My Top Photographs of 2025 : Michael Frye Photography

The votes are all in and counted, and listed here are my high pictures of 2025!

We had an ideal response this 12 months: 542 folks appeared via my preliminary choice of 52 photos and voted for his or her favorites. A giant thanks to everybody who took the time to view these pictures and voice your opinions! I additionally actually admire the sort phrases so many individuals posted within the feedback or despatched by e-mail. I want I may reply to everybody, however please know that I’ve learn all of them and am very grateful for all of your assist.

To specific our gratitude we’re freely giving a print to one of many voters. We assigned a quantity to every one who voted, and used a random quantity generator to select the recipient. And the winner is… Judy Kramer! Judy will obtain a signed and numbered 16×20 print of her alternative from among the many 45 unique picks. Congratulations Judy!

I made a decision to make this remaining checklist a high twelve, fairly than a high ten, as a result of numbers eleven and twelve had been a few my favorites. So right here’s the checklist of my high twelve photographs from 2025:

1. Image #12, Dancing red-crowned cranes, Hokkaido, Japan, 217 votes
2. Image #10, Snow, timber, and sunbeams, Hokkaido, Japan 211 votes
3. Image #8, River and snow-covered timber, Hokkaido, Japan, 202 votes
4. Image #17, Brown pelicans at sundown, Northern California coast, 194 votes
5. Image #44, Dappled gentle at a canyon overlook, Utah, 174 votes
6. Image #11, Sun, tree, snow, and cloud iridescence, Hokkaido, Japan, 159 votes
7. Image #4, Gentoo penguins and small icebergs, Antarctica, 155 votes
8. Image #5, Ice mushroom, Antarctica, 154 votes
8. Image #18, Sunlight, fog, and redwoods, Northern California, 150 votes
10. Image #21, Lake, clouds, and granite domes at dawn, Yosemite NP, California, 148 votes
11. Image #28, Aspens mirrored in a marsh, Utah, 147 votes
12. Image #2. Clouds and mountains in an icy bay, Antarctica, 137 votes

In case you’re curious, numbers 25 (Aurora, Scoresby Sund, Greenland), 45 (Autumn coloration in a desert wash, Utah), and 27 (Backlit aspens, Utah) rounded out the highest 15.

As you may see, the voting was shut, with a variety of simply 23 votes between the first- and fourth-place photographs. There had been a number of selections, and no apparent standout candidate that will be more likely to get essentially the most votes, so issues had been extra evenly unfold out than in another years.

And the three photos with essentially the most votes had been all from Hokkaido! (In reality 4 of the highest six had been from Hokkaido.) That was an exquisite journey, with nice circumstances, and I believed I used to be seeing properly there, and apparently that got here via within the pictures. I hope to return there some day.

Did any of my favorites not make the checklist? Well they’re all my favorites, so sure, after all. 🙂 But considered one of my explicit favorites, quantity 45, Autumn Color in a Desert Wash, was 14th (with 132 votes), so it simply missed out on making the highest 12. Another explicit favourite, quantity 41, Mud Patterns With Reflected Light, was twenty first (with 95 votes).

Anyway, it’s at all times enjoyable to see what folks choose, and I hope you’ve loved this course of additionally. Here are the highest twelve photos:
 

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Michael Frye is an expert photographer specializing in landscapes and nature. He lives close to Yosemite National Park in California, however travels extensively to {photograph} pure landscapes within the American West and all through the world.

Michael makes use of gentle, climate, and design to make pictures that seize the temper of the panorama, and convey the wonder, energy, and thriller of nature. His work has obtained quite a few awards, together with the North American Nature Photography Association’s 2023 award for Fine Art in Nature Photography. Michael’s pictures have appeared in publications around the globe, and he’s the writer and/or principal photographer of a number of books, together with Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters, and The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite.

Michael likes to share his information of images via articles, books, workshops, on-line programs, and his weblog. He’s taught over 200 workshops centered on panorama images, evening images, digital picture processing, and printing.