Victoria

Walking dog in Union Square. Happened upon this chaotic composition. Not enough chihuahuas on pianos in public places.

Colleen Lynch

Taken on July 4th, 2013 from my front window in Gowanus Brooklyn. I took it to capture a part of life that is rapidly disappearing, the Italian families gathering at the Glory Social Club for their annual party. I like it because it seems both strange and normal at the same time.

Richard Gray

New York cab in Times Square. With so much light bouncing around Times Square, this is a wild setting for photographers. To add to the wildness I used an app called Slow Shutter that allows you to do long exposures.

Victoria

Walking the dog near 30th Street. First outing with new phone. These pigeons and this channel marker are achingly universal - I'm sure I've taken similar shots in Venice.

Linda Lopez

This callery pear tree, also known as the Survivor Tree, was recovered from the rubble of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and replanted. In 2011, Hurricane Irene uprooted it, but it was replanted and once again survived. On the day I visited the 9/11 Memorial, someone brought this beautiful bouquet and placed it in the tree's bough. It looked to me like the tree and the gift were embracing.

mary e. allen

Miguel Garcia

mary e. allen

This is a favorite photo of my dog, Gabe, who died this summer. He looks a bit like Jean-Paul Sartre, don't you think? Gabe was named after the greatest news person that ever lived: Gabe Pressman. But Gabe here shows her interest in listening, avidly, like a Freudian shrink. All that's missing is a notebook -- and a pipe.

Debbie G.

View from within a gallery in Chelsea at the various patterns and textures of the gallery storefronts across the street.

Gary Rozman

A Festivus for the rest of us! Taken December 23rd during the "airing of grievances." Was partly inspired to orchestrate this shot because I am a huge fan of Seinfeld, and partly because, why not!? (Full disclosure - the traditional unadorned aluminum pole is faux...as are the grievances :)

Debbie G.

An odd pair of colorful legs were sticking up seemingly out of a manhole cover on Mercer St. in Soho. As soon as I snapped the photo the artist ran out and posed with a painting and asked for a contribution or purchase of his art. Clever salesman.

Jono Mainelli

A blunt inelegantly lit close-up photo at a convenience store at 3am… showing what America truly treasures: our gluttony and guilty pleasures!
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I was amazed how America lobbied and fought to reclaim its processed sweet crap from extinction in 2013!
Happy New Year!
Now, hit the gym, tubby.

Peter Himler

This is a photo of an illuminated Empire State Building a day after Nelson Mandela died. It was taken from our 75th Street apartment's living room window looking downtown.

Gary Rozman

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, November 8th...because I am fortunate enough to pass by this gorgeous vista on my way home from work everyday and just had to share!

Peter Himler

This is a picture indoors taken at the Metropolitan Museum on the same day as the NYC Marathon.

Linda Lopez

My French students and I climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty. I've made this climb before but always capped it by looking down at the vista below, never up. It was a cloudy day so the sky was white -- a perfect background for this shot. And I liked the symbolism of looking up at liberty.

Daniel Terna

Brooklyn, NY. I took this on an unusually warm and sunny day this December, 2013. My friend poked his head into a scrap yard on Nostrand Ave.

Daniel Terna

Taken in the Catskills on a rainy day in the spring. My friend and I were picking up some lumber for a cabin we were working on.

Joseph Harrison

I took this shot while on a long walk through Douglaston,Queens this past Thanksgiving weekend. I was first struck by the stillness of the water at low tide. That stillness combined with the autumnal hues of the two shorelines (Great Neck is in the distance) make a wonderful, peaceful image.

Bonny Finberg

This is one of my favorite places in Manhattan, a serene place where nature exists at the edge of a noisy city. When i see fog from my window I take my camera phone to the river and shoot. This is a jogger at rest, enveloped in the magic of a moment.