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Marty Bahamonde,Washington


“It was an overcast and rainy day, but as I approached the church to take a picture, a portion of the sky opened and eerily shone upon it,” wrote Bahamonde of the backroads and “dead towns” trip toNorth Dakota that yielded his haunting image. “It screamed out to me that time never stops and change is constant.”He also hopes that his picture might inspire others “to find a gravel road and for once, wonder where it goes, and excite them with what they might find.”


Gabor Garamvari, Pecs, Hungary


A time traveler from the past. That was the first thought that came to Garamvari’s mind when he looked at the photo of a blind vendor that he’d snapped while visiting the famous spice bazaar during a brief trip to Istanbul. In the picture, as in the actual moment, everything “was like a timestop,” he wrote. “Only the doves moved.”


Evan Chu, Gaithersburg


How humanlike can you get? These two meerkats could be a couple of teenagers posing saucily for the camera. Chu captured the adorable shot in theMakgadikgadi Pan region of Botswana, sitting on the ground to get close-ups of the highly sociable animal that’s unique to southern Africa. “The meerkats have been habituated to human observers,” Chu wrote, “so they showed little fear.” Obviously.


Daniel Goldstein, Midlothian, Va. Visiting the Dominikanerkirche in Vienna, Austria, one late afternoon,


Goldstein and his wife were admiring the church’s baroque architecture and ornate interior when “the sun slowly came streaming through the windows, filling the church with light,” Goldstein said. “It was as if in slow motion and was truly one of those chance moments.” Goldstein is proud of the way the photo captures the light as a backdrop to the crucifix while still showing the details of the interior. The only thing missing, it seems, is the angelic soundtrack.


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