As I mentioned two days ago, Pictory has inspired me to look back through my photographs on Flickr, particularly photos I’ve taken on my travels in the past few years.

Doing so has reminded me of how lucky I am to have been able to visit so many amazing places. It’s also given me a serious case of Fernweh. But most of all, it’s brought a smile to my face as I’ve stumbled across photographs I haven’t seen in a while—photos which bring up happy memories or which capture the feeling of a specific place or a specific time for me.

This, in turn, has prompted me to a make a new set of pictures on Flickr. Succinctly entitled “My Faves”, it’s a collection of pictures which, for one reason or another, I find particularly meaningful or evocative. They’re not necessarily the “best” pictures I’ve ever snapped; I think some of them are quite good, but a lot of them are blurry or badly composed, or they don’t make much sense out of context. But some of them just make me chuckle, or they transport me at a glance to wherever or whenever it was that they were taken. There’s a personal story to go with every one of them, and for that reason I count them amongst my favorites.