The best photo I’ve ever taken, according to 12 travel writers

This year marks 200 years since the world’s first photograph, a simple courtyard scene captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce at his estate in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Burgundy. To celebrate this great milestone, we asked 12 of our travel writers to dive into their private collections and submit their favourite photograph. From an eager salesman on the Nile to a “monster” building in Hong Kong and an inquisitive polar bear peeping inside a tourist vehicle, these are some of our writers’ most cherished shots. Into the mystic Gunshots were going off, horses were rearing around us, people were singing and clapping in raucous…