Jennifer Bogo

I took this in photo in Prospect Park during one of the Brooklyn Bird Club's spring migration walks. I believe it was on a trail that cut through the Midwood, which is Brooklyn's oldest remaining forest. Often there are maybe a dozen people, but on this day the group just kept ballooning.
This image includes all different species of birder--young, old, novice, expert, Brooklynite, Manhattanite. But I particularly like that it captures a collective total enthusiasm for the task at hand. Shortly before I took this photo, someone spotted a yellow-billed Cuckoo; after the bird flew away, the crowd literally broke into applause.

Kat Javier

This picture was taken in early December, 2 weeks before the end of my first semester in grad school. It was taken in the parking lot of the day care where I drop off the kid I nanny. I usually take a breather here, one of the only moments I'm along with my thoughts are my car between early morning work and graduate assistant work. This is me, "resting my eyes." This has been my hardest working year I work part time at Apple, as a nanny part-time, as a part-time graduate assistant, and as a full time graduate student.