Andrew Stanford

Had a chance to visit & meet the "Pawn Stars" from the History channel show while I was in Las Vegas in April. I took portraits just like this one of all 4 of the "pawn stars" with my iphone. I love old man's "please just give me my paycheck and leave me alone" look.

Ellen Wolff

On a trip to Paris in November, we took our kids to a playground in the Jardin du Luxembourg. I saw the ground covered in leaves and snapped a shot with my iPhone. I love the feel of autumn this photo gives me, the symmetry of the trees and the empty chairs just waiting for passersby to sit down and enjoy the day.

Laura Schaefer

From the Marcy Ave Brooklyn bound track on a Tuesday in December when the snow was beautiful and covering the tracks and all of Brooklyn looked black and white.

ellen kahaner

Shelfie.
After Brian Lehrer said no selfies, which I have never taken anyway, I decided to take photos of the book shelves in my house. What I like about the photo is that it's personally revealing yet anti-selfie at the same time. This is one of nine shelfies in my house.

Carolyn Schaefer

I call it "Imaginary Friend." Taken at Tompkins Square Park. A lost child's sweater apparently put on the fence for the owner to find, and along comes someone just gazing into the park not even taking notice. They just seemed like a pair hanging out at the park. Kind of poignant in a way.

ellen kahaner

My daughter Sylvia at the bima, reading her Haftorah. We had to take the photo on Thursday night, Oct. 10th, as photography is not allowed on the Sabbath.

Lesley Rosenthal

Hawk takes wing in Butler Woods, Bronx River Reservation, 10/27/13. I felt humbled to have come across this magnificent creature, and fortunate to have whipped out my blackberry in time to capture this image of him/her taking flight.

Lesley Rosenthal

The white horses of the Camargue region in the south of France meet a cyclist. Taken during a morning jog in a nature preserve, Bois du Boucanet this summer. I didn't have my real camera with me when I came upon this tranquil and "reflective" (pun intended) scene so I just whipped out my Blackberry. Not bad for a cell phone camera, n'est-ce pas?

Bobbi Greenfield

We were gathered at the mall in Freehold, NJ at the end of a very hot day, waiting for darkness so that a concert could begin. The sun was low in the sky. I moved behind the last row of chairs to snap the picture at the exact moment that my son turned around to look at me. I love the way the reds and oranges work together, enhanced by that low sun, and how they are both set off by the green shirt in the front.

Bobbi Greenfield

Arriving for a "brown bag" lunch at a friend's house, I tossed a handful of my mini-peppers on the lovely red plate she had set out. I was struck the harmony of colors and placed the cloth napkin atop all to complete the composition.

Andrew Curtis

I like that this photo is the result of one adult turning to another and saying, "Want to go draw on the chalk board?" quite late at night.

Chaim Meghnagi

shauni kirby

these are chicken feet.
I like it because its creepy.
what's not to like? the color, the texture, the condensation, the entire feel of this shot is great.

shauni kirby

This photo was taken in Burlington, Vermont. I stopped and took this because I noticed the red volvo in front of the red and pink house - which is pretty perfect.
I like it because it is truly a one of a kind image, I've walked past that house a thousand times since - and the volvo is gone.

Colleen

In Summer 2014, my son swam every morning from 6:10-8:30 in the very cold Ginty pool in Morristown, NJ. During his swim, I would walk through Loantaka Brook Reservation, where I stumbled upon this beautiful, almost unreal Monet-ish scene. Captured it with my iPhone... A decadent slice of a lush, hot summer morning.

Jason Stack

This was the end/final bow of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra's outdoor concert at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Bandshell back in early August.
It was the most fun I had at a concert in a while - particularly because I hadn't been to a concert since Paul McCartney the previous summer and because the emotionality of Amanda's music really gets to me. I also met up with a few friends, one I knew from my college radio station, another from some Neil Gaiman events in the city this year, and another who I became friends with through a social media photo site that went the way of the dodo.
It captures the energy of the performers and the crowd, the burst of creativity from Amanda and crew, and both the connection and disconnect that the audience had with what was happening on stage (as you can see from the waves of smartphones and digital cameras).

Vidya

Where: 6th Ave.

Why: I was reading a book, but when this couple walked by, I watched them for a little while. It seemed as if they met to say goodbye: they exchanged a few items, hugged, turned away, and returned to embrace again. That's when I snapped this moment, of him lightly touching her cheek. What I like about it is the brief moment of tenderness, and it makes me wonder how their story continued.

Sarah Husein

I went to Disneyland with my cousins the other day and as we were walking through Frontierland, a giant flock of birds soared above us. The pink skies of the setting sun mixed with these black, usually ugly crows created a scene of beauty. I quickly grabbed my phone and snapped a picture, wanting to remember this moment of watching everyone look up and pause from the busy streets of disney to see this clan of crows fly above us. It also reminded me of a peaceful version of "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock - with a change to pink and puffy clouds from the cloudy and stormy skies, the emotion I got from this was love rather than the fear that Hitchcock evoked in his film.

Joseph Smith

I live inSoho, but I'm not officially an "artist" according to the City's Department of Cultural Affairs. While traveling in Nicaragua, I saw this graffiti and was reminded that we are all artists. As I've heard Yoko Ono say, "Artist is a state of mind."

Sanford Fraser

My photo, "Man with a horn" ws taken on the corner of t 7th Avenue and 10th Street.
When I asked a young carrying a base tuba he said "Sure" and held the tuba up in
front of his face, suggesting to me another photo that goes beyond the literal image.
This photo could also could be called "Loud Mouth"!

My photo, "The Beachcomber" was taken in Central Park during August.
The worker picking up litter among the sunbathing women caught my attention.
I like this photo because it goes beyond the literal to a figurative level of associations.
In the photo Cental park is like a beach on which a beachcomber is working.
He is invisible.