My Favorite Picture? Easy: Maui

A friend asked me the other day: “What’s your favorite picture you’ve taken?” My immediate response, without even thinking about it, was “Maui.” I hadn’t really thought about it in those terms before and my immediate response was even a surprise to me.

I’m sure every pro photographer has their favorites, but this question got me thinking. I was honestly surprised that my answer wasn’t a family picture, maybe one of the dog or his Mom. I have quite a few of those that I think of routinely or are displayed around the house and those are definitely way up there. And my response wasn’t a picture that’s technically one of my best and took a lot of planning and work to achieve, and turned out exactly or better than expected.

There are so many pictures I’ve taken over the years that are great pictures, and so many I’ve taken that have personal significance, but only a few of those overlap. My trip to Maui at the end of 2007 did overlap for many reasons, and the pictures that I shot on that trip are still my favorites of anything I’ve ever shot. The two favorites – a remote beach looking towards Lanai and sunset over Molokini – are the ones that immediately stand out. That evening after the conversation about favorites, while going to sleep, I realized that these two pictures are also the two pictures that I see every night before going to sleep; they’re mounted in my bedroom.

Maybe I chose these two pictures for my bedroom because of their significance, of how they calm me as pictures and as memories; and maybe these are the first two that I responded with simply because they’re the last thing I see every night and the first thing I see in the morning. Either way, these two pictures will remain my favorites for as long as I can imagine because they mean so much more to me than just great pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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