2023 – A Year of Travel In 100 Black and White Photographs

Every year I post 100 of my favorite photos from the year’s travels. As part of my photo-editing process, I edit my photos chronologically. This means that the more travel or photo-intensive my trips are, the longer it tends to take me to close out a year.

The post this year features photos from Denmark, China, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, South Korea, and Turkey.

This post is part of an annual tradition.  For previous years, check out 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and of course, don’t miss the color post from 2023.

For my daily photo posts feel free to tune in and follow along via Instagram and Threads @virtualwayfarer.

Questions about how I composed or took a specific photo? Feel free to ask in a comment. You’re also encouraged to check out my complete flickr albums here which include the many other shots from 2022 (and previous years) which didn’t make it in this post. As you can imagine, picking “just” 100 photos for this is actually quite difficult!

As is true of my style more broadly, virtually every photo in this list is a single shot. I don’t do bracketing, blending, replacement or focus stacking. Nothing has been added/removed outside of correcting lens spots. Generally my edits focus on adjusting sharpness, contrast, dodging and burning, and some mild saturation and color enhancement to bring the photos closer to what I saw in the moment.

That’s a wrap for 2023! As always – let me know which are your favorites. For these photos I used a Sony A7R III camera with a mixture of lenses. These included a Sigma 100-400, a Sony 24-70 F4, Tamron 28-75 F2.8 and a Tamron 17-28 F2.8.