Favourite Travel Photos - My 7 Super Shots

A couple of days ago, a fellow travel blogger from “I Wander” tagged me in his blog post entitled “Favorite Travel Photos - My 7 Super Shots”. I have to be honest here. I have mixed feelings about it. Happy and flattered. Nervous and worried. And not to forget feeling a bit stressed out too! :-) The idea (or the game that I'm now taking part in), from HostelBookers 7 Super Shots, is to select 7 of your best travel photos that fit into a certain category or theme, share them all in one blog post, and then nominate 5 other travel bloggers to do the same by including a link to their blog in that same post.

Having hundreds of folders and thousands of photos to choose from made the photo selection process quite tricky. Having categories and themes to consider, made it worse :-S  Not that I have many good photos in the first place :-D  It’s just that I have to scour through most of them, which took a bit of time. Going through them brought me back memories. Not just memories of places and people. But also of some other things long forgotten. Bad and good. Which nevertheless still brought a smile to my face... But I digress... :-) 

So... before I wander off the track any further, here they are, my 7 favourite shots – which I think fit their respective theme – from some of my previous trips.

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#1 – Takes my breath away

There’re some competitions for this theme but to me this photo just edged it a bit. Not in terms of photo quality. But in terms of experience. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is nothing short of grand. The first time I was there, I had arrived late in the afternoon and went on to spend some time inside the masjid. It was already dark when I went out again. To walk down its “courtyard” and then to turn around to face the masjid in such a clear night really took my breath away.

[Click here for more photos of the masjid]

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#2 – Makes me dream

Not exactly the best photo of Paris that I have in my collection. It was winter. It was cold and a bit foggy. And I was almost frozen standing on top of Arc de Triomphe. So Eiffel Tower doesn’t look as sharp in the photo as some might have liked. But I like this photo. Cheesy as it may sound, it makes me dream of Paris.

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#3 – Makes me think

What?  Who?  How?  When?  Why?

(Among them: Is this really where the Tomb of the Primes was hidden? ;-) How would I manage to walk back down the mountain in such a heat? ;-) )

[Click here for more photos of Petra]

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#4 – Makes me laugh or smile

Again, not exactly the best of photos but when I first saw this tooth pick holder in a novelty shop in Brussels, I sure laughed out loud. What a cool idea. Although definitely not cool if you do it for real.

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#5 – Makes my mouth water

*gone to have some hot waffles*

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#6 – Tells a story

Yes, I know, I know... this is definitely a cliché to most but I am sure it fits the theme, right? I just wish that I could have taken a symmetrical one but it was quite hard actually as there were lots and lots of people around, all trying to take the same photos. Next time, remind me to do it differently, please?

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#7 – My most proud of (aka most worthy of National Geographic shot)

Funny that I have chosen this one as my most proud of (can’t bear to write aka most worthy of... here :-) ) even though I actually tend to prefer to take photos of places rather than of people. I took this in the Corniche in Mutrah area in Muscat while taking a break after a long walk along the Corniche.

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So what do you think of these photos?  There're a few competitions for some categories while for one or two other categories, it's totally the opposite.  I have problems too in identifying a correct theme for some of my favourite photos, they eventually didn't make the cut.  For example, the photo of Florence above makes me laugh because it reminds me of the day trip a few friends and I had made while we were in Rome some time late last year.  It would take a bit of writing though to explain why the photo would fall under "makes me laugh or smile"...

In the end, I have chosen these based on them being my favourites for each theme, which means they are not necessarily the best.  But still, I would love to hear some feedback from you guys.

In the meantime, I'm tagging the following fellow travel bloggers to see if they are up to this task as well because I'd really love to see what they consider as their best or most favourite shots :-)

In alphabetical order:

1.  Fie @ Bit by the Travel Bug

2.  CK @ CK Go Places

3.  Devi @ Devi da Lil' Devil

4.  Sarah @ The Hedonista

5.  Amer @ Tend to Travel