It’s never an easy task choosing your favourite captures from a year of photography. At least it never is for me. Of course I don’t help my own cause by travelling so much. I was on the road, camera in hand, for 6 of the 12 months of 2013, less time than I had intended at the turn of the year. The majority of my time on the road this year was spent in North America (Hawaii, Alaska, the US West Coast & Mexico) & Central America, with time also spent on the US East Coast & in Portugal. Six hundred and four images I used this year to populate my travel blog entries for 2013, the same number of images I started with as I attempted to select my 10 favourites for this A Look Back entry. I managed easily enough to whittle that number down to 33, but that’s where the problems began. Getting from there to 13 took what felt like forever, questioning or second-guessing every selection or omission as I went. But I eventually made it. I then attempted to get from 13 to 10, a task that proved beyond me. So while I initially envisioned this A Look Back entry highlighting my favourite 10 pictures from a year of photography & travel that was 2013, here instead I present 13, displayed in chronological order & with links to the Photography Blog or dMb Travel entries where the image first appeared.
– One –
A lighthouse near Rosses Point in County Sligo, Ireland. January 5th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Canon 40mm f/2.8 || 40mm, 1/8sec, f/7.1, iso100) 
– Two –
Kane (men) & wahine (women) dancers at Germaine’s Luau, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. February 27th 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 30mm f/1.4 || 30mm, 1/100sec, f/1.4, iso1250)
– Three –
Tern Lake at the junction of the Sterling & Seward Highways, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA. March 18th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 10-20mm || 10mm, 1/400sec, f/14.0, iso100)
– Four –
Seattle as seen from Elliott Bay. Seattle, Washington, USA. March 25th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Tamron 28-75mm || 56mm, 1/640sec, f/8.0, iso100)
– Five –
Sunset from a perilous position at Eagle Point, The Grand Canyon West, Arizona, USA. April 6th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Canon 70-300mm || 70mm, 1/200sec, f/5.0, iso100)
– Six –
Nearing sunset on Baker Beach, San Francisco, California, USA. April 10th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 10-20mm || 10mm, 1/100sec, f/9.0, iso125)
– Seven –
El Castillo / Pyramid of Kukulcan, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. May 3rd 2013 (EOS 60D || Tamron 28-75mm || 54mm, 1/100sec, f/9.0, iso100)
– Eight –
Three Mayan ladies taking a break from peddling their wares by the edge of Parque Central, Antigua, Guatemala. May 19th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Tamron 28-75 || 75mm, 1/250sec, f/4.5, iso100)
– Nine –
Exiting Leon Cathedral, Central America’s largest church. Leon, Nicaragua. June 16th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 10-20mm || 10mm, 1/250sec, f/10.0, iso100)
– Ten –
Ocean Drive, Miami, Florida, USA. July 8th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 10-20mm || 16mm, 1.6sec, f/7.1, iso400)
– Eleven –
Traffic in Pershing Square outside Grand Central Station/Terminal, Manhattan, New York, USA. July 13th, 2013 (iPod Touch v5)
– Twelve –
Crossing State Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, USA. July 15th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 10-20mm || 10mm, 1/125sec, f/7.1, iso100)
– Thirteen –
Looking down Rua Augusta from under the Rua Augusta Arch, Commerce Square, Lisbon, Portugal. August 26th, 2013 (EOS 60D || Sigma 30mm f/1.4 || 30mm, 1/3sec, f/6.3, iso320)
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