Everything from my days as a photo student 25 years ago a self portrait taken this Sept. in a ladder fire truck bucket about 6 feet up that was labeled favorites of year portrait---which means when I took it I thought it should be the portrait I use when I make my best of 2011 slideshow for my work at The Meadville Tribune. Each year I put together my favorite pictures of the year in a slideshow, sometimes with audio, but most of the time just captions with written explanations. I'll be piecing this years together sometime this week coming up and maybe this will end up being the portrait I use---we see--I took a couple others along the way as well. Photographs by Richard Sayer. We might even do this with our favorites from SayerMotter Photography. It has been a really great year for us.