send your biggest picture from 2025
A PICTURE THAT MADE YOU SMILE, LAUGH, CRY, REMEMBER, CELEBRATE…
THE ONE
As we march onward toward the end of another year, I’m looking for your ‘biggest picture’ of 2025. The idea is simple: send the most important/favourite picture you made this year, with a few words about why it matters. It could be the frame that made you laugh, one that took you to new places or a new experience, the one that brought a tear, a picture that helped you celebrate, commemorate, or just something that stirred a quiet emotion when you look back at it.
Send your images to stories@photowalk.show - only one picture please. Please (if you wish to) include a link to your social profile or website, the full url, such as: www.instagram.com/photowalk.podcast.
All pictures will be shared on this special showpage and ten photographers will be selected to come on to the first show of 2026 to talk about their picture.
Closing date for pictures is Friday December 12th, 2025.
KIM COFIELD
Why is this photo The One? Well, this photo represents everything I have been striving to achieve with my dog photography. When I first set out to become a dog photographer, everywhere I turned to for inspiration presented me with photos of dogs in European forests and European urban areas. They are so far removed from my reality here in Australialand, I did not think I would ever be able to have any success. However, when I met my photography mentor in person last year, I came to see that I could, in fact, use the landscape around me. I simply had to look using my eyes instead of thinking I had to mimic others.
My favourite location to walk Theo and Claire has countless dead trees as well as fallen dead branches and trees. This particular tree we often walk by had caught my eye unknowingly until one day it hit me - it would be the perfect location to place a dog. I love it when an idea works out, in this case, a lot better than expected. I think will always remain one of my favourite photos.
See more of Kim’s work on Instagram.
LOBA VAN HEUGTEN
This is my The One image for 2025. I was pointing my camera towards the background trying out and making small changes to a fuji recipe on my Fuji Pro3. I was so engaged in making small changes to the white balance on the camera that I did not pay much attention to the lady who passed. When I got on the bus, I looked at the images. I deleted all but this one image, as this image captures what I have been trying to express but have not managed to before this image. I like her hair and the way she is flowing by in her own world.
KEITH JOHNSON
JBR Beech, Dubai June 2025.
This is a special place as Denise and I had been going there since 2007 and would go in January for our birthdays and October for our wedding anniversary in the last 10 years, we have stayed at several hotels that had access to the beech and have walked it together many times. And in recent years our son and his family have moved out there and we have spent time on the beech with them.
Denise passed away in September 2024 after a very sudden illness and this was my first visit to the beech alone. It was a very emotional walk on the beech that day and I walked the full length and sat myself down at this spot looked back across the bay and reflected on our life together.
My Reflection.
THAT first kiss we snatched.
How I felt close to you
How we would speak the same words together
How we laughed and giggled together
The special moments we shared
The rock you were to me
The cheeky look you gave that said it all to me
Thank you for the family we built
Thank you for understanding me
Thank you for the love you gave me
My best friend
My wife
My life
You were always there for me
THAT final squeeze of our hands that said.
"I love you"
ANDREW MELDER
Sharing my One photo for 2025 was easy, as I knew it as I took the photo back in March this year. Attached is a photo of my Mum and Dad holding hands during a lunch for his birthday.
I haven't taken a lot of photos of Dad over the last few years as his health deteriorated due to the increasing impact of what turned out to be Dementia; I preferred to remember the people-loving extrovert he was, and I'm sure he would too. Still, there were occasions where the moment and the frame just needed it.
Dad had moved to full-time care in mid-2024, so moments like his birthday and the Christmas prior were tinged with fear that he might not remember us in the next one. As Dad sat down, he reached his hand out and Mum placed hers together with his; it felt like a memory to preserve.
I would not realise just how fleeting and final this image would become, as just two months later, Dad passed due to a heart attack. A weird mix of shock, grief and an odd sense of relief that his suffering was done; and that dementia had not yet taken the memory of his loved ones prior.
I didn't quite realise how much the photo truly meant until I temporarily couldn't find it in my files; thankfully, I managed to dig out a copy. For all of my close to 42 years on this planet, most of those with the privilege of having my dad being there to guide me through life's events, this photo forces me to confront the feelings I try to suppress as we move forward without him. Mainly, that it's ok to miss him.
PAUL FRIDAY
Best picture of 2025? It would have to be this one.
It's probably the least technically accomplished picture of the year too, but I don't care. This is me watching manta rays feeding on plankton on a night dive. This one brushed my head as it went over. This was the event that made 2025 an experience and not a number.
JOHN ANDERTON
2025 has been a year of ‘encounters’ for me – good encounters, during which I’ve had the pleasure of engaging with people from all walks of life, while making their portraits and asking about their ‘Life Sentence’.
Maybe I should expand on that a little – I haven’t been making portraits of individuals who are incarcerated at His Majesty’s pleasure (though wouldn’t that be a fascinating project…).
I wander around Birmingham, making a nuisance of myself with my camera by bothering strangers and asking if I can make their portrait. Most people say yes, many are surprised, and some are flattered. I also ask my ‘models’ for a pearl of wisdom to accompany their portrait when I post it on my website and Instagram account.
This can be a life philosophy, a value they hold, something they’ve learned, and so on – but it needs to be encapsulated in a single sentence. I call this their ‘Life Sentence’.
Not everyone provides a Life Sentence, but we still make a portrait.
More recently, I’ve been chatting for longer with the people I encounter. I use my phone to record our conversations and then write them up as captions to post alongside their portraits on Instagram. Their ‘Life Sentence’, however, is always added to the portrait itself.
I retired in January 2025 after working for many years with children and young people who have experienced abuse and trauma in their lives. As much as you try not to let it happen, you can start to develop a rather bleak view of the world. I knew, though, that there is goodness and kindness out there – and that’s why I started engaging with strangers. The lovely people I’ve spent time with and photographed have proved to me that my faith in human nature is justified.
Since March 2025, I’ve photographed over 130 people – 50 of whom have provided me with a ‘Life Sentence’ – so my project is still in its early days. The challenge was deciding which photo to choose.
I decided on my portrait of Rae. Not so much because of the photo itself, but because of Rae’s ‘Life Sentence’:
“Everyone wants to save the world, but it’s okay to save just one person, and it’s okay if that person is you.”
Rae’s life value reminded me of the importance of being kind to ourselves as well as to others, and that it’s not selfish to think of our own needs occasionally. It’s a philosophy I have adopted myself, so this photograph is significant to me.