For the most part, 2011 was a pretty good year for me. I got my first staff photographer gig, survived a Wyoming winter, shot a rodeo, dressed like a cowboy for two weeks straight and got the opportunity to work on a long-term picture story. Can’t wait to see what 2012 has in store for me. I put together a complete “2011 Year in Pictures” gallery that includes 100 shots in chronological order. But if you don’t feel like spending 30 minutes looking at photos, here are my 10 favorite frames from this year:
![Cheyenne Frontier Days Slack Tie-Down Roping Jack Osborn, left, 10, and Brayden Wiesen, 11, take a break towards the end of the day inside of a chute during the first go of slack tie-down roping on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Frontier Park. Several youngsters including the two funneled cattle into chute 9 from 8 a.m. to about noon for slack tie-down roping. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0064.jpg)
![Superintendent Mark Stock Kindergarten Aspen Rewerts, right, a kindergarten student at Jessup Elementary, reacts before hugging Mark Stock, superintendent of Laramie County School District No. 1, after Stock checked her work before recess on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at the school. Stock was teaching in place of Kathleen Blaes-Garcia for the day after Blaes-Garcia won a contest for donating to the Cheyenne School Foundation. "It's been refreshing," said Stock, who taught third and sixth graders for eight years before becoming an administrator. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0020.jpg)
![Burns Lovell Girl's Basketball Lovell's Karen Koritnik watches as the ball bounces away from her as she falls to the floor with Burns' Becca Miller during the Class 2A championship game on Saturday, March 5, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0016.jpg)
![Occupy Cheyenne Piper Crawford, 4, wipes her eyes in boredom as she listens to speeches at an Occupy Cheyenne rally on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, at the Wyoming State Capitol. Crawford was at the rally with her parents, who recently moved to Cheyenne from Portland, Ore. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0099.jpg)
![Gymnastics Samara Lucero, right, age 13, shares a laugh with fellow gymnast Lilly Joslin, age 11, as they partake in a "bridge war" during practice on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, at the Wyoming School of Gymnastics. The activity involves gymnasts walking around in a bridge stretch position trying to knock fellow competitors out until one gymnast is left. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0001.jpg)
![Hail Storm Dave Hefenieder, a Cheyenne employee, uses a pitch fork to unclog a storm drain at the intersection of 23rd Street and Bradley Avenue on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Cheyenne. Cheyenne received 1.46 inches of rain between 5:15 and 5:50 p.m., according to the National Weather Service along with hail up to golf ball size. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0058.jpg)
![Cheyenne East High School DUI Demonstration Cheyenne East students share a laugh before climbing into wrecked vehicles to portray victims at the scene of a fatal accident for a drunken driving crash demonstration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at Okie Blanchard Stadium in Cheyenne, Wyo. The demonstration coincides with East's prom on Saturday. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0023.jpg)
![Cheyenne keeper Kelley Fisher Cheyenne Central keeper Kelley Fisher reaches back to bat a ball over the crossbar as she poses for a portrait on Monday, April 25, 2011, at the school in Cheyenne, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0027.jpg)
![Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Shawn Downing from Silver Star, Mont. wrestles a steer during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0071.jpg)
![Isaac Salas Isaac Salas looks up as he talks with Jenniy Peltier, one of his favorite therapists from Craig Hospital, during a hospital field trip to Bear Creek Lake Park on Friday, June 3, 2011, near Lakewood, Colo. Earlier in the day, Isaac, 16, cruised a nearby beach with Jenniy pretending to talk to bikini-clad girls. "You can look, Isaac. But keep moving. There's something creepy about a guy walking around looking at girls," Jenniy said. "Good for them I'm rolling," Isaac quipped. His joking nature was something his mother, Melisaa Plumley, described as "Isaac being Isaac," an aspect of his personality that continued to ring true after his accident. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brosher-poy2011_0047.jpg)
Christian D. says
Two of your frames that are my Favs: Latest Prep Athlete and Zac Brown Band one. 🙂