent but you really have some amazing macro work from 2021. Let’s all have a great 2022!

– TM

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 10:16 pm said:
  
  Thanks, TM – closeups are a specialty.
  
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Todd Henson on January 1, 2022 at 7:49 pm said:

Glad to hear you were successful enough to have to work to narrow it down. That’s always better than the alternative. 🙂 You really did create some beautiful photos of Maine this year. And as always I love your macro work. Very inspiring.

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- tomwhelan on January 1, 2022 at 8:24 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Todd! I hope to make seacoast landscapes of Maine and elsewhere a project for 2022. My best to you in the new year.
  
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shoreacres on January 2, 2022 at 6:51 pm said:

What a varied and beautiful collection, Tom. I remember most of them, and it’s fun to see them again. It’s hard to believe that in only six weeks our spring flowers will be appearing — your blue-eyed grass reminded me of that. One thing that’s right on track is our strawberries. The you-pick-it farms will open mid-January or so, and the wild ones already are setting fruit. The cold front will slow things down a bit, but it’s still time to be planning.

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- tomwhelan on January 3, 2022 at 8:43 pm said:
  
  It’s been so mild this winter, I can almost imagine flowers here in 6 weeks… but we’re supposed to get snow in a few days. We’ll see! Thanks for the kind words and your comments over the years.
  
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David on January 6, 2022 at 2:28 pm said:

If I had to pick twelve, it’ll probably be a pic of two Pick-Six lotto tickets, lol. But, I don’t play lotto or the lottery, so no danger of seeing that kind of image.

Hope your new year has been a good one so far. 🙂

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Brent Huntley on January 11, 2022 at 1:53 am said:

Great images! I would love you to the roundup of photographers’ top images of 2021 over at photographyandtravel.com (like what Jim Goldstein used to do up until a couple years ago). Here is a link to the submission form if you are willing. Thanks.
https://www.photographyandtravel.com/submit-your-top-images-of-2021/

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Khürt Williams on January 17, 2022 at 2:24 pm said:

Happy New Year, Tom. I jumped over here from Brent Huntley’s yearly “community gathering” of images. I love the macro images.

I’ve added your blog to my RSS collection. I look forward to seeing more of your work in 2022.

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- tomwhelan on January 17, 2022 at 10:04 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Khürt – I’ll look forward to stopping by Island in the Net soon.
  
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Jocelyne on January 28, 2022 at 3:23 pm said:

A wonderful collection of your images. I’m curious to know what is the orange one, is it a flower ?

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- tomwhelan on January 28, 2022 at 9:01 pm said:
  
  The orange one is a mushroom that grew all around the base of an oak tree in my front yard. It lasted a week or two, and then disappeared.
  
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