Maureen Boler

I took it while waiting for the 'G' train at the Metropolitan Station. I thought it was so clever of the model and a good laugh.

Lamine Thiaw

I took this photo of the Manhattan skyline from Hoboken (NJ). I was walking on the boardwalk on my way to the train station in order to join friends in the City. It was cold, very cold. Despite that, when I saw the full moon and its light piercing through the clouds, the patch of clouds in the sky, the reflection of the moonlight and city lights on the Hudson river I was blown away by the beauty of it. I needed to immortalize this scene. I took off my gloves and immediately snapped a picture. I remember i struggled getting a clear enough picture due to the low light, and my hands shaking because of the blistering cold and wind. After a dozen attempts I was able to get this shot

Allena Ruszkiewicz

I attached this photo to an e-mail I wrote to Sen. Schumer's office. I was hoping to convey my enthusiasm in a photo of my first health insurance bill going in the mail!

I am happy with the composition, and it is certainly a 2013 snap shot.

I will be blogging about living with complex health issues and my first year with the ACA at www.myfirstyearwiththeaca.blogspot.com

best wishes,
Allena

Adam Courtney

This is the first portrait I've done of my dad in about 10 years. We made it when my parents came to visit me in New York for thanksgiving and Hannukah this year. I love it. I think it perfectly captured my father's personality. He didn't particularly like it. Said it made him look like an old man. What can I say, he's 63.

Mike Miller

One of the first snows, I live in the tallest apartment building that overlooks the block in BedStuy. With the perspective I have it makes everything look like a snow globe.

Jeralyn Gerba

Sunrise in Bagan, Burma/Myanmar. I climbed to the top of a temple to take photos of the landscape, which is dotted with thousands of stupas and pagodas (gilded in gold!) built by the Burmese to gain merit from the Buddha. It is a very strange and beautiful place. I love how quiet the photo is. And I love the blush ombre in the sky.

Katie Moore

I took this on Long Island at a 4th of July fireworks display. I like the silhouettes and firework sparks against the magenta haze.

Brian Alterio

Lucca was the first born of my son Joe and his levely with Molly.

Terry Willner-Tainow

My lower East Side son and his partner of 18 years on Citibikes on the day before Labor Day on the way to City Hall to get married.

Justin Carter

My wife and I went to Burma in November. This is a photo of a sunrise from the top of an ancient temple in Bagan, an area of the country where there are literally thousands of ancient temples spotted across a plain. The country has been in the news quite a bit this year, and it was an amazing experience to visit as it (hopefully) pulls itself from underneath the military regime's thumb.

Kyna Doles

This photo was taken two days after the Boston Marathon Bombings, on Boylston Street. The flowers, flags and gifts were placed on the gate blocking entrance to one of Boston's busiest streets.

Mekea Fishlin

I took this photo in my back yard as my very creative and courteous daughter was playing.

Mickey

I work at Hostos Community College and one night last month there was a full moon over the 149th St./Grand Concourse Bronx Post Office - which is now for sale! :-(. At least they landmarked the murals inside so they can't be destroyed by whoever buys this classic building.

Miriam Laskin

Sunset and my living room lights created this somewhat scary, somewhat comforting image. I live in Woodside, Qns and the buildings below my window are some of the Sunnyside Gardens houses. I love my street!

Miriam Laskin

I live in Woodside Queens and early this year the Court Square platform was renovated. I stopped off there and took this photo through one of the "windows" of the Citigroup building with the small tenements lining the street by the subway stop. The wavy glass creates the wonderful visual effect.

Tricia McKinney

This is a photo I took at Mills Reservation in Montclair, NJ. I walk my dogs there every weekend, and on December 8th I saw interesting little ice formations everywhere I stepped. I got down to ground level to snap a picture on my phone. After crowd-sourcing identification from my Facebook friends, I learned about "needle ice." It is formed when flowing water underground meets air that is below freezing. The water is drawn upwards through the ground and freezes in gorgeous little formations. I learned something on my walk that day and can't wait until the next time conditions are right to see it again.

Ray Carter

NYC subway platform. Can't remember which station. It was a Sunday, hence the lack of people. I love the color/shape combo and it reminds me of a yellow line on the road to the horizon.

Eric Butcher

Travel stories are often indistinguishable from your fellow travelers once you return home. Sometimes you take in history on Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca, sometimes you have an indoor barbecue in an abandoned six-story building in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Eric Butcher

Travel stories are often indistinguishable from your fellow travelers once you return home. Sometimes you take in history on Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca, sometimes you have an indoor barbecue in an abandoned six-story building in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

John Zubrovich

Pope Blessing Combat Gun.
No. I did not set up this photo. As any new yorker will attest $.99+ stores offer the strangest variety if inventory. In this case it was a lovely plastic luminescent window rendering of John Paul II
blessing a haphazardly placed battery operated combat gun complete with belt fed bullets. Look to the far right it even has Jesus' or maybe its Joseph's blessing. I love this city.