Trying to be brief, then, as I look back at scenes from this past year...
...impossible to narrow it down to just a 'top ten' or even a 'one-per-month'...so, how about a couple dozen of my favorite iphoneographic images from 2013? Local landscapes and some scenes from afar, playing with some b&w and painterly effects as well...
January--
on a hike with my wife in the foothills
of the Santa Catalina Mountains, happening upon a deer:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1j0KVbzKJ67ZwKm-3dpMR5iCUtCY7XxSt9ZMG1TDT_qTr6tyY3TU-POjzeVwrHqTMd7b2fkDA1vHXpWwpp6P3rkLe4hD_xcdz8VQH2TvrKZr-azn5bHaxGIlXwa24Af-8b0yk7hQ324cY/s640/deer+picframe+t.jpg)
February--
after living here for six years,
finally, a snow-covered-saguaro scene:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9kS6KSX1jzH3t0N5LgpJOgveBwJzd2_fXMfVnN_EMZ4cX0zY_SVBWk3OPTu1eQDlFJh8-o3l_UAUi0Pr2_Sq_3NGqe9J3syGEDI3sBcVzM_tgxeLsFsa-QMSKUHRI7U0qDOTaL5-9OW6/s400/IMG_8124+t.jpg)
also in February--a brief visit in Palm Springs,
with this larger-than-life Marilyn Monroe:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobtcYwMzejOfcJhxJUc7ycViL2NHCVCSIlZstt4SiTcNq6sRwL_qE09UpeHd-D2BCYKrfOITDT10eIrYzpMN3FWherHZX43WD95njkyHzOdosGoYDRMp-WWjhY-TgM6DeX2Yt8X6andQ7/s640/9t.jpg)
March--
a warm afternoon at the Mission San Xavier del Bac
a warm afternoon at the Mission San Xavier del Bac
...which led to this 'surrealization' of the
Mission's not-quite-twin towers:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtsMT7KMj81TbgYr3zFZqHbFVbinzJB9HexxLmjnjjjthRB7ssEtnOqMOepjmS9phEPB2zvsFpKzuaEkh0LsH3oh2QW0WfEGNWlm1qq61XtD0hpBPTgWLkTdoe1uv5lAQ71lLubq4azrX/s400/not+quite+twins+t.jpg)
April--
an architectural walk through
Tucson's Barrio Viejo,
its Sonoran-row-house-soul:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHt2xqKFC3CXj34ag8Iy1Bdd9V8D6FmieV5-V7AyST9RdYS9G__pIm_hQnNpablkcJ4HSd-yFSRKVJ_aNEpyXYgH-GOIi7LTYDfGz6KjIXi4SpCDH53ZUURHc0tfHNP9xdqMnkZyAgj3C/s400/dinosaur+squared+when+he+awoke.jpg)
June--
running on trails amidst the lush
subtropical vegetation along the Savannah River
in Georgia:
running on trails amidst the lush
subtropical vegetation along the Savannah River
in Georgia:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVUeQO96l5tChVVmZCeOv5RgqjsSKyYz2uYH52t061ig07DUc2WbHnmgbTBuo55Ymj3gqHLdoQSd5RY_k4q7-HTzw1iosHRBJ7bimQcMKJTldK-ZTzJ2ULvtuQX8fC9N2tGhsWl6MdHwr/s400/running+under+the+spanish+moss.jpg)
...and seeing nature overtake brick
along the 19th-c. Augusta Canal:
July--
back to France, after 11 years away,
with this view from our hotel
one night in Montmartre:
back to France, after 11 years away,
with this view from our hotel
one night in Montmartre:
![](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5479/9589143664_8afa3e2810_o.jpg)
(playing more and more with painterly effects this year)
...and this lunch-break scene in the
Jardin des Tuileries;
ups and downs of cellphone calls:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3824/9556352145_c699b362a3_o.jpg)
...and dans la chambre de Montaigne,
in the château of the great Renaissance
writer, Michel de Montaigne:
...the Château de Chenonceau;
'magical' is such an overused cliché...
...and yet, my wife and I keep coming back to that hackneyed word:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3714/9456972560_155e652588_o.jpg)
...an evening on the Dordogne river,
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/9315488381_59c85afa1f_o.jpg)
...then on to Barcelona,
where faces of the 21st-c. compete
with Roman faces from the 1st-c.:
August--
back to the school-year work-week schedule,
on an after-work run,
a classic Tucson monsoon-season sunset:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/9490411233_90eafbde24_o.jpg)
September--
while on trail-runs,
stopping to notice the
late summer desert rain
on datura blooms:
![](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5484/9702319129_2083ee720b_o.jpg)
October--
a visit to the glorious red-rock country around Sedona:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3755/10496595333_313395499a_o.jpg)
November--
a Grand Canyon sunset:
![](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5523/11241004426_b97337204c_o.jpg)
...and sunrise over a sea of fog,
a perhaps once-in-a-decade event:
![](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3768/11227747545_cb7c209c67_o.jpg)
...which also included this otherworldly spectacle,
the atmospheric phenomenon known as
a 'glory,' or a "Brokcen Spectre":
December--
late autumn color hanging on
over reflections in Sabino Canyon:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgMptCdXPnY-4-G37gK7PC9pTK0pNIHNR1kOSSwdP_Og0t1lxkvXfkuBsWUKni-6eLMqiQP__6ix5JoUJXZmQvxSzA03VXH2cwa8T4Na3dwpgoKV1jpNZ4kD_9WeURZeh1_5hNrO0Cv4P/s640/Dec+17+sycamore+panorama+t.jpg)
(above photo featured in iPhoneOgenic's "top 31 of December" showcase)
...and the final 'ripening' of the desert cottonwoods: