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With only a few more days before the year ends, and coming off from the first five in the series, here then are the rest of the entries for the top photography posts of 2012.


5) Ansel Adams - A Different Kind Of Landscape
Ansel Adams has become a byword for great landscape photography and black-and-white photography in general. His images have become icons for the natural landscape of North America, while his technique proved to be the cornerstone for beginner photographers looking to get a grasp of the rule of thirds and the zone system. While new photographers have produced refreshing landscape pictures, Adams' name still remains at the top of the list of best landscape photographers of all time.


4) Anne Geddes - Babies, Babies Everywhere!


Anne Geddes has remained popular name on this blog ever since her photography was featured over a year ago, and for the simplest reason: babies. Geddes' photography portrays newborns both in their natural state as innocent and fragile beings, and in a more creative setting as flowers, animals and other cute creatures. It's amazing how such a simple concept can remain so popular, but Geddes manages to remain relevant with new images year after year.


3) Henri Cartier-Bresson - Looking Back


Henri Cartier-Bresson's entry in this blog was nothing more than a short description followed by a few examples of his street photography, but it has garnered a surprising number of views. Cartier-Bresson's works have stood the test of time, displaying a timeless sense of timing, emotion and geometry that can only be captured with patience and passion. Cartier-Bresson's photography prove that he truly is the father of modern photojournalism and the master of street photography.


2) Shirin Aliabadi and the Iranian Girls


Shirin Aliabadi's curious portraits of modern, teenage Iranian women has attracted attention for their surreal quality. Aliabadi wanted to document how today's generation of females raised in Iran have different perceptions of the West, and how they flaunt these beliefs through their outrageous clothing and make-up. Aliabadi's images prove just how powerful photography can be when used to document a world that's rarely seen by others.


1) A Royal Portrait: Queen Elizabeth II by Annie Leibovitz


Annie Leibovitz's magnificent portraits of Queen Elizabeth II have garnered the most number of views by a wide margin. The photographs were taken in 2008, just before Her Majesty's state visit to the United States, but they became even more timely during the Queen's 60th anniversary celebrations of her monarchy earlier this year. The subdued tone of the portraits set against the lavish setting of Buckingham Palace served to create some of the best portraits of any monarch in modern history.


These five top off the most popular photography posts for the year. Three out of the five were portrait series focusing on totally different subjects, with one entry in the landscape category, and another in the street photography category. This just goes to show that photography can be as diverse as they photographer wants it to be. Be sure to also check out the previous entries in The Top Photography Post of 2012 (Part 1).

There has been a lot of bad and depressing news as of late, so instead of sharing more dispiriting images on the Internet, it's best to lighten the mood with some heartening pictures of humanity at their best or in this case, their newest. Nothing in this world can encourage a smile like a baby, and no one else can capture these newborns quite like photographer and artist Anne Geddes.



Anne Geddes is an artist and photographer known for her stylized images of sleeping babies in different costumes and settings. You will probably have seen at least one of her photographs in print media and the Internet. Her style of photography has become so popular that other photographers have adopted it for their own.

At first, many people discouraged her from focusing solely on babies for her photography, but it's always been an interest for her ever since she could remember, and today babies and motherhood have become her trademark.



Over the years, she's refined her technique and added more flair to her photographs while still keeping them relatively simple. She's become quite adept at setting up her lighting and choosing her equipment, but admittedly it's getting the little subjects in the right mood that sets her apart from other photographers.

For some of her more complex shots, she's had to order custom made props such as oversize pots in order to set a unique look to her portraiture. After a little post-production, her babies appear reborn into a new and magical world.


Aside from being a famous photographer, she's also a keen businesswoman; she's published numerous books and calendars which have sold over 18 million copies around the world. Her website has also been fairly popular, and for those who are crazy for cuteness, it's hard not to exit her site without being tempted to download a wallpaper or purchase one of her books.

Despite all her success though, it still boils down to her trying to convey the beauty and purity of babies and to show what precious gifts children are. Even if her baby pictures hadn't been so widely received, she would still continue to photograph them.



If you can stand to bear more adorably cute babies, then go check out Anne Geddes' website. Don't forget to check out some of her books available, Beginnings, Pure (Anne Geddes) and Until Now.