It's time for a 2010 picture recap

what are some of your favorite pictures of 2010?
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It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby Hhappy » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:33 pm

As the winter has started and the year is about to end i feel it's time for a short recap of 2010.

The idea behind this topic would be to share some of your favorite pictures of 2010. These can be pictures taken by you or pictures you've seen on TPR.
Feel free to share the stories behind these and why they are so special.

Let's see how this goes, feel free to comment and post your suggestions/images.


Below are some of my favorites from the first half of the year (might add some more later on)
Let's start this trip through memory lane
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Olympia looping, One of the most awesome ERT session i was part of.
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The media day at Belantis for their ride Huracan.
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Efteling, it's a nice park and with the addition of the new GCI woodie (Joris en de Draak) it only got better.
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Fire thing at Bellewaerde Park. New place i got to visit with some old friends
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Fire dive dude at Fort Fun
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The promo ladies at belantis park.. something with Playboy if i remember correctly
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After 10 years i got to get back to Universal Studios Hollywood... Good times
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Fire good
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up close and personal with a ride during bay area bash
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Tony Hawk water challenge during bay Area Bash.. awesome times
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BlueFire at Europa Park, awesome ride and i was happy to be able to ride it again this year
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby tiger01 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:50 pm

Here's some of mine...
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Fright Night at Adventure Island.
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And My favourite new roller coaster Nemesis!
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby LoopLover » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:53 pm

Here are a few of my favourites taken at Flamingoland, UK a couple of months ago:
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby Jerrykoala2112 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:05 pm

I might not have the best camera, but these are my favorite photos I've taken this year!
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SpongeBob Euro Fighter at Nickelodeon Universe
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Hoosier Hurricane at Indiana Beach
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Mr. Freeze at SF St. Louis
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Wildfire at Silver Dollar City
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Boomerang at Worlds of Fun
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Dragon at Adventureland
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My most favorite shot of the year! Vertical Velocity at SF Great America!
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby jedimaster1227 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:31 pm

Here's a selection of my favorites from 2010.
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One from Halloween Horror Nights XX for good measure...
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I don't know why... I just love this one.
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It's as if Walt were topping off the Astro Orbiter...
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My current desktop picture on my Mac.
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It's the Tronorail!
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For some reason, the way this photo was captured, it made things almost tilt-shift in feel.
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Hogwarts is so photogenic!
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One of my favorites taken with my Pentax Optio S5i.
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby XII » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:02 pm

Here are some of my favorite photos from 2010.
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Awesome Scream Photos from one of the Awesome Backstage Tours at Westcoast Bash.
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Awesomeness at Bay Area Bash.
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More Awesomeness from Bay Area Bash.
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Mr. Six's Splash Island opens up at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor.
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I just love how this shot on California Screamin came out with the other train dueling.
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Setting the lake on fire during the World of Color Show.
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This shot turned out perfect. I just love how I got the entire train in and how perfectly it is set up with the American Girl Store in the background.
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Prowler in all its holiness.
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Fun at the City Museum. (I just LOVE the expressions on everyone's faces.)
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So many amazing backstage shots. This one is of Mr. Freeze.
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Here's a good Voyage shot that I really like.
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Now who was it that said you don't get wet on Pilgrim's Plunge?
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I actually managed to photograph the lightning from the thunderstorm during the TPR Bridge Party @ SFGAm.
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And here's one of X2 that I really like.
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby GwaziBSRider1 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:21 pm

Here's a few of my favorites. All of them are from CoasterMania and were taken with my iPhone 3G. The only editing I did was to resize them.
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Millennium Force's red train just as the sun came up.
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I love how I captured the pure speed of Millennium Force during its morning test runs.
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Sunrise + Millennium Force + The Moon = Pure Roller Coaster Beauty
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I still don't understand how this shot came out so well, but I love it still.
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My absolute favorite of all. From this angle, these two coasters are so beautiful.
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby saginawhxc » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:23 pm

Wow it's really hard to narrow this down, but here's a few of my favorites of this year.
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My vote for favorite little wooden coaster goes to....
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But my favorite at Mt. Olympus is Hades.
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After shooting this late summer it was my desk top picture for the last couple months.
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Okay I'm cheating here. This is only slightly amusement park related. I shot it at a Ren Fest that I visited in the middle of a multi day amusement park trip, but possibly my favorite picture of 2010.
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Coaster shots are nice, but if I can capture kids having fun at parks those are the pictures that I consider priceless.
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Love this framed shot through the trees.
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Griffin your the star of one of my favorite pictures of the year. This to me was my favorite picture of one of my favorite days of 2010. TPR day at SFGA was absolutely a blast.
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My favorite picture from Darien Lake.
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My favorite Cedar Point Halloweekend picture from this year.
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One of my very first attempts at panning. I like the way this turned out though.
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Love Kings Island's nightly firework display. Something about the fountains, fireworks, and tower all working together visually.
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I doubled my coaster count this year but Voyage still stands as my number one. I think I also have more pictures of Voyage than any other coaster.
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These kids were already posing for their parents. I took this with their parents permission and it is easily one of my favorites of the year.
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby traincrossin » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:07 pm

^That picture of Griffin from TPR SFGAm day is great! Such a fun day.

There have been some great pictures so far! Here are some of my favorites from 2010.
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The queue for Little Dipper provides some great shots of Batman's first drop!
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Not a cloud in sight!
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Showing love for Iron Wolf
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A cool silhouette of Raging Bull and Demon
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First time to Holiday World, here's Raven!
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Liberty Launch doing its thing
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Do the clouds look fake to anyone else?
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Trying my best to get an action shot
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Raven
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Splashin Safari with Wildebeest in the corner
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Raging Bull turnaround
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Batman
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Behind the scenes look of Iron Wolf
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I view of the first drop you can't usually get
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The timing on this one was perfect
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Giant Drop and Raging Bull
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Raging Bull and Viper on a backstage tour
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The storm from TPR SFGAm day, very eerie yet totally awesome!
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And one of my favorite shots of Pilgrim's Plunge and a flower
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Re: It's time for a 2010 picture recap

Postby larrygator » Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:06 pm

Here are some of my favorites.
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Last May on the Atlantic City Boardwalk I learned that we don't have to the end of 2012, the world is ending sooner.
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Bushkill Park before American Pickers got there.
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I did not even try, but almost got three tower rides at Coney Island morphed in a single line.
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Prizes at Seaside Heights
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Haggling with this German guy during his bachelor party to charge Renee only half price to take a picture with him.
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Olypmia Looping goodness
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Derek backstage at Europa
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Fun at Phantasialand
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View from an Austrian sky lift
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Taking this picture looking into the sun ruins it for many, but I like the result.
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This carousel at Vidam was gorgeous, I wish I had taken better photos of it.
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A buddhist in Budapest.
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At Wiener Prater
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