Prints for the holidays

Over the past year I've gotten a lot of positive comments on some of the pictures I've taken and I've even had a couple of requests for prints.  Since the gift giving season was upon us I decided to dedicate some shopping time to looking at frames and doing some prints to give to friends and family.  Here are some of the photos I had printed and gave out as gifts.

I found the 8x10 crops difficult since the composition I aimed for in the viewfinder gets constrained by the width, but I think they came out fairly well.  All of these photos are post-processed at least a little bit beyond the cropping, though many of them are currently still in unedited form in my other blog posts and my galleries.