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#32. Terryl Hicks Body language is a beautiful thing. I promise you that one day when these boys are old with achy knees and other achy things they will look at this picture and recognize their teammates simply by the way they stand…long after they have...

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#33. Sarah Hopper I want you to notice what Sarah has left OUT of this picture—two large elephant bodies. Believe me, it wasn’t so obvious that this was a good idea when Sarah was taking the picture. But getting in close on all the tangled trunks and tusks is...

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#34. Beverly Siegfried One of a good photographer’s greatest skills is to know how to deal with a long anticipated situation when it decides to turn a corner. Don’t let it get you down. There are so many ways to make something beautiful! Beverly, if it will make you...

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#35. Laura Evoy I love the way that Laura’s simple and meaningful words complete the circle of this special relationship. The composition and the space around them and the tilts of their heads all works. And of course the black and white just nails it. Laura said:...

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#36. Melissa Ann I love Melissa’s words as much as the photo. Notice the effect of the two together.   Melissa’s words: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.. Some may say the beauty is on the outside of these windows, but I...

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#37. Amy Jo Nagelkirk Another from our Mother’s Day files. It’s Amy‘s first grandbaby and daughter. Having the camera ready when real life happens is what many of the great ones have built careers around. Totally love this. Thanks for posting, Amy. You can leave...

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#38. Bee Cooler   I honestly don’t know if Bee was lying on her back when she shot this or if she put the camera on self timer and plopped the camera in flowers and crossed her fingers for a photographic Hail Mary or something in between. Regardless, that little...

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#39. Carrie Dauenhauer Stanley Photographing spider webs is almost always about lighting and choosing backgrounds carefully. That’s how you get those threads of whatever it is to glow. Dew certainly helps.   Notice the way the brightest beads of dew light up against...

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#40. Christy Eilers Wade How does this picture work so well? It’s the background. It’s the placement of those two dogs against the brightest and darkest areas of the background/the rug and floor. That background is making it easy for your eyes to go right to the good...

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#41. Kay Keeshan Kay, I feel like I’m being manipulated by you. I’m thinking that you’re thinking that if you post your photographs in black-and-white they will become the Fan Photo of the Day. Well, it worked. : )   “I’m just recovering from keeping an 18 month...

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#42. Jenn Rose Very simple lesson here; You don’t always have to show faces around the Christmas tree. There’s plenty of time for that later. You can always get him to hold up his new fancy piece of electronics (a PS4) and look in the camera. But for now, no face says...

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#43. Suzanne Bowker I know, I’m a little late on this one, but the boys wanted to sleep at grandpa and grandma’s house on Christmas Eve. Yes, it’s true that the grandparents are not IN the picture, but that’s a different photograph. This...

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#44. Margaret Davaz I so appreciated Margaret’s subject matter here.   Sparrows strike me as greatly under appreciated. (Also there are so many different kinds of sparrows. All I know about them is that the white throated sparrow says Old Tom Peabody, Peabody,...

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#45. Ciel Evans There’s something to be said for going out in the woods on a sunny day with your camera and the girls and just playing. These girls don’t even appear to be in the woods, I’m thinking it’s more like Carnegie Hall. Splotchy light...

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#46. Cori Carter Cori said this is her “crew of little people”.   I have to give it to them, they are cooperative photo subjects. You can’t say that about every group of seven young people.   What I like about this is the way the girl at the bottom anchors the entire...

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#47. Anne Korte Gareau Anne said her daughter is graceful and she wanted to capture that grace in her senior portrait. I totally got that even before I read her caption. They may be under a rough and tumble overpass, but it’s swirling choreographed graffiti on the...

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#48. Dawn Lyons We’ve seen almost countless photographs of autumn leaves on this site over the years and it’s always inspiring when someone shows up with the same old subject matter and does something we’ve never seen. This is really cool. There it was, waiting to be...

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#49. Linda Smith‎ It’s our second shaving photograph of the week. It’s Linda’s son showing his curious son how to shave.   Someplace in the inner sanctum of the pyramids there must be some kind of hieroglyphic of this same situation…people have been recognizing this...

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#50. Nicki Heiser Schmidt We’ve never lost a photo subject here at HYPYL (that I know of) and I have to believe there’s a happy ending here someplace with this one.   However they did this, it’s quite convincing. I think there are only two options: they faked it or...

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Honorable Mention / Alexander Kelsh  As our car was being destroyed by fire Alexander came to me with this photo.   “Isn’t this beautiful?!” he said. Well, yes and no. Regardless, this is quite a memory.    Nice work, my Boy Scout son. You were calm and comforting in...

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