I was wandering through my mother-in-law's garden to see the beautiful, yellow sunflowers, when I was struck by the sight of this red sunflower, as I had never seen one before. Photo taken by Cliff Berinsky (United States) - Nature

This is my best friend's daughter, Valerie. She is adoreable and my star model for taking photos (when she cooperates -- you know how kids are). She is only 4 years old and what a personality. The day I took this picture she was playing out in the playhouse, and when she saw me, she stopped for a few minutes to pose. She is a princess. Photo taken by Donna Cuic (United States) - People/Family/Friends

Flamingos are one of the most interesting and colorful birds to watch and photograph. Photo taken by Peter Anderson (United States) - Animals/Pets

On a recent trip around the British Isles we discovered this beautiful scene. At low tide one can walk through a causeway to the castle from shore. When the tide is in, water taxis (seen in foreground) are used to ferry people back and forth. Photo taken by Dan Fleming (United States) - Travel/Vacation

This is BullDozer (Dozer for short). He is our 8 month old English Bulldog. He loves just lounging around as you can tell. He really thinks he is the king and he is but we don't tell him. Photo taken by Kim McAllister (United States) - Animals/Pets

All aboard -- the Union Pacific Railroad's CHALLENGER -- the largest wheeled machine on earth. This photograph was taken at a service stop in Gorham, IL. Photo taken by James R. Kyle (United States) - Travel/Vacation

This picture was taken in New Jersey in June 2004. Photo taken by Lou Hartman (United States) - People/Family/Friends

This is a beautiful place close to where I live. When I'm here, I have the feeling of travelling back in time. Photo taken by Simone Verbeek (Netherlands) - Travel/Vacation

I used the Kodak DCX 6490 and a Mini-MagLite to backlight the subject, turned down all the lights and set the camera to black & white using the highest shutter speed I could get in the manual mode. The photos was of a bouquet of flowers sent from my son's friends for the death of his grandmother. A copy of the photo was printed on the EasyShare printer dock and sent with a thank you card. Photo taken by Anthony DiSanto (United States) - Artistic/Creative

This photo was taken during the August 'monsoon' season in NW New Mexico. I was standing on my driveway down by the street. Most of the lightning strikes had died down and I was ready to pack up and go inside but I decided to stay for 'one more shot'. I'm glad I did! This bolt hit extremely close! The tree you see in the photo was directly across the street in someones yard. Needless to say, I went inside as soon as the shot was taken. The photo is special to me because it got me started on photographing lightning regularly, and I have captured many wonderful shots since then -- none however, as powerfull as this one. Photo taken by Danielle Haney (United States) - Nature

Memorial to the Trade Center Photo taken by M. deTuro (United States) - Holidays/Events

For the last twenty years or so, the lives of more than 20 million people have changed. All those people once lived peacefully, and then came the hurricane of war and total madness. Now, when things seem to be settled down, due to NATO presence, the Eternal Flame is still on, symbolizing unity and brotherhood and the good old days of my happy childhood. Photo was taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For me, the fact that I tried to freeze the fire symbolizes my tries to keep and remember pictures of childhood forever. Photo taken by Amr Kapetanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) - Artistic/Creative

I found this inchworm at one of my favorite climbing spots. One of my hobbies is entomology and I often combine that with my love of photography. The idea came to me to shoot it inching along on the pages of my Bible. How small it looks in relation to the words on the page -- portrays how small I myself feel in the grand scheme of things. Photo taken by Sylvia M. Gunnarson (Canada) - Artistic/Creative

This is a composite of two photographs. One of my daughter, Mackenzie, and another of her artwork. Photo taken by Jessica Hughes (United States) - Artistic/Creative

I happened to look into my kitchen and liked the lines formed by the blinds and the chair. I thought it needed a little something else, though, so I put a kitty treat on the chair and voila-- it added the contrasting form I needed. Photo taken by Nancy Grace Chen (United States) - Artistic/Creative

This is a picture of my three month old son. I took the picture when he was having his bath. It looks like he's still in the womb. Photo taken by Graham McCormack (Ireland) - People/Family/Friends

Thrillseekers ride the coaster at Lake Zurich's Alpine Fest. Photo taken by David S. April (United States) - People/Family/Friends

I took this picture of me and my friends feet with an underwater camera. I think the design that the sun makes in the water is spectacular. Photo taken by Anna Freeman (United States) - People/Family/Friends

It sometimes fun to find the "bigger" picture within the "big" picture. I was sitting under a very large beach umbrella when I looked up and saw all of the patterns, shapes and colors that it made -- and just had to snap away. Photo taken by Janice Forrest (United States) - Travel/Vacation

This picture was taken in Guimarães - Portugal. Photo taken by Claudia Fernandes (Portugal) - Travel/Vacation

This picture was taken on the Snake River in Wyoming, very early in the morning. I love the transparency of the shallow river. Some of the pebbles I could touch as they where half out the water. It was a perfect mirror to the colorful Cotton Woods. Photo taken by Viveca Venegas (Puerto Rico) - Nature

While driving through the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, we suddenly saw these women in their colourful attire and brand new earthern pots on their heads going to visit a newly wed bride in a nearby village. The sheer contrast of such vibrant colours with women cheering and singing against the backdrop of a dusty desertscape at 115F just changed the rest of our otherwise boring journey. Photo taken by Sandeep Bangia (India) - People/Family/Friends

I caught "the boys" (aka, Buster & Finnigan) hiding from the heat of the day in the barn. It sums up their personalities to perfection -- they are like 2 boys with a fort to play in, and no girls allowed! Photo taken by Tina Schmitt (United States) - Animals/Pets

Photographed in Albuquerque, New Mexico using Kodak T-Max 100, 120 film. Photo taken by Robert Thompson (United States) - Artistic/Creative

This picture of a wedding couple in Montreal, was taken with a DCS 760. The picture shows how happy they were with the photographers. Photo taken by Mike Calomiris (Canada) - Holidays/Events

I took this picture against the sun. In the original photo the leaves look transparent. I converted the colors with the help of several Photoshop filters. Photo taken by H. Nadir Ede (Türkiye) - Artistic/Creative

I took this picture during my last travel to Puerto Rico. I really liked the whole scene, very typical of Old San Juan. Photo taken by Ramiro Priegue (Argentina) - Travel/Vacation

While on vacation, I visited a fascinating ethnic park in Beijing. I saw these cute little ducklings, and took several shots -- luckily I was able to get this one. I used the portrait and macro mode setting from my camera, and zoomed in just to fill the frame of four ducklings. I put more emphasis on the center duck, which happend to have the best pose among them. Photo taken by Anthony Castillo (Philippines) - Animals/Pets

Taken at the Angkor Wat ruins in Cambodia. His friend beside him was talking and laughing with some other people -- but this monk kept looking ahead, intently and stoicly. Photo taken by Nancy Grace Chen (United States) - Travel/Vacation

This baboon was so sinister looking just laying there waiting for who knows what? Those eyes... The picture was taken during a trip with my daughter, Amy, in June 2004. Photo taken by Jim Bohleber (United States) - Animals/Pets