The week has been leading up to this momentous occasion, Pics of the Year, when we celebrate not just our one year anniversary of Pics of the Week but also of BRAVE / PRAXIS. This week, we turn the tables to our viewing audience to ask, “What’s your favorite pic of the year?” Enjoy and many thanks for a great year at BRAVE / PRAXIS.


[above] And my favorite color is Red by Alejandro Brave ©


[above] Ants by Alejandro Colom ©
Every year we go visit my wife’s family in Pearsall, Texas this family of ants would be the first thing saying hello to us as we walked to the front door. It is every year at spring time!


[above] Untitled by Alp Bozkurt ©
It was very peculiar. A mile-long isolated stretch of beach on the north side of Ilhabela, an island off the coast of Sao Paulo, and there were about a dozen or so dead fish scattered randomly along the sand just below the tide line. As I crouched down to take a picture of one, I noticed my sister walking into the water in the background to clean the sand off her feet. It served great as her profile picture on Facebook for a long time until she had her baby.


[above] Dante by Andrés Felipe Escobar ©
“Beatrice Paradiso”


[above] World’s Worst Peep-hole by Andrew Turner, AIA ©
It’s not that often that you see an actual hole in glass. Reminds me of sci-fi movies when they rip a hole in time and space, the three dimensional becomes two dimensional, and opens to reveal some other world.


[above] Window by Angela Martinez ©
In my life I’ve never been to a hotel that you could open the windows, mind you couldn’t open it the whole way, but it was still a delightful and small surprise.


[above] PV Stage by Bryant Alcantara ©
This is a photo of the Pergola Fotovoltaica in Barcelona’s Forum Esplanade taken during Forum 2004. You can see the different levels in use, with exposition rooms underneath, music performers setting up above them, and the solar panels providing shade.


[above] Golden Gate by Christian Sheridan, AIA ©


[above] Hope by Fernando L. Brave, AIA ©


[above] Rust by Frank Vargas, AIA ©
I took this photo in the small city of Listvyanka by Lake Baikal in the heart of Siberia. All their light and telephone poles had this type of connection to the ground. The white concrete post is about 60” high and is set on the ground. The wood pole is attached to the concrete post as shown in the photograph and it does not touch the ground. I was not able to find out why they do this, but I suspect that they don’t have wood that will survive well underground or they simply do not have the ability to treat it to do so.


[above] Layla by Greg Ryden, AIA ©
Layla – It’s hard to keep kids still long enough to take a picture of them and it’s even harder to do it while they are jumping on a trampoline as dusk approaches. This picture captured one of my children’s friends while at play. F-stop was set to 3.5 in order to get a picture with enough shutter to capture the image.


[above] Canary Wharf by Hannah Sargent ©
I have always been intrigued by architecture that is able to capture and celebrate precious bits of daylight reaching deep into underground spaces.


[above] Untitled submitted by Julia Schafer
Hip and Groovin’ in 1977. Picture taken for a brochure for the LBJ Student Center at Texas State University.


[above] Frozen by Peter Ho ©
As I was looking through the car window, I notice the ice fragments as they are reaching their melting point. I was hoping to freeze that moment. I’m so funny. Ha ha.


[above] Untitled by Sally Díaz ©
A stroll on a cold night with a camera..who knew where we would end up


[above] Discovery Green by Silvana Micolich ©
We were taking photos of Discovery Green with my now husband, selecting the park for our wedding, and found these wonderful grasses (Gulf Coast Muhly). This is one of a set of photos taken from the ground looking up through the grasses which are very light and move beautifully against the wind.

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[above] Sophie Nha-Tam Nguyen by Terry Minh-Tam Banh ©
This is the favorite of various photos we had from previous folks who worked at B/A.