Our Editor's Favorite Photos

If you work in magazines, you quickly learn to keep things a few months ahead in your mind. So while the rest of the world is happily enjoying fall, we're already knee-deep mentally into winter as we're working on our upcoming issue. That said, as much as we're looking forward, it's also wonderful to look back. So now that our November/December issue is on newsstands, we asked Traveler editor Keith Bellows to select his favorite images from the past year and created a gallery of them online. You can see the slideshow, with his commentary, here.

Photo: From "Secrets of the Lakes," a story on Austria's Lake District, in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic Traveler. By Cotton Coulson/Sisse Brimberg.