My Favorite Photos of 2020; The Year That Wasn’t – A Retrospective

A Selection of Photos From 2020 – A year most of us might prefer to forget.

Picture #01: (Above) Rolling hills at sunset in Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California – (Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage.)

Please enjoy this year-end collection featuring some of my favorite images made in 2020. Sadly, I’ll have to be the first to admit, there wasn’t a lot to choose from. This has been a year of what I call a forcibly chosen semi-retirement. I won’t go into detail, but my camera simply didn’t get used very much. I’ve stayed home and haven’t traveled at all, save a long weekend visit to my in-laws. Much of my time went into gardening and learning about raising chickens. When I did pull out my camera for some real picture-taking, I did manage to get a few nice pictures under my belt. So without much further delay, here are a few of my selected images from 2020. I’m looking forward to making up for some lost ground next year — with fingers crossed that things will begin returning to a bit more normal.

As with previous years, I’d be delighted to know which one(s) you like if you’d care to leave a comment in the comment section below.

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Picture #02: Oak trees in fog, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #03: Young cow #80304, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #04: Comet Neowise over oak tree in the Alhambra Valley, Contra Costa County, California; July 2020

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Picture #05: Storm clouds at sunrise over Mount Diablo from Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #06: Dance of the Storm Clouds, Pleasant Hill, California

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Picture #07: Gopher snake coming out of a rodent burrow, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #08: Panorama of cloud over a trail in Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #09: Mount Diablo as seen from Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #10: Ground squirrel eating seeds from grass, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #11: Oak tree detail, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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Picture #12: Green hills and oak trees in spring, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

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ALSO: A Small Collection of 2020 Cellphone Portraits:

My first pandemic self-portrait; March 2020

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Milo

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Dakota

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Cuckoo

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Heck

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2020 left a mark on me.

(At least it healed nicely.)

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If you made it this far, Wow – Thank you so much for looking at all of these images. Again, if you’d care to leave a comment below, I’d love to know which image(s) caught your eye or what you enjoyed the most.

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Gary Crabbe is an award-winning commercial and editorial outdoor travel photographer and author based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He has seven published books on California to his credit, including “Photographing California; v1-North”, which won the prestigious 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal Award as Best Regional title. His client and publication credits include the National Geographic Society, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME, The North Face, Subaru, L.L. Bean, Victoria’s Secret, Sunset Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, and many more. In 2018, The USPS selected a nearly-unprecedented seven of Gary’s photographs to become U.S. Postage ‘Forever’ Stamps as part of the O Beautiful collection. Gary is also a photography instructor and consultant, offering both public and private photo workshops. He also works occasionally as a professional freelance Photo Editor.

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