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My 2012 in Pictures: a Montage of Montages Past and Future

From a purely photographic perspective, our family found 2012 far from boring, to say the least. It wasn’t without its share of trials, tears, and terrors, but it’s my fervent hope that the memories of those invigorating events caught on camera should outlast the emotional scars of the uglier incidents for years to come.

Some of the following subjects are from photo parades previously shared here on MCC. Some are from events that occurred prior to MCC’s inception on April 28, 2012. Some of these are sneak previews of photo parades that have been held in reserve until the conclusion of the 2012 Road Trip series, which is not represented in this gallery since it has its very own de facto home page.

That being said: the lighter side of 2012 from my limited vantage point appeared as follows. Enjoy!

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January 27th: Super Bowl XLVI fans zipline over Capitol Street in downtown Indianapolis.
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January 28th: My wife and I spent the morning hunting the "46 for XLVI Murals" throughout Indianapolis, including this Speedway submission near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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March 17th: Biker gnomes beg for a buyer at the Indianapolis Flower & Patio Show.
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April 13th: My wife and I visit Chicago's reflective "Millennium Gate" sculpture, a.k.a. "The Bean".
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April 14th: Deadpool hangs out with video game cosplayers at the third annual C2E2 comics/entertainment convention.
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May 26th: The Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade cruises through downtown.  Among the vehicles and floats was this cheery cadre of 500 Festival Princesses.
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June 9th:  At the annual Superman Celebration in Metropolis, IL, actors John Glover and Cassidy Freeman pose by the town's famous Superman statue for hundreds of townspeople, fans, and Internet users.
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June 23rd: The view from the Skyride at Indiana Beach -- the real McCoy, not the defunct post-apocalyptic version seen on TV's "Revolution".
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August 11th: Cosplayers at Wizard World Chicago included these dedicated representatives of "Adventure Time".
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August 18th:  GenCon Indy 2012 was the setting for this excellent turnout of players/fans of the MOBA "League of Legends".
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September 9th: My wife's annual family reunion is held at Turkey Run State Park near Rockville, IN, containing deciduous forests aplenty.
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September 29th: The shapely staircase at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art leads to a placid koi pond.
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October 13th: The Indianapolis Zoo celebrated "ZooBoo" for Halloween with a series of employee-designed dioramas.  This example attempted to salute Halloween, Oz, and conservation all at once, with mixed results.

To learn more about MCC photo collections from 2012, visit your local library for further reading that doesn’t exist, or check out these past entries:

* Indy 500 Festival Parade 2012 Photo Gallery
* Metropolis Superman Celebration 2012 Photo Gallery
* Threat Level Milquetoast: Visiting Indiana Beach Without Kids
* Indiana State Fair 2012 Photos: Sandwiches, Sculpture, and a Surprise Celebrity
* Wizard World Chicago: Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five
* GenCon: Parts One, Two, Three, Four
* Starbase Indy: Parts One, Two, Three

Legal disclaimer for the record: though the above-displayed “2012 in Pictures” gallery is entirely comprised of photos I personally snapped, all other galleries on this site are the collaborative efforts of myself and my amazing wife, to whom I owe ongoing credit and endless gratitude for any number of contributions and general above-and-beyond support in 2012.

See you in 2013!

[Special thanks to the WordPress.com Daily Post, whose Weekly Photo Challenge was directly responsible for today's topic, which aims to complement and expand upon my previous MCC 2012 in Review.

Today is also Day Seven of the seven-day WordPress.com Daily Post's "Just Do It!" Weekly Writing Challenge, in which WordPress bloggers were dared to post-a-day for seven consecutive days. This visual retrospective is lucky number seven, the show-stopping finale. Thanks for visiting!]


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