I spent many hours over the past couple of weeks going through thousands of photos in two archive systems to come up with the handful you can see in our end-of-the-year slideshows. On average, the photographers at the Reporter file anywhere from 400-600 photos per month in the system, about half of which are destined for the Town Center page.
The majority of "hard news" photos were of fires throughout the area, including the famous Lans-Bowl fire in March, which was one of our most highly-viewed website features this year. There was plenty to choose from in sports, since so many of our local teams went deep into playoffs.
Some of my personal favorites from this year - LC football; the Hatfield borough fire in April (one of our first hard-news videos); the Ganesh festival in Montgomery township; Souderton baseball playoffs; and meeting some very, very cool people at the Philadelphia Folk Fest this summer.