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Our greatest freedom
(Carlos Hernandez)
The flat broom, a Shaker innovation
(Deborah Tacy)
A rainbow of kayaks in Rockport, Massachusetts
(Amy Pierson)
Old Palouse House
(DeWitt Beattie)
Lighthouse on the Hudson River
(John McShane)
Fishing on Grand Lake of the Cherokees in Oklahoma
(Joshua Hayes)
Taxidermy animals flank the living room television
(Lex Thompson)
Empire State Building in the mist
(Yurij Trytjak)
The runway
(Judy Helderman)
Young ballerina
(Guy Hudson)
Bridge near Highway 37
Says Zwick, an architect, of Northern California's Black Point Bridge: "It reflects a slower pace of life that is quickly being lost in the area where I live." Built in 1911 by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the bridge straddles the Petaluma River, the dividing line between Sonoma and Marin counties. (Marty Zwick)
Parade day in La Paz, Bolivia
(Amy Brill)
Rothko and red shoes
(Douglas Neuman)
The Spring Flower Festival in Girona, Spain
(Michael Giamellaro)
Shadows and steps
(Robert Orlando)
Young dancer looks up
(Susan Cook)
Hand among thorns
(Matthew Campbell)
Bronze lady
(Tom Lopresti)
A green anole lizard in Hawaii
After a daylong drive through Maui, Maize and his wife, Kim, were pulling into a hotel parking space when he discovered the head of a green anole lizard "peeking around the edge of a leaf. I shot about three, four pictures, but [this] one was my favorite." (Howard Maize)
Chicago chairs
(Jill Weiler)
Zebra challenge
(Eleanore Avery)
Sunflower bloom in endless field
(Jamie Davenport)
Light and shade at Grand Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
(Jeff Dejoannis)
Dragonfly resting on a flower
(Jean Noren)
Hide and seek in the sculpture
(Marlo Sarmiento)
Pensive primate at the St. Louis Zoo
(Keith Jochim)
Penang, Malaysia
(Khoo Phaik Hoe)
Windy November
(Jeremy Powitz)
Small canoe on a foggy day
(Suzanne Lestage)
Flora of the Philippines
Says De Leon, a graphic artist for Manila's NET 25 television: "I have been shooting plants in the [office] garden for years, and then I found this combination, which closely resembles the colors and form of our national flag." (Samuel De Leon)
Hmong girl and baby in Binh Lu, Vietnam
(Miguel De Casenave)
Dance number during the Kennebunk Variety Show
(Sharon Lee Hart)
Morning greeting
(Mona Makela)
Legend of the fall
(Jim Johnston)
Indian laborers cooking before work
(Kaustubh Ray)
Woman visiting family member in Haitian hospital
(Mike Roth)
My son, stopping for a photo while his cousin races past
(Rusty Webb)
Masai hand, Tanzania
(Amitai Schwartz)
An old lady taking a sunbath on a January day
(Czintos Ödön)
A floating market in Thailand
(Jane Abrams)
A man about to give a haircut
"I really needed a haircut, so I stepped into Benny White's Arco Barber Shop. I sat down in that old, red chair and received one of the most attentive and quality haircuts of my life. Afterward I thanked White and asked him if he wouldn't mind me taking his portrait." (Joshua Dudley Greer)
Monks at Cambodia's Angkor Wat
(John Goodwin)
Harvard University's clubhouse
(Ivan Kovalev)
Moroccan girl on her way to school
(Joan Weiss)
The bamboo forest of Arashiyama, Japan
(Alexander Wu)
Boy in a rural Kenyan eatery
(Ethan Yeh)
Bicycles parked along an Amsterdam canal
(Timothy Rybicki)
A green bench in New York City
"I was bored waiting for a bus on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, so I started taking photos of people sitting on the benches. When the bus came, the benches emptied out and I noticed the beautiful curve and color of the bench and concrete. I missed the bus because I couldn't stop taking photos." (Jane Linders)
Morning reflection on Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park
(Steve Estes)
Climbers on "Big Red" in Namibia
(Leo Dos Remedios)
2nd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists
See the winning photos from our 2004 contest
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