The Best of 2014: Cell Phone Pictures Edition

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December 23, 2014 04:42:00 PM
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Paul

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This is The Fountain of Diana and Actaeon at The Royal Palace of Caserta n Italy. I took this on a recent trip to visit my fiancé.

December 23, 2014 04:36:54 PM
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Ahron

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Right after I donned my tefilin (prayer phylacteries) I discovered this precious rose.

December 23, 2014 04:19:01 PM
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Mary Elizabeth

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For my 30th birthday, this December, I took myself (in conjunction with a family vacation) to Tulum, Mexico. This is the view from the temple ruins.

December 23, 2014 04:12:30 PM
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supinder

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I took this photo from turnpike, sun is rising over newyork city

December 23, 2014 04:04:04 PM
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Clare

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This is a true story: I went into my living room on Halloween.This graceful creature was dangling from the ceiling. In case you are wondering, I left him or her in peace after taking this photo.

December 23, 2014 04:02:29 PM
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kellie

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Taken with the Camera+ iPhone app from the roof of a friend's home in Seattle. It was the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen. Not NYC, but the next best thing (which Seattle is!).

December 23, 2014 03:49:47 PM
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Isabel

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I took this photo sitting by a lake in the Berkshires. A nice reminder of how perfect nature is.

December 23, 2014 03:47:47 PM
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Katie

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This old storefront was unveiled over the summer when a market on 103rd street, that had been there my whole life, closed down. While dismantling the market's awning, this piece of Upper West Side history was revealed. So happy I snapped a shot of it!

December 23, 2014 03:46:48 PM
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Charlie N.

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This is one of many taken at the People's Climate March in NYC on Sept. 21, 2014. These young women had a great message. And they were charming too.

December 23, 2014 03:46:31 PM
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Isabelle

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two iconic buildings of NYC, the greatest skyline in the world.

December 23, 2014 03:34:50 PM
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Michael

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I was particularly proud of this because I felt I had to outsmart the phone to take it. Normally the phone adjusts for lighting, and wipes out the colors of the trees (something a reap camera-user could probably avoid). But by focusing on something else and quickly moving the phone I was able to take the picture before that happened. This is in the Berkshires Mass.

December 23, 2014 03:03:05 PM
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Jessica

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I love taking "in the moment" photos of NYC with simply my iPhone. On May 1, 2014 I started a #100daysILoveYouNY photo campaign on Instagram and Twitter. Each day, I would take a random photograph of wherever I was in the city. This photo from the High Line, Day 41, was taken in June - my favorite. I was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in early July and had to temporarily relocate home to Ohio for treatment. So I never finished 100 days. Luckily, I'm getting better and will be able to return to the city I love so I can start #100daysILoveYouNY all over again! @JessicaLWilt

December 23, 2014 02:51:02 PM
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Amanda

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Discovered this Viburnum at Greenwood Gardens in NJ in August, 2014.

December 23, 2014 02:47:14 PM
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Scott

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People on the street in Williamsburg.

December 23, 2014 02:46:04 PM
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Maury

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This is the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on a night where the fog was so dense over the river that the entire city was obscured. I had just ridden my bike, my trusty steed, home from Manhattan but made a detour to the Heights to see what that timeless enclave would look like in the fog that rolled in as I was rolling across the bridge.

December 23, 2014 02:28:03 PM
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Jamie

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Chris flying a kite at Jones Beach on one of the last days of summer.

December 23, 2014 02:18:58 PM
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Hannah

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I left Brooklyn last spring to take an internship at Kinderhook Farm in the Hudson Valley where I learned to care for a flock of about 500 grassfed sheep (in addition to chickens, pigs, and cattle). As an Animal Welfare Approved farm, we check on the sheep at least twice a day, which meant I got to experience many beautiful dawns and dusks out in the rolling pastures. It felt like my eye for catching the height of sunset on my phone developed right alongside my eye for identifying a sick lamb amidst a sea of sheep.

December 23, 2014 02:12:44 PM
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Liz

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A native NYer myself, I was sent by the Peace Corps to live in a remote village in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco 20 years ago. In 2011, I started CorpsAfrica, which is a nonprofit that creates the opportunity for Africans to serve like Peace Corps Volunteers in their own country. Last year, we hosted the first group of Moroccans serving in Morocco - living in a high-poverty, rural community for one year to facilitate a project that is identified by the community. This is a picture of Hiba (in the CorpsAfrica t-shirt), one of the first CorpsAfrica Volunteers, standing in the preschool she built in her village in the Azzoden Valley, next door to where I lived 20 years ago. And those are some of the 35 kids enrolled in the school this year. The picture was taken in September, 2014.

December 23, 2014 02:11:43 PM
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Rosemary

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I took this picture in Seaside Park, NJ the morning of March 5th. Most people associate the beach with summer fun. I find it to be peaceful and beautiful in the winter.

December 23, 2014 02:06:32 PM
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Tim

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Winter in Bridgehampton.