post: add Best of 2019 post

Author: XerxesDGreat

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+---
+title: Best Photos of 2019
+date: 2020-01-03
+category: Photography
+tags:
+- photography
+- best-of
+media_subpath: /assets/img/posts/best-of-2019/
+image:
+    path: preview.jpg
+#    lqip: preview.lqip.jpg
+    alt: Walking Cora to school
+---
+
+Here's my favorite pictures of 2019. This year, we went to Australia, San Diego, and Yosemite, some
+great places for lovely images. I went through and picked my favorite 15 (including the preview
+image), though I will say it _was_ difficult to narrow it down that much!
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Foggy Lakefront House"
+    path="best-of-2019-1.jpg"
+    title="Foggy Lakefront House"
+    caption="Got this one on a motorcycle ride around Crystal Springs Reservoir on the SF Peninsula" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Sunrise Apartments"
+    path="best-of-2019-2.jpg"
+    title="Sunrise Apartments"
+    caption="Since we were still on US time while in Australia, we were wide awake at sunrise; snapped this of neat reflections in an apartment building" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Wistful Gazing"
+    path="best-of-2019-3.jpg"
+    title="Wistsful Gazing"
+    caption="Okay, maybe 'wistful' is a bit much for an 8 year old, but I really loved the sky and the sights, so got Cora in there too" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Sydney Opera Triangle"
+    path="best-of-2019-4.jpg"
+    title="Sydney Opera Triangle"
+    caption="Just this bit of blue sky between the warmly lit shells of the Sydney Opera House" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="FROGG"
+    path="best-of-2019-5.jpg"
+    title="FROGG"
+    caption="This little tired frog was just so cute" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Sleepy Koala"
+    path="best-of-2019-6.jpg"
+    title="Sleepy Koala"
+    caption="This tired koala was just so cute" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Westfield Tower"
+    path="best-of-2019-7.jpg"
+    title="Westfield Tower"
+    caption="The tallest building in Sydney looks pretty great with this noir-ish cast to it" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Harbor Bridge"
+    path="best-of-2019-8.jpg"
+    title="Harbor Bridge"
+    caption="The Harbor Bridge and the Opera House just after sunset" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Yosemite Valley"
+    path="best-of-2019-9.jpg"
+    title="Yosemite Valley"
+    caption="An iconic angle of the gorgeous Yosemite Valley" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Looking at stuff"
+    path="best-of-2019-10.jpg"
+    title="Looking at stuff"
+    caption="Got this pic of Shanin while at Lick Observatory; really liked the hallway, so I got her in it too" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Lick Observatory"
+    path="best-of-2019-11.jpg"
+    title="Lick Observatory"
+    caption="The largest dome at Lick Observatory outside of San Jose; it was built in the late 1800s which houses the 36-inch refractor telescope" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="36-Inch Lick Refractor"
+    path="best-of-2019-12.jpg"
+    title="36-Inch Lick Refractor"
+    caption="Not a euphemism, this is the first telescope built on this site, back in the 1880s" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="Beachin'"
+    path="best-of-2019-13.jpg"
+    title="Beachin'"
+    caption="Grabbed this snap of Cora at the beach in San Diego" %}
+
+{% include captioned-image.html
+    alt="SD Sunset"
+    path="best-of-2019-14.jpg"
+    title="SD Sunset"
+    caption="There were some amazing sunsets in San Diego; this was taken probably 15 min after sunset" %}