Recently spent a few spring days in the desert, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and making a few photographs.

Last year was a big deal for me: My first child was born and I had the busiest year of my career. Most of my work time involved shooting weddings, work that you can see on my wedding photography website. Most of my personal time involved preparing for and caring for an infant. So there’s not much in my annual photographic output to choose from for a “best of” blog post. So I’ll keep it short.

I continued to shoot many pictures with my iPhone. Here are my favorites.

My best and most important efforts of 2013 involved my baby daughter, Lila Jayne. I shot an unbelievable amount of pictures of her, as you might expect. This one is my favorite:

This year’s crop of favorite pictures is a pretty eclectic mix compared to past years of my career. Normally, the list is filled with pictures from newspaper assignments; this year’s list contains just three. In fact, very little assignment work is represented here, unless you count self-assignments, which I gave myself a lot of this year. This was my first full year as a freelance photographer, so the assignment work was varied, the personal work was frequent, and the wedding work will appear on another website. I’m looking forward to 2013, which will see a whole new portfolio for me and hopefully another diverse mix of favorite photos to reflect on at the end of the year.