Kelly

This was on the 4 train heading uptown one early afternoon in September. I took it because I thought this dapper gent in his bow tie stood out from the rest of us in the crowd. I like the look on his face -- maybe a bit weary, but getting on with things just like many of us do every day.

Deb Stein

This photo is of an old, lost pier between Hoboken and Jersey City, with NYC in the distance. It was taken on a slightly overcast, late winter morning during low tide. I was taking a walk with a friend and it caught our eye. I love the raw, gritty quality of the day, the pier, and even the city, and also how the photo captures the depth of the pier.

Caroline Seklir

I took this photo during MadSqEats pop-up food market at Madison Sq Park. I couldn't get over how the classic Marimekko print was perfectly reflected in the tulips, or vice versa.

Bruce Basile

I took this photo on the first day of summer at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Upper Brookville on Long Island. I took it because I enjoyed the symmetry. I like it because the repeated arches almost give the illusion of being endless though that walkway doesn't extend very far at all.

Bruce Basile

I took this photo on the first day of winter at Planting Fields Arboretum in Upper Brookville. I took it because I had recently seen so many photos of sunsets that I decided to look down. I like it because you can see beauty in nature no matter where you look.

InCa

From a window viewing the GWB on a very rainy and gray day. They are always things that we focus but a lot in the background too.

Jeremy Taylor

This is Kelsey, from Alaska. We met while WWOOFing in North Carolina. This was her first time on the east side of the US, we stayed up every night listening to cicadas, bullfrogs, and catching fireflies. Can you imagine seeing a firefly for the first time at 20 years old? Being with her helped me rediscover the beauty of the rhododendron-thick forests of the south.

John Ryan Brooks

When I came home to my apartment in Bushwick one night in July, my landlord had built a wall over the only door for which I had a key. Without a work permit or prior notice, he decided it was ok to appropriate the corridor outside my apartment into a new third bedroom in the unit next-door. I took this photo standing in my kitchen.

Pam Corey DVM

Wee Red is not a pet, he is a working horse. I get to see him when he is resting in his stable in Clinton Park. He weighs almost 2000 pounds and I can't get his whole head in a photo with my phone camera. Gentle giant.

He is my favorite horse at this stable and I see him half a dozen times a year on an inspection basis. The stable workers tell me he's a real tough customer to work around on a daily basis; to me is inquisitive like a begging puppy. I love this photo because it shows his massiveness (that neck!) without showing much of him at all!

Joan Shields

October 7,2013 Oquaga Lake, Deposit, NY. Liking a perfect autumn sunset over a lake is easy to understand. It's a pristine,spring fed, crater lake, which is unusual for lakes, because it sits at the top of the mountain. Oquaga Lake also sits on top of the Marcellus Shale, the very spot where fracking may contaminate the waters. I took the pic, at my moms lake house, hoping it's not the last time we take a pic of this beautiful lake before fracking gets a green light.

Amala Lane

The moon-set over the Pallisades from my apartment window on W. 181st. Street and Cabrini Blvd in Washington Heights. I was really spell bound with the subtle gradations of color from the silvery white moon, to the chalky blue sky, rose tinted horizon and gray cliffs dusted with snow.

Tom Klaber

I was working at my office on Broadway and Chamber and looked out and saw this outrageous sky. A stormy day was giving way to a clear sky right at sunset. I love how stoic the city looks under the turbulent skies.

Alexandra Raskin

I left the hotel with my guidebook in tow shortly after arriving in Bucharest, Romania. The first walking tour took me down Calea Victoriei, suggesting I duck into an alley that would connect me with the old town. It may have been the rustle of sheets hung to dry, although it was more likely the jetlag that led me into the wrong alley. It was nearly silent despite being open on either end to bustling thoroughfares, and entirely devoid of people. The laundry, perfectly still suggested I was in the wrong place. It was a mistake I was glad to have made.

Tom Klaber

I live on 4th Ave. I love the way the NYC Marathon brings the city together. I had forgotten that Marathon was that day until I heard the crowds gathering outside my window. I ran downstairs - still in my pjs - and pulled out my phone and snapped that picture of the this first group go whizzing by. I love the way it brings out the athleticism and intensity of the race - things that sometimes get lost among the happy cheering crowds.

Laura Fabris

My son was born this year after a February snow storm. So now every time it snows I go out on my balcony and take a photo. I took this shot at sunset early in December of 2013.

ine

Sunset over the George Washington Bridge. Passing by and impossible not to get shocked by the contrast of the light. A view through a fence….maybe feeling a bit trapped inside :)

Joan Shields

My sister, her husband and their first born baby boy, 20 minutes after delivering him. Baby Benjamin was born on February 28,2013 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden, NJ. My sister and brother-in-law weren't thinking about photos at the time. Shhhh.... Its a surprise Christmas Gift, titled, "First We had Each Other, Then We Had You and Now We Have Everything"

Laura Fabris

I spent the summer of 2013 in Sao Paulo Brazil taking care of my newly born son while my husband (who lives there) was at work. It was hard for me (usually a very busy woman) to stay home full time, so going for long walks with my son to Ibirapuera park was my therapy. The magic of these branches will always be in my heart (and my phone!).

Eileen Joyce

I love going to concerts and this year I got a chance to see a show at Red Rocks - a venue on any music lover's bucket list. It was in September, right after all the flooding in Colorado and I was concerned the show might not happen at all. But the rain stopped and my friend and I got to see a great show by The National. Of course, I tried not to be too distracted by the beautiful rocks and sunset to enjoy the music.

Alexandra Raskin

On a drive back to New York City from the Berkshires, my sister took me to a barn sale near Tivoli, NY. The inside of the store was a marvelous brick-a-brack of antique lamps, used china, and worn furnishings. Just outside was a radiator graveyard, softened by the afternoon sun and autumn leaves. It was a surreal bridging of the drive from the country, where I had enjoyed the sun and changing leaves, to my apartment, where any of these radiators would have felt at home.