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Top photos of 2016

Laguna Beach sunset

According to Flickr “favorites” these were my top five travel photos of 2016. Not all of the photos were taken in 2016; rather, these are the photos most “favorited” in 2016.

Denver rainbow

Prague sunset

Bamboo stairway to heaven

Blue BBC

For my top photos from Southern Oregon for 2016, click here.

For my 2015 top photos click here.

Old Town Square

Prague

The statue on the left is the Jan Hus Memorial, and the medieval steeples on the right belong to the Church of Our Lady before Týn. If I make it back to Prague in 2017 I will have a different game plan to deal with the crowds.

St. Vitus Cathedral

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St. Vitus Cathedral (Prague, Czech Republic)

The more I think about it, the more I realize my weekend in Prague last summer was not enough. Even though there are a million other places I’d like to visit, that I’ve never been to before, I’m feeling like I may end up back in Prague for a weekend next summer.

Prague from Powder Tower

Prague from Powder Tower

I’m back in Copenhagen, now, after three days in Prague. My only regret is that I didn’t bring a long lens on the trip (and I had a 70-300mm sitting on my table back in Denmark! What was I thinking?). That just gives me an excuse to return to Prague someday. This shot could have been cool at 300mm, instead of being a 4-photo photomerge @ 11mm, with the Church of Our Lady before Tyn on Old Town Square in the foreground and St. Vitus Cathedral in the Prague Castle area on the other side of the Vltava River in the background.

Prague really can’t be captured in photos adequately. In person my jaw was dropping around every corner. Next time I need to go when it isn’t tourist high season. Does such a time of the year exist? All I know is on my way out of town on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. the streets were empty. Next time I’ll spend more time out in the streets at dawn and more time sleeping in the afternoon when decapitation by someone else’s selfie stick is a serious concern.