2012 favorites.

These photos may or may not be the BEST of 2012, but they are my favorites of 2012 and I want to share them with you. :)

Some of these photos have been on the blog before, others are just now making an appearance. Enjoy my favorite photos from my 2012 adventure!

I second shot a wedding with Courtney Reese.

I took photos of my newborn cousin.

I did some babysitting.

(I love Micah's big smile.)

Then I went to Hawaii for three months! :)

This is my first golden glimpse of the pacific ocean (or rather, the clouds above it).

I went cliff jumping.

(yes, I jumped! It was both terrifying and exhilarating.)

Green Sands beach...

I met and became friends with some awesome international people. :)

Then I went to Greece for almost three months! :)

(the gypsy camp was my favorite, so there's a ton of photos from it.)

We went to the Ancient ruins of Philippi.

I saw some amazing sunsets in Thessaloniki (where we lived for 2 months), Greece.

I met the Petkof family (Child Evangelism Fellowship missionaries to Greece that my family prays for) in Greece.

I went back to the gypsy camp. :)

(I seriously fell in love with the gypsy kids...)

I was standing on Mars Hill when I took this photo (below), in Athens. I liked the yellow house with blue shutters. :)

We went to Ancient Corinth (this is the Corinth Canal).

And we also went to Aegina Island. :)

Then it was back to Hawaii for a week!

Then I came home to Maryland, and took pictures of the "M" boys.

Then I took Emily M's senior casual photos...

...and then I photographed her family.

I closed out the year with a photoshoot of this adorable family, whose photos I still have to blog. :)

So there you have it. My favorite photos of 2012.

To everyone who supported me financially on my almost-three-month missions trip to Greece, to everyone who prayed for me during the three months of training in Hawaii and the three months in Greece, and to my clients who hired me to take their photographs, you all helped make 2012 the best year yet. Thank you. <3 :)

~Valerie